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and your take is quite naive.

Surveillance is absolutely the purpose, overt or not. The huge push for bossware/spyware for windows in 2020+ demonstrates that the less ethical portions of industry desperately want to spy on users workstations! Eventually there will be retention laws in certain regulated industries that mandate such technologies! Why enable this potential abuse?

Microsoft is trying to Sherlock the surveillance software industry with this!

I’d rather run North Koreas spyware Red Star Linux than Microsoft Windows.

Disagree, now is the best time to be increasing energy production and expenditure — it is the hallmark of development of a civilization. Using less energy means the stagnation of our civilization.

How are we going to advance our technology without spending more energy?

The scale of energy usage today are fractions of what it will be in 20, 50, 100 years…

We must build big, build now.

RCS is out-of-the box an unencrypted messaging protocol.

The EU forcing Apple to adopt a cleartext protocol like RCS is deeply suspicious. Interoperability will force disclosure of message contents to the state and carrier.

(unless your phone vendor has implemented encryption in their implementation. Ie: optimistic encryption aka can’t trust if it is truly working)

Use encrypted messaging protocols — iMessage, signal, WhatsApp…

Tell the government and the carriers to pound sand and <encrypted>……

Several problems: On mobile. Desktop not supported. Everything else is clear text and readable by telegram and authorities. Of course it’s missing encryption!

Really, telegram is being naked for 99% of the time, with an optional clothes feature that is limited and mobile only. Whereas signal is fully dressed, all the time.

Signal is 100% encrypted, all groups encrypted, all messages encrypted, all contacts encrypted. The vendor knows when your registered… that is all.

Of course people who don’t understand the sheer dystopia of cleartext coms and visible social graphs — They will say “when I need them “ I will encrypt. No, you must encrypt all the time. Messages must be indistinguishable. You don’t just encrypt the sensitive stuff, you should encrypt everything!

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Got it, you are friends with corrupt big tech employees.

This site is an absolutely terrible idea. Anyone that thinks this is acceptable should not be working for these companies. Your friends and former colleagues are, quite frankly, stupid. If they sell access to recovery they will be caught and fired, or worse.

It would be trivial for the insider risk people at said companies to find out who you have communicated via their work email.

It is absolutely against terms of employment across the industry to sell recovery of accounts. Not to mention completely unethical. Why would you think this is acceptable?

Just stop.

Gah, I didn’t realize that iCloud Keychain was enabled automatically on ios17. I checked and it’s been on for months. Why would they do this?

I remember when Microsoft uploaded people’s personal wifi creds in Windows 10. It’s all highly suspect.

Stop it. This over sharing by default will doom us all.