I mean Gedaliyah lost the Jews the holy land, so that at least tracks with how the Zionists’ genocide is destroying support worldwide for Israel and their ‘right to exist’.

I don’t know. We could ask them.

It’s disgusting to see that all of these articles are downvoted by our own resident pro-genocide nazi Zionist monsters. Imagine being onboard with children burning to death.

They defrauded banks, not the cardholders. “Identity theft” is a BS shifting of the responsibility from the bank to a third party who often bears no responsibility for the bank being duped.

“Let me be very direct: We cannot allow individuals to flee from officers with a loaded firearm aimed at them,” she said. “When this happens, the outcome is almost always tragic. No one wins, and everyone involved is affected.”

Absolutely disgusting mindset for the police to operate in and it should be a condemnation of them, not an excuse for killing a fleeing person merely suspected of committing a property crime.

Armed gang murders member of the public (with the full intention of “investigating” themselves and finding they did nothing wrong), is shocked that public would kill one of their own, and expects the public to shed tears for their fellow gang member (who was really a great guy… every other gang member loved him).

We’ve been ratcheting farther and farther to the right for nearly fifty years. I’m not claiming to be a fortune teller, but this is the direction that both parties have been pushing us (one faster and one slower, but both in the same direction).

Neither of them is on your side. One is definitely playing the bad guy and lesser-of-two-evils can get us out of a disaster a couple of times, but they’re both taking us to the same place in the end.

[ed: To be clear, I don’t think there’s actually a unified conspiracy between the parties. Only that a group of likeminded individuals acting in their own self interest is indistinguishable from a conspiracy. The christofascist stuff is unique to one side, but what each of them has in mind both look like a dystopia for us.]

Nowhere in any of my posts did I say this was good or that I appreciate it. Are you responding to the right person?

This is a shit situation, but you’re doing yourself a disservice thinking that this only started with Trump.

I don’t disagree with you at all.

I’m just pointing out that when the neoliberals slow walk us toward a dystopia, nobody seems to complain or people even come out in defense of them. Trump and his republicans followers are evil morons, but all of the democrats in that list had a hand in bringing us to where we are now.

Trump is a clumsy frog boiler, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been in this pot for decades at least.

They were Nazis too, or at least Nazi adjacent. They were just smart and competent and playing the long game which would have landed us here in 20-50 years without any domestic resistance.

I think the lesson to be learned is that everything works in the demo (except when it doesn’t), but when it’s deployed to thousands of sites by the cheapest contractors, operated by untrained and unmotivated personnel, and not calibrated or maintained over its lifetime… the reliability goes down a bit.

“Imagine if federal worker unions and Democratic Party officials showed up at the plant gate of a company that was about to close its doors," said one labor advocate recently. “Why aren’t the Democrats doing this?”

Because that’s not what controlled opposition does. You’ll drive yourselves mad trying to figure out why the Democrats actions don’t seem to ever accomplish their stated goals. (You’re already mad if you can’t figure out why the same is true for Republicans.)

RCS, as adopted by GSMA , is zero encryption text messaging. RCS with encryption is a proprietary Google product and relies on Google servers.

On my phone, so links may come later. It’s hard to find solid documentation on it, since their encryption extension is proprietary, but it’s been referenced as being based on the Signal Protocol. The Signal Protocol, or every implementation of it that I’ve seen, uses a central “trusted” repository of public keys to tell message originators query to encrypt the message to. For Signal, and I assume Google RCS, that central repository is Google. The protocol doesn’t allow for federation, so any system that is interoperable with Google RCS will rely on Google as the trusted authority.

The private key part I’m much less sure of, since both the Signal and Google RCS clients are closed source. Signal makes you jump through hoops to add a new client, involving one of your currently installed clients. This suggests that Signal isn’t in possession of your private keys. On the other hand, all you need to set up a new Google client is your account password. This suggests that either your keys are held by Google (perhaps encrypted by your account password) or that new keys can be added without needing explicit involvement from current keys.

Of course this is all speculation because the implementations aren’t available for inspection.

So is this going to be standard RCS, which has no encryption and the telcos need to support, or the Googlified version that does E2E encryption but requires storing keys on Google’s servers?

RCS has interoperability issues itself and Google hasn’t been making the situation better.

Yes. I’m a man of few words.