MalReynolds

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Thought it was something like that, hence needs must when the devil drives

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Check here Personally wouldn't piss on it if it was on fire, but needs must when the devil drives.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Pretty sure it's in google services which you can turn on, personally think that waters down the point of Graphene if you leave that on, to the point of pointlessness, but some countries seem to live on whatsapp, more's the pity.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 4 weeks ago

TLDR:

Skip to today, and Big Tech is pursuing the same approach, often in the same states.

They too have funded front groups, hired an armada of lobbyists, donated millions to campaigns, and opened a firehose of lobbying money to replace real privacy laws with fake industry alternatives as ineffective as non-smoking sections.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

You dropped this - /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It's pretty easy for 80 (90)+% of competent computer users, get an old Macbook for that stuff (it'll probably be better) and switch your main to linux. The real problem is less competent computer users.

Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference. - Jim Butcher

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So, South America ? Heading towards a country in which I'd like to belong.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

Depends a lot on who you're talking to, and your, and their threat models. For many, signal provides pretty good protection, which brings us to a salient point, anything that actually provides good security will attract plenty of negativity, often from state level actors who feel (are) threatened. If you're playing at that level, adam_y is right, dead drops and one time pads. Presuming lesser threat, signal beats telegram and FB etc. Email is plaintext unless proton to proton, encrypted email is fine (look at PGP) and indeed if you encrypt at home before sending it's pretty much a dead drop anyway, as long as the other party has a key, and I'm wandering off the beaten path.

Seems you want a secure messenger that works and are scared by random crap because you don't have the relevant knowledge to decide (spoiler, very few do, and it's insider knowledge, the world is imperfect), fair enough, but don't let perfect be the enemy of good. As long as you're willing to give up your phone number, Signal is well regarded (exchange privacy for security, you decide). But yeah, no perfects, world imperfect, trust hard, deal ;)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 101 points 2 months ago (2 children)

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. - Ursula K Le Guin

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (3 children)

governments and surveillance, name a more iconic pair

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Umm, if I understand you, it should be fine, you'd have the app and also proxies available on 8388 and 8888 or whatever you prefer on a different tunnel... It's pretty much the VPN swiss army knife. Use wireguard if you can, it's a lot faster (but more CPU intensive).

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