Migrating here (or maybe keeping both) from @ArcaneSlime@lemmy.ml
Will put an eternal curse on your enemies for a Cinemageddon invite.
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Yeah they deleted an acct of mine for inactivity, then when I replaced it they flagged the new one for manual review saying “this addr cannot send/receive emails until it is cleared, please email us at [support acct] using [the very acct that cannot send mail, ffs].” Like dude how can I email you from the email on your servers that you have blocked from sending email? How does that make sense to you?
Anyway I made a Disroot acct which is better for me because IMAP support. They flagged me for review too, but then approved TWO different emails without all that horse shit from Tuta. Their sign up site can be a bit confusing (in particular their “human check” just says “weak password” unless you hit the character count so just max that out, but as a result of this confusion I’m using a 64char long randomly generated pass so, yay) but other than that they’ve been great so far.
Tbf I’m unaware of a messaging service be it chat or email or whatever that leaks no metadata, afaik they all kind of have to by nature of needing to know at least where the message is supposed to go, if not where it came from, too.
Like, if Bob messages Lisa, the service has to at least know to deliver the message to lisa, even if it didn’t also that it’s from Bob.
If you know of one I’m curious though!
Yeah same here, they deleted my old addr for inactivity, fine, so I made a new one. “Flagged for review, cannot send/receive emails at this addr yet” 2d go by, “flagged harder, reach out, using the email that can’t send email, to tuta support and explain why you need this acct.” Tried to send the email, perhaps unsurprisingly, to no success.
So I created a Disroot acct instead. They also flagged me for review (but then approved me, and I did it twice so I have two disroot accts which I need for different reasons), and their sign up site is pretty bad (it says “weak password” until you get enough chars in the prompt, coulda just told me that instead of making me insane rolling 30 different passwords in keepass…) but still, much better now, I have IMAP and disroot doesn’t delete for inactivity, so, woohoo!
Tbf, whenever there’s a private tool like graphene, tor, tails, whonix, mullvad, matrix, jabber, pgp, etc?
Yes, criminals will use it, because of course they don’t want to get caught for crimes just as much as we don’t want to be tracked in general (maybe more, because crimes lol).
But also, criminals use roads, trains, busses, the USPS and private mail carriers, normal phones including SMS and calls, facetime, email, they drink water and eat food, on and on.
“Criminals use it” is a fucking stupid reason to ban anything, in fact it’s a good reason we should adopt it too in terms of privacy, because if it works for them doing way worse than I am, then it ought to work just fine for me too. Besides over half of those criminals are just using WHM or whatever is the go to these days, define “criminals.”
Laughs in usenet, soulseek, and qbittorrent behind a vpn on linux and I am NOT afraid to go full Slackware or even Qubes/Whonix, all running on a laptop that has never seen windows, and a GrapheneOS sidecar.
Gonna have to break out the cpu level PSP horseshit to stop me.
If you wanted to talk to the Graphene folks the best spot seems to be their matrix rooms rather than masto.
They’re basically just poo-pooing the ideas of privacy and security, no more than “the government and corporations need access to everything you do because someone somewhere is doing bad things.”
It’s the same idea as “encryption bad because terrorists,” and “gun company bad because murders,” some people blame the people doing the bad thing, and some people blame the tool used or who created it.
I expect it won’t be straightforward to view the data as well, it’s not just gonna be a folder full of jpegs.
Source?
Tbf, I (and I’m a random third guy not the guy to which you’re replying, for clarity’s sake), also doubt it’ll be a folder of jpegs…but I think it’ll be fairly trivial to exploit whatever it is, and it’ll take way too much storage (storage cheap now, whatever, I know I’m old but I don’t use cloud and I’ve got other shit to spend money on than HDDs or SSDs, which I do also need as a pirate/data hoarder and don’t want to waste space on).
I don’t understand what use case you can have by asking Microsoft what porn you were watching at 2 am of February 19th.
Well you see I have my browser set to delete history on exit because of security so this would override that and keep the history…that I…deleted… Wait…
Lmao idfk why people would possibly want this either.
Rufus.
And who cares if there’s spyware on windows, you’re already using windows so there is, it’s windows. At that point you may as well just use etcher, but I’d use Rufus anyway because let’s be real it’s just better. The only reason not to use Rufus is because it’s windows exclusive, but if you’re using windows that probably doesn’t bother you, so…
Do you follow the local news in a city 275 miles from where you live? I don’t.
You mean to tell me you live in NYC? Otherwise you’re breaking your own rule being aware of the shooting (which has been pushed hard on every news outlet be it TV, internet, radio, or print since 1h after it happened, and would be hard not to know about.)
The rest, yeah, but c’mon the entire world basically watched this in real time. I was showing the video around work literally at 8am and it happened at 6am, not much delay.
That’s the thing, I don’t really text about that stuff because texting is inherently insecure. Hell I’d sooner email about it if I can get someone set up with pgp than text, and email is insecure too.
But until someone can convince my mom, dad, aunt, job, etc to use Matrix, I’ll always have to use SMS in some capacity. I hope someone can, I’ve tried to no avail. I was close with a few using Signal but with the removal of sms support they stopped, and the iPhone ones barely used it a week before switching back because “they don’t want to have to use two apps” even before that because they still had to use imessage to talk to most of their contacts.
So yeah, I’m left with “don’t text about sensitive subjects.”
Per their website
The Matrix.org Foundation C.I.C is registered in the UK as Company #11648710
Afaik UK != Israel. Like sure they may work together, but I’m pretty sure they’re different countries, meaning Matrix is British, so it would be MI6. Of course, being that they’re
an open protocol for decentralised, secure communications,
I doubt it’s MI6 as well, and if it is find the back door in it for us all by having the open source code audited, please and thank you.
Btw this applies to “The Matrix Foundation,” they’re just the devs and run the largest instance, other instances (especially if you self host) are run by “not them” anyway.
I’m 100% not one of those “I have nothing to hide” people, but I don’t text about “things I want to hide” already FFS. In this case if the chinese gov or us gov really want to know about my plan to go get a costco hotdog with my friend later, fine, I don’t like it but also “whatever.” It’s not like I’m texting about federal crimes or government secrets, that’s what Matrix is for.
The only thing I don’t like is being forced to use texts for 2fa on shit websites that won’t except a yubikey (or flipper0-u2f, in my case) which seems to be most sites using 2fa ime.
The problem with all the people on that end of the divide is they can’t know what they’re saying is true but they are saying it like its a fact. Where are they even getting those ideas from? Are they insiders working high up in the ranks for intel agencies like fbi, cia, nsa? Are there basically hundreds of Edward Snowdens out there? I don’t think so.
I think the cause for the divide is unfortunately political. It’s about where are you getting your news from and which political party do you prefer. We’re not going to talk about that in this topic more than to say I think that is the cause of the divide.
Idk, I think it’s good ol’ fashioned “cope.” “Oh I don’t have to inconvenience myself that much, I’m just a Joe not a srs target.” “Oh those people take it too far, I’m not one of those weirdos I just hate ads.” I really don’t think it’s much deeper than that.
Depends on your personal acceptable levels of spam in your inbox, I suppose. Thus the common “junk email” and “good email I actually use” scheme many people today rely on. One of those emails I’ll give out, the other is a closely guarded secret only available to a select few. I actually have a middle ground too of “not junk, but I don’t know these people IRL,” too.
This feels like it’s supposed to be tongue in cheek, but it’s too close to reality tbh.