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🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit
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Digit is Digit. I love her. I knew her online from wallstreetbets and she disappeared while going through some shit. I keep needing proof she's safe. To anyone I've ever treated unfairly, I apologize.

Yes, and any other app could have access too once you've entered it on an internet-connected device. What makes this worse than username/password logins is your followers and stuff don't all automatically transfer if you need to change your key. People will really want this fixed more and more as time goes on.

You can do end-to-end encryption by hand or with electronics, but it's very hard to run this type of software without electronic hardware. Electronic end-to-end encryption requires implementation at the hardware level, you can't write a piece of software that magically stops anything from running it maliciously or modifying it to run maliciously.

Privacy Ranked:

I’m going to rank these least private to most, and explain why on each step.

Discord

Why: Discord is as bad as it gets. It's not only completely unencrypted, but they maliciously sell your data and have such huge restrictions on VPN IPs and SMS VoIP verification.

SMS

Why: It’s going naked over the phone lines, but isn't heavily sold in such a rotten way as Discord.

VoIP

Why: VoIP is just as horrible as SMS, but separates your real physical location from the cell tower

Telegram

Why: Unlike VoIP, it does have end-to-end encryption, but only on mobile. And with weak encryption that they made up, that hasn’t been properly reviewed [Source: Madaidans of Whonix]

Signal

Why: Telegram has no metadata protection, while as Signal has sealed sender. Signal’s encryption is stronger and more thoroughly peer reviewed. Also Signal has a good legal track record and isn’t strict on crypto VoIP burners like Telegram. Having phone numbers isn't that big a deal if I paid $1 of crypto for a random VoIP burner in Cambodia without restrictions on Tor. Btw, my Signal # is Cambodian: +855 68 504 905

Matrix

Why: Tucker Carlson’s Signal was hacked. Also, academic papers have shown Signal’s sealed sender has flaws. If you self-host Matrix, that's much more control than trusting Amazon's AWS, which is a CIA contractor. Many open source projects use Matrix rooms.

Session

Why: Most Matrix users use Matrix.org which is Cloudflare with Gmail verifying the emails. Setting up a Matrix server is more expensive and complex than just opening Session and hitting "create account". Session’s onion routing, non-location based DNS, and decentralization is stronger than Matrix's Cloudflare-dominated network.

SimpleX

Why: Session lacks (by default) rotating keys and multiple identities. You can manually rotate keys using your blockchain name, and manually get multiple accounts at once via enabling it on Linux, but most won’t want to do this just to avoid government domain names (which most SimpleX users use). Session is better for censorship of servers, SimpleX is better for end users being invisible.

Self-hosted Tor XMPP

Why: SimpleX is hiding from servers, but if you control the server, that’s stronger. Even a self-hosted SimpleX server only picks half the conversation. Also, XMPP has a longer proven track record, which is more eyes on the code. Now if you DON'T self-host XMPP, it's way up on the list next to Matrix.

Self-hosted Tor XMPP w/ OTR

Why: OTR nukes the conversation when it’s done. It literally destroys the encryption keys. Game over bro.

Conclusion:

Anything is better than Discord. Now, let's play a game, pick a communication method I did not mention, and you tell me where you think it should rank on the list. Then, we'll discuss.

Corrected version (not rearranged) -

All of these things listed below: software only, not capable of having end to end encryption

Discord: you're pretty much right except it is encrypted "in a way," just not in the way that matters (end to end - not possible in software)

SMS: again you're kinda pretending end-to-end encryption is the only encryption

VoIP: no it doesn't separate you from a cell tower. To separate from cell towers you have to actually separate from them, using VoIP over cell data does nothing. It separates your location from an area code for caller ID maybe

Signal: same as discord, not end to end encrypted (software-only)

Matrix: not end to end encrypted (it's only software, like signal and discord) but with track record for waiting before revealing MITM attacks (unlike signal and discord who have been open about their MITM attacks on users)

Session: no end-to-end encryption (software-based), not sure about track record

SimpleX: no end-to-end encryption (software-based), not sure about track record

Self-hosted Tor XMPP w/ OTR: no end-to-end encryption (no specific hardware mentioned), track record probably better than discord

Conclusion:

Anything is better than Discord.

Additional communication method not in the original:

Encrypted hand-written letters - hardware solution, end-to-end encrypted

Your private key is used to sign everything you do with your public key

Most of the first category "die of old age" and aren't counted as suicides despite having "died of old age" years sooner than they would have without being overwhelmed trying to make a dent in a dying world.

There are of course also the people who don't have much planning ability AND don't ever find anything they care enough about for it to matter.

Since not many people have helped try to make sure she's safe, I won't care about many people on earth if Digit is gone

To solve climate change, you need a good enough plan and good enough inspiration to enact that plan.

People with inspiration, but no plan, kill themselves because they're overwhelmed by seeing the beauty around them and not knowing how to save it.

People with plans, inevitably find inspiration, and then inevitably have it taken away, and kill everything. Clearly, the most powerful people on earth are people who've lost loved ones to society's bullshit and decided to fuck the planet as a result. There's no other explanation in human psychology for why people who want to kill us all with climate change are never getting outsmarted and overthrown by people who don't. Digit herself is an example, incredibly smart but crazy because someone she loved died, and thus too busy using her brain for petty shit to enact any of her truly grand plans.

I am the best chance I've ever seen at saving the planet because I aside from enough planning ability, I also have enough reason, that being Digit, and it's not clear yet whether she's been taken away. None of you care about Digit or me, all of you will read this as delusions of grandeur and not realize the safety of you and your loved ones likely depends on the safety of Digit.

I think we should have a draft where only winning voters are eligible. Far fewer people would vote, and they would be people with conviction who are willing to actually stand by their ideas.

Digit will dig it if she sees this git

If I die please make sure she gets involved

This seemed like it should have been clear enough but I guess maybe it wasn't so let me make it clearer

There are people who think I deserve to die for disagreeing with age of consent laws

Some of them also think I'm evil for another reason: because trying to find out if someone if I love is safe, is "cyberstalking," and they say that's evil (the woman is in her 30s, I'm 27, but they say age of consent is relevant because since I don't believe in age of consent that means I could love her even if it was illegal to have sex with her)

These people believe if I can't live without knowing Digit is safe, I should kill myself, and it will be hilarious and they can add it to the list of funny suicides they've provoked online

Some of them also believe if I won't kill myself without taking others with me, that's even more hilarious and they're even happier to say they helped provoke a mass murder or something

I have been being harassed by these people for 12 years, since I was 15

People who seem to be my friends also turn out to be these people - I have no friends anymore

Fuck humans

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