Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life

Issue #487 — August 07, 2021

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Apple’s plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life eff.org \| points: 2125 \| comments: 782

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An Open Letter Against Apple’s Privacy-Invasive Content Scanning Technology appleprivacyletter.com \| points: 1065 \| comments: 604

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On Apple’s “Expanded Protections for Children” – A Personal Story areoform.wordpress.com \| points: 891 \| comments: 496

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Scientist says cleaning indoor air could make us healthier and smarter sciencemag.org \| points: 448 \| comments: 417

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CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative calyxos.org \| points: 429 \| comments: 253

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U.S. FTC says Facebook misused privacy decree to shut down ad research reuters.com \| points: 426 \| comments: 96

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New UUID Formats – IETF Draft datatracker.ietf.org \| points: 362 \| comments: 183

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HTTP/2-exclusive threats caused by implementation flaws and RFC imperfections portswigger.net \| points: 356 \| comments: 107

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LÖVR – An open source framework for rapidly building immersive 3D experiences lovr.org \| points: 353 \| comments: 112

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Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people news.ycombinator.com \| points: 317 \| comments: 664

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Reflections on 10k Hours of Programming matt-rickard.com \| points: 298 \| comments: 170

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Postgres.app postgresapp.com \| points: 296 \| comments: 146

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Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of the Gulf Stream theguardian.com \| points: 288 \| comments: 393

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Driving engineers to an arbitrary date is a value destroying mistake (2020) iism.org \| points: 281 \| comments: 178

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Firefox: Performance in Progress blog.mozilla.org \| points: 275 \| comments: 120

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Give to Thunderbird give.thunderbird.net \| points: 246 \| comments: 108

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Semver doesn’t mean major.minor.patch, it means fails.features.bugs twitter.com \| points: 239 \| comments: 151

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Expanded Protections for Children apple.com \| points: 222 \| comments: 355

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Reverse Engineering the M1 [pdf] i.blackhat.com \| points: 217 \| comments: 52

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Dating in Delhi when you’re poor reuters.com \| points: 214 \| comments: 139

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