KDE Social
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
@schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to Technology@beehaw.org • 3 months ago

UK Orders Apple To Break Encryption Worldwide While World Is Distracted

www.techdirt.com

external-link
message-square
29
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • technology@lemmy.ml
118
external-link

UK Orders Apple To Break Encryption Worldwide While World Is Distracted

www.techdirt.com

@schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to Technology@beehaw.org • 3 months ago
message-square
29
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • technology@lemmy.ml
In a stunning escalation that confirms our worst fears, the UK government has finally shown its true hand on encryption — and it’s even worse than we predicted. According to a bombshell repor…
  • @themurphy@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    4•3 months ago

    If the default ones does, 95% of the data is still harvested. Then we don’t really matter.

    But yeah, everyone reading the guy aboves comment, get the keyboard. The more the better.

    • @smiletolerantly@awful.systems
      link
      fedilink
      2•3 months ago

      I switched a couple of months ago, from SwiftKey. Had been using that for ever, long before Microsoft bought it.

      NGL, the transition was a bit rough, and the first month my error rate spiked. All good now though, plus Futo has a bunch of super useful features SK never had. Overall, very happy.

      • 🐝bownage [they/he]
        link
        fedilink
        1•3 months ago

        This might be a stupid question but if I have data sharing disabled on SwiftKey, doesn’t that mean my typing data isn’t being shared with Microsoft? Or does it still just do that

        • @smiletolerantly@awful.systems
          link
          fedilink
          3•3 months ago

          Who knows?

          Unless a piece of software is open source, you cannot know.

          • 🐝bownage [they/he]
            link
            fedilink
            1•3 months ago

            Fair enough

          • IngeniousRocks (They/She)
            link
            fedilink
            1•3 months ago

            deleted by creator

            • @smiletolerantly@awful.systems
              link
              fedilink
              1•3 months ago

              We were talking about SwiftKey

              • IngeniousRocks (They/She)
                link
                fedilink
                2•3 months ago

                Oh my bad I’m a silly

        • @seang96@spgrn.com
          link
          fedilink
          1•3 months ago

          Futo has no internet access permission as well so android won’t let it and you won’t have to check the code after every update.

Technology@beehaw.org

!technology@beehaw.org

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !technology@beehaw.org

A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.

Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:

  • Free and Open Source Software
  • Programming
  • Operating Systems

This community’s icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

  • 209 users / day
  • 1.23K users / week
  • 3.02K users / month
  • 7.65K users / 6 months
  • 38.6K subscribers
  • 3.59K Posts
  • 62.2K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • alyaza [they/she]
  • TheRtRevKaiser
  • @gyrfalcon@beehaw.org
  • Leigh
  • @coldredlight@beehaw.org
  • rs5th
  • TheRtRevKaiser
  • Chris Remington
  • BE: 0.19.3
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org