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They don't mention the respective stockpiles. Some mental gymnastics to force an issue when one doesn't exist.
PiSigma
"the engineer"
Time moves a lot slower when you get close to super dense object like a black hole or Washington. See the example from Interstellar.
It becomes a political balloon.
Everybody with a working braincell knows you shouldn't install any non-work related app onto their computer since the early 2000s...
It is political, the point is "shooting civilian object". What ever response from US will set the new ground of how the two will deal with each other in the future. China wants US to reply loud and clear, whatever that is, in front of the world.
Yeah but facebook, snapchat, whatsapp never got banned
This is what telegram CEO says about whatsapp:
Hackers could have full access (!) to everything on the phones of WhatsApp users.
This was possible through a security issue disclosed by WhatsApp itself last week. All a hacker had to do to control your phone was send you a malicious video or start a video call with you on WhatsApp.
You are probably thinking "Yeah, but if I updated WhatsApp to the latest version, I am safe, right"?
Not really.
A WhatsApp security issue exactly like this one was discovered in 2018, then another in 2019 and yet another one in 2020 (tap each year's link to see the corresponding vulnerability). And yes, in 2017 before that. Prior to 2016, WhatsApp didn't have encryption at all.
Every year, we learn about some issue in WhatsApp that puts everything on their users' devices at risk. Which means it's almost certain that a new security flaw already exists there. Such issues are hardly incidental – they are planted backdoors. If one backdoor is discovered and has to be removed, another one is added (read the post "Why WhatsApp will never be secure" to understand why).
It doesn't matter if you are the richest person on earth – if you have WhatsApp installed on your phone, all your data from every app on your device is accessible, as Jeff Bezos found out in 2020. That's why I deleted WhatsApp from my devices years ago. Having it installed creates a door to get into your phone.
I'm not pushing people to switch to Telegram here. With 700M+ active users and 2M+ daily signups, Telegram doesn't need additional promotion. You can use any messaging app you like, but do stay away from WhatsApp – it has now been a surveillance tool for 13 years.
It makes no sense for the balloon to have a military purpose.
The only advantage a balloon has over a drone is endurance. Whatever data that balloon was gathering could have been done by a much smaller drone which would be virtually undetectable.
Balloons can stay in the atmosphere for weeks or months gathering data, drones can't.
Don’t they see it as Russia + China? Something along the lines that China must stop producing nuclear warheads and start reducing their weapon because the Russians have too many therefore China shouldn’t be allowed to have any.