Preston Maness ☭

What makes you think a court can’t order them to modify the site/client to capture your key and send it home?

There’s already precedent for this. The FBI leaned on Lavabit to serve compromised code to Edward Snowden. Lavabit closed up shop instead.

Can read more here, which makes the case that “web-based cryptography is always snake oil”: https://www.devever.net/~hl/webcrypto

I wouldn’t be surprised if China might also be supplying weapons to Cuba.

Another lemmy.world banger.

Israel did not respond to requests for access, obstructing any rescue operation, according to a Lebanese military official speaking to Al Jazeera. The Red Cross was eventually granted limited access to the site, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, which remained under active fire.

They were able to evacuate Faraj, who reportedly sustained critical head injuries, and to recover the bodies of two other civilians who were killed. But they were forced to withdraw before finding Khalil because of continued shelling and the direct firing on rescue crews and vehicles. The Red Cross vehicle that transported journalist Faraj to Tubnin Governmental Hospital was hit by Israeli gunfire, with bullet marks visible on the vehicle, according to the state-run National News Agency.

The Red Cross was eventually able to return to the area after which Khalil was pronounced dead.

The obsession with attacking medical personnel is the kind of thing I’d never hear the end about if it was a hostile nation doing it.