LWD

LWD , 7 days ago to Privacy in [YT] How Mozilla Ruined Firefox

Can I still post this image?

https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FcMNeTCY.png

LWD , 2 months ago to Privacy in Ukraine's GUR head believes "anonymous" Telegram channel owners should register so the Agency knows who's behind them

Are you anti genocide?

https://theintercept.com/2020/06/28/welcome-to-chechnya-gay-men/

LWD , 2 months ago to Privacy in Ukraine's GUR head believes "anonymous" Telegram channel owners should register so the Agency knows who's behind them

The call proves nothing.

For comparison, white supremacists believe Jews are engineering the end of the "white race" because of a piece of paper in an SPLC office. This also proves nothing.

LWD , 2 months ago to Privacy in Ukraine's GUR head believes "anonymous" Telegram channel owners should register so the Agency knows who's behind them

Apparently people like you have bought so deeply into imperialist thought that you can't fathom anybody being independent outside of a great national power.

Eurasia has always been at war with Oceania, therefore Oceania must have been responsible.

LWD , 2 months ago to Privacy in Ukraine's GUR head believes "anonymous" Telegram channel owners should register so the Agency knows who's behind them

I think you misunderstand me. The Ukrainians made their own choice in 2014. There was no US "coup". That's the year Russia's puppet was removed, and the year Putin turned to an invasion.

LWD , 2 months ago to Privacy in Ukraine's GUR head believes "anonymous" Telegram channel owners should register so the Agency knows who's behind them

Ukrainians wanted Yanukovich, the most unpopular and probably most corrupt Ukrainian president, gone.

Despite attempts to treat Ukrainians as lesser beings by pointing to an imaginary puppet master, they did this on their own accord, and only 4.9% of them wanted him to return.

LWD , 2 months ago to Privacy in Under the FISA expansion, what exactly should I worry about, how do I manage privacy?

How do you figure you need to trust it more than both your ISP and your government? I understand how it gets as much data as your ISP traditionally does, and that means you need to trust it as much as an ISP...

...But I have a very poor opinion of any ISP that operates on regional monopolies (as is common in the United States), and those are probably linked directly to the NSA a la PRISM anyway. I imagine a VPN, even a mediocre one outside the Eyes countries' jurisdiction, frustrates this.

LWD , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to Privacy in Ukraine's GUR head believes "anonymous" Telegram channel owners should register so the Agency knows who's behind them

It removed a Russian puppet leader. Now there is no foreign puppet in charge of the country. This alone is a huge change, doesn't sound like it's "merely" a shift.

Edit: more significant than even I thought.

Using LGBT rights and antisemitism (and even censorship!) as a metric, I'm pretty sure you would agree that leaning towards "pro western" values is preferable to what Russia is doing in their country and to their puppet states.

LWD , 2 months ago to Privacy in Ukraine's GUR head believes "anonymous" Telegram channel owners should register so the Agency knows who's behind them

It's interesting how the biggest comments either pretend there is no war, or remove Ukrainian self-determination from discussion of it.

Seems kind of like those people who try to lump in Palestinians in Gaza with some imaginary monolith of "all Muslims" in the middle east.

LWD , 2 months ago to Privacy in Ukraine's GUR head believes "anonymous" Telegram channel owners should register so the Agency knows who's behind them

In 2014, Ukraine overthrew a corrupt Russian puppet president and called for a new election. Instead of participating, the puppet fled, and Ukrainians discovered his palace.

Were you aware of this?

LWD , 2 months ago to Privacy in Ukraine's GUR head believes "anonymous" Telegram channel owners should register so the Agency knows who's behind them

That didn't stop you from speculating earlier.

LWD , 2 months ago to Privacy in Ukraine's GUR head believes "anonymous" Telegram channel owners should register so the Agency knows who's behind them

I'm guessing that due to the small size of Lemmy and the political nature of this post, there might be a lot of visitors who aren't aware of how bad Telegram is at protecting privacy.

From TechCrunch:

Telegram has disclosed names of administrators, their phone numbers and IP addresses of channels

It shouldn't have had that data available to begin with...

LWD , 2 months ago to Privacy in Ukraine's GUR head believes "anonymous" Telegram channel owners should register so the Agency knows who's behind them

In Gaza, I think the claim is "The invasion doesn't stop the corrupt Hamas government from stealing food"...

Again, the solution is the invading country leaves and stops interfering.

LWD , 2 months ago to Privacy in Ukraine's GUR head believes "anonymous" Telegram channel owners should register so the Agency knows who's behind them

"The people being invaded need to behave better" is one way people justify brutality against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. And despite the argument working better on Hamas, I reject it there too.

In both situations, the chaos is being caused by the invading country, and the onus is on the invader to leave.

You said "LOL" about Ukraine not getting to join the EU, but that was the same attitude the US and Israel had towards UNESCO for daring to admit Palestine as a member state in 2011.

LWD , 2 months ago to Privacy in Ukraine's GUR head believes "anonymous" Telegram channel owners should register so the Agency knows who's behind them

Last time I checked, Ukraine is fighting a war against a Russian invasion.

During World War II, the US censored pictures of dead soldiers until 1943. And that was without a war happening on American soil.