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TRADITIONALLY, IF YOU wanted to keep your messages completely safe, you would have to resort to one of the encrypted instant messaging apps like Telegram. Now one of the most popular instant messaging apps is adding a new feature that will make its content more secure.
WhatsApp has more than 600 million users worldwide and all users who update to the latest version of Android will get end-to-end encryption features.
This ensures that WhatsApp isn’t able to decrypt the messages, even if it’s asked to recover them by the law. The only people who have access to messages are the sender and the receiver.
The feature is activated by default and WhatsApp partnered with Open Whisper Systems, a open-source group that works on providing secure communications.
The group is best known for developing secure calls and messaging apps like RedPhone, and TextSecure, but it says that bringing this to WhatsApp “represents the largest deployment of end-to-end encryption in history“.
So far it’s only Android that will support this feature (iOS will be arriving soon) and it doesn’t apply yet to group messages or media messages, but Open Whisper Systems says it will be rolling out support for those next, as well as for other platforms, although it warns that it will take a while before all platforms are fully supported.
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Its ok, Denzel Washington comes good in the end and owns up.
“In his verdict, the judge highlighted the co-pilot’s high level of intoxication, the number of people whose lives would have been endangered if he had flown the plane, the length of the flight, and the fact that he must have known that his colleagues had also been drinking”
Then he sentenced him to 6 months in jail?
It’s Norway, They gave Anders Breivik 20 years and a 5 stars room with internet connection and a Playstation
Six months is a disgrace
You’d wonder how common this is,only for the tip off no one would’ve ever known
Must of been an irish judge with such a ridiculous sentence
*have
Surely the two bottles were shared amongst all of them? Otherwise 2 bottles on his own would put him waaaaay over than 7 times the legal limit for airline staff.
I would have thought two bottles of whiskey would be a fatal dose.
Maybe they were miniatures.
He was *seven* times the limit – and it was *the next day*!! You think a couple of miniatures would do that?!
The legal limit for airline staff is lower than the statutory one (if I remember correctly) so a couple of mini bottles could have done that.
probably thought he was going to get the ride off those other two.
Well here he would have got a twelve month ban, but you can have you licence back in six. Sure isn’t it the same as having a few pints down the local and driving home!.
Only if you can fit 100 people in your car and your car can travel at 500mph through the air….
Where we’re going we don’t need roads.
Very good padraig, that made me laugh on a crappy tues afternoon
Is there a Norwegian version of SIPTU to appeal this ridiculously harsh decision?
Sure planes these days practically fly themselves. Whats the problem ?
Reminds me of a joke …
3 Padraigs, one English, one Scot and one Irish, all were at AA. Padraig from England says, “I’m Padraig and I’m an alcoholic. I drink 4 shorts with breakfast, another 4 for elevenses, go for a few beers at lunch, I have a hip flask that I use during the afternoon. I go to the pub for a few scoops and chasers on the way home and have a few more beers with me dinner. Then the wife and myself drink a few bottles of wine in front of the telly and then I’ll have half a bottle of whiskey for a nightcap before bed and repeat Monday to Friday. At the weekends I really go on the tear and would drink twice that”.
Padraig from Scotland stands up and says, “I’m Padraig and I’m an alcoholic. I drink 6 shorts with breakfast, another 8 for elevenses, go for 6 beers at lunch, I have two hip flasks that I use during the afternoon. I go to the pub for a few scoops and chasers on the way home and have another 6 beers with me dinner. Then the girlfriend myself drink probably 4 bottles of wine between us in the evening and then I’ll have a naggin of vodka for a nightcap before bed and repeat Monday to Friday. At the weekends I really go on the tear and would drink three times that”.
Padraig from Ireland stands up and says, “sure these two boys can’t drink at all..”
There is a legal limit for pilots?
There is. It’s very low (lower than the limit for drivers) but it exists.
The Pilot probably just bottled it!
So you’re saying there are drunk Latvian stewardesses on airBaltic flights? Giggity!
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