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drwho

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Living 20 minutes into the future. Eccentric weirdo. Virtual Adept. Time traveler. Thelemite. Technomage. Hacker on main. APT 3319. Not human. 30% software and implants. H+ - 0.4 on the Berram-7 scale. Furry adjacent. Pan/poly. Burnout.

I try to post as sincerely as possible.

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drwho , to Privacy in Chat Apps, Government Ties, and Transparency – Threema
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Doable, but a huge pain in the ass because of conflicts in the protocol. I spent about a year trying to suss them out and come up with a fix but never figured it out.

drwho , to Privacy in Chat Apps, Government Ties, and Transparency – Threema
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I do not think so, no. However, Amazon is certainly big enough to be un-humorously compared to nation-states as well.

drwho , to Privacy in Chat Apps, Government Ties, and Transparency – Threema
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It's a Google hosted service, which is arguably worse because they may as well be a nation-state unto themselves.

drwho , to Privacy in Chat Apps, Government Ties, and Transparency – Threema
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drwho , to Privacy in Are right wingers creating FUD around Signal?
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https://kolektiva.social/@Voline/112437280384669007

drwho , to Privacy in Are right wingers creating FUD around Signal?
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The fairest thing you can say about CrossFit is that it's a nicely unique string to filter out. :)

drwho , to Privacy in Are right wingers creating FUD around Signal?
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They do this periodically. We saw it during Occupy, the Arab Spring, BLM, now Palestine (again). As a general rule, when folks go into the streets, the tighty righties start up the FUD.

There is a reason why spooks learn tradecraft - threat modeling, procedures, awareness, and techniques - more than they learn technology. It would behoove folks to to learn a little about that before hitting up the appstore.

drwho , to Privacy in Telegram CEO calls out rival Signal, claiming it has ties to US government
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They've never been shy about saying this.

drwho , to Privacy in Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain
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Thing is, Protonmail has been telling people this from the very beginning. It's like it gets rediscovered every year or so when somebody else gets busted.

drwho , to Privacy in "Everything being a sleek App, instead of being a clunky website. Which is definitely the way to go." - Mrwhosetheboss
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Yeah, nah.

drwho , to Privacy in Telegram founder and CEO alledges signal has backdoors, they don't provide reproduceible builds, etc.
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Points 0 and 1: None of this is new. This goes back to 2011 or 2012.

Point 2: If someone gets hold of your phone and unlocks it (meaning, they can interact with it), they have access to your Signal messages on-board. This is why additional security measures (not using biometrics, encrypting your phone natively) are recommended. If your phone is off and someone dumps the data from it, they get encrypted data.

drwho , to Privacy in Need help figuring out bookmark management
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If you're going self-hosted with your stuff, have you consider a bookmarking webapp like Shaarli? You can even export your bookmarks from your browser and import them.

drwho , to Privacy in Is it possible to use zero knowledge proofs to verify journalism sources?
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In a journalistic context, a ZKP can't prove veracity of the information.

Let's say you have a hoax that you want to pull on a journo. You cook up something that looks legit, like the blueprints for a super secret stealth fighter or something. You find a way to apply a ZKP to that file (let's say an elaborate cryptographic hash). You leak the file to the journo. They ask for you to iterate on the ZKP a few hundred thousand times (which is on the low side for a ZKP) - easy to do, because you came up with it.

But that doesn't mean the file's legit. That's a separate problem, and not one that is technological in nature.

drwho , to Technology in Twitter co-founder Biz Stone joins board of Mastodon's new US nonprofit | TechCrunch
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Them's who has the gold, makes the rules.

drwho , to Technology in Twitter co-founder Biz Stone joins board of Mastodon's new US nonprofit | TechCrunch
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For non-profits (like 501(c)(3)'s) that's not unusual. Non-profits are more like specialized tools for the board of directors than like companies.

Source: First ten years of my career were at non-profits.

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