Since both our SimpleX & Session rooms were DDoS'ed,
And attackers can just make a new key/account with no restriction,
I've been mostly enjoying our Signal group, it's easier to filter out spam. Come through and post good news stories, funny memes, or ask tech questions. It's a good group, people help each other,
https://signal.group/#CjQKICKP4m5jPiL-RdDH1Nx9ZapzJxd_YHwqsNVwGx-ABrezEhDuGkf93QWDpMQNjyMc_Nhy
You can hide your phone number in the security settings. Or get a bs number from this list:
Signal is kinda lib socialist (openly btw): «we need to filter our spam, so we'll do it via phone number: every person has it, yet has only 1, and one account will be fair and equal for everyone»
SimpleX is kinda lib individualist: «they can create as many accounts as they like, yet they can't see ya unless you want to become visible, and if you wanna become hidden, you can instantly to that»
Session is kinda chaosist: «create as many accounts as you want yoo, we we'll even easen the process»
Threema is kinda market anarchist: «whatever—you can make more account's if you want, but that will cost your 6€ more every time, so you don't want to do it yourself + your spam will make the project even stronger»
weak points on each obvious
@jack's favorite drink
https://player.odycdn.com/v6/streams/5899288c660924798e4669ddfca8114017800e92/68284b.mp4
Isn't Google far-right now for Sundar visiting Trump? Big tech loves to play both sides of the coin.
+100 to this one
>imho you should stop countring arguments with "LOL SHITCOIN", "LOL HAVE FUN STAYING POOR", "LOL I DON'T GIVE A FUCK"
ah yes, forgot the top: "YOU'RE WOKE / GAY / COMMUNIST / MARXIST / whatever". start acting like you actually don't give a fuck and quit answering every message you receive with cockamamy insluts
in my humble opinion you should stop countring arguments with "LOL SHITCOIN", "LOL HAVE FUN STAYING POOR", "LOL I DON'T GIVE A FUCK" at least that often. you're answering me right now. you do give a fuck. chill.
checking trustability of a service by their website style & LOGO is ludicrous. even more — to hear same guy criticizing "woke people excluding someone from the team just because they were racists" now saying "riseup is a bad VPN 'cause one of their team members is an antifascist".
now, that doesn't mean that fighting the *men* is good (taking into account all the discrimination of men — read more on https://masculism.site/ — adversal feminist activism ain't helping), as well as one forcing you to use some exact one-and-only VPN to access one's service, as well as not letting you use the service with VPN overall. I agree w/ you about that.
RiseUp's projects have included the Stop Watching Us campaign against global surveillance disclosures revealed by Edward Snowden, fighting the NSA surveillance: https://www.vice.com/de/article/crowdfunding-kampagne-fuer-abhoersichere-email-und-chat-kommunikation/
On the other hand, one of the reasons not to use RiseUp is that their canary no longer states the absence of gag orders: https://www.zdnet.com/article/encrypted-email-provider-riseup-misses-warrant-canary-deadline/
privacy is BY default, not optionally *
it does! according to simplex privacy policy, «to prevent server overloading or attacks, the servers can temporarily store data that can link to particular users or devices, including IP addresses, geographic location, or information related to the transport session»*.
if the served is compromised, it can fully deanonymize the sender and receiver, if they don't use Tor or VPN. it has own dangers: eg. many governments don't care, what do you chat ABOUT, if you CHAT with a wrong person (for example, if you chat with a political activist, who has actually done something, you're under a scope). once again, session eliminates the need to think twice to not get caught: privacy is not by default, not optionally.
we should note that not everyone takes extra actions. users would be even safer is vpn + tor is used, and even more safe if simplex is installed on a disposable phone — yet up to 90% of the users don't use vpn and tor additionally.
session includes tor-like system (with actually higher safety than the tor) in the core. thus, in session privacy is on by default, not optionally.
note once again: I'm not saying session is definitely better — both apps have their advantages.
did he ever promise to help fight the left? your answer is not related to my question. what am I even explaining to a guy who can write Mussolini's name correctly
well that's weird: when I said simplex collects users' data, I meant «when you use application SimpleXChat, it sends anonymized diagnostics about the use to improve your usage experience» — yet now I cannot find any proofs of that not. I was sure I read it myself in their privacy policy. Huh...
Anyway, yes, official servers do collect some statistics (which may be somewhat dangerous: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10933-3 — yet not too bad). I'm not sure if using own server won't identify you by centralizing all your connections, killing the main reason to use the app: when 100 (your) pseudonyms uses all one same small server, and no or almost no other people are using it, pseudonyms can clearly be identified as belonging to a one person, or am I wrong?
simplex does not hide your meta-data as good, as session.
both are very good apps indeed, though I cannot say one would be defo better than another. for example, another simplex issue is that it officially collects users' data. on the other side, of course, it has the very great advantage over session in quantum-resistant cryptography.
dApps on ETH... web3 on BNB... uniswap on UNI... doesn't seem that the projects hella failing — or are they?
btw, I'd clarify, while I have the chance: why do you support centralization in crypto so bad? "don't use any other crypto except Bitcoin" is literally going against the core idea of Bitcoin: decentralizing your money — and sounds even fbi-ish, that useful for the government would be the idea of everyone using mostly just one (traceable & non-fungible) coin.
even decentralizing among traceable cryptos (thus different blockchains — eg. btc & ltc) hardens your privacy.
It wasn't just Elon Musk that bought Twitter.
Among the largest contributors was Larry Ellison, previous CEO of Oracle. Oracle not only contracts with the CIA, and sells browser fingerprints.. But Larry publicly downplayed Edward Snowden's leaks, and said the NSA spying was good.
You might think this is a lone incident with Twitter's takeover, now doing more data collection. But actually the VAST MAJORITY of services use browser fingerprinting, and aggregate data with each other. Probably most of the services you use are on this list, and these dirty tactics render most VPNs ineffective.
In this brand new podcast, our team breaks down the crucial knowledge that you need to know. And even discuss the critical flaws in Mullvad Browser:
Add this RSS feed to your Podcast App:
https://podcast.simplifiedprivacy.com/index.xml
Or get the Episode in a Web Browser:
https://podcast.simplifiedprivacy.com/browser-fingerprints/index.html
your vpn is actually a worthy, noting that fingerprinting works even when JavaScript is turned off: https://noscriptfingerprint.com
keep up the good work
Tucker Carlson brings up the privacy issue in crypto.
«A lot of people in the crypto world are admirable — I’m friends with some and agree with them on many things. But why you are the only one talking about crypto transactions aren’t private? They’re easily trackable by the government. Why isn’t anyone else sounding the alarm?»
«Because the censorship and propaganda works — a lot of people are taking, few gets heard», was the answer.
Somebody should tell him about that "dumb shitcoin" called Monero.
Source: https://xcancel.com/marionawfal/status/1866661093998825607
#monero #xmr #crypto #privacy
It wasn't just Elon Musk that bought Twitter.
Among the largest contributors was Larry Ellison, previous CEO of Oracle. Oracle not only contracts with the CIA, and sells browser fingerprints.. But Larry publicly downplayed Edward Snowden's leaks, and said the NSA spying was good.
You might think this is a lone incident with Twitter's takeover, now doing more data collection. But actually the VAST MAJORITY of services use browser fingerprinting, and aggregate data with each other. Probably most of the services you use are on this list, and these dirty tactics render most VPNs ineffective.
In this brand new podcast, our team breaks down the crucial knowledge that you need to know. And even discuss the critical flaws in Mullvad Browser:
Add this RSS feed to your Podcast App:
https://podcast.simplifiedprivacy.com/index.xml
Or get the Episode in a Web Browser:
https://podcast.simplifiedprivacy.com/browser-fingerprints/index.html
is there any chance to read the podcast, not listen? like some transcript?