France isn’t part of Five Eyes.

Col. Florian Manet, who heads France’s Home Affairs Ministry National Cyber Command Technical Department, said in a statement issued by Australian police that his officers provided technical resources to the task force over several years that helped decrypt the communications.

McCartney said the French had “provided a foot in the door” for Australian police to decrypt Ghost communications.

Australian police technicians were able to modify software updates regularly pushed out by the administrator, McCartney said.

“In effect, we infected the devices, enabling us to access the content on Australian devices,” McCartney said, adding that the alleged administrator lived in his parents’ Sydney home and had no police record.

It’s hard to parse what happened here. Sounds like a MITM attack where they gained access to the device OS which allowed them to view messages once decrypted by the device?

I replaced it with a more detailed source. Perhaps your confusion is stemming from the way you’re conflating foreign workers and immigrants.

It isn’t “sentiment”. Japan is very well-known for being exceptionally unwelcoming to immigration in general, other than for low-skilled resident workers. Here’s a pretty good overview: https://www.nippon.com/en/in-depth/d00920/

To be fair, that isn’t unusual for east Asia. China is the same, but their demographic crisis is still two decades away.

That’s great, but until it translates into policy it’s purely academic.

The Japanese will let the country wither before accepting immigrants. It’s a shame.

I’m not sure what you mean by this, sorry! My Linux expertise is limited once I get below surface level.

The leaked data targeted primarily Ashkenazi Jews.

The mighty CCP, with superpower ambitions, afraid of a t-shirt.

$30M for 6.4M people - so minus legal fees they can expect about two dollars each? I thought these damages were supposed to be punitive?

Yandex search is part of the Russian division (I think, but don’t take my word for it). I don’t know how the services were split but I do know the Dutch arm of the company sold off a bunch of things to the Russian one.

I broadly agree with you and like you also tend to criticize the CCP from the left. If you want to be communist, be communist and do it right (for the first time!).

However, it’s far too late for China to do those things before GenX enters retirement, even if there were any political will to attempt it. China is (after the USA) the most grindingly capitalist place I’ve ever been to, and I don’t see that changing anytime soon. Within the parameters of their current politics, they are absolutely heading at full speed for an economic cliff, even if Xi succeeds in killing off most of that male surplus on Taiwanese beaches. Taking Taiwan, however doomed and reckless the attempt may be, is perhaps the only hope of stemming that flow, since TW has much higher per capita GDP. I’m guessing that’s why he’s so intent on it.

they either bought the (I think flawed) economic theory that this is needed

You’re putting me in the difficult situation of backing up the CCP on this one, but how could it not be needed? They kneecapped birthrates for a whole generation, and never recovered. Unless they fix birthrates or start allowing immigration, they have no other recourse than forcing people to work longer. Either that or they actually start acting communist and redistribute wealth so that the soon-to-be retiree generations can weather the storm.

Edit: also, look at that male surplus. Ouch.

What do you mean, “fall for this”? What are they going to do — protest? Vote for someone else?

I can’t believe I’m defending Yandex, but keep in mind that they sold off the Russian business a while back (to VK, if I remember correctly). Yandex RU and Yandex “everywhere else” are different companies.

It’s OK though, because China is communist and the workers own the means of produ… hhee… pro… sorry, I can’t say it with a straight face.

They’re underwater, very small, and spin quickly.

Thanks for this, I gave it a shot but all I find it a bunch of timeshift files. I’m also not sure where to search that I haven’t already looked at.

Interesting… Do you also use KDE?

No hablo espanol, but this seems to be telling me how to install virt-manager, which is not what I’m tying to do.