I know, but I liked the idea of sending messages by interpreting meaning in a series of cat memes :-)
By the way, do you know if steganography in an image is truly undetectable? Or if an attacker could, by statistical analysis or pattern analysis, determine that steganography has been used?
“Jones, take a look at these cat photos.”
“Oh, they’re lovely, sir!”
“No, Jones, look at them. What do they mean?”
“Well, sir, this one is hungry, so it’s asking for food, but in its native American style. This one is looking at the camera funny, probably because it’s been startled by something off camera. This one is looking smug, and the angry people there have been added by the artist, they’re not from the same photo. This one–”
“Sit down, Jones. Look at their meaning. The terrorist attack will be at 2pm on the 23rd at South Kensington station, used as a distraction for the simultaneous heist in the Natural History Museum!”
Whitespace steganography in markdown ;-)
Wow, thank you for this! But it looks like IMAP and POP, not server-to-server. And how would one of these severs compromise security if not one of the end points?
Smaller attack surface and fewer leaks. If you specifically are targeted, the government will look for a warrant for the data in your account, rather than the one you sent to. Gmail also I think there’s a concern that text will leak via AI - I remember hearing this concern even when it was just that associations in search terms might build from private email content.
I don’t think gayhitler is entirely correct about reading all the plaintext emails. If I understand right, major (most?) email providers use TLS (encryption) between each other and and to your laptop. The difference is the email is available on their servers somewhere, if someone were to get access.
And yet the other day I read an account of researching tracking for ads, and the iPhone used sent a request to Facebook even before anything was installed
A bit of a different thing, but still.
I’m thinking CalyxOS for my next phone.
Thanks for the well-meaning advice.
The recovery password in iCloud to stop even Apple accessing it is exactly what the UK is trying to undermine. It protects you - for now.
I tried to start using pgp for email years ago, the problem is of course adoption by everyone you’re communicating with, be that personal, corporate or official. I got one friend to make a gpg key! And most email servers, as I understand, pass to each other with TLS, and the connection from your computer to your email service is encrypted. The problem is the emails at rest on both ends, including hosted by the email provider. Moving my email off Fastmail, whether to something like Protonmail or stored only on my computer, would remove one particular attack surface.
I couldn’t remember if UK gov have been trying to get access into iCloud e2e before; I’m sure they’ve been getting to mandate access to other encryption previously.
As in the well known Christmas carol, “Oh come, all ye faithful dudes,” verse 7, “Yeah, Lord we greet thee, born this happy morning…”
This specific ocean!!
I heard things about niche, France.
“Give me a ghetto, you stupid French landlord!”
“Je n’ai pasghetti!”
(Pardon my French)
Opening it up lets you use it from devices that aren’t on tailscale, or for friends and family. I have the same idea with Nebula instead of Tailscale, if I can figure it out.
Has Taler moved beyond proof of concept yet?
It’s an amazing concept btw. I read through their paper presented to the European banking system, it was interesting.
A single line of lambda calculus.
With about forty million parentheses.
"Intercept hot singles in your area! On their way home from work!
No, it’s not creepy at all!"
I assume, “does not sell location data,” is like the government which “does not sell laws,” but ‘our 884 lobbying partners’ can have influence.
the minute you hook up your phone to Bluetooth, it automatically downloads all the information off your phone
But this I’m skeptical of. What data does it get from the phone? Bluetooth you can allow it to have your call history, right? And maybe contacts? At least you can choose, I think?
most people understand
I dunno, maybe? For me it still seems like a different shaping of the language, that some people now use and I haven’t got used to yet. And there is value sometimes, I think, in reminding ourselves that such and such a concept has wider meaning or application than one particularly common one.
aaaaaare you sure!?