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  • john_t@piefed.eetoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Signal in 2026?English
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    2 days ago

    Session is closing in less than 90 days.

    Session has now entered its final 90 days of operation. If we are unable to reach our funding goal within this period, the Session Technology Foundation (STF) will be forced to shut down.[…] This is our final appeal to the Session community: without your support, the STF will cease all operations on July 8, 2026.

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  • john_t@piefed.eetoEurope@feddit.org•EU age verification app can be hacked in 2 minutes, claims security expertEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Big social isn’t profitable unless they’re tracking people. So they sure won’t stop doing that. It would be their ending.
    And when the governments do act on something, people go on “muh rights” tirades online, like everyone here.

    Literally acting like gun rights people when the government tries to regulate arms. And social media is a hell of a weapon right now. It would be strange to defend firearms for everyone, even for kids. People think firearms are freedom, cars are freedom, smoking in restaurants is freedom. Well, I’ve been here before social media and I know it isn’t freedom.

    That being said… here, have an upvote because I agree with you.

  • john_t@piefed.eetoEurope@feddit.org•EU age verification app can be hacked in 2 minutes, claims security expertEnglish
    51·
    3 days ago

    We’re already living in a dystopia where billionaires control millions of people with addictive algorithms, and they desperately want to do the same to kids to train them early. If anything, this makes it harder for kids to access the algorithm. Even if it saves 1% it’s a net positive. I don’t really care if a scrolling zombie already feeding all his data to a billionaire also gets surveilled by the government now. And what surveillance is that now? It’s just an app telling your year of birth to a social media site with your authorization.

    You should refuse to use social media at all.

  • john_t@piefed.eetoEurope@feddit.org•EU age verification app can be hacked in 2 minutes, claims security expertEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I’m really getting tired of this click bait title popping up daily for the last week.

    For what I understand from the articles, the app doesn’t tie the login to your OS, which is a nice feature because it prevents Google or Apple from controlling where you can install the app. So it can work in opensource phones, maybe? Please correct me if I’m wrong.

    Also, it looks like the hacker needs to have access to your phone. It’s the same as saying if you leave your house door open you can get robbed, so there’s no point in buying a TV because it can get stolen.