Ex-mil, ex-sec, ex-treme, & ex-plosive.
Go ahead. Squeeze me. Crack that vial and watch the fireworks erupt.
Ditching Windows as it has become spyware and adware.
Flipping to Linux.
#defenestrate
#defenestrating
#defenestration
#defenestratewindows
#linux
Wearing clothing without washing it first is NOT advisable.
When a label reads, “wash before wearing,” it is a safety instruction.
If one wishes to wear new underpants that are “factory fresh” complete with formaldehyde, go for it. Just don’t act surprised when diagnosed with leukaemia…
https://www.choice.com.au/shopping/everyday-shopping/clothing/articles/chemicals-in-clothing
Yeah! I hear you, especially regarding ‘onboarding’ often being a barrier. (Thankfully, Signal is bloody easy.)
My own attitude to family and friends is to say, “If ya wanna communicate with me, these are the acceptable options…”
If they don’t wish to use appropriate methods, that’s fine, but they can’t message me. Bugger 'em!
I encourage the use of Signal as a 'gateway drug"… I mean, “app,” and several people have subsequently added other private messaging apps as options.
I know I’m going to regret asking this, but why not Signal?
Yes, I know it has the disadvantage of not being decentralised, and it’s not anonymous as a phone number is required.
However, for the *vast majority* of people, it is the simplest and easiest solution to gaining E2EE comms.
Are Ice Break (2 litre) bottles not recyclable?
There’s no deposit on them, but they’re marked with “please recycle”.
Yes…
… but that’s OK.
Lemme explain…
A Signal user will commonly have the client app installed on their mobile device.
They may also have a second client on a laptop that syncs the same data.
If the user goes on holiday for a week but leaves their laptop behind, it won’t be synced to the laptop.
On return from holiday, the laptop client uses its decryption keys to retrieve the last week’s worth of messages.
I *think* Signal can do this (retrieve cached messages from the Signal servers) for up to 14 days.
That said, the entire Signal cache is encrypted on their servers, and one’s messages are fully E2EE and retrievable only by the user.
(However, one weakness of Signal is that a desktop or laptop client’s cache is stored unencrypted. To secure these, one needs to use full disk encryption at the OS level or higher.)
“Under FISA order, signal would provide logs.”
How would Signal do this? Logs of what?
Corresponding parties? Messages? They don’t have them.
They’d have to rewrite their backend code to obtain them, and changes would also need to be made to the Signal client apps.
It would not matter if the FISA Court ordered that logs be produced in secret by Signal. Any such logs could not be obtained without significant changes to the way Signal works. Users would know.
Yes, Signal does have some shortcomings, but these are acceptable in most ‘use cases’ for most threat models.
Signal is best used as a private, E2EE alternative to SMS. Only a fool would use it for the *most sensitive* of communications. (Like, you know, discussing an impending military strike…)
We all know of the alternatives, including (but not limited to) SimpleX, Session, Briar, Element etc.
Read the Affidavit produced here:
https://signal.org/bigbrother/santaclara/
Read Signal’s complete source code here:
https://github.com/signalapp
Once you understand the code, you’ll understand “what they can do” and what they cannot do.
When you’ve identified any flaw in the code that runs the Signal servers that would allow IP logging, let me know. I’ll be glad to file the bug report on your behalf.
Signal knows *when* a user wqs last connected, but not the IP address of that connection. The system has been specifically designed to minimise the meta data available for collection.
To do the things you are suggesting that Signal could be forced to do, Signal would have to rewrite its entire codebase as well as the client apps.
Fortunately, Signal is open source, and such changes would be noticed.
As it stands, it doesn’t matter what is demanded nor by whom as the only user data, including traffic analysis, that Signal can currently reveal is insignificant.
Signal simply cannot disclose data it itself cannot access.
Yes, decentralised services are preferable, but Signal has probably the easiest onboarding experience for the average user, especially those new to the concept of E2EE.
Nope and I was wrong.
@signalapp is only able to produce LESS information than I previously stated.
That’s it. Nothing else.
Signal does NOT log users’ IP addresses.
See this for more information:
https://signal.org/bigbrother/santaclara/
There is NO back-door to Signal.
@signalapp is blind to all communications. (Including, probably, this toot! 🤪)
Signal itself does NOT know who has messaged whom, nor when, nor how (e.g. the IP address is NOT known.)
If Signal was subpoenaed to produce my records, they could produce:
I’m *fairly* sure that is all of it.
(Please let me know if I’m wrong.)
Oh, increasing the dingo population (by any method) would, as you say, definitely impact the roo population. No question!
But the *location* of that roo population matters and affects whether any cull makes economic sense.
I was a spotter and offsider for a few pro roo shooters over a few seasons.
Culling roos usually only makes sense when it benefits the farmer AND value can be extracted from the roos.
Most culls I’ve seen were in cattle country that was still ‘close to town’, usually within 1-2 hrs’ drive. (I’m sure that culls also occur down in sheep country, too.)
Primary producers rarely look upon dingos favourably, and there’d be little support for increasing them.
The ‘predator-prey’ ‘boom/bust’ cycles are still common, but generally where the station’s size is measured in 1000’s of sq. kms. In the ‘back of beyond’, diesel alone costs much more than can be made from any culled roos.
Edit: check out the dingo fence…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo/_Fence
Kangaroo populations will naturally go through “boom and bust” cycles as the amount of available feed and water varies tremendously. (Aussies often forget that this is the world’s driest continent.)
Mass deaths within local kangaroo populations will always occur due to drought. That’s nature, and it’s a bad way to die
Having ‘extra’ dingos manage the ‘roo population’ would mean they’d suffer a similar fate, just delayed by a few months, if that.
When the 'roo population fell to low numbers, the dingos would turn on whatever is available… including, as you say, livestock.
It’s a complex problem, and there are no easy answers.
However, which is worse? Letting 'roos die horrible mass deaths from inevitable droughts, or controlling their numbers via managed culls, and then tapping into that resource? Most, but not all, kangaroos that are culled will die an instant death.
In fact, for those of us who eat meat, we should avoid beef, lamb, and pork. Kangaroo is FAR more sustainable from an environmental perspective…
… even if Skippy is on our National Coat of Arms.
I’ve not moved the goal posts.
This thread relates to ‘working with children’ and policies regarding background checks of those who do.
One toot read, in part, “Statistically women are the outlier offenders, around 5% or less for known sexual abuse.”
You replied, “Statistically, women are more likely to just straight up kill kids so there goes your harm mitigation theory.”
I asked for more information regarding your “statistics” and you provided a report related to ‘filicide’ in the context of ‘domestic violence’. This is outside the scope of any “working with children” checks.
You wrote, “The original claims were not restricted to childcare…”
I haven’t moved the goal posts at all.
This isn’t a game. I am genuinely interested if you know of any statistical evidence that women, in a capacity for which they require a “working with children” background check, “are more likely to just straight up kill kids”.
Thanks.
However, that report relates to ‘filicide’, and this thread is discussing ‘working with children’.
Are you aware of any studies that show that women (who are NOT the mother of a child victim) “are more likely to just straight up kill kids”.
The report you provided seems related to ‘domestic violence’, and unrelated to the ‘child care’ sector.
“Statistically”
I would like to see those specific statistics.
Please tell me where I can see them.
Look, here’s the bottom line(s):
‘Age verification’ systems - where a person’s ID is submitted - will not work.
Kids will find a way around them.
ID verification systems are a privacy nightmare and something only a dictatorship would implement.
Device/OS/platform ‘age restriction’ features are workable, but Labor is too incompetent to liaise with the EU to implement them.
It is for parents to supervise and control their kids’ devices, NOT for everyone else to have to provide ID just to access social media.
That’s right! (That’s what we/you were talking about, wasn’t it?)
Compel the major devices and OSes to have the feature you suggested.
Make it a requirement for all devices, and available to all users. Give parents the *option* to ‘lock down’ or ‘age restrict’ a device.
The government should otherwise steer away from their likely dystopian solution.
@voracitude
Sean Bean? Naaah.
The husband survived.
Sean Bean pretty much only takes roles where his character dies…!
🤪
@galoisghost