Proton Meet Isn't What They Told You It Was
https://www.sambent.com/proton-meet-isnt-what-they-told-you/
Proton built Proton Meet to escape the CLOUD Act. They built it on CLOUD Act infrastructure. Their website promises "not even government agencies" can access your calls. The company routing them hands your call records to the government when asked. Proton hid them from their privacy policy.
Most of the privacy claims (of all type of apps) are essentially garbage anyway because realistically, if a website or an app can be compelled to push an update to a specific user, then they can intercept anything they want.
It doesn't even have to be a specific binary, it can be "just turn on this A/B testing / debug flag for that user" or a piece of javascript
>Most of the privacy claims (of all type of apps) are essentially garbage...
True. Everything has backdoored CPUs as its foundation. Consider, for starters: (Intel's 'Management' Engine); AMD's (PSP); Apple/Arm (black-box hardware).
You can layer as much theater as you like on top of the hardware-surveillance-layer in modern computers; it still won't grant you privacy.
China is building out RISC-V, just like they are leading actually-open AI.
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3347684/alibaba-d...
Weirdly, the authoritarian state is the one saving us from our own digital authoritarians.
> they are leading actually-open AI.
How are they leading? If I parse this correctly, "actually" open would mean fully open data training and weights? Then, by this definition, I'm only aware of Olmo (AllenAI - Seattle), Apertus (Swiss) and to some degree (unclear what data was actually published) Nemotron (Nvda, US). What are some examples of chinese similar models? (I'm not aware of any).
They are very expensive. Cheapest Power9 system Raptor Systems has is $6,794.99 and it has only 4 cores and 8GB DDR4 RAM and 128GB SSD. Reminds me of Sun Sparc pricing.
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