@ckrypto if@signalapp@mastodon.world wasn't complying with #CloudAct, @Mer__edith would be in jail.

Not to mention even if Signal keeps their "#OpenSource" code updated - which is doubtful, NOONE can actually #verify that it's the code you actually use - regardless if #backend / #Server or #client / #App!

• #Signal is as secure as #ANØM, otherwise it would've been shutdown ages ago.

Also if Signal was designed for #security, it would've been #decentralized as #XMPP+#OMEMO and not demand #PII like #PhoneNumbers which oftentimes cannot be obtained anonymously in many juristictions at all!

• Only #MultiVendor & #MultiProvider standards can be secure, regardless if OMEMO or #PGP/MIME.

By comparison, @delta doesn't require any PII, only an #eMail account, and @monocles isn't a #VCmoneyBurningParty but sustainable due to #subscription and they don't even require any personal details for #payment: #CashByMail and #Monero are accepted.

• Not to mention neither #DeltaChat nor #monoclesChat are pandering #Shitcoin #Scams like #MobileCoin that don't work even for #TechLiterate #CryptoBros!

Again: It's Signal alone who have to evidence they are trustworthy, and all I get are "#TrustMeBro!" replies, which means they are not to be trusted.

• Not to mention, it's just not sustainable to run a #service without #revenue, even if it's run entirely by unpaid volunteers and gets all it's #hosting and #costs donated, someone has to pay for expenses due to #abuse of a service (which is an inevitability come mass adoption)...

Whereas with #XMPP I can completely setup my own server and client, even build my own if I don't trust anyone else and pay someone to audit the code.

• Signal as a #centralized, #SingleVendor & #SingleProvider service is inevitable vulnerable to #RubberhoseCryptoanalysis, and #Meredith will break if not doing so means jail for life until she does!

Whereas with XMPP & PGP/MIME #eMail I can layer @torproject / #Tor over it, make it an #OnionService and keep that thing under my bed with a literal killswitch...

#NewEngland’s grid operator has estimated that a 10% #tariff could raise the region’s power #costs by up to $165M per year. #NY’s #grid operator says that #tariffs on imported Canadian #electricity “would likely amount to tens of millions of dollars per year.”

…by altering the terms of #trade between the #UnitedStates & its largest economic partners, the #tariffs will probably rattle #SupplyChains, strain some of the country’s most important diplomatic relationships & add significant #costs for American #consumers & manufacturers.

#Canada, #Mexico & #China are the 3 largest trading partners of the US, accounting for >40% of both US imports & exports last year.

@33dBm @zeri @vfrmedia @obiwankimberly @augieray @digitalcourage @antidiskriminierung @lsvd

Personally if I was @Bundesregierung I'd order @AuswaertigesAmt & @bamf to basically rubberstamp any #trans and #nonbinary person to enter #Germany as I expect sooner or later a similar precedent to #ECHR decision re: #Women fleeing #Afghanistan under the #Taliban, that verifying someone to 'be a #US citizen and not cis and/or binary' should be enough to grant #asylum and #protections without any further hesitation.

• I mean, all that #BAMF is doing by not simply doing so is wasting #PersonnelHours and creating #costs because people defending their case successfully will have the state pay the legal expenses...

#Trump’s actions are *designed* to *promote* greater domestic #steel industry production & employment. But they will increase #costs for #manufacturers that use the industrial metals to produce goods such as #automobiles & #appliances. Those higher costs are at odds w/ Trump’s repeated campaign *promises* [lies] to bring down the cost of living.

For many companies, though, moving a major chunk of production to the #US is unrealistic, said Agathe Demarais, a snr policy fellow at the European Council for #ForeignRelations.

#Costs are too high. American #workers are not willing to accept the low #wages that initially drove companies to move to countries like #Mexico.

Mazda & Toyota have already struggled to ramp up production at their joint US factory because of a lack of workers.

@hon1nbo @foone yeah, but all these things would essentially necessitate a fundamentally incompatible #Fork of the #USB standard, creating #costs, #fragmentation and lessen the likelyhood of success.

• Not to mention it'll require significant investments in #UserAwareness, #Training and would still have some issues...

I gues a sort-of "Secure HID Port" that mandates proper authentification and does full #E2EE from the Keyboard Matrix / Pointing Device controller up is an option, but you'd have to expect state-sponsored attackers willing to do "Kamikaze" Hacks...

• There's like a long talk by #TonyChen from #Microsoft explaining how they secured the #XboxOne.

#TLDW: It requires custom silicon and a hard root of trust…

• And as we saw with #GoldenKeyBoot all it takes is a single #leak of a #PrivateKey and that entire system is fucked!

https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/113716442182953660

Foreman said he would consider sourcing outside China if #Trump imposed a 60% #tariff on Chinese products. However, taking into account the #costs of moving factory equipment, the higher overhead to manage operations in multiple countries,& higher costs & lower #efficiency of #manufacturing outside China, it might “be a wash.”

Moving…would pose a “…waterfall of challenges … There will not be enough production capacity in Vietnam, Mexico or India for all the production…moving out of China.”

John Donigian, the senior director of #SupplyChain strategy at Moody’s, said the #tariffs could lead to higher #costs, potential #delays & pressure for #businesses to shift production closer to North America or into the #UnitedStates.

All industries would face unique challenges, he said. For #electronics, moving #production could be #slow & #costly. For #retail & #consumer #goods that try to keep costs low, inventories could fall & consumer #prices rise.

[so less stuff that’s more expensive]