Both major political parties in the US are different degrees of right wing auth.

The two were separate signs of the increased need for privacy

Fair, but at least in the US right wing auth is a much more direct and realistic threat to people and their privacy, although left auth is bad too

If you didn’t realize the importance of privacy after the patriot act and seeing the continuation of right wing authoritarianism, it’s definitely time to get on board asap. Get yourself and your community on signal instead of texts and tuta or proton instead of regular email, use a vpn (mullvad or proton are solid), and depending on what kinds of actions you may or may not be interested in, learn how to use tails os and tor (try to find a copy of the darknetmarket bible for a good intro)

Edit: simplex is a good alternative to signal too, and if you have a google pixel, grapheneos is solid. Next time you’re getting a new phone, get a used pixel and install it. On your computer, there’s a lot of telemetry and sketchy stuff windows does, either research and disable that or switch to linux if you can

I commented a similar sentiment on another thread on proton wallet and got mostly upvotes, people just get wacky with the votes lol https://slrpnk.net/comment/10012391

Should’ve done monero

It’s crazy that they chose bitcoin over monero

The epistemic status of that person saying it vs me is not all that different, neither of us have evidence to present

https://tuta.com/blog/tutanota-not-a-honeypot

Proton is a government honeypot.

Are you gonna take the chance now that there are allegations against proton?

Yeah, tuta is actually on fdroid (should be the minimum bar for open source software from a company like proton) and has an efficient notification service that doesn’t depend on google services at all

Is there any evidence of them being a honeypot? It sounds like that claim was made by someone under trial who might be trying to take the heat off themselves

I think they’re trustworthy, but not the best in all those categories - I think tuta is better for mail (no dependence on google services), mullvad is better for vpn (linux app actually works with wireguard, and doesn’t have a hard dependence on networkmanager), and keepassxc + syncthing is better for passwords, although to be fair I haven’t tried proton pass

Switch to tuta lol

Yep, I switched because I was moving away from the proton ecosystem lol. Their poor google-free android support for mail, and awful linux vpn support (they have a hard dependency on networkmanager, but I don’t use NM, I use iwd) plus no ipv6 pushed me away

Mullvad, it has ipv6 and way better linux support than proton

Oh interesting, well once actual evidence comes out maybe I’ll switch back, but like they mention in the article, the client, which does the encrypting is open source, so if there is a backdoor hopefully it’s found soon

Probably never. Tuta is a better choice for de-googled phones, they don’t depend on google play services for notifications and their notification implimentation uses negligible battery

It depends who you trust more, your isp or your vpn provider. Isps are not known for doing right by their clients

Not sure the details, but just in general, plenty of fucked up stuff is legal and plenty of totally fine things are illegal

Hopefully fossify will release fossify messenger soon. Fossify’s a project forking all the simple apps