The thing to remember is that cryptography is very tricky business, and even when an algorithm is sound on paper that does not guarantee that it’s implemented in a secure way. A famous example is when NSA “helped” develop the Diffie-Hellman cryptographic key exchange standard and introduced a vulnerability that nobody noticed for a very long time.
Any standard that’s been developed in conjunction with US agencies should be considered compromised in my opinion.
Whoa that’s messed up, I have this installed on FF. I wonder why they would go after this and not ublock origin first, if the goal is to ban these type plugins.
Slow and steady is a better practice than going for the big ones outright.
People are not predictable and they need to be sure this wont affect their business by creating a trend. On second thought it is a bit surprising that no tiktok trend has exploded where they instruct people to block ads with uBlock.
I don’t really like you, theanonymousjoker, but I despise madaidan and mikay as well, I followed your discussions in the age of the controversy between graphene/copper in nogoolag group (when it was still a semi-decent and not “conspirational” telegram group) and anyone of you were awful. BUT I think your privacy guide make sense to anyone who can’t or don’t want to buy a Google phone, and to anyone who don’t want or can’t root his phone. It was a good, democrat guide, and I appreciated his content, even if not his tone. This attack on reddit is awful, you don’t deserve this hate and I hope you are alright. Stay strong
This feels like one of those chain messages that we would get on Facebook asking us to do something like posting “I don’t give permission to Facebook to use my data”. Except that this time it is actually true!
I have added “_nomap” to my SSID and now I have to read the manual for the wifi extender, which by default appends _EXT to the SSID 🙄
I would much rather see a “_yesmap” opt-in policy!
i’ve been using berty for a couple of months now, not as a primary messenger, but more so in situations where I want to transfer some information in the form of text/images/videos in situations where there is no internet connection
it has some issues, but it’s relatively robust imo
They sound quite samiliar, with Berty you have to have the recipient on the app as well, ya? In other words no SMS/MMS messaging I believe from the break down? Briar is marketed for activists and journalist being a decentralized and encrypted messager which works without WiFi and can be routed over Tor.
Seeing it’s only for paying enterprise accounts it makes way more sense. Average users will not have access to encryption, only business accounts. Google doesn’t want the liability of knowing their discussions so it’s all just marketing BS right now unfortunately.
Would this require them to secretly get an exploit into a device first? I have to imagine the device manufacturers can’t be compelled to provide a backdoor.
Yeah the logistics are totally missing in the reporting, and legislators are technically incompetent.
It’s like when the press reports that a governement announces they’re going to ban TikTok. Sorry, that’s not possible. All they can do is force companies to delist the software, but then that just forces folks to download the app from a less trustworthy sources.
So how are they going to hotmic my device running AOSP? Sorry, that’s not going to happen.
I truly don’t know what they think is going to happen. Its an open source, endlessly clonable piece of software. They killed Youtube Vanced and within a week Revanced popped up.
I’m assuming Google is trying to use fear tactics as the API doesn’t come into play. If they require a Google account for YouTube access, then Invidious would be in trouble for sure. But this would also cut into the view count and it’s tougher to sell ad’s with less views.
Forcing a google account would be wild but apparently Reddit is blocking access to the site on mobile so I wouldn’t be that surprised. Then again, how greedy can these companies be. Google already has chrome which most people use and harvests all your fuckin data. Just leave the like 3% of us alone.
I’ve learned to never rule anything out for Corps when money is involved, but you’re soo correct. They are capitalizing on a vast majority of internet usage, hopefully that hasn’t made em hungry for the last few more tech literate folks online.
What’s new, Snowden blew the whistle over a decade ago now. Taxpayer’s money being used to fund mass surveillance.
And now more recently taxpayer’s money being used to buy their information from private companies all in the name of national security.
They want to ban TikTok because they don’t want a government entity from harvesting their data but its fine when the US government does it because they always paint themselves as the good guys and not as the biggest and longest running group of international terrorists ever…
Standard Notes is a big one for me. Thunderbird is the only way I access email on my PC. LibreOffice (or OnlyOffice) is regularly used on my end too. VLC is amazing and the only method I listen to music or watch videos on my devices. JabRef is a phenomenal bibliography tool I use for papers. Plus, Kdenlive is an amazing video + audio editing tool I use to clean up OBS recordings. Lastly, Syncthing is how I manage files across multiple devices. All of these are fantastic and a big aspect of my day to day.
It’s kind of a long shot, but a privacy based online doc option I recently learned about, which surprised me now 5+ years in, is etherpad. I really like the board.net hosted option, as the company behind it enables all the actually needed extension and isn’t afraid to be privacy focused first. But you can host it yourself too. It’s pretty much a “google doc” page, so it would need a table added to be filled in by the end user. Still only accessible by the folks you give the HTML link to though. Plus, you can always cut and paste the data into a new doc and give that new link to the folks who need it 🤷
I can’t recommend a self hosted SearXNG instance enough.
DDG uses Bing as a search backend last I checked, and the founder/CEO is spoke in favour of censoring search results that don’t match with his worldview.
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