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freeman ,

That.. is not a study by anyone who knows what they are talking about. It also does not mention fingerprints at all.

They seem to believe that the app can use permissions undeclared in the manifest file because they obviously think it's only for the store to show the permissions to the user. Android will not actually allow an app to use undeclared permissions. The most rational explanation is the codebase is shared with different version of the app (possibly not released) that had different manifests.

It also makes a big deal of checking if running as root. That is not evidence of having an escalation exploit. If they have an ability to get root before running the app why would they need to use the app to exploit it? They could just do whatever they wanted and avoid leaving traces in the app. Though I doubt they would root phones to just brick them. It's the kind of mischief you would expect from a kid writing viruses, not an intelligence agency or criminal enterprise.

Users who root their own phones are very unlikely to run temu as root. In fact a lot of apps related to shopping or banking try to detect root to refuse to work as your system is unsafely. In any case it's a very niche group to target.

To keep things short, that 'study' does not really look credible or written by actual experts.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returns to Australia a free man after US legal battle ends ( apnews.com )

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returned to his homeland Australia aboard a charter jet on Wednesday, hours after pleading guilty to obtaining and publishing U.S. military secrets in a deal with Justice Department prosecutors that concludes a drawn-out legal saga....

freeman ,

In service of their country? Did the US make them US citizens?

Because most US informants were working against their countries in some cases even after the US invaded.

freeman ,

Didn't you shoot university students for protesting the Vietnam war?

freeman ,

As an American, I feel like this is somewhat familiar, and would have negative consequences.

Fucking poetic

freeman ,

There's the small issue that Syria is still actually a sovereign country. Though of course most westerners don't really give a shit about countries in the middle east.

freeman ,

What exactly was Syria's role in maidan?

Ukraine is also not the fist country that got invaded so I don't think it's somehow the 'last country you should try that argument with'.

freeman ,

As opposed to ISIL and 'moderate' islamic militias? Or Turkey that occupies areas in the north?

Do you think life would be better for Syrians under them? After all the country was under the same regime for decades but the crisis started after the war.

You don't care about Syrians, you most likely do not actually give a shit about Ukrainians either.

freeman ,

Don’t be obtuse the similarities between the the Syrian Arab spring and the maidan uprising are quite obvious if you actually know what either are.

Ukraine was not a dictatorship unlike Syria. Maidan succeeded and Russia attacked both openly in Crime and with 'rebels' in the East. Western support was limited till the next invasion by Russia.

Syria was a dictatorship. After the Arab spring the US started arming islamic militias and attacking Syrian forces. A couple of years later and we had fucking ISIL devastating a big part of Syria and that is when the immigration crisis from Syria peaked, not at the start of the civil war. The US kept supplying the 'moderate' islamic groups even though it was known that a lot of their equipment ended up on ISIL.

Do you really believe that any of the foreign interventions in Syria has benefited the Syrians? Do you believe it was meant to?

freeman ,

It's not sides, it's outcomes.

Is Syria better off after the civil war? It's still going to split between the same dictator, some islamic militias while many many people died and many more had fled. At least ISIL died off eventually.

I have no issue calling Assad or Putin evil. I just don't have any delusions about who their opposition was and whether they were evil or not. If they won Syria would have been worse off today. There would probably even be a conflict with Israel, the US would promptly drop them, where Syria would get even more fucked.

But it is for your that this is a game. There are clearly good guys and evil guys and any effort to slightly undermine the evil guys is worth the cost (which is not borne by your or any of the good guys). Ukraine did not make this attack to improve the situation for any Syrian. You know that, you cheer them because they are on your team.

I also want to know how do you think the world should work. After all Syria is not the only dictatorship in the world. Should random countries attack Saudi Arabia? China? Israel? Pakistan? Eritrea? Sudan?

freeman ,

Dude you could not teach a kindergartener, you are clueless.

freeman ,

They don't care.

Sure they will tell people that democracy will end if Trump is reelected but actually trying to fix the voting system is too hard.

Not that there has been any movement to do something about it. Just vote Democrat™.

freeman ,

They failed getting the possessive right not the plural..

freeman ,

Biden?

freeman ,

Dude actual Palestinians are not going to give a crap for Trump's 'genocide' in the US.
They have a real genocide inflicted upon them to deal with.

A mission of mercy, then a fatal mistake: How an aid convoy in Gaza became Israel's target ( apnews.com )

The path to the April 1 attack started months ago, as aid groups desperately looked for ways to feed millions cut off from regular food deliveries. Gaza was sealed off by Israeli forces within hours of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas militants that ignited the war. Since then, more than 33,000 Palestinians have been killed and more...

freeman ,

Op changed it to fatal mistake from the original fatal strike..

freeman ,

It's χιόνι which means snow in Greece and we are not very cold.

freeman ,

The only democracy I'm aware of where you can win with less votes than your opponent...

American exceptionalism at it's finest.

freeman ,

I am not American. I am also from a non federal (unitary) state.

While non federal systems far from perfectly democratic, federal systems are inherently less democratic because they add another entity to the election process than the people, federal states. This is actually most egregious in senates where every federal state gets the same amount of members for being a state regardless of how many people it represents. Non federal parliaments have a similar problem because you have way smaller number of electors to represent the people.

At least in US presidential elections states are awarded electors based on their populations. However some or all states (can't really remember) have all their electors vote for the leader even if he won the state 51% to 49%. This acts like a filter and always changes the result as in the percentage of voters for candidate A is different than the percentage of electors for candidate A. It usually does not distort the result enough to flip the election but it happened in 2016.

It can theoretically happen in parliamentary systems as well but it's much more difficult. Also it's an unnecessary issue in the US because the head of the executive is not required to have the support of the legislative branch and the electors serve no other purpose.

I believe the most democratic way to elect the president would be a runoff like France's presidential elections.

freeman ,

If right wingers can like Rage against the Machine and be surprised they are not right wing or apolitical, NGE is way too subtle for them.

freeman ,

What exactly is a fish story? US military being in comic and anime cons?

US soldiers trying to recruit young people posing with a character from NGE blissfully unaware of the irony involved?

freeman ,

It's probably metro areas vs strict municipal limits.

For example Athens' actual municipality has ~700k official residents but the city itself has ~3m residents in 40 municipalities.

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