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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Tangential fun fact:

Snake oil is a real thing, that actually helps with the some very specific problems. But it has to be made a specific way from a specific snake. We associate the term with scams because of the large number of scammers that advertised fake snake oils, or advertised it being useful for tons if things it wasn't.

My point is, many of the most effective scams rely on something that has a kernel of truth.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

I use mailbox.org personally. Disroot is probably fine. Do they have 2FA? That would be the most essential thing you want here if you're worried about being hacked by an outside party. 2FA would even mitigate a password leak in most cases, since they'd only have 1 of the authentication factors.

If you're worried about hacking, you can do some things to mitigate the damage that would cause. Download important old emails and delete them from the server, this is pretty easy to do in a desktop client (like thunderbird or outlook) where you'd just move them to a local folder. That way if someone gains access, or they sell to someone that processes the data, they won't have the old emails (unless they for some reason retained a separate copy, which seems doubtful).

Sign your email up for https://haveibeenpwned.com/. Then you'll get notifications if there's any data leaks, including of your email provider. Obviously this is only useful if nobody has stolen your account before the leak is reported, but that's more likely than not (unless you're a particularly valuable target for some reason).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

If Chromebooks are anything to go by, if google had their way you'd only be allowed to search prescreened questions they think are best for you. Can't have you experiencing anything not advertiser friendly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Yea, I couldn't tell you the specifics. I know new members of group chats don't see any previous messages. I think it might re-negotiate the keys every time someone is added. It's probably not meant to scale up to very large groups (tho I've never tried), but I've noticed no issues in 25ish people chats.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It works about the same as any other app's group invite link. It can be set to automatically add the person or be treated as a request to join that needs approval.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Thanks for the detailed reply. Signal does have location sharing and invite links, FWIW.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (6 children)

What polish and features is signal missing?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Fair enough. Happy May Day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I did give it a knee-jerk reaction, true. I've since had my morning tea and am mostly just wondering what you get out of yelling at people on the internet. Not that I don't occasionally do the same. Maybe I'm asking you to better understand myself.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

Honestly I looked at your comments and they're all just aggressive, and I was genuinely wondering why. You're not trying to share info, and you're not trying to convince anyone of anything. What's the point? Is this helpful to you? It just seems like you're upsetting yourself.

EDIT: Actually, I take that back partially. You are sharing links. On my mobile app I only saw your comments, not your posts.

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