Suddenly? It’s been labeled Chinese spyware since day one.
Suddenly? It’s been labeled Chinese spyware since day one.
Same situation here in Germany, where companies are worried about attracting skilled foreign workers while right-wing extremist parties are gaining more and more votes.
The internet is uncharted land for all of us.
Our previous chancellor in 2013. Still is today it seems.
Not use a hosting provider that charges by the amount of traffic?
This appears to be an extreme edge case but overall there is nothing preventing you from waking up to such a huge bill if your site turns into the most popular page on the internet over night.
I’ve never bothered with them, but aren’t there already? Additional stuff for your personal avatar?
Germany checking in: The chancellors wife at the time having ties to the copper industry doesn’t help either.
I strongly disagree. That’s like using MD5 and saying ‘It’s OK, we use SHA256 down the line’. Information encrypted with it might as well be in plain text.
Forget about biometrics, they are way too insecure.
Our cameras have reached a stage where we can replicate fingerprints from photos. ‘What you are’ is useless when we leave part of us everywhere. And furthermore, in parts of the world, authorities can force you to unlock your device with biometrics but not with passwords.
I thought I lived in a pretty backwards part of Germany but your corner must be extremely off the grid!
To just name one example in Germany: Verification via robo call in WhatsApp.
Never heard? No.
Hasn’t switched over yet? Certainly.
God beware someone posting the solution to the problem. ¯\(ツ)/¯
Afaik Signal will never interface with platforms such as WhatsApp because it would mean they’d have to lower their security standards.
IMO its fine for vendors to abandon their products but they should be required to release all technical documentation and software used with the device into the public domain so enthusiasts can continue where companies stopped.