Email is a really tough one especially, because it wasn’t designed with security in mind, and of course even if you’re on a secure email service, 99% of the emails you send and receive are going to be with non-secure services hoovered up by google or AWS.
Anything is better than google at least.
I have no reason to go back to it, and I switched away from it for the reasons mentioned: its grown very large, and has mainstream ads everywhere now.
The tor rabbit hole goes pretty deep, but ya based on the evidence I’d have to say its more a US developed counter-insurgency tool, rather than a privacy tool.
All speculation. You gave them your phone number (which also means your real identity), so you should assume they have it. And because its a US-based company, it must adhere to US laws including key disclosure laws, which make it illegal for any signal employee to tell you that any US government agency has asked for this information.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter
So the data that would be captured here is a network of hashed phone numbers and literally undecryptable messages
With this data you can build social networking graphs: who is talking to who, and when.
Also this is all the more suspect when you consider that US military / government agencies like OTF fund signal, and constantly try to push signal in privacy spaces.
Signal is def one, otherwise US government orgs like RFA and OTF wouldn’t be defending and pushing for it so hard in western privacy spaces, nor fund it.
I always assume the more popular it is, the more likely it is of being compromised.
I have no idea if it’s the case, but I switched away from mullvad after seeing billboards and ads of it everywhere, even on city infrastructure like trains and buses.
IE like Crypto AG:
In 2020, it was revealed that the Swiss company, Crypto AG, which provided secure communications services to ~120 governments throughout the 20th century, was secretly ran by the CIA and West German Intelligence. The CIA and later NSA were able to read encrypted communications for many countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Italy, Indonesia, Iraq, Libya, Jordan and South Korea.
What’s your use case for doing this.
Same. They seem great for local apps like keepass, but it could potentially be as dangerous as passwords if using a provider like google.
Too many people (i’d guess over 90% of internet users) don’t know about, or use password managers, so their default is to use the same easy to remember password for everything.
Also webauthn only lets the server see the public key, so servers can’t get away with storing unhashed passwords in their db.
Yes you can use your own password manager to store the passkeys. Like keepassxc on android. Then all your devices can use it.
I’ve read this one as well. It’s not bad, but the three comrades, along with all quiet, are both masterpieces.
Noice. I hope to get this sometime.
There’s a few good chapters on “self-indigenization” in Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - Not a nation of immigrants.
You won’t be able to do this then. You’d need to learn your way around linux, servers, ssh, etc to be able to run these services.
If you run any services (jellyfin / a media server, torrents, document storage, etc), have them run on it.
Was summoned once, and ended up on the jury. It was a really sad case where the cops were trying to put an 80-something year old former convict back in prison, because his son in law had a gun in the house (that they searched because of something the son in law did, but no charges were brought against him), and that was a violation of the 80-year-old’s release conditions from like 40 years ago.
I really wanted to end up on the jury in order to keep this guy out of prison, which luckily we did. The defense was very smart in making his case sympathetic, even though legally the guy had no leg to stand on. There were a few jurors that wanted to imprison him, but we finally got them to go with the majority to ignore the law and keep him out of prison.
The easy rule of thumb if you do/don’t want to be on the jury: the less you talk, the more likely you are to end up on the jury. The more annoying you are, especially talking about how busy you are, or asking a lot of pointless questions: the less likely you are to end up on the jury.
Like a solid 4th of trek episodes involve some sort of transporter malfunction. I’m not getting in one either.
Basically either the more honest, and less competent imperialists, vs the dishonest, more competent imperialists.
Yep it does. The Obama admin issued ~60 NSLs every single day, and I’m sure the number hasn’t decreased since then.