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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Took em this long?

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Again, just describing my understanding of reality, sorry it triggered you.

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 124 points 1 week ago (5 children)

God would never use VPN, he has nothing to hide.

[–] socsa@piefed.social -1 points 6 days ago

Muhammad on the other hand, doesn't want you to know that he looks exactly like the letter "f"

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Except his genitals, how do you know God isn't a woman?

[–] Moriarty@startrek.website 0 points 6 days ago

Cause he fucks everyone

[–] Redredme@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Read the book. Be it the bible, tora or koran. You dont have to read it very much, it's in the beginning somewhere.

[–] Alteon@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago

Is God not powerful enough to switch sexes?

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 7 points 1 week ago

I was thinking of changing the gender after the fact but was to lazy to edit it.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

In church I've been saying in the name of the father and the son, not mother and daughter, so that's an easy assumption to make.

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

But he works in mysterious ways.

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[–] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 82 points 1 week ago (1 children)

someone should point out to them that a vpn is the technological equivalent of the burqa.

either ban both, or allow both.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Not like that

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 74 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The Council of Islamic Ideology said the technology was being used in Pakistan to access content prohibited according to Islamic principles or forbidden by law, including “[...]websites that spread anarchy [...].”

So they admit it's not (only) about morals, but also (or mostly) about their position of power not being threatened.

BTW: By blocking access to the internet, they stop people from following the order in the Quoran which states that people should educate themselves.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

A Mastodon user I follow recently posted that there are 3 types of laws. I think that is an interesting framework.

What Pakistan is doing here is definitely a "power law".

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

It’s almost as if they would tailor their religious doctrine to suit their own needs. Who could have imagined such a thing could happen.

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[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 60 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Encryption is totally and completely haram

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

Which is super fucking ironic:

David Kahn notes in The Codebreakers that modern cryptology originated among the Arabs, the first people to systematically document cryptanalytic methods.[15] Al-Khalil (717–786) wrote the Book of Cryptographic Messages, which contains the first use of permutations and combinations to list all possible Arabic words with and without vowels.[16]

The invention of the frequency analysis technique for breaking monoalphabetic substitution ciphers, by Al-Kindi, an Arab mathematician,[17][18] sometime around AD 800, proved to be the single most significant cryptanalytic advance until World War II. Al-Kindi wrote a book on cryptography entitled Risalah fi Istikhraj al-Mu'amma (Manuscript for the Deciphering Cryptographic Messages), in which he described the first cryptanalytic techniques, including some for polyalphabetic ciphers, cipher classification, Arabic phonetics and syntax, and most importantly, gave the first descriptions on frequency analysis.[19] He also covered methods of encipherments, cryptanalysis of certain encipherments, and statistical analysis of letters and letter combinations in Arabic.[20][21] An important contribution of Ibn Adlan (1187–1268) was on sample size for use of frequency analysis.[16]

Ahmad al-Qalqashandi (AD 1355–1418) wrote the Subh al-a 'sha, a 14-volume encyclopedia which included a section on cryptology. This information was attributed to Ibn al-Durayhim who lived from AD 1312 to 1361, but whose writings on cryptography have been lost. The list of ciphers in this work included both substitution and transposition, and for the first time, a polyalphabetic cipher[23] with multiple substitutions for each plaintext letter (later called homophonic substitution). Also traced to Ibn al-Durayhim is an exposition on and a worked example of cryptanalysis, including the use of tables of letter frequencies and sets of letters which cannot occur together in one word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cryptography#Medieval_cryptography

But then Pakistanis aren't Arabs....

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Decryption? Also Haram.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 56 points 1 week ago (36 children)

Really wish our species could evolve past this moronic, religious bullshit.

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[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 47 points 1 week ago

"It is not enough that Allah knows everything you do. We must also know."

"That sounds like blasphemy to me."

"Uh..."

[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Religious nuts want to creep on your internet usage too.

[–] whostosay@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The craziest part is that this is only happening in Islamic countries and absolutely not happening in the West.

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"VPNs are haram but tor browser truly is the work of Allah himself"

Some guy, maybe.

[–] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Baqarah Ayat 18: No one shall use VPNs

Wonder how long until the USA has this

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