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  1. Re:E2E Encryption is not a panacea on Iran Forces Messaging Apps To Move Data To Iranian Servers (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    No I don't. I don't need to trust the Signal servers not doing that, I can check the source to see if they do. And I _do_ check the source (and make some minor changes in it like adding encrypted backup) before I compile my own version.

  2. Re: What if US companies refuse? on Iran Forces Messaging Apps To Move Data To Iranian Servers (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    That's better than The Netherlands where angry niggers are trying to shut up free speech by people who don't carry their agenda.

  3. Re:What if US companies refuse? on Iran Forces Messaging Apps To Move Data To Iranian Servers (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    A lot of popular messengers like Viber (already blocked in Iran) and Telegram are not from US companies anyway.

  4. Re:What if US companies refuse? on Iran Forces Messaging Apps To Move Data To Iranian Servers (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Because in Europe, the US government is not seen as an ally but an opponent the people need to protect from (by the population, not by "leaders" who hope to make a next career step in international politics). In Iran, the people need to protect more from their own government than from the US government so they look different at the matter.

  5. Re: "it's unlikely the government will be able to" on Iran Forces Messaging Apps To Move Data To Iranian Servers (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no need for because that already exists: Signal provides security and is open source. And if that gets blocked, the fork Silence (former SMSSecure) provides the same encryption with SMS. Try to shut that down (and see a lot of industrial alarm systems failing).

  6. Other party than the republicrats? on John McAfee Denied Libertarian Party Nomination For President (reason.com) · · Score: 2

    You mean the US CAN vote for someone else than Trump or Hillary? So the people ARE to blame if one of the former becomes president and does something stupid?

  7. Can we teach it on Ray Kurzeil's Google Team Is Building Intelligent Chatbots (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    to claiming to want genocide on Mexicans, like the last MS chatbot?

  8. Re: Encryption issue on Apple Not Allowed To Open Stores In India (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Not end to end. But they did provide keys, see for example https://it.slashdot.org/story/...

  9. Woman that don't like competition... on Study: '50% of Misogynistic Tweets From Women' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    call other woman sluts because they are affraid "their" men will more easily start an affair with them and they don't want to invest effort in more sex to keep them,

  10. Encryption issue on Apple Not Allowed To Open Stores In India (reuters.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The Indian government has been even harder on encryption than the American, having also forced BlackBerry to give them their BBM keys. They probably don't like the current path Apple has taken after it hired several well-known crypto experts.

    I hope they don't want to force Apple to outsource some iOS programming to India. The last thing Apple users need is the crappy bugware Indians usually produce.

  11. Re: And they knew it was hacked since at least 201 on State Dept. IT Staff Told To Keep Quiet About Clinton's Server (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    But no immunity from the CIA secret detention team when Clinton would become president. Then he'll simply get an "accident".

  12. New titles on State Dept. IT Staff Told To Keep Quiet About Clinton's Server (computerworld.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So instead of the barons, dukes and earls from Europe the US has Clintons, Bush and Kennedy's. I get it.

  13. No. But I would trust Hillary even less than Trump. At least Trump appears not wanting to police the entire planet - read "to start wars that favor the defense industry that pays campaign money". If Hillary gets elected I'm sure she'll start a couple of pointless wars.

  14. For that, we already have the source of Turbo Pascal, which is much more usefull (although not very adaptable being almost 100% inline assembler).

  15. Re:No. on Ask Slashdot: Can You Have A Smart Home That's Not 'In The Cloud'? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Removing spying background services on an open system like Android is easy: either don't install the Google stuff (or remove it), or disable it selectively:

    1. Root the phone (it is YOUR phone, you're the boss).
    2. Install a service manager like https://play.google.com/store/...
    3. Open it, go to system, open Google Play Services.
    4. Disable AdvertisingIdNotificationService, AdvertisingIdService, AnalyticsIntendService, AnalyticsService and AnalyticsUploadIntendService.

    Now open Google Settings and see that your device does not have an advertising ID anymore. The above method kills most, however some apps collect their own data and don't let it go via Google so watch out what you install.

  16. Re:Those who forget history... on Superjet Technology Nears Reality After Successful Australia Test (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Do they even have a research institute in Northern Ireland?

  17. Re:Stop the paranoia, please on Don't Use Google Allo (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    So what? Cheating is not illegal but I do want it to be private. And I also don't want the FBI to know where, when and from/to who I buy/sell my pot.

  18. Re:Paris isn't exactly French these days. on EgyptAir Flight 804 Missing (cnn.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    In Europe, we have several immigrant groups. Chinese for example. They never cause much trouble, work hard and try to raise by giving their children education. Therefore, most people have no issues at all with Chinese people living here. Arabs and niggers are causing much more problems and are therefore logically not liked very much.

    Fortunately the christians here are not as radical as some in the US. There are also a lot less of them - atheists are the dominant group here, at least in The Netherlands where I live.

  19. Re:Paris isn't exactly French these days. on EgyptAir Flight 804 Missing (cnn.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Claiming that niggers are even worse than Arabs doesn't make the Arab neighborhoods pretty.

  20. Re:Corporation trumps government on Pfizer Blocks The Use Of Its Drugs In Executions · · Score: 1

    They "did their duty". Yes, unfortunately we in Europe have experience with this "befehl ist befehl" mentality. It's no0 valid excuse. It wasn't a valid excuse in the Neurenberg trials either.

  21. Re:Corporation trumps government on Pfizer Blocks The Use Of Its Drugs In Executions · · Score: 1

    And when they later turn out to be innocent the judge and executioner will be executed too? I would support such a law, no judge would dare giving someone the death penalty.

    It's the same kind of mechanism that prevents EU companies doing business in Iran: the US is a bigger market so they can effectively enforce their sanctions over their border. Now they get a taste of their own recipe.

  22. Re:I live in Florida on Pfizer Blocks The Use Of Its Drugs In Executions · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And then your state executes my relative who later is proven to be not guilty. For revenge, I will execute the judge(s) and executioner who murdered my relative. Is that OK with you?

  23. Re:Corporation trumps government on Pfizer Blocks The Use Of Its Drugs In Executions · · Score: 1

    Producing them in a state-owned company would be impossible I guess. Doing that is against the party-ideology in the US.

  24. Re:Corporation trumps government on Pfizer Blocks The Use Of Its Drugs In Executions · · Score: 1

    Then they would either move, or stop selling to the USA entirely. The issue is that the EU refuses to do buisiness with companies who sell stuff for executions, and they are a bigger market than the US. It is our way to bring those Yankee murderers some civilisation.

  25. Re:What a Coward said by a Coward on Developer Of Anonymous Tor Software Dodges FBI, Leaves US (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, all those jews that fled from Germany in the 1930's were cowards too who had done nothing wrong.