Why was the kid taken from her custody in the first place? Article doesn’t say but I suppose it is easy to imagine several scenarios given her kookiness.

Including the not-so-fringe idea that voting for a minor party is a wasted vote.

Suspended on the underside of the flat earth.

If they could surveil the device to see the PIN being entered then no app would protect them.

My Signal only asks for a PIN about once per month so that would be a lot of screen surveillance hours to sit through in order to catch that moment.

More likely is that it was fixed since the breach but I cannot find release notes (hard to search on my phone).

SimpleX is decentralized, requires no phone number, based on Signal code. Screws up invitations via FB/Messenger though.

Regarding the trick of an adversary gaining access by emailing or SMS’ing a QR code for adding another device…

Why does the new device not demand the PIN before being added?

“The only metadata that Signal would have access to, is the phone number used to register, the date of initial registration, and the date of last use.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/exd92f/what_kind_of_usermessage_metadata_is_observed_and/

In case people only saw the headline…

The sale is because a breach already happened: “hackers obtained personal data of about seven million of its customers in October 2023”.

They cannot afford the lawsuits.

MP3’s sped up copying of music. As for games though, they increased in size because of CD’s so that countered any speed up.

It never occurred to me.

Thanks. I opted out of MyHealthRecord before it kicked in. This vindicates me: the justification for them is to streamline services but, from what you told me, they are not even doing that (in this instance).

What sticker?

Could be worse: having The Public Trustee or Public Guardian/Advocate hijack her parents’ lives.

https://trusteetering.org/

I heard from a Redditor that his tweets were luring US scientists to EU and his visit was a recruitment drive. One USAmerican already took up the offer.

I imagine US does not want to identify him because although we could verify the above in his tweets, it would be advertising the lure for US scientists to defect.

And the French guy probably does not want to identify himself because je wants to make the US government look as bad as possible.

Not random, not as bad as the headline sounds but not worthy of banning anyhow.

The “derangement syndrome” political phrase was actually coined in 2003 during the Bush administration by political commentator Charles Krauthammer about critics of President George W. Bush. The Minnesota bill borrows the exact phrasing Krauthammer used to describe “Bush derangement syndrome,” which reads: “the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency—nay—the very existence of George W. Bush.”

https://www.fox9.com/news/mn-lawmakers-want-make-trump-derangement-syndrome-mental-illness

In related US News: Trump intervention at Columbia alarms defenders of academic freedom.

Federal officials told the university it must immediately place its Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department under “academic receivership for a minimum of five years.” The demand was among several described as conditions for receiving federal funding, including $400 million already pulled over allegations of antisemitism

https://mastodon.cloud/@raymondpert/114166294394033184

Those who don’t respond favourably must pin a yellow patch on their chest.

EDIT: Turns out Trump is fond of the pink triangle patch Nazis used to pin on gays. It is so hard to write satire nowadays.

5. Does your organization encourage free speech and encourage open debate and free sharing of information? [yes/no]

1. If yes, please explain

Yeah, right: “please explain so that we can curtail your free speech if it clashes with ours”

But then lose the funding. Which might be seen as fair except that the funding was arranged before Trump so withdrawing it is tantamount to vandalism.

Besides, most of the funding is probably for apolitical projects. Apolitical projects cannot respond “not relevant” because only yes/no is offered. So indeed they are asking everyone to to affirm fascist Trumpism.

It is hard on a phone to read the embedded questionnaire so here is the actual PDF which might give you more screen real-estate to work with.

Did you read the explanation for the third one? It is awesome but would be impossible for citizens to produce freehand (is that even done nowadays? Even in schools?)