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Nokia 8000 4G image and key features leak: 2.8″ screen, S210 chipset, WhatsApp and Facebook

The first official image of the new Nokia 8000 4G has slipped out along with additional details about its design and features. First off, if you were expecting a slide-out keypad cover (a trademark of the original 8000-series), you’d be disappointed.

The new design looks more like an ordinary featurephone, albeit with some premium touches. The sides of the phone, including the keyboard, are curved and the exterior has a “glass-like” design (whatever that means beyond “glossy”).

The 8000 4G will indeed be a KaiOS device, with WhatsApp and Facebook apps. Also, the 4G connection could be shared with other devices through a Wi-Fi hotspot. There will be a dual-SIM version too (using two nano-SIMs).


Nokia 8000 4G

The phone will have a 2.8” LCD (240 x 320 px) and will be powered by the Snapdragon 210 chipset with 512 MB of RAM and 4 GB of internal storage (expandable via microSD). That’s more processing power than we originally expected – the 8110 4G, for example, uses Qualcomm 205 chipset (which has only two Cortex-A7 cores instead of four).

The 1,500 mAh battery will be user-replaceable, unfortunately it will charge over an outdated microUSB port. The 2 MP camera is a bit of a disappointment too, considering this is meant to be a premium device.

Besides the 8000 4G, HMD Global will introduce the Nokia 6300 4G, a reinterpretation of the well-respected mid-ranger from 2006. Early rumors claim that the spec sheet will be mostly the same, except for the smaller 2.4” screen.

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Well-known iOS developers don't want the Mac

One of the great advantages of the new ARM Macs, which Apple will probably introduce on Tuesday evening, is the fact that they can also run iOS and iPadOS applications without changes. Apple has specially integrated routines into macOS 11 aka Big Sur, which make touchscreen programs usable on the Mac. The code itself does not have to be changed, after all, the iPhone and iPad also run on Apple’s ARM chips. However, Apple has built in a barrier: not every iOS or iPadOS app will run automatically. Instead, the group offers its developers to prevent execution on the Mac.

A common app store for all programs You can recognize in Apple’s new App Store, which is now merged with Apple Silicon on Macs. As 9to5Mac reports, various well-known developers have decided not to release their iOS or iPadOS apps for the Mac at first .

By default, programs always appear in the “Unified App Store”. But there is an opt-out option that developers can easily choose. This applies to the official Facebook app as well as to its daughters Instagram and WhatsApp. The iOS version of Messenger doesn’t run on the Mac either.

Facebook and Google don’t want Google doesn’t always go along with it either: Google Maps, Google Drive and Gmail are annoyingly missing. Well-known games such as “Real Racing 3”, “Candy Crush” or “Among Us” also remain outside. Among others, “Subway Surfers” and “Temple Run” are available. Netflix is ​​probably participating in streaming services, but Amazon Prime Video and Disney + are missing. Apparently, Snapchat will also not be available.

If an app is available for iPhone and iPad, but not for Mac, the download is of course only possible on these devices. Otherwise, Apple states that the app was designed for iPhone or iPad, but runs on macOS, although it is “not verified”. It remains to be seen what problems iOS and iPadOS applications will actually cause on an ARM Mac. Apple promises at least broad compatibility. However, certain features are simply missing – in addition to the missing touchscreen, a Mac, for example, has no cell phone chip, at least according to the current status.

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Internet Governance Forum: with competition policy against big tech

Thomas Jarzombek, Federal Government Commissioner for the Digital Economy and Start-ups, called for the official start of the 15. Internet Governance Forum of the United Nations (UN) a coordinated action against the monopolies of the big platforms. With this initiative, the federal government wants to oppose the fragmentation of the Internet. The taxation of the Covid winners Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft demanded US economist Jeffry Sachs in the unusually sharp exchange of blows for the UN forum.

Gatekeeper Facebooks and WhatsApps free offers are no solution for the still existing problem of the lack of universal access to the Internet, said Jarzombek. “It’s more part of the problem,” he countered the portrayal of Whatsapp’s Vice President Victoria Grand. “We pay with our data, and that is a high price.”

A competition policy that is as globally coordinated as possible, the “commercial Internet” also for new ones Open player, according to Jarzombek, is one of the points that the federal government would like to advance the IGF. 100 The federal government will invest millions of dollars over the next three years in the work of the IGF, which has had more of an eye on German politics since it was in last year host of the 14. Edition was.

Taxation and obligations The former Swiss President, Doris Leuthard, also underlined the need for a discussion about the big monopolies: “There are a handful of companies that make a lot of money with our data.” That should be on the political agenda. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has already put proposals for a taxation of the large Internet companies on the table.

Before that, the US economist Sachs had the big-tech entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg , Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates called on to use their immense fortune to create universal Internet access. Sachs called for all schools to be connected within a year. The international community had actually already set itself this goal for 2015, reminded the Secretary General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in the heated debate.

“Four people in the US are 540 billion US dollars,” ranted Sachs. In the coronavirus year 2020 these four would have even increased their wealth by 204 billions. “I would like to hear from Mark Zuckerberg what Facebook is doing, what he is doing with his personal wealth to achieve universal access?” Sachs asked the WhatsApp representative Grand who was represented in the group.

Gathering the pace The US under Joe Biden, said Sachs, will hopefully take on its responsibility on the question of taxation and competition policy towards the big players again . In view of the billions in profits of the big platforms in the year 2020 it is hardly justifiable to aim for a connection for everyone up to 2030, says Sachs.

Aiyas Sayed-Khaiyoum, the Minister for Economic Affairs and Attorney General of the island state of Fiji, reported how quickly universal connection projects can be implemented. Within the past five years, with the support of the World Bank, the country has had access to the network of 60 percent of the archipelago on 95 elevated. Now they want to do the hard “last mile” of five percent.

Encryption bans dangerous Grand countered the allegations against their boss Zuckerberg with the reference to the fact that Whatsapp and Facebook have enabled millions of small and micro-enterprises to move their business into the net. Whatsapp and other platforms have also taken care of the increasing security through encryption. From their point of view, the currently launched initiatives to ban or weaken encryption are all the more worrying.

The completely virtual IGF 2020 runs until next Monday.

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Encryption: Global Encryption Coalition prepares for a long battle

At the beginning of the 15. Internet Governance Forum (IGF) of the United Nations (UN) promoted the Global Encryption Coalition (GEC) for an open worldwide discussion about planned and already adopted anti-encryption policies. It is important that not only technicians, but also ordinary citizens understand the dangers of unsafe communication in the network, emphasized GEC representatives.

About 75 organizations and in total to the 100 members counts in the summer under the auspices of the Internet Society Coalition founded by the Center for Democracy and Technology and other network organizations. “In the coming year and in the years to come,” said Gregory Nojeim from CDT in the virtual panel of the UN conference originally planned in Poland, to work together against the fallacy of back doors and front doors in secure communication channels, data storage devices and end-user devices.

Softening of the encryption After the United Kingdom and Australia, India and the USA are now also coming and the EU under the German Presidency to weaken encryption. The GEC members describe two paths that legislators are taking worldwide. On the one hand it is about the introduction of access for the authorities.

Even more draconian than the British “Investigatory Powers Act”, Australia’s “Telecommunications and Other Legislation Act” (TOLA) has been forcing everyone for almost a year Provider to provide individual loopholes for the police. The USA and the EU are also following this concept. The “Legal Access to Encrypted Communication” (LAED) is ready for the next US Congress. The EU governments want, under the impression of the latest terrorist attacks in Europe on 25. November adopt a draft legislation.

India’s government is taking a different path and is focusing on tightening the responsibility of the provider. Encryption becomes costly for providers when they have to turn their heads to the misdemeanors or crimes of their customers. Mishi Choudry, founder of the Indian Software Freedom Law Center, warned of the planned tightening of liability in view of the increasing use of services such as WhatsApp and WhatsApp Pay.

Of the consequences of insecure encryption for digital purchases and eBanking warned GEC member Michele Neylon of the Irish registrar Blacknight. The cryptographic protection of Internet routes and websites is the basis for protecting users from fraudsters in everyday digital life. “We currently live practically online. If we do that, we should be safe,” said the Irishman.

Encryption saves lives The GEC Committee to Protect Journalists (CJP) is not concerned with money or abstract values ​​in its commitment to secure encryption. Anyone who makes duplicate keys or circulates counterfeit keys, whether planned or accidentally, endangers the lives of journalists and their sources in extreme cases. According to Courtney Radsch, this is shown by examples from Syria in which journalists became victims of the Assad regime and the Islamic State because of unencrypted sources.

In addition, without secure encryption, society would have to forego disclosing money laundering, state corruption and arbitrariness – and bear the costs accordingly. Ensuring absolute confidentiality is already a challenge today. Mind you, the recent calls by the Five Eye states plus India and Japan for decryption capabilities have been to law enforcement. The secret services have been hoarding and using software vulnerabilities for many years, sometimes with fatal consequences.

Well-known arguments, new allies? There are no new arguments for the “extraordinary” access to encrypted data 2020, confirmed the GEC members at the IGF. The hint that vulnerabilities that have not been closed or that have been built in beforehand are damaging the security of all users, in view of the flood of new legislative initiatives, apparently bounces off the government. There is therefore agreement within the GEC that new allies are needed. Concerned parents, politicians and non-governmental organizations could be brought on board and conversations with the enemies “Spys and Spooks” would be sought. “In the end, it depends on how our society approaches this question,” said Choudry. (olb)

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EU governments plan to ban secure encryption

The governments of the EU member states have agreed to ban secure encryption across the EU. This emerges from the secret draft of a planned declaration of the EU Council of Ministers, which the Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) has published. Although the document first emphasizes the importance of encryption and vows to promote it, it then calls for “innovative approaches” and technical solutions to break the encryption.

Translated into generally understandable German, the document means that the governments want to force all service providers to build back doors into their encryption. Apparently there is already unanimity in the Council of EU Ministers. The draft resolution is officially called “Security through encryption and security in spite of encryption”.

According to the ORF, operators of end-to-end encrypted services should be how WhatsApp and Signal are obliged to generate unnecessary master keys for operation and to deposit them with authorities. These can then latch into private conversations and other encrypted transmissions undetected at any time. The concrete method is a man-in-the-middle attack and goes back to a suggestion by British spies.

It should be done quickly The EU governments only have until Thursday afternoon to submit “substantial comments”. A week later, the resolution is to be passed in the Council Working Group on Cooperation in the National Security Sector (COSI) before it takes place on 25. November will be submitted to the Council of Permanent Representatives of the EU Member States (COREPER).

No further discussion is required there. Once it has been adopted by COREPER, the document becomes a mandate to the EU Commission to work out a regulation that turns the back doors into mandatory EU law. At the same time, the EU members should train more state hackers. Back doors fundamentally undermine security, as they could also be used by unauthorized third parties.

The significance of the document dated November 6th becomes clear when you look at the previous version of 21. October compares. The bold and underlined passages are new. In the October version, access for law enforcement and the judiciary was mentioned, but it is now called “Competent Authorities”. This means that the secret services should also have legal access. This means that those affected will probably never know about the surveillance.

Extensions after the attack Not only European secret services but also the “Five Eyes” have long wanted this expansion of their legal possibilities. The Five Eyes Alliance consists of the espionage services of the USA, Australia, Great Britain, Canada and New Zealand.

Between the two text versions was the terrorist attack in Vienna, in which an Austrian was on November 2nd shot four people and 23 injured others. This attack now serves as a political argument for more surveillance. As far as is known, encryption did not play a decisive role in the attack.

Rather, it was due to the failure of Austrian services that the relevant criminal record was neither was still being monitored. Not only was the man in contact with people who were being monitored by Austrian agents on behalf of the German Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the terrorist had also tried to buy ammunition in Slovakia in July.

The Slovak Ministry of the Interior then informed the Austrian colleagues via Europol. But they failed to notify the public prosecutor. You could have taken the convicted Austrian back into custody immediately. The Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) has admitted omissions.

“Security through encryption and security despite encryption” – draft resolution of the EU Council of Ministers 12143 / 20, original version from 21. October 2020 “Security through encryption and security despite encryption” – draft resolution of the EU Council of Ministers 12143 / 20, revision of November 6th 2020 (ds)

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Brief information: IVENA, ID, WhatsApp, Haskell Foundation

c’t reveals: Critical security leak in the rescue service system IVENA Rescue control centers coordinate via the IVENA platform Hospitals supplying patient care. Due to several easily avoidable mistakes on the part of the development team, an admin password ended up in plain text online, reports c’t. Attackers could have gained full access to the system. Sabotage would have endangered human life. Not only did the editors find technical problems that could be easily remedied, but above all came across an organizational and legal patchwork of this critical infrastructure. You can read the whole story on ct.de.

Anti-morphing clause and inclusion of fingerprints for ID is fixed From August 2021 on, when applying for a new identity card, imprints of the left and right index finger will be on the radio chip of the Document saved. In addition, the passport photo must in future only be created digitally by registered photo studios and transmitted securely to the registration authorities. As part of this transfer, the biometric suitability of the photos should also be checked. It will also be possible to take a photo at the office. The Bundestag has passed a corresponding draft law with which passports and identity cards are to be further upgraded in terms of security.

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WhatsApp makes messages disappear WhatsApp users can now automatically delete messages after a certain period of time. The Facebook subsidiary will introduce this proven function at Signal worldwide in November. While Signal users can choose the “survival time” of a message from five seconds to a week, WhatsApp currently only offers a seven-day period. Each participant in a chat can switch the function on or off; in groups this is reserved for the administrator. The automatic deletion function only applies to the following messages in a chat or a group, not to messages that have already been sent.

After 30 years, Haskell gets his own foundation as part of the conference Haskell Exchange announced the creation of the Haskell Foundation to Simon Peyton Jones. The foundation is primarily intended to promote the spread of the programming language. Peyton Jones was one of the designers of Haskell 30 years ago, a purely functional programming language that provides very clear concepts. It has a good reputation for being difficult to learn. At the same time, it is considered particularly secure, as the strict guidelines prevent some programming errors.

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WhatsApp Pay comes out of the beta: it is now possible to pay with the chat client, but not in Italy

After about two years of beta the payment system via WhatsApp is being expanded to a wider audience. To date, however, there are no news for the Italian market

by Nino Grasso published , at 14: 11 in the Telephony channel

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WhatsApp Pay has been available for about two years for over a million users, within an initial test phase in India. In the Asian country, the payment system was launched in beta during 2018, and in the course of its activity it has had to face several regulatory obstacles to obtaining final launch approval After two years and the various obstacles, however, WhatsApp has started the distribution of the payments functionality for all in India .

WhatsApp Pay is based on UPI ( Unified Payment Interface ), standard defined by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). The company uses the same methods as other existing apps such as Google Pay and PhonePe, with WhatsApp Pay working with five different banks in the country at launch, including ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Axis Bank, the State Bank of India and Jio Payments. Bank. Using WhatsApp, users can send money to anyone who uses a UPI compatible app.

To talk about the news, the CEO of Facebook (parent company of WhatsApp), Mark Zuckerberg: “With the UPI standard India has created something truly special and is opening up a world of opportunities for micro and small businesses that are the backbone of the Indian economy. India is the first country to do something like this and I am delighted that we have been able to support this commitment and work together to help achieve a more digital India ” the NPCI has imposed a limit of 20 millions of users enabled for WhatsApp Pay. The reason is simple: to avoid the emergence of a monopoly in the digital payment system in the country, since with its 400 millions of active users in India WhatsApp could dominate the market. According to the Indian Authority WhatsApp Pay will be able to grow gradually , with the limit that will be extended over time.

According to the new directives of the NPCI, no third-party app, therefore not even Google Pay, will be able to process more than 30% of the monthly UPI transaction volume in India. Previously the market was dominated by Google Pay and PhonePe, which in October alone processed 1.6 billion transactions out of the 2 billion that occurred through the payment standard.