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It's a pretty well established phenomenon and he cites israeli leaders. no need for ad-hominem attacks. What's your argument for allowing spyware?


he cited a single Israeli private citizen. not Israeli leaders.

The fact that a data-harvesting bloatware is installed on common handsets should be controversial enough.

Both the title of this post and the link try to add "Israel is baaaad" angle as just because a company was founded in Israel.

Israel is a middle-eastern tech hub that produces a lot of tech companies and innovations. Its just a numbers game that some of them will be working on things of questionable value to humanity.

What GP suggesting is discriminating against all technologies developed by Israel because of his political views, nothing more.


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Your claim has nothing to do with the parent claim. Truthful or not, you can't write an article, have it debunked or disputed and then move onto another argument.


Yes, software was involved in the pager attacks, and software can be used to overheat and cause malfunction(which in the case of lithium ion can cause explosions, hazardous gases, and fire). Another example of a software-based attack that damages hardware is Stuxnet(there were no explosives either as part of this attack).


Downvoting facts? You might not be thinking about this topic rationally.


well, your facts are wrong, because there were in fact explosives planted in there [1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Lebanon_electronic_device...


I guess all those involved in burgeoning hemp trade are just in time for the mines to re-open. We're ruled by sociopaths and we don't live in a democracy.


Many of those people are seeking asylum, which is legal. It sounds like you're the one that fell for a fake invasion. But everyone in your family will get a raise once you terrorize the brown people enough, right?


"iN sUM cOunTries"

And in this country border agents pepper spray citizens and black bag elementary school teachers terrorizing your own children. What is this the shitty authoritarian olympics? I thought this was the land of the free and all I see is bootlickers.


Is there such thing as "versioned" torrents? Assuming you have the right PGP key you could mix bittorrent and packaging systems to get an update-able distribution



trere is the bittorrent v2 standard: https://blog.libtorrent.org/2020/09/bittorrent-v2/

but unfortunately most foss torrent clients do not support it, partly because at release libtorrent 2.0.x had poor io performance in some cases so torrent clients reverted to the 1.2.x branch


I think SciOp is doing something in that area, with a catalog site and webseeds. https://sciop.net/


A Torrent would probably suffocate under the small file distribution. I’m not sure how the romset torrents work but I thought they were versioned.

But torrent is probably the wrong tech. I’m sure there would be many players willing to host a few TB or more each, which could be fronted via something so it’s transparent to the user.

But a better option might be a subscription model, anything else will be slammed by crawlers.


lol "unimaginable" aka boring creepy slop that drives engagement on facebook for old people.


You mean it's thanks to the incredible invention known as the Internet that they were able to "democratize cutting-edge AI to an amazing number of people"

OpenAI didn't build the delivery system they built a chat app.


AOL had a chat app too. There's something special about OpenAI's chat app though. I can't quite put my finger on it though.


Yeah I thought it was widely known that "deploy" could be as simple as sending a text message. The recipient did not even need to open in in the case of Pegasus.


So you're presuming that there is an exploit that allows a remote attacker to install "Graphite" via a text message? That is not stated here - or anywhere - as it was over and over again in the case of Pegasus (and similarly, the trumpets sounded when the patch was fixed a couple weeks later).

The reporting here is markedly more imprecise, and it's frustrating.


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