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  • Element is still a main client and it’s the same people who worked for Amdocs in the past.

    Everything about it screams “backdoor” to me including a supposed dev of it showing up and talking about how ethical and super duper cool the Israeli company actually is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36020947

    User: “…Furthermore, 6 Israelis working for Amdocs were deported in 2002 for spying on the US. That’s not just a conspiracy theory. Its a seriously concerning fact.”

    Alleged dev: “I saw absolutely zero evidence or interest in malicious activity while working at Amdoc…”

    And

    “They didn’t pay big money - they funded a ~15 person team for a few years”.

    Because we all know bankrolling 15 devs for years is super cheap.

    Their history is shady enough for me to not even consider it.








  • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPtoPrivacy@lemmy.mlEvery time
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    5 days ago

    Nothing in the post points to the person pointing out the “jewishness”. The only thing pointed out in it is the birth place of the person

    The phrase also isn’t associated with pointing out Jewish figures. It can be associated with discrimination. In this case the title is actually discriminating. Against Israelis for always pushing spyware. Which has nothing to do with “antisemitism”.

    The only way the “antisemitism” angle works is by going “Israel = Jews = antisemitism”.

    It really all feels like Feddit.org users going “whoaaa did you consider the Israelis are jewish?! Therefore you can’t criticize them!” To which I recommend reading https://ofpatmos.substack.com/p/fight-jewish-exceptionalism






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    That’s weird that a post with 172k likes and 4.4 million views is seen by two people. The pol post is about 100k likes before I took the screenshot and I’ve never seen it.

    Do you think there’s something about the post itself which makes the title “every time” an easy title to come up with? Surely not. Everything must be /pol.