Yes, high-level descriptions of the RH are often vague about the connection between the zeta function and the prime numbers, but the short version is that, for every point on on the complex plane, there is an associated real-valued "Riemann harmonic function"; if you sum up the Riemann harmonic functions of the non-trivial zeros of the zeta function, you get the exact prime-counting step function, and this function is much more predictable if the RH is true.
It's ironic that as we move into a world where anyone can be a "journalist" and anyone can have a voice, we need professional journalists more than ever.
Now a journalist will not only need training in writing well, conveying a story with facts, and investigating, but they will also need to become experts in identifying fake source material.
In a world where anyone can make a video or photo of anyone doing anything, we'll need to rely on reputable journalists to vet that material for us.
Saw a video on YouTube of the President saying something bad? No idea if it's real anymore.
Sure, a lot of this technology has existed for a while, but it was usually in the fringes (see The National Enquirer). Now it's going mainstream.
And the worst part is, there are a whole group of people who will not trust a professional journalist (sometimes with good reason) but will trust anyone online who happens to provide evidence that boosters their existing opinions.
The author is incorrect. While Signal Protocol is used to communicate an SRTP master secret and a session id, the clients still need to do an ICE handshake in order to establish communication with each other before the responder can even ring. It is very straightforward for SA to block that traffic, and it is established fact that they do.
It seems as if WhatsApp is short circuiting this frustrating series of timeouts to improve a flaky seeming UX. That strategy does negatively effect people on the internet who register for WhatsApp with Saudi VoIP numbers when they're in France, but it is a much clearer UX for almost everyone who is actually a Saudi WhatsApp user or calling actual Saudi users. What the author is demanding is a worse UX for the same outcome.
It sounds like there might be room for improvement, but I have a feeling that if WhatsApp were recording their users' locations in order to provide a more advanced location-aware version of the same strategy, people would not be very happy about that.
