But yeah, don’t use email if you don’t trust your email provider.
Not sure how much more I can simplify this: The "if you don't trust your email provider" has no place in this sentence. Don't use email if you need the content of your messages to be private. If someone's looking at Proton because they think it'll keep their emails private, then yes, that's a bad idea. But that's not because of the "Proton" part of that sentence; it's because of the "emails" part, and setting up your own SMTP service will do nothing to remedy that (in fact it'll make things worse because it'll put your own IP address into the "Received-By" headers of every email you send out).
Wait... okay, I think we're talking about two different things.
Emails you send or receive are not private. End of story. That's nothing to do with the provider; they're just not. SMTP is from the stone age of internet when nothing was private, and the attempts to graft a layer of encryption on top of it are from the bronze age, when encryption wasn't very standardized or well-tested against real threats, and all of that shows. Even if you put a significant amount of work into grafting full end-to-end PGP encryption on top of the best your provider can do to keep your emails private, it doesn't work. Emails are not private.
What I assumed you were interested in was in separating your non-private collection of emails from your real world identity. Proton + Tor will do that, bang on. If you're trying to send and receive messages which are genuinely private, use one of the fairly good options which can do that (Signal or Matrix maybe). If you're trying to send and receive your non-private emails without it being linked to your real world identity, use Proton + Tor. If you're trying to send and receive SMTP emails without people being able to read them, you need to rethink what you want, because you're not going to be able to get that.
Close. It's about Pimeyes which is used to figure out the name and location of the Onlyfans girl you have a weird parasocial crush on. What's the worst that could happen?
(Technically, it only finds other photos on the internet of whatever random person you have a single photo of, which you can then often leverage into knowing their name and location.)
So the article isn't quite asking that. It is asking "Do we need people who know what they're doing, who can fuck things up in careful procedural fashion to get what we want and consequences be damned? Or is it time to start relying more at this point on people who will firebomb the abortion clinics and break in the Capitol to kill our enemies?"
There's nothing in there about doing what's actually legal. It's just about getting what we want by being political scumbags like McConnell vs. getting what we want by any means necessary.
Consider the consequences, says journalist Kashmir Hill, of everyone deciding to use this technology at all times in public places.
"Something happens on the train, you bump into someone, or you're wearing something embarrassing, somebody could just take your photo, and find out who you are and maybe tweet about you, or call you out by name, or write nasty things about you online," said Hill
In an interview with NPR, he said the abuse of the tool has been overstated, noting that the site's detection tools intercepted just a few hundreds instances of people misusing the service for things like stalking
Y'all are angling for a gold medal at the understatement olympics.
There are potential uses of the technology that could be beneficial. For instance, for people who are blind, or for quickly identifying someone whose name you forgot and, as the company highlights, keeping tabs on one's own images on the web.
He continued: "PimEyes can be used for many legitimate purposes, like to protect yourself from scams," he said. "Or to figure out if you or a family member has been targeted by identity thieves."
OH, COME ON
I love how they really have to dig to even come up with some legitimate ways to use the technology.
Hm... I do kind of get what you're saying now. I just don't agree with this limited way of applying the term. I do know what a backdoor is, yes.
So: If you have a remote shell program like sshd, it can do what it does. There might be malicious code inside, there might not. But if we said specifically that it had a "backdoor," that would mean that it can also accept arbitrary login requests (bypassing the normal authentication) for someone to log in and run arbitrary commands. That's a backdoor. The code's still running within the context of the terminal program, but what makes it a backdoor is that it's doing it on demand from some remote user. Yes?
If you had a social media program like Tiktok, it can do what it does. There might be malicious code inside, there might not. But if we said it had a "backdoor," that would mean that it can also execute arbitrary code (bypassing the normal authentication of downloaded apps) for someone to run arbitrary code. That's a backdoor. The code's still running within the security context of the app, but what makes it a backdoor is that it's doing it on demand from some remote user.
There's another related definition where "backdoor" means a secret way of escalating privileges, but that up above is the context where I'm using it, which is also consistent with Wikipedia's definition. You're free to not agree with my definitions, I don't wanna argue any more than you do and I'm happy if you want to use the word however you want. But that's how I see it.
Yeah... it's concerning. There are small signs of hope in that all the current Supreme Court has been telling Trump to go to hell any time he wants them to keep him in power regardless of the votes.
(So far)
(Also I was talking not really about the courts but a more about the prosecutors and Justice Department getting in the habit of pursuing even "important people" when they're being clearly criminal. It's not much but I'll take it.)
Yeah, Stone and Manafort were getting away with murder-by-proxy for decades, pretty much everyone gets away with taking totally-not-bribes, that stuff is just how the system works. Now we're getting people too stupid to get away with it even with the table tilted in their favor to within an inch of being totally vertical.
I feel like there's an important precedent with Hunter Biden, too. Yes you can get charged even if you're in the royal family. It'll make absolutely no difference to what the Republicans say, since they make no pretense of consistency, but it'll make a difference to actual law enforcement and judicial decisions to some degree, which are a lot more impactful.
Also: I don't know why they're making them as strict spirals. It looks to me like anything that's just a coiled hose with a large coil radius will work just as well, and you don't have to carefully construct this strictly flattened shape for your machinery.
Yeah, absolutely. It's not the only thing that's going on but that also happens.
So for example how they'd combine is, you could have 10 coils with a one-foot column of water in each, and that gives you 10 feet of pressure at the output pipe. That's way more than you would expect from the whole system being just one foot high (or a little more in practice) and self-powered. But then also, because it pumps a mixture of water and air into the pipe, it can reach a destination 20 feet up, by using that 10 feet worth of pressure (because as you say it's only lifting 10 feet worth of water and the weight of the 10 other feet of air is negligible).
Yeah absolutely. And if there are crooked Democrats get rid of them too.
Getting rid of the crooks, and keeping the honest people, should be something bipartisan as far as the citizenry is concerned, but people are tribal and so here we are.
One way to think of it non-mathematically is like this: Water and air behave differently in this system in how they transport pressure. Water in a hose creates a certain pressure on what's below it, where you can think of the pressure as measured by the depth of the water. So the weight of 8 vertical inches of water will create 8 inches worth of pressure on whatever's below it. Air, however, will "teleport" the pressure it's experiencing from one end to the other end, up or down, without contributing anything significant from its own weight.
So in the outside loop of the hose, on the right side if you're looking at the video thumbnail, you might have a little 8-inch column of water, which can't go down any further because there's air in the way. So it's exerting 8 inches worth of pressure down on that air. Then the air takes that pressure and "teleports" it to the top of the next coil inwards, so that if there's 8 more inches of water in the next coil, it's exerting 16 inches worth of pressure on what's below it, from the air plus the weight of that much more water. Then the air below it teleports 16 inches of pressure over to the next coil in, and so on for every coil, until the inner coils have as much pressure as they would from a ton of water sitting on top of them, way more than the actual total vertical size of the system.
If only the left had a propaganda machine equal to one-tenth of Fox News, we could make this a punchline for the next five years at least. Sadly its comedic value will be squandered.
We're starting to normalize charging sitting politicians for their crimes again and I'm here for it
I wish Abscam had ushered in a whole new wave of the executive branch actively testing the corruption level of the legislative branch as part of its normal operating procedures
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Not sure how much more I can simplify this: The "if you don't trust your email provider" has no place in this sentence. Don't use email if you need the content of your messages to be private. If someone's looking at Proton because they think it'll keep their emails private, then yes, that's a bad idea. But that's not because of the "Proton" part of that sentence; it's because of the "emails" part, and setting up your own SMTP service will do nothing to remedy that (in fact it'll make things worse because it'll put your own IP address into the "Received-By" headers of every email you send out).