In addition, I'm not sure of the writer of that article took into account the recently released username features. If someone subpoenas Signal, but they all they have is a username, and that person had since changed their username, they wouldn't even be able to get a phone number. Signal would be able to tell them literally nothing.

Some #Linux distributions impacted by the #XZ supply chain attack ⚠️

#Kali Linux (between March 26 and 29)

#openSUSE #Tumbleweed and openSUSE #MicroOS (between March 7 and 28)

#Debian testing, unstable, and experimental versions (from 5.5.1alpha-0.1 to 5.6.1-1)

On Amethyst, click on the 3 dots on a post:

How?!

Where does it keep existing bookmarks? I've made a few in the past

🦦

#introductions

Once Hamas top 1,2,3,4 are dead, will Hamas top 5 become top 1 and cycle continues?

#gaza #israel #palestine

Is there a way to verify?

I have been able to convince exactly 0 people to use #Signal after they dropped SMS support.

Most of the people I convinced to use it only used it mostly with me. BUT, the selling point was that they could just set it as the default (better) SMS app and not just have another fucking messaging app just for me.

About 90% of MY communication used to be encrypted on Signal, even if theirs wasn't (it didn't matter to them).

Now? All of them are back to sending me SMS. This erased about two years of work I put into converting people.

So great, Signal is now more secure. Except no one in my life uses it with me anymore. Where exactly is the benefit we were supposed to see?

This is an old topic at this point, but just wanted to call out the fact that what many of us predicted is now a reality.

The interesting thing is that overlapping people in my network (friends, family, etc) were starting to use encryption incidentally without even knowing it.

A network effect that took a lot of work was completely destroyed by one decision.

Signal is dead in my life now and it's truly sad. I'm putting an end to my fruitless attempts to convert people. Sad.

#Security #Cybersecurity

Ok my phone mic just died, need new phone. Pixel 8 vs pixel 7a vs waiting for pixel 8a?

Dear Tor Project,

I'm disputing the legitimacy of Duckduckgo being Tor browser's default search engine.

This is how the URL should look:

podbean.com/podcast-detail/5bakh-79e4c/The-Breakdown-Podcast

This is the spyware Duckduckgo does:

duckduckgo.com/l/?uddg=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.podbean.com%2Fpodcast%2Ddetail%2F5bakh%2D79e4c%2FThe%2DBreakdown%2DPodcast&rut=5c2461ff3cf9724900b2808b2011523bc08f4b82046e913bb14471790466518c

Further, once you click the link, the websites themselves have Duckduckgo's 3rd party javascript inserted into the page load, such as "improving.duckduckgo.com" to report back to their AI your behavior on the site itself. And then on top of that, Duckduckgo is just front-end for Bing, but it's hosted on Microsoft's servers. So Microsoft hiding from Microsoft is a conflict of interest.

How many times have we all accidentally mistyped a URL, where we meant to go to the site itself, but that then got searched on Duckduckgo's AI. Sucks if it's an Onion address, at least let me turn search off?!

Final kicker. In 2022, Duckduckgo's CEO Gabriel Weinberg said they are actively censoring "Russian misinformation", that later turned out to be true, when 2 years later the CIA purposefully leaked to the New York Times that they had military bases in Ukraine PRIOR to Putin's invasion. Further the Times admits that Putin was correct for accusing the US of militarizing Ukraine BEFORE he invaded. [1]

The official Tor Project website goes on and on about protecting whistleblowers. So why is this the sole default choice for anonymous whistleblowers, if we're just repeating the CIA's narrative with AI spyware?

also ur url is broken lol 403 forbidden

Got about 75k in my hot wallet, everyone will get 5,000 sats who replies till I run out. 😎

#Plebchain #Introductions #Zap #Nostr.

Email encourages people to communicate more asynchronously, which I appreciate.

I just hate Email clients

Agree,

You can write all important stuff in one email instead of multiple messages.

Just search the subject line to find something, instead of scrolling through message feeds.

email - consolidates things

Slack - scattered them.

The only benefit of Slack I like is emoji reactions instead of typing done, ✅.

Agree,

You can write all important stuff in one email instead of multiple messages.

Just search the subject line to find something, instead of scrolling through message feeds.

email - consolidates things

Slack - scattered them.

The only benefit of Slack I like is emoji reactions instead of typing done, ✅.