electricprism

electricprism , 3 days ago to Privacy in They lied to you about car surveillance

Right, like if I want a tablet in my car I will just get a dash mount arm and throw whatever current gen tablet on it. I don't need it as a part of the car.

electricprism , 19 days ago to Privacy in Louis Rossmann ripped a new one on Adobe

Browser based photo editing as a SaaS is haram.

electricprism , 26 days ago to Fediverse in [opinion] By sunsetting Section 230, Congress could be about to break the internet as we know it

Also, when can we get Internet over Radio? Good luck stopping waves bouncing off the stratosphere. Such a tech would immediately end censorship and lawfare using physics and science.

electricprism , 26 days ago to Fediverse in [opinion] By sunsetting Section 230, Congress could be about to break the internet as we know it

IPFS let's gooooooo

electricprism , 29 days ago to Privacy in Delta Chat: Instant Onboarding and Instant Message Delivery

It's a instant messenger that uses email as the backbone.

Kind of like how SMS and MMS was bootstrapped to a telephone number.

Eg: Chat@FirstLast.com

electricprism , 1 month ago to Privacy in New ASUS router firmware now requires a user to be 16y or older and will restrict features and even security upgrades if you opt out

Okay ASUS is out. Recommendations?

electricprism , 1 month ago to Matrix in Matrix client for Android for family and friends. Your experiences.

I wish they organized the rooms list on android better.

I favorite person to person and rooms I admin and the random rooms I am in push the rooms I care about down all the time.

electricprism , 1 month ago to Privacy in Instagram locked my account and forced me to appeal and send a picture of my face, so I sent a picture of Shrek. They deleted my account

He's probably referencing that influencers of all platforms are paid to push propaganda to their followers by various state actors.

electricprism , 1 month ago to Privacy in Telegram CEO calls out rival Signal, claiming it has ties to US government

Anyone see if self hosted server ever got easy enough? For realsies.

electricprism , 1 month ago to Privacy in Telegram CEO calls out rival Signal, claiming it has ties to US government

Pot trying to call out Kettle.

F. Doubt.

electricprism , 1 month ago to Fediverse in You can now bridge Fediverse and Bluesky Accounts!

I agree, however in the same spirit of email I would be pissed if Gmail blocked AOL or Yahoo suddenly someday "coz reasons" -- I prefer to stick to the 'federate all the things' plan -- let the baddies fail because they suck

electricprism , 1 month ago to Privacy in How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest?

Anything with Bluetooth is a ID vector.

And since Apple AirTag tech is a thing there are other ID capabilities.

Maybe a Faraday bag to cut all radio.

electricprism , 2 months ago to Privacy in The Government Can Spy on You Using Your Wireless Headphones

So people are starting to understand Bluetooth is a weapon? Cool beans.

electricprism , 2 months ago to Privacy in Mozilla Stands Against Google's New Advertising Tech

Partially yes, the other concern would be who does the DNS lookups? In my opinion there should be no DNS monopoly so there is no single point of failure if captured.

The entire concept of DNS is predicated on decentralization too.

electricprism , 2 months ago to Privacy in Mozilla Stands Against Google's New Advertising Tech

The echo chamber is strong. I am a big popularizer of that phrase for at least 2 years now. Agreed. Still the questions had to be asked to keep the concern alive.