Notices by Jonathan Kamens (jik@federate.social)

asbestos.cafe needs to be widely defederated. Explicit homophobia and racism from an operator, claiming it's the policy of the instance.
#fediblock
https://asbestos.cafe/objects/05d7f93f-8e68-44ad-ac84-e72fc04a1af4

boks.moe needs to be widely defederated, as evidenced by the content posted by one of its moderators. #fediblock
https://boks.moe/users/MischievousuTomatosu

#InfoSec #privacy #OpSec
Here's a longish 🧵 about what it takes to maintain anonymity online in a world where a service like Twitter can screw up its security and let anyone in the world find out the email address associated with your account.
The basic rule is this: if you need to be anonymous online, you cannot give enough info to any single service to compromise that anonymity in the event of a breach.
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@aral I don't understand why I keep seeing you and others citing email as an example of this. There are hundreds of thousands of SMTP servers happily interoperating with each other, many different IMAP server implementations, and many IMAP clients that can talk to them, and many of the above are open source. I've run my own mail server for 30+ years. There are a few big players, but they're really not the same as the social media walled gardens.