Comment Re:Too risky (Score 1) 131
exotic remote place exploration, expensive car crash, rockstar drug overdose, those are all out of fashion today.
how can a system with a central verification system and central key provider even be called decentralized?
this is the same as calling https as we have today as "decentralized". yeah you can share CAs and install them in your browser, but name one person that did that.
this is not craigslist scamming rich teenagers in san jose. The seller already killed or scared the indians, and now facebook is just to find the buyer, who is paying exactly for the privilege of someone dealing with the indians. nobody is paying for the land, the land everyone knows is free.
But good that you can live such a sheltered life in your suburbs that you think the worse can happen is some schmuch losing money over a too good to be true deal. sadly facebook and other companies are global monopolies run by people like you.
Remember when WeWork CEO used company money to buy/rent his own properties above market value?
What about the TSLA CEO who used company/investor/shareholder money to buy his shitcoins at the highest price in decades
Ivan, go study recent history to know the actual reason: https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-98...
Exactly! They never say your private messages are not being parsed for Advertisement profiling you.
They clearly say it "won't affect" whatever is already in place. Which you assume is privacy, but c'mon, it's FaceBook. Do you think whatsapps servers grow on trees?
Also, a good time to remind everyone that *whatsapp group messages are visible to the server*
in other words: "It macromedia Flash all over again"!
Do not sugar coat it! The windows exploit is local and because you are running Google Chrome(tm) in trusted mode (because of auto-update?)
The real problem here is Google Chrome running trusted code (windows equivalent as root) and a remote exploitable bug.
Get down that horse and tell me how can i sign the OS boot with a Key I trust.
If you don't own the keys, that just mean you attacker had to pay someone before taking over your machine.
Do you really think T2 was not put there exclusively for DRM?
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