Cider9986

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Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs(community.signalusers.org)
391 points by Cider9986 3d ago|211 comments
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by Cider9986 3d ago
Are there any banks that are good at security? Obviously none have any privacy.
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by Cider9986 3d ago
We never see, "Flock (YC S17) Is Hiring an Engineer of Mass Surveillance" on the jobs.
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by Cider9986 3d ago
Apparently Rivians can be prevented from doing this: Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47967786
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by Cider9986 4d ago
I've never seen anything crypto related once I set up the browser. What happened wasn't a MITM but they fixed it, right? It's the only recommended Chromium browser by Privacy Guides. https://www.privacyguides.org&#
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by Cider9986 4d ago
Guns don't cause violence. Just look at New Hampshire–lots of guns, low crime or violence. Freedom is more important when we already have safety. People are trying to scare us into thinking we are unsafe so they can take away our freed
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by Cider9986 4d ago
I agree we should also add live facial recognition to train stations. No expectation of privacy in public does not mean we should eliminate privacy from public areas or allow our government to engage in mass surveillance.
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by Cider9986 4d ago
> Lol how is that any better at all? They are [1] implementing unlinkable payments so all that is known by credit card is that you purchased Signal and Signal doesn't know which credit card goes with which account. >Signal is an
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by Cider9986 4d ago
They could make it so all that is known by banks is that you purchased the service. Like how Nym does it or how you can buy Mullvad credits on Amazon. https://nym.com/zk-nyms Ideally they accept Monero and do unlinkable pay
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by Cider9986 4d ago
https://deflock.org/council#:~:text=City%20Council%20Meeting... 153 victories listed here. Do you think it's impossible to make our society more focused on privacy? Why be defeatist? Many things seemed terrible like wo
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by Cider9986 4d ago
Try Brave.
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by Cider9986 5d ago
Their phone app doesn't have visual voicemail.
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by Cider9986 5d ago
It doesn't work without JS though.
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by Cider9986 5d ago
Here's more info https://xprivate.lol/GrapheneOS/search?f=tweets&q=Donation&s... >plus infrastructure A lot must be sponsored. https://xprivate.lol/GrapheneOS/status/2070298479
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by Cider9986 5d ago
Defeatist totally wrong attitude. People are fighting back against flock and winning for example. Signal reached 100 M MAU. GrapheneOS has reached 500k estimated users. Privacy is more of an issue today than ever before with more people car
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by Cider9986 5d ago
They were already tracking everything you click but for example if you want to send a link to someone you can't copy the link from the Google result and send it to them, you'd either send them the Google tracking link or go to the
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by Cider9986 5d ago
Brave search (free) or Kagi (paid) are able to replace Google and not feel like I'm missing out. Brave has its own independent index which is cool.
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by Cider9986 5d ago
They get most of their donations from cryptocurrency. Mostly small Monero donations but also Bitcoin and Ethereum. They have 14 devs 13 are payed in ETH and 1 in CAD. Iirc they said something like 2 million in donations in 2025. Vitalik But
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by Cider9986 5d ago
9/11 was used as an excuse to create more mass spying on Americans even though 2,977 people died while 42,116 died from car accidents that same year.
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Report Links Pirate IPTV to Hezbollah TV, Calls for U.S. Site-Blocking(torrentfreak.com)
3 points by Cider9986 5d ago|0 comments
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by Cider9986 5d ago
https://archive.ph/hUqO0
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Moving from cash to credit cards, PayPal, etc. is an ongoing privacy disaster(grapheneos.social)
5 points by Cider9986 5d ago|0 comments
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Why Ente QR?(ente.com)
1 points by Cider9986 5d ago|0 comments
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by Cider9986 5d ago
I don't have a problem showing an ID, I have a problem with an ID being recorded so it can be leaked.
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Apple Explains What Happens to Conversations Siri Recap Hears(macrumors.com)
4 points by Cider9986 5d ago|0 comments
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Another way to leak traffic on Android has been discovered(mullvad.net)
3 points by Cider9986 5d ago|1 comments
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by Cider9986 5d ago
You might consider removing the question mark and everything after it in your link when sharing future YouTube videos because it's for tracking purposes and IIRC they added a feature where it can also dox your YouTube account.
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by Cider9986 5d ago
> You know that I am quite libertarian leaning Yeah, HN user, checks out–I believe it. > but I would gladly embrace a global totalitarian government Now I don't know what to believe! https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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For most of history, people's conversations, thoughts, and finances were private(grapheneos.social)
3 points by Cider9986 5d ago|0 comments
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by Cider9986 5d ago
Yes but I was responding to someone who wanted good ad blocking which could be helpful for the security of non-technical users at the minimum.

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