Don Marti
dmarti.federate.social.ap.brid.gy
Don Marti
@dmarti.federate.social.ap.brid.gy
Desktop Linux user, live in California, on US-Eastern time mostly. I'm usually either the privacy person in the advertising meeting or the advertising person in the […]

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@thenexusofprivacy or they implemented it in a way that makes it hard to tell a real error from deliberate weakening
February 3, 2026 at 9:46 PM
@thenexusofprivacy And a clever build and release developer could introduce this with a small change to an already-built artifact—so everyone who works on the source code only sees legit key generation.
February 3, 2026 at 5:04 PM
This might be the result of a deliberate compromise? NSA can get access if they're willing to spend the computing cycles, Meta avoids certain kinds of government pressure 3/3
February 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Maybe, instead of generating a secret key from a vast number of possibilities, WhatsApp's RNG is tweaked to generate a plausible-looking key from a smaller set—feasible for Meta to search using a cluster, but that looks legit from the outside.

Remember how long it took people to find the Debian […]
Original post on federate.social
federate.social
February 3, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Reposted by Don Marti
I am informed that depending on where you are in the world and your browser or operating system you might see:

* a normal turn-of-the-century website with news on it and one banner ad at the top
* a mess of popups and nags asking for all your personal information to be sent to two hundred of […]
Original post on retro.social
retro.social
January 30, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Seems like a good idea to try a "how to turn off ai" on something page, it will probably do numbers 2/2
January 28, 2026 at 4:05 AM