including your emails and private messages?
the companies own the gov, not the other way around.
Which do you trust more to protect your privacy? 🤔
Elon Musk’s Grok AI?
Or Apple Intelligence? comprised of Apple’s new Private Cloud Compute (PCC) and on-device processing explained at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=546ufMY7488
Learn, vote and share your thoughts!
#AppleInteligence #Privacy
both are a pile of shit.
For anyone still recommending Telegram as a "private" messenger:
New Telegram combolist exposes 361 million emails and passwords.
"Last week, a security researcher sent me 122GB of data scraped out of thousands of Telegram channels. It contained 1.7k files with 2B lines and 361M unique email addresses of which 151M had never been seen in HIBP before. Alongside those addresses were passwords and, in many cases, the website the data pertains to."
https://www.troyhunt.com/telegram-combolists-and-361m-email-addresses/
#Privacy #Security
i would encourage everyone to give SimpleX Chat a chance.
please stop overglorifying Satoshi and treating him like a prophet.
monero is a solid project regardless of what some dude that vanished 10 years ago thought.
filesystem being completely different, wheres my C drive, wheres my D drive? no ctrl+alt+delete. being used to install programs from a binary downloaded straight from the prohect's website and expecting it to auto-update.
local ai.
someone should put #ai looking for hidden messages in old classical books. i'm sure you'd find some gems.
RSS Reader that allows you to keep up with different blogs and news sources.
i invite you to click the link and read the academic literature on why monero should be banned, it's really a no brainer.
make the civics test hard enough and you got yourself a dictatorship
let's not get ahead of ourselves, water isn't as big as monero for our society, there are alternatives to water. if we ban water people will just drink milk or something else. monero is the only functional privacy coin, it has no real alternatives, that's why we need to ban it, that will surely fix financial fraud, just like banning drugs fixed drug abuse. really that simple.
yes, i2p should definitely be banned as well. spread the message and tell everyone you know to avoid it, especially people that aren't aware of it! https://geti2p.net/
#monero should be banned. who needs #privacy anyway. https://banmonero.com/
4 Tools to Share Large Files Over the Internet Securely
These are privacy respecting tools to consider. But, what signifies as a big file? Any file that you cannot seem to send through an encrypted messaging app like Signal or Telegram's secret chat. Ideally, it should be anything more than 1 GB.
Internxt is probably the most convenient being online, whilst an option like OninionShare is fully peer-to-peer but then does require the app to be installed at both ends (but is available for all generally used platforms).
See https://itsfoss.com/share-large-files-tool/
#technology #filesharing #privacy
i have had no problems with send. recommend.
what if you work 2 or 3 miles away from your home and need a phone while at work?
Everything actionable you need to know about what this indictment means for you as a Samourai Wallet (SW) or Whirlpool user 👇
As a Samourai Wallet user (no Dojo)
Unfortunately, the architecture of SW meant that your xpub (a master public key, allowing anyone holding it to derive all your past/present/future Bitcoin addresses) was at some point in time held by Samourai, and could now possible in the hands of the DOJ.
Though it's a worst-case scenario, you should assume that your xpub was compromised, and thus all previous mixes you have done have been unwound and are now traceable. You should also assume that the gov can now derive all past/present/future addresses of yours and track movement of funds if so desired.
In addition, Samourai's coordinator and backend sync server was seized, and so SW will no longer sync, show received funds, or allow sending funds out. As such, you have to migrate funds to another wallet like @SparrowWallet following the docs here:
https://docs.samourai.io/wallet/restore-recovery#export-to-external-wallet
In addition, I would recommend migrating funds to a new seed phrase to prevent anyone holding the xpub from seeing all future received/spent funds.
You should also disable automatic updates in the Play Store (if used) to ensure no malicious updates are pushed.
As a Samourai Wallet user (using your own Dojo)
Thankfully, you avoided having your xpub potentially compromised. The worst case scenario for you is that your previous mixes may not have the full anon set you expected if non-Dojo users xpubs were compromised.
You will still be able to sync/send/receive from your Samourai Wallet app, but should also migrate funds eventually as no further updates will come out for Samourai Wallet. If you want to migrate, use the docs below:
https://docs.samourai.io/wallet/restore-recovery#export-to-external-wallet
You should, however, disable automatic updates in the Play Store (if used) to ensure no malicious updates are pushed.
As a Sparrow Wallet user
Thankfully, you avoided having your xpub potentially compromised as well. The worst case scenario for you is that your previous mixes may not have the full anon set you expected if non-Dojo/Sparrow users xpubs were compromised.
There is no real need to rotate to a new wallet etc, and Sparrow is still an excellent option. Unfortunately you will no longer be able to mix in Sparrow as the Samourai coordinator was seized.
Next steps for privacy
If you (like me) relied on Samourai Wallet for privacy on Bitcoin, it's time to look elsewhere sadly. As of today I have two recommendations:
Use Monero for spending, keep using Bitcoin for savings
Yes, this isn't Bitcoin, but its by far the most used and most practical privacy coin out there with strong (and growing) ways to swap in/out of it without a centralized, KYC exchange. My recommendation is buying enough to cover your normal spending of Bitcoin for a month at least, and spend out of that lump sum as needed.
Learn more:
getmonero.org
Where to get Monero:
bisq.network
Trocador.app
In Cake Wallet's exchange feature
Wallets:
Feather Wallet
Cake Wallet
Monerujo Wallet
Merchants that accept Monero:
monerica.com
cryptwerk.com/pay-with/xmr/
Use JoinMarket
JoinMarket is a decentralized Coinjoin protocol that brings together peers to mix funds together, gaining strong privacy without relying on a central coordinator, without giving fees to a central entity, etc.
The best way to get started today is using the new UI built around JoinMarket, @jamapporg:
jamapp.org
Have any more questions? Drop them below and I'll do my best to answer them.
why would i want to keep my savings in a currency that has proven time and time again that it isn't able to function as digital cash? i'd rather keep it in precious metals.