Google and Apple ordered to stop fake government TXTs

Singapore’s government last week told Google and Apple to prevent fake government messages. The Ministry of Home Affairs announced it had sent the tech giants Implementation Directives that require them to prevent accounts and group chats from displaying names which spoof “gov.sg” or Singapore Government agencies and also …

[Dan 55]

Not even wrong

Implementation Directives that require them to prevent accounts and group chats from displaying names which spoof “gov.sg” or Singapore Government agencies and also filter such messages.

It's up to the telecos to block text messages which have a fake sender, how is the phone supposed to know what's fake and what isn't?

A second measure requires Google and Apple to “Ensure the profile names of unknown senders are not displayed or are displayed less prominently than their phone numbers. This would help users better identify and be wary of unknown senders.”

Unknown senders by definition don't have a profile name, you only see their phone number.

[DS999]

Re: Not even wrong

How are telcos supposed to block iMessage or Google Messages content that is end to end encrypted? You are obviously stuck in the world of SMS, where you can have an "unknown sender" and telcos have full control over what is passing through their networks.

[Dan 55]

Re: Not even wrong

Google Messages is RCS, so that's under the telecos' control.

iMessage... what's that?

[DS999]

Re: Not even wrong

Even if they are using the "official" telco version (which is used for RCS between iPhones and Android) AFAIK when it is Android to Android it is done via Google's servers so the telcos aren't involved. And now that the official telco supported standard offers end to end encryption, even for RCS traffic between iPhone and Android the telcos can't see the message content and therefore have no way of blocking these types of fraudulent "government" messages.

[munnoch]

Guide Rail

That's an impressively fast and accurate pan by the camera. I'll bet the chap who wrote the software to point it was well chuffed.

[Missing Semicolon]

Re: Guide Rail

+1

Was I the only person wondering when there would be the "pop" and then an expanding ball of sparkly bits? ("ooooh!")

[IanRS]

Re: Guide Rail

No you weren't.

[Spherical Cow]

Re: Guide Rail

I think it was a 360° camera, which makes it easy to set the pan later.

[JPCavendish]

"Google and Apple ordered to stop fake government TXTs"

Anybody else read this as Google and Apple were the ones sending the fake txts, and have been ordered to stop?

I found it a misleading headline; even if it was clarified in the article.

[SomeRandom1]

Indian Airplane

After seeing the right-angled bridge in India, last thing I'd be doing is getting on an aircraft built there: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/engineers-sacked-after-building-16-35515071

[James O'Shea]

Re: Indian Airplane

Hmm. Indian Flankers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-30MKI work better than Russian Flankers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-27 The Indians are also, allegedly, better than Felons, or would be if there were more than two and a half dozen Felons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-57

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Indian Airplane

I doubt there's even a design to compete with existing small to medium "regional" jets yet, let alone something like the sorts of aircraft the big airlines buy. Even if there is the beginnings of a design for something the west might buy, I wouldn't expect Airbus or Boeing to have to start worrying for at least another 15 to 20 years. And remember, if the CAA (UK/EU) or FAA (US) won't let it fly, that rules out a lot of routes, so local Indian airlines won't buy it either. If they do build a bigger jet the west *might* want to buy, I would expect it to meet the same standards, and cost about the same as planes from Airbus or Boeing, because the same aerospace materials and processes would be used in its manufacture - and the big international airlines will carry on buying Boeing and Airbus instead to avoid having mixed fleets.

[Blackjack]

[China reiterates crypto ban]

Since crypto is for scams, I unfortunately have to agree with China.

https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/