Protonmail breaks user-applied PGP signatures,
They only allow Proton PGP. And NOT you applying it on your own.
"you’ll upload your private key to our servers and you’ll like it!"
I'm reposting this from John Floren's Blog, I'm not the author.
(he's using Proton Bridge in a VM, with his own PGP via FairEmail and Claws)
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When I sent a test message to myself, though, Claws and FairEmail didn’t have any clue that it was signed. If I switched to PGP inline, it worked. I sent an email to one of the Claws maintainers, who reported that my MIME structure was all messed up. He sent me a signed message back, and Claws was able to verify the signature just fine.
It turns out that Proton has been breaking outgoing PGP signatures from the beginning: https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge/issues/26, https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge/issues/320. It seems that their argument is this:
-When you send a regular email via Proton to another Proton client, they automatically PGP sign+encrypt the message. (I think this is great!)
-Their automatic signing+encryption cannot coexist with a user-applied signature.
-Therefore, all user-applied signatures will be broken. Tough luck, bucko, we’re the SECURE email company, you’ll upload your private key to our servers and you’ll like it!
It’s absurd that there’s no way to disable this, no option to tell Proton “if you see a multipart/signed or multipart/encrypted message, just leave it the hell alone.”
I’m looking at other potential email hosts. I know PGP isn’t widely used, but I have a hard time swallowing Proton’s silent mangling of my email, and I especially dislike their smarmy we-know-better attitude when people complain about it."
Original Source:
https://jfloren.net/b/2023/7/7/0
Alternative?
Not everybody is tech savvy to even know about Nostr. And being mean to them is no way to get them to adopt it
As things in the Middle East heat up, remember,
Being anti-war goes with being pro-privacy
As it’s the “crisis of war” that often justifies a “temporary” loss of digital rights, that eventually becomes permanent. The Patriot Act and FISA which are getting renewed now, were supposed to be temporary emergency powers. And it is their abuse by government that is the real terrorism.
Yeah that’s why I’m disappointed you ignore my DMs on Nostr federated peertube. Your exact request handed to you in code from random people with no VC money
Oppressive Censorship:
Meta permanently banned this innocent woman across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads for a single meme, erasing 17 years of her photos, memories, and her only means of reaching some international friends.
Simplified Privacy interviewed her to help Nostr, and to show the world that censorship is not just for fringe political groups, but the everyday person.
Do you want Nostr to spread? Let’s share her story,
https://simplifiedprivacy.com/facebook-ban/
Give her a warm welcome,
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This was supposed to be reformed before being passed but wasn’t. The speaker of the House supported reform before he became speaker of the House, then changed his tune after he got power.
Why Privacy
As the US Congress votes down “FISA” Warrantless Wiretapping renewal for the third time, and momentum in favor of privacy starts to turn,
Shadow Rebel makes the epic case for “Why Privacy”. In this hard-hitting video, he persuades even the most skeptical haters, how privacy isn’t just for some fringe political journalists, but is required for you to have real wealth, free speech, and fair opportunity in life.
Do you struggle to convince your friends to use encrypted messengers? Tune in to this,
If you have a solution to the problem, you’re an entrepreneur.
But if you’re bitching just to bitch, then you’re a pessimist.
So write it down & work on it, or shut the F up
thanks for your time Bitch
(I've always wanted to say that without insulting)
In the settings it should have the options to delete.
You can make your account an EU country for GDPR
George Soros pushes for domain-level "misinformation" censorship via ICANN:
Session and Nostr both:
1. Use static, locally generated, public-private encryption keypairs
2. Connect to public nodes/relays to hold messages
3. Identity is disconnected from location or government domains
4. Hard to censor individuals.
5. Don’t rotate keys, but…
Session lets you assign your blockchain name to a new keypair manually if your private key is compromised. This is like “Nostr with an undo button”.
Session is marketed as privacy, but its true strength is censorship resistance. Since you can’t stop an anonymous entity that isn’t tied to any physical location or even any particular private encryption key.
Nostr is marketed as censorship resistance, but its true strength is privacy. Because it allows anonymous entities to establish verifiable business reputations in the public space. This is the foundation for trust without government IDs.
The only difference is on Nostr, the sender picks the relays. While as on Session, the receiver's nodes are randomly assigned.
And I beg you realize, that fighting over which keys or coins only weakens and divides us.
When the only true side, is the side of freedom.
Join the revolution, Session ID: Simple
There are so many people I would recommend, so this is hard. But a few that come to mind include:
nostr:npub14slk4lshtylkrqg9z0dvng09gn58h88frvnax7uga3v0h25szj4qzjt5d6 for some great tutorial and educational content
nostr:npub132vp7xhrl2enqz65338jqe2vkrcax5zf339kdpymw059gcqpmjsq6fm80g writes some great cyberpunk short stories
nostr:npub1rukp00fmetcjl8r70rl8nrhw5kwpkghpacpkd9x4ms5gdh06xhtsjxz4f0 makes awesome art
nostr:npub1f6ugxyxkknket3kkdgu4k0fu74vmshawermkj8d06sz6jts9t4kslazcka (you should be well-followed if you’re not already)
nostr:npub1km2u8yh92afnu9303w56yk8s0xr70nghf7slvqcqefet9w8quw5slhd9z3 has some great short form posts (and a great name, h/t one of the greatest sci-fi novels)
There’s really nostr:npub1mc20uche0cy599vpl850aschpu7wteundgsnf0msep79lu3fu5aq3r4ptv to follow here anyway 😉
thanks bro
Libertarian Institute has the potential to bring us tens of thousands of new users if we can convince them that this first account is a success so the podcasters use it:
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Setting up my relay up with nostr:npub14slk4lshtylkrqg9z0dvng09gn58h88frvnax7uga3v0h25szj4qzjt5d6 rn (and email!)
What clients use the gossip model right now? Which don’t?
This is four months old, but is copy paste from Mike Dilger himself...
Gossip, coracle, nozzle, camelus.app, snort, lume, amethyst, and anything built using PABLOF7Zs NDK use this NIP-65 "gossip model".
Damus, primal, iris, and many other clients still use a fixed set of relays, many with a client-side caching server so their users don't miss out of notes on other relays. But most of those client's developers have expressed interest or concrete plans to move to the gossip model. Rabble just mentioned today that is on the roadmap for nos.
For once happy news, the German government switches 30,000+ PCs to Linux & LibreOffice!
I guess they are concerned after France’s data leak.
Let’s dive into this:
This will happen shortly. This is a valid question, we're getting them trained on it and the proper tutorials ready