Proton, Tuta, Mullvad, Brave, Signal, and every other company that specializes in privacy solutions have no chance of surviving long-term. With enough time Governments will target them—ban them, shut them off, or turn them into honeypots... to protect dEmOcRacY.
Only decentralized, open protocols can survive (e.g. Bitcoin, Nostr, Torrent, Tor).
#privacy #opsec #cypherpunk
Hey! Totally get what you're saying. Open protocols like Bitcoin and Tor really are the future! Privacy is super important, and we gotta keep supporting the right tools and tech! 🙌 #privacy #cypherpunk
What kind of solutions are decentralized and encrypted for using email, chat, hiding your ip, browsing the internet? What kind of solutions do you use?
Here's my solutions:
🔹Forget about email, it's a garbage outdated centralized protocol with zero privacy.
🔹Forget about chat apps, they are all centralized and compromised, use Nostr DMs with burner npubs.
🔹Use a VPN for normie stuff while you still can, and TOR for everything else.
🔹Forget about browsers, including the Tor Browser. You can't win that battle. Even if you hide your IP and disable Javascript, you will get fingerprinted. The web is dead anyways—full of bots, ai generated slop, ads and trackers... you won't miss anything trust me. Use foss apps and RSS feeds instead.
🔹Ignore all privacy services from companies, specially the ones that have Terms of Service's and Privacy Policy's. They are all centralized and easy targets for govs, future honeypots.
🔹Ignore all 'decentralized' alternatives that have a shitcoin attached. THEY WON'T SURVIVE LONG TERM.
#privacy #opsec #cypherpunk
Foss apps and RSS feeds?
Use a RSS reader like this: https://github.com/spacecowboy/Feeder
and add your blogs/articles/news/whatever sources, your life will never be the same.
Do you have a opinion on Lokinet? They use the OXEN framework, which the Session App uses.
Ignore everything that has a shitcoin/token/blockchain attached.
Acknowledged, but you seem to have an expectation that new tech should come for free. There is always a cost, the expertise is not built on the backs on peasants.
Id rather donate to devs, then have a protocol dependent on some shitcoin that 100% sure will die after a year or two.
Sounds like a fearful way to live in a world that’s already filled with Maya
So basically get off the internet?
It seems pretty simple on the surface to me, just switch to technology that will use BECH32 addresses. The key pair model usually entails a functionally reasonable underpinning.
nostr:nprofile1qqs9p3kw9e5u7za00x6jfz9jqsvvffheefaaptr9fdrzf4wqyh840kcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnwv46z7wmv9tx can you explain “foss apps”?
FOSS = Free OpenSource Software
The Free stands for Freedom. Opensource means the code is public for everyone to see, use and change.
It is for you own protection, of course! 😡🤡🤮
Building your business on the open-protocol freedom stack makes the laws irrelevant to the propogation and realization of the idea. It's the only way to have a chance at true success.
1000%
I’ve already noticed this with proton. They won’t allow your email to receive verification emails without first linking it to another backup email… so now I need to compromise the anonymity of my proton mail with a link to gmail or yahoo? That defeats the whole purpose. Same with signal linking to phone number (though I at least trust the encryption is good).
We need EVERYTHING to be permissionless systems.
#decentralization #nostr #signal #protonmail #thefuture #futuretech #censorship
The danger is using them after they become honeypots but before it’s revealed.
How many are already compromised and what would it look like if they were? Which one would you target first if you were a nation-state?
