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1. Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Feb-2025 05:02:12 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

   • evacide

   End-to-end encryption by default means “if you show up with a warrant or a subpoena (to Signal), they have almost nothing about you that they can hand over,” EFF’s @evacide told @CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/09/tech/secure-chat-apps-signal-tor-browser/index.html

   • Mordae (mordae@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Feb-2025 18:10:53 JST Mordae

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     • evacide

     @eff @evacide @CNN

     To everyone who is concerned about government harvesting Signal metadata: All NATO members and some other countries do have 100% passive monitoring coverage of network flows for intelligence agencies. Once participating IPs are determined, your traffic will be correlated.

     The only way to prevent that is to use a trusted mixer that would have too many inflows and outflows. Any distributed system is actually more vulnerable. Well at least until the storm the offices.

   • Bhante Subharo (sbb@c.im)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 00:12:32 JST Bhante Subharo

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     • evacide
     • Derek Morr

     @derekmorr @evacide @eff @CNN I advocate #meditation above all. As to your question - If you are a geek, not a normie, now is a great time to look at #XMPP.

     Alas, there's nothing really worth advocating to the normies of the world - I feel it's too early for them to adopt XMPP as a convenient-enough-for-their-expectations replacement.

     If the normies *really* needed something *today*, I suppose they could pay an honest, reasonable price for an email address from an email service like posteo.net or purelymail (which support "autocrypt"), then use #Deltachat. Then use #linux (say, #LinuxMint for simplicity) to access this functionality, since it's not AI-patrolled like the other platforms:
     https://flathub.org/apps/chat.delta.desktop

   • Bhante Subharo (sbb@c.im)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 00:12:33 JST Bhante Subharo

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     • evacide

     @eff @evacide @CNN I've quit advocating #Signal, once I learned about how most of the platforms which Signal runs on, collects (AI-driven) "Intelligence" - which can only provisionally be opted-out of, one informed user at a time.

     For example: https://mas.to/@alexskunz/113982258324599047

     #infosec #AI

   • Derek Morr (derekmorr@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 00:12:33 JST Derek Morr

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     • evacide
     • Bhante Subharo

     @sbb @evacide @eff @CNN what do you advocate instead?

     supercuántico repeated this.