They can only impersonate you that way if your contacts dismiss the warning about your safety number changing. If you’re being directly targeted by the government of a wealthy country, using a specific app isn’t enough to prevent surveillance; you’ll need some actual opsec.
What’s described in the article is the same method Russia was using to compromise Ukrainian Signal accounts. It’s just phishing.
There’s Private Space, but that’s not ideal for a general-purpose messaging app because notifications are suspended when the space is locked. Signal also has the option to require the same authentication method as your screen lock in order to access the app.
It’s weird to me that it took Meta releasing these for it to become a problem. Here’s a review of some $130 spy camera glasses from 2013. Since then prices have decreased and capability has increased. There are a ton of “spy camera glasses” on Amazon.
When I can, I try to get around on foot. Having some sort of HUD to display directions and such would be pretty nice for that instead of constantly having to pull out my phone.
Even more true for biking directions. I bought a new old stock Google Glass for $50 and vibecoded OSMGlass for exactly that purpose. It’s adequate.
I’m not the person you’re replying to, but I’ve owned several pairs of bone conduction headphones, both Alibaba white label stuff and the big brand name. All of them:
They are essentially the “audio only version” of Meta glasses you’re requesting. My current Shokz OpenMove was a big upgrade in Bluetooth range and connection stability from any of the white label stuff, though some of those sounded about as good.
A proposal I’ve seen floated a few times is to require police to carry liability insurance individually and give them a stipend for an average/reasonable amount. This is usually paired with changes to qualified immunity to make lawsuits and insurance claims easier.
The idea is that risky behavior from police costs them money personally.
That adds up to 30%. Maybe you meant 25/50/25.
I’d have to know more before breaking it down. If Flock told police departments that these alerts are up to date and reliable, I might assign them up to half the blame. If there were clear that the information could be a few days old, then I’d set it smaller, but not to zero because I think offering an “alert” product to law enforcement for minor administrative offenses based on stale data is irresponsible.
Similarly for the department and the officer, I have to ask whether there’s a policy about how to handle this sort of thing. If there’s a bad policy, the department gets most of the blame. If the officer decided to ignore a valid insurance card and trust a third-party database, the the officer gets most of the blame.
In a just world, the officer, the police department, and Flock would all owe her compensation. I’d put the amount at about 10x the fine for the offense.
our ticketing system’s website I put in light mode (even though they have a dark mode) because their dark mode looks like shit.
Once, a client asked me to put a spinner on a page that was slow to load. I made the underlying SQL query 2000 times faster instead.
A toggle is not the best solution to your problem.
When I loaded this page on my phone (Firefox on Android), the colors changed several times during loading, then the layout shifted so that only a third of the screen was used for text. That makes taking the author’s thoughts on web design seriously difficult.
I think a source of confusion in this thread is that people in North America actually use SMS to communicate with other people, and in most of the rest of the world, that’s uncommon. I haven’t received an SMS from a human on my European phone number in over two years, and the last one was someone verifying my Signal safety number.
There’s a dominant messaging app in most other regions which everyone uses unless they’re a luddite or a free software absolutist. Whatsapp is the most common, but others are dominant in certain regions.
I’m honestly confused as to what UI differences people care about between Signal, Telegram, and Whatsapp. All three have a list of chats as the main view, with a search field or button, and a chat screen with prior messages on top and an input field at the bottom.
I do not pretend to be a UX designer and would appreciate an explanation.
I’ve been on many European trains, and an Amtrak or two. Amtrak stations are crap compared to anything in Europe, but the train itself was nice. It had thickly padded seats and lots of room compared to what I usually see in Europe.
Alaska
-40F to +40F in about a four hour period.
It wasn’t mentioned in the article about this specific incident, but most times I read about a passenger getting arrested for disrupting a flight, they were drunk.
Airlines care a lot when they have to make an unscheduled landing due to passenger behavior.
The EU took 500€ notes out of circulation a few years ago because they prefer large transactions to be done by methods that are easier for the government to monitor. I imagine the US government feels the same way.
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I did notice some comments that may be from people who did not read and understand the article. These attacks are not sophisticated or hard to defend against, which is probably why the German police want to limit public awareness.
I find their view shortsighted/narrow; the attacks they’re using (including SIM swapping) are also widely used by criminals for fraud and identity theft. Police agencies should not discourage the public from being more cybersecurity-aware.