Seems unlikely they would be removed, at least until the land reaches a stable state where it can be farmed. But even then, it turns out that solar panels can be good for some crops and for food animals.

Even if their chips do turn out to be actually good, would you trust Intel? Their security has proven to be lacking, and they use a lot of abusive tactics like artificially limiting features and having short lived sockets.

Why? Why not let the device worry about if the update completed? And what is the issue with a ping to say update complete? That's not decrypting and sharing your private messages.

Why would it need feedback? They just update the database that the government gives them.

I might be wrong, it's possible, but I think we need a lot more detail on how this will be implemented.

In any case, it's not breaking encryption, it's targeting the apps. It's always been the case that you don't use WhatsApp if you don't want your messages to be seen by law enforcement eventually.

Apple used an image hash that was supposed to work even when the image read transformed slightly, but it was easy to create false positives.

That's not relating to E2EE messaging. It says "become aware", and they are under no obligation to make themselves aware. Only to scan, on device, and block.

It does not send anything anywhere. Show us your citation for this claim that the authorities will be sent blocked images and URLs.

It wouldn't make sense to do so, due to the high false positive rate and the fact that in many member states there would be no way to send those images anywhere without becoming party to the distribution of illegal material.

The UK now requires them to check ID before allowing access to some content. For sites like Discord that effectively means everyone needs to present ID, because they don't want to control what people say on their site before publishing it.

Let's see how many UK users who verified their age are in there, and what the fallout is.

From the summary it sounds like it's not the bubble bursting that they are worried about, it's that Trump might massively devalue the US Dollar by taking control of the US Central Bank. Once it loses its independence and is subject to the whims of a man whose companies have been bankrupt many, many times, it will become another joke currency and not the world reserve it once was.

Unfortunately the website in question is not accurate. For example: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/#o...

"Breaking Encryption
Weakening or breaking end-to-end encryption exposes everyone's communicationsâ"including sensitive financial, medical, and private dataâ"to hackers, criminals, and hostile actors."

That is not true. The requirement is for the app that sends or receives the message to scan it locally, against a database of known illegal images and URLs. No encryption is broken, the message is scanned only by apps that have access to the plaintext so that the user can send/receive the message.

The other claims seem accurate and are much more compelling. Apple tried it, it didn't work, it can't work, and it won't be effective.

If we are going to fight this, it needs to be done based on true and accurate information. I imagine most of these MEPs will be told that the claims are not true, and dismiss all opposition as being based on disinformation.

A few years ago Amazon remotely deleted Nineteen Eighty Four from people's Kindle e-readers. Took all their notes with it. The issue was expiry of the licence for the book.

They won't be shooting down random aircraft on the say-so of members of the public.

They will likely have enhanced surveillance to go with this. Everyone is working on small drone detection and classification. They probably won't shoot them down either, they will use other drones to crash into them. Shooting is risky, most of those bullets will come back down.

ChromeOS is a better option. On supported hardware. I've had zero tech support calls since switching people to that.

People outside the UK and Europe might not be aware of the history of flag shaggers here. Germany in particular is very careful to avoid displaying their flag outside of specific circumstances, due to the history of it being abused by the far right.

Back in the 1930s we had the same thing with our far right, Oswald Mosley and his British Union of Fascists. So when people see the far right using the British flag again, or the English flag, while ranting about immigration using the same language as they did in the '30s, they draw the correct conclusion that it's the same thing repeating itself.