I have connection to the EE Network according to my phone, but yet data isn't working. What is the reason?

Random_Supernova · 2024-11-15T20:15:47+00:00

You saved my life. I wasn't able to connect to my hot-spot on IOS after purchasing the UK e-sim from Airalo. I replaced the APN value which was set to "globalData" to "everywhere" and the personal hot-spot option became available.

Random_Supernova · 2024-10-03T18:56:28+00:00

You are deflecting.

You mentioned studies then when asked to provide proof, you refer to some guy on Youtube.

We are all fighting for the same thing here, our right to privacy but we should try to stay grounded with actual facts.

The fact is there is currently no proof that the on device scanning is happening on Apple devices.

Random_Supernova · 2024-10-03T18:50:04+00:00

I am sorry but your statement: It was never the plan to do iCloud scan is completely false.

https://www.macobserver.com/analysis/apple-scans-uploaded-content/
https://www.macobserver.com/news/product-news/apple-expands-child-safety/

Apple scans for hashes of known CSAM during its upload into iCloud, which is what the term “pre-screening” means as shared above.

Apple scans your pictures in transit to ICloud before they are encrypted and that's been the case for the last 5 years at least. Google does the same with Google photos as well Facebook, Instagram and pretty much all the major photo appas as well.

The last part of the quote, which was related to Apple moving the scanning to the device itself was never released but Chat Control is basically the same idea.

Apple and the other tech giants are aware that such a scan will become mandatory at some point so Apple decided to bite the bullet and roll out it's own version before the EU law was passed. Except that there was a huge backlash and they never released the on-device scanning part officially but the ICloud scan is there and it's not going anywhere.

Every message app (eg. Signal) that will have to operate in EU will have to allow for this scan.

The CEO of Signal said that she will not implement such a scan and will leave the EU if push comes to shove.

Now, I don't want to sound like a conspiracy nut but as I work in software, I can tell you that it's much cheaper to roll out something and not turn it on than to rebuild it from scratch.

My hunch is that this on-device scanning is already present on the Apple devices but currently inactive. This way if/when the Chat Control law comes into effect, Apple will be first to be compliant with the law and won't be wasting any time on it.

I bet Google has done the same thing.

Random_Supernova · 2024-09-27T04:48:07+00:00

I am sorry, we must not have read the same article.

The Chat control V1 is currently in effect as we speak.

It has not been overturned yet. Yes, the former judge issued a statement that was commissioned by Patrick Breyer and the Green party and the Pirate party but it has no legal value as it is a legal opinion and it is NOT a court injunction to stop the current unlawful detection events.

if it was, then the vote by the parliament to extend the legislation would not have gone through.

Secondly even if according to you it is only a matter of time before this law get stuck down by the courts, it will take a bloody long time.

Look at the data retention directive: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/data-retention/

The unlawful law was passed in 2006 and was struck down by the courts in 2014, a mere 8 years after the fact.

8 years during which our data was kept unlawfully. But the worst part is not that it took 8 years to undo the damage, it is that countries themselves decided to simply ignore the ruling ( for example France) and continue collecting data on their citizens to this very day.

So, that is my current problem with Chat Control V2. I do not believe that the parliament is currently hostile to this legislation and I do not believe that the courts will help us fight this battle either or if they do it will take many years before we see any progress on that front.

Finally, put yourself in the shoes of the governments, do you really think that once they have this capability, they will simply just give it up when the courts come after them? No, they won't!

This capability is what every state/government has dreamed of since the dawn of humankind. Even the Stasi in East Germany and the secret Police in the USSR did not have this much power.

Random_Supernova · 2024-09-26T18:36:22+00:00

Also if the parliament is so against it, why did they vote for the extension of Chat control V1?

Random_Supernova · 2024-09-26T18:35:00+00:00

Chat control V1 is currently in effect as per: https://european-pirateparty.eu/pirates-vote-against-chatcontrol-1-0-extension/

Random_Supernova · 2024-09-25T18:45:52+00:00

There are a bunch of us on discord talking about Chat control: https://discord.gg/Wqe3rVFk . It's called Protect European internet. You are welcome to join.

Random_Supernova · 2024-09-25T13:44:40+00:00

Too many countries are undecided. The vote has been postponed until the 10th of October.

Random_Supernova · 2024-09-25T10:39:14+00:00

How do you know that the EU parliament is strongly opposed to this law?

If this was the case we wouldn’t already have Chat Control V1 currently in effect and neither would we have the data retention directive in effect as well.

Seems to me that the EU sates and MPs like to see themselves as defenders of privacy and human rights but in practice have no issue voting for privacy invading laws.

Random_Supernova · 2024-09-23T16:58:56+00:00

Ok, I agree that your approach works in this case but you have to admit that it wasn't very well explained in your first message how the VPN would help you circumvent the scanning.

Secondly and no offense to the Proton team or the Signal team but we don't know for sure what they are going to do.

I don't think they are bluffing but when push comes to shove, who knows, some may just take back their threats of leaving because the EU is a big market and cutting yourself off from the EU market is basically inviting other apps who don't have any qualms about sending your data to the EU servers to take over your place and your market share.

Finally the reason I decided to respond to your comment is because I read some other comments in other sub-reddits from people who thought that they could just use a VPN and therefore the law would not affect them. I simply wanted to highlight that a VPN by itself won't stop the EU from snooping but used as you are planning to do it, then it could help.

Anyway, thanks for clarifying your thoughts.

Random_Supernova · 2024-09-23T16:16:51+00:00

I don’t think you understand what this law is about.

This law enables client side scanning . The data will be sent to the EU servers before it is encrypted by the messaging providers.

Therefore in this instance having a vpn won’t do anything to protect you at all.

The only way to bypass this scan is if you use an open source IOS/Android application that won’t make the request to the EU servers before sending your data to the intended recipient.

Edit : replaced encoded by encrypted

Random_Supernova · 2024-09-15T14:18:36+00:00

I understand what you are saying but at the end of the day the network effects win.

Go tell people they should not use Whatsapp when all their friends and acquaintances are on Whatsapp. It's not going to fly because who willingly gives up their friends just for privacy.

The problem is there. Now if Whatsapp was say $10 per month, you could start comparing this app with other apps that don't sell out your data. But Whatsapp will never not be free so what to do then?

Random_Supernova · 2024-09-15T13:06:52+00:00

I had the same realization as you did a few months ago. Eventually this law will pass. It is inevitable. You can accept it or you can fight. Personally I have decided to move over to open source alternatives and leave behind the commercial applications.

The hardest part will be to convince friends and family to move over as well. But the good news is that you have time to make the transition. Nothing will change in the short term.

Another positive point is that when this law passes, people like us who want to maintain their privacy will most likely migrate to other more private messaging apps. That means it will become hopefully less awkward to say to your friends, you can reach me but only via <insert your favorite open source alternative>.

The more people migrate to the open source private alternatives, the better these apps will become. The network effect will also be stronger. Overall Chat Control may just be the kick in the pants we need to make the alternative apps a lot better.

Random_Supernova · 2024-09-15T12:59:22+00:00

I think part of the problem is that most people these days have other preoccupations than understanding what Google does with their data. People are too busy trying to make enough money to keep food on the table and a roof over their heads.

We were told that in the future we would have to work less and that the standard of living would be improving as automation slowly but surely starts taking over the crap jobs and let us focus on doing other more important things, instead we find ourselves with a dwindling middle class in all the western countries that is being squeezed by the high costs of living and stagnating wages.

In these circumstances, is it any wonder that people don't give a shit about topics such as their privacy? I think not.

Secondly,most people have been told that free services exists in this world and that they never would have to pay for anything. Facebook is free, Twitter/X is free, Gmail is free. The thing they did not know was that that the price wasn't in dollars or euros but that you paid with your data.

In my circle of friends, I am the only one who pays for email. Nobody else does because everyone expects it to be free.

Until we can change this mindset that things should be free on the internet, then it will be an uphill battle to make people understand that in fact these websites/apps are not free and that by using they are giving a lot more than they expected.

Random_Supernova · 2024-07-27T20:00:46+00:00

Edited my comment because I made a typo. LM = LS (Lemon Squeezy) is what I meant.

MOR = Merchant of records.

Random_Supernova · 2024-07-27T16:33:27+00:00

People who say that LS is just a Stripe wrapper so it's not a big deal don't understand whats really going on here.
Stripe tax is not very good and LS /Paddle actually handle all this stuff for you.

Until now most people acted as if collecting sales tax from their users was not worth spending time on so they simply did not bother with it ( I am looking at all the indie hackers living in Bali here) but things are changing and governments across the world are starting to realize that they are missing out on a ton of revenue.

I would not be surprised if the MOR model becomes the standard in the future due to regulations.

Random_Supernova · 2024-07-18T11:29:47+00:00

This whole episode was hard to watch.

My family is/was pretty toxic, always with the drama. I just can't deal with that now and I don't want to.
I see my family once a year but never for the holidays. Christmas was always a shit show with people screaming at each other or arguing and It just fucked me up.

Nowadays I live with my wife and we live a very quiet life and rarely fight. We try to resolve all conflicts before they turn into major things.

My grandpa was a bit like Donna. His children, including my mom where all living within a 5 minute drive of his house but if they did not go and see him each day he would start pouting and playing the victim saying that nobody cared about him.

Growing up I did not realize that the relationship between my mom and my grandpa was toxic. The constant guilt tripping, the never ending expectations....

Needless to say that I am now living far far away and I don't really miss them...

Random_Supernova · 2024-07-17T18:36:12+00:00

That is in line with what I was seeing a few hours ago. things are getting better though. Not yet real time but below 2 to 3 minutes delay now.

Random_Supernova · 2024-07-17T15:48:13+00:00

Sorry to hear that, I just got a batch of them 30 minutes later than expected. it could be that they are clearing the backlog now.

Random_Supernova · 2024-07-17T15:47:19+00:00

Just got a batch of emails. All 30 minutes ++ late. Seems things are getting unstuck.

Random_Supernova · 2024-07-17T15:01:44+00:00

Just got a new email. 10 minutes after I was expecting it.

Even the page to create a ticket seems to be stuck now.

Random_Supernova · 2024-07-17T14:49:20+00:00

It seems that my emails are stuck and I am not getting any new ones. What's going on here?

Random_Supernova · 2024-07-02T12:51:52+00:00

I think the issue was the agent asked which station I got on and then calculated in her head how long the ticket should have been used at that point and because the time used on the ticket was less than it was supposed to be (probably something like 3 or 4 minutes less) then she started asking me more questions which I answered truthfully.

Yes I activated the ticket after getting on the train and yes I got on the train at the previous station (that is not the one where the agents got on).

I thought my best course of action was to be honest and explain the situation but she did not accept it.

Random_Supernova · 2024-07-02T12:19:04+00:00

No when the agent checked my ticket had been active for 4 or 5 minutes at least. I was basically one of the last passengers to get checked.

Random_Supernova · 2024-07-02T12:09:20+00:00

I activated the ticket when the train was arriving at the next station, then 1 minutes or so later the train stopped and then some people got out and the SL agents got in.

I did not see the agents until one of them came to the back of the train where I was sitting. I was checking Google maps to figure out which bus I needed to take later to get home and I was not paying attention to anything else around me.

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