Apple's statement is the death knell for the idea that it's possible to scan everyone's comms AND preserve privacy.

Apple has many of the best cryptographers + software eng on earth + infinite $.

If they can't, no one can. (They can't. No one can.)

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-csam-scanning-heat-initiative-letter/

This is alarming.

Noting also that the Saudis are Twitter's second largest investors.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/08/29/saudi-arabia-man-sentenced-death-tweets

HP are such scammers

I posted about this very cheap printer before, which strongly suggests that there is No USB, only Wifi. When I first got it I figured out how to print over the network without using the app they try to bully you into downloading.

It turns out it's even easier to print, just use the USB port they try to pretend isn't there!

No company is going to rewrite their firmware to remove the USB stack. It's even more expensive to redesign the hardware to get rid of the USB port physically. They opted for the cheapest option, a little sticker.

They are just trying to store everyone's documents in their stupid cloud service that some teenage extortion group is going to break into and leak one day. Don't give them your data.

This summer or next, the fires we saw in 2019 will be back, devastating us they are now doing to Greece and Canada. And among the many who are helping to cause them, I'd put Tanya Plibersek at the top of my list. She could take a stand, but prefers to keep her job.

By contrast, with people like Albo/Scomo it's pointless to expect anything better. They have no ideals to betray.

"A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us."

Franz Kafka was born #OTD in 1883.

His best known works include the novella The Metamorphosis and novels The Trial and The Castle. The term Kafkaesque has entered English to describe absurd situations like those depicted in his writing. via @Wikipedia

Books by Franz Kafka at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1735

#books #literature