> The research team documented three massive giant volcano sponges (Anoxycalyx joubini) near the damaged areas, each standing 1-2 meters tall. These ancient filter-feeders are believed to be among the planet’s oldest animals. Yet nearby, the scientists found crushed sponge colonies and clear striations in the seafloor where anchor chains had scraped across the bottom.
> If you can't look at the code doing the encrypting, it's simply encoded.
Not sure it being open source is required to be considered "encryption". Besides, even if you can look at the code you don't know if that's what's running on the server.
I'm telling you that I applied state-of-the-art, uncrackable encryption to that. Why should you believe me? What evidence do you have that I didn't just take your text, throw it in some Caesar Cipher generator, and copy-paste it into this text box?
Well, none. It just happens to look like I did that, and if that were data you wanted to keep secret but that a hacker had obtained without permission, you can bet that they would say "looks like a Caesar Cipher, I'll try a combination of decryption parameters until it makes sense".
If I can look at the code, decide I trust the implementations of the primitives being used, how they're being used, how identity is established, and how initial key exchange works, I don't need to know what's running on the server. That's sort of the point of end to end encryption.
You mean using the algorithm to verify that the observable input leads to the observable output? That would make sense and would allow you to form an opinion about the "primitives" like you said.
It’s very exciting imho, uptake of EVs and hybrids in China is contributing to noticeable oil demand destruction, and Chinese oil companies have already called the demand peak.
I very strongly doubt it. There’s no evidence that Meta sells user data, despite people having confidently claimed for many years that they do.
But regardless, none of this is the same as the messages being public, which is what was originally claimed. Facebook selling my messages to nefarious companies that want to profile me, while bad, would be quite different from them being accessible to anyone who wanted them.
I mean for context, in those countries Meta paid to setup these networks. They're not a government-enforced monopoly, you're more than welcome to start a competing network.
Countries like Mexico or Spain have adopted it as the default form of messaging. Only today I used it to chat with our lawn maintenance guy, our car washer, and someone who's repairing our espresso machine.
I could maybe try to convince friends and family to use another app but I won't be convincing an entire country.
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