ExLisper

Tip your mechanics, people!

I will let you know when they're available again 😈

Some company just placed DDG logo on existing model of glasses and is selling them for exact same price as a joke. It's not like DDG started manufacturing glasses specifically for this joke.

So you don't have to go to twitter: https://knockaround.com/products/duckduckgo-paso-robles

You got confused by a simple comparison? No wonder you don't understand anything about Chat Control.

Yes, and in both US and rest of the world police can use deadly force when their life is in danger. The laws are effectively the same. In practice:

Talking about what "legal framework" allows to happen while ignoring reality is pointless, disingenuous and purposefully misleading.

""" Users are then prompted to download malicious files, after which the hijackers infect the user's device with malware that collects browser cookies, passwords, documents and more, Microsoft said. The hackers are able to capture keystrokes, screenshots, audio, and video, monitor the clipboard, and operate the device remotely.

In some instances, users attempting to access a compromised network may be redirected to fake login screens, at which point, the hijackers will be able to access the user's Microsoft 365 account, giving them further access to the person's email and OneDrive."""

Yeah, don't download random files or giver your credentials to random pages, on both public and private WiFi. As long as you don't do stupid things everyone uses https now so you'll be fine.

For now, it sounds like the US and the EU are effectively the same on this matter.

One is as of now sending police to interrogate people over text messages and the other is not even scanning anything locally (Chat Control 1.0 allows scanning but no one is actually doing this). "Effectively the same...." People have lost all sense of proportion on this. One has currently implemented automated system to alarm police about possible school shootings based on a single text message where police is actually responding in minutes (not to mention full monitoring of kids school computers and actual police officers assaulting children in schools!) and the other doesn't even consider school shooting a meaningful risk and does not surveils kids or teachers in any way. Yes, you're right. It's pretty much the same.

I will just give up now. Doesn't make a lot of sense to talk with deranged people.

Chat Control was never about scanning text messages, it's about scanning media to prevent propagation of CSAM. E2EE is very specifically protected and all scanning has to be done client side. Chat Control will "undermine encryption" only in the sense that messenger apps could check shared media files. If it's even passed it could in theory lead to similar situation (false positives on some media) but right now nothing like this is happening and it's not clear if it will ever happen while in US police is already being sent to people over texts to friends. So while I agree that we should be vigilant and Chat Control in its current form is not a move in the right direction screaming how EU is oppressing everyone is an exaggeration.

I guess if they optionally required some crypto payment instead of phone number it would made some people happy. Will be interesting to see where does this go.