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  • Is WhatsApp safe? Not according to its ex-security chief | Proton

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  • Attaullah Baig, who ran WhatsApp’s security team between 2021 and 2025, says the app isn’t nearly as private as Meta claims. In his lawsuit, he alleges that roughly 1,500 employees have access to sensitive user information, including location, profile photos, group memberships, and contact lists.

    Also unaddressed account takeovers.

    Group memberships and contact lists are golden data for both Meta and snoopy governments.

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  • Yes, absolutely. I would worry more about the school trapping her in and endless moving goalposts to graduate situation. Unless they have a quantifiable and confirmed network or some benefit to graduates, it seems like a cash grab.

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  • OK, but so he's basically paying for adult day care if she quits before graduating?

  • New bill would allow Rubio to strip US citizens’ passports over political speech

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  • It's literally Congress making a law that penalizes free speech. I genuinely can't believe we're here.

  • Are Americans quarks?

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  • It's a really famous movie and very highly rated.

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  • 100% agree this is a conversion with your husband. From the comments, what even is the point of her going to any college if theres a chance shell just drop out and stick you with debt and nothing to show for it?

    What I will say that diverges from most others is that while this school might be a scam, this aspect of the "wellness industry" has existed for millennia. Interest in holistic whatever isn't exactly a career death sentence. Your daughter might very well make good money selling herbs and crystals to wealthy white ladies.

    IMO, this is a conversion with your husband and then daughter asking her to sell you all on why she's going to college and for what. With the alternative being charging her rent or something else intended to have her leave the nest. She likely sees this school as having no accountability because as long as the checks clear, she'll be enrolled.

  • Are Americans quarks?

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  • It's a SciFi movie from 1997. Very good, worth watching it.

  • Lol never knew they posted it publicly

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  • Oh yeah, I remember when that happened. The comments on that post got very awkward as people figured it out. But in 2013 scraping social media was new and people just didn't realize what it meant.

  • Friends are a bloatware.

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  • Doesn't matter, as much info as you shared gets put into a profile. Then what WiFi networks you connect to, your location, plus your old FB profile, all get triangulated to others. So Meta still cares because if you rejoin FB next week, it'll suggest people it knows you are physically close to.

    I use a creeper FB account at work with zero info even close to me IRL, and because our external IP addresses are the same, of auto suggests any of my colleagues that log on to their FB at work.

  • Friends are a bloatware.

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  • Right now they collect meta data to map connections to reinforce FB and IG relationships to keep you in their ecosystem. They've been trying to work out to ads like Viber has for years.

  • Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency

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  • If you've never had to contact Proton support, 2-5 business days just to get someone to say "hello, we started a ticket" is absolutely normal from my experience. Once they've opened the conversion, it goes faster, but anyone is guaranteed a wait of days.

  • Can't the American people just denounce the Supreme Court?

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  • No, the SCOTUS interprets the laws for implementation. All SCOTUS can overturn is previous interpretations.

  • Can't the American people just denounce the Supreme Court?

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  • By definition, anything the SCOTUS rules is constitional. Typically, in the US, until a law defines or forbids something, it's legal.

    In cases like Roe v. Wade, there not a direct or clear law that says "abortion is legal." It was a right to privacy that Roe leaned on, that a woman's decision to get an abortion or not was covered as a privacy issue. Which is not an altogether permanent ruling over a longer time frame and a change in justices and a new case can change how the law is interpreted. The more permanent version would be a constitutional amendment that would be harder to undo, doesnt rely on the SCOTUS to interpret nuance, and is the result of a push by the American people to change a law.

    Ultimately, the way to nullify a SCOTUS ruling is to make a more clear law that says "no, actually, we want this."

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  • Said in sarcasm. I figured the author intentionally wrote that passage to evoke the image of miners on a smoke break or something.

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  • Yeah, it was sarcastic. Sorry.

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  • Added /s since that's apparently want obvious

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  • "We trained it ourselves on a complex data set of all our previous tenders. We tested it to confirm it works right: rejecting any tender not submitted by my cousin."

    • Corruption Quarterly Magazine explaining how to look like you've done something objective and jilted it to manage your corruption for you, just like every other procurement system on Earth before AI was jilted using a small set of hyper-specific criteria that eliminated everyone but the target company. (See Oklahoma school bible procurement)

  • From Indonesia to Nepal, anime pirate flag has become symbol of Asian Gen Z’s discontent

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  • I said the same thing like 8 years ago when I heard WhatsApp called "the largest social media platform in Africa." Most definitions include any platform for groups of people to share basically anything beyond just text with groups of other people they know.

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  • Soliman said students sometimes physically leave the building and go out into the courtyard for a phone break to play games or check messages during free periods or lunch. “The benches are always full,” Soliman said.

    JFC, kids, you make smoking look like an easy habit to kick.

    Just wait until they learn about 'zines. They're like scrolling TikTok, but written down, like for literate people. /s