A BBC investigation reveals that Microsoft is permanently banning Palestinians in the U.S. and other countries who use Skype to call relatives in Gaza.

A BBC investigation reveals that Microsoft is permanently banning Palestinians in the U.S. and other countries who use Skype to call relatives in Gaza.

  • suburban_hillbillyEnglish
    116·
    4 months ago

    They didn’t fuck up, they made a design choice about the scope of the app. Are they also fucking up by not blurring the messages on screen? After all someone could be looking over your shoulder without you realizing it. Maybe Signal should ship with spyglasses.

    • Feyd@programming.dev
      81·
      4 months ago

      You’re absolutely right and it’s insane I keep coming across these wild takes from people that clearly don’t understand technology

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      56·
      4 months ago

      I’m not sure why you think anyone would want a messenger that touts itself for its encryption to not encrypt things.

      • suburban_hillbillyEnglish
        91·
        4 months ago

        It does encrpyt messages: In transit, exactly as advertised. Holy fuck.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          25·
          4 months ago

          Then it’s weird they are fixing it now. Why aren’t they insisting this doesn’t need to be dealt with because it was a feature, not a bug?

          • suburban_hillbillyEnglish
            7·
            4 months ago

            It’s weird that apps sometimes change scope and add features that users want? Ones that contributers already did most of the work for?

            Why aren’t they insisting this doesn’t need to be dealt with because it was a feature, not a bug?

            That was literally what they have been saying this whole fucking time.

            “The database key was never intended to be a secret. At-rest encryption is not something that Signal Desktop is currently trying to provide or has ever claimed to provide,” responded the Signal employee.

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
              12·
              4 months ago

              Did they make an intentional design choice which users should have been okay with like you said the first time or is this a feature users wanted? It can’t be both.

          • subignition@fedia.io
            21·
            4 months ago

            It’s really fucking annoying how relentlessly you pick fights with people these days. Wish you’d chill out dude.

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
              12·
              4 months ago

              Or I’m just speaking my mind and you don’t agree.

              And aren’t you picking as fight with me right now?

              • subignition@fedia.io
                21·
                4 months ago

                Not picking a fight; don’t really care what you have to say in response. Just needed to share my observation that you are latching onto people in a really aggressive manner in multiple threads as of late. If that doesn’t bother you then go ahead and disregard.

              • sunzu@kbin.run
                22·
                4 months ago

                You are right to bringing up this issue and it is pretty fucking big deal inho mistakes happen but signal “leadership” has made series of questionable choice which don’t quite align with the user base.

                Other person is down playing it hard too. Hard to tell why as he is not really providing any good reason besides trying to “explain” it away