WhackyIdeas

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by WhackyIdeas 2y ago
What security implications?
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by WhackyIdeas 2y ago
You serious? I nearly cried watching what was happening in Ukraine early in 2022. You are making bad assumptions here. But if you want to put it into perspective… think about what is happening in Gaza. Now compare to Ukraine. Russia has ple
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by WhackyIdeas 2y ago
Surveillance on internet use in China probably results in many visits to forced labour camps. Or worse. Imagine the Chinese people agreed and voted for their great firewall, wouldn’t we all think they were fooled into sabotaging their own f
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by WhackyIdeas 2y ago
Ok, I may have made an incorrect assumption (sorry). But, do you have a method which results in the data being accessible to anyone other than the account owner? I don’t know exactly what you provide. Or how you do it. But it does feel secr
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by WhackyIdeas 2y ago
Thank you. Is there any way you can share the exact things you do or provide when you are forced by a court order to give data about someone?
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by WhackyIdeas 2y ago
Tor onion service relays are mostly on VPS. And those VPS are mostly American. The number of tutorials I have seen about spinning up a tor relay on a VPS is crazy. These tutorials are probably written by three letter agencies - though I hav
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by WhackyIdeas 2y ago
And indirect, through the use of manufactured ‘uprisings’ which the West are great at. But really, you can go back many more decades than that. Innocent lives are not something the West (especially USA) have historically valued. I hate bash
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by WhackyIdeas 2y ago
Why don’t you instead look at the number of people killed throughout the globe as a result of China and then compare that to the number with the West. Literally soul destroying. As in life destroying. Meta data kills people. Now it’s moving
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by WhackyIdeas 2y ago
It’s not a stupid question. But to think that it will make people more safe is double think. Right wing dictorship is on the rise across Europe and the World. No-one knows the future, but it’s sure looking bleak. We are all making ourselves
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by WhackyIdeas 2y ago
PGP encryption should be taught in school. Ingrained. Data privacy used to be trampled on with the fear of ‘terrorism’, but the Americans blasted the airwaves with the word so much that it diluted the word to the point it instills zero fear
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by WhackyIdeas 2y ago
Not really, no. Unless you want to self-host in your own home hardware.
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by WhackyIdeas 2y ago
Can you explain more about this, I am clueless to this? Appreciated!
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by WhackyIdeas 2y ago
Cool idea. But, if I personally wanted that functionality I would code my own solution with a shell script I think (because it is super easy to do).
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by WhackyIdeas 2y ago
Listen, if you don’t trust their ProtonDrive - GPG encrypt before uploading. If you don’t trust their email, GPG your message and paste it in or include as an attachment. There are a lot of ways to be able to use proton without trusting the
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by WhackyIdeas 2y ago
I have been with Protonmail since 2014. And I feel that they are essentially now the same as any other company which makes loads of dollar - they give up their values. Don’t get me wrong, I have multiple ‘Visionary Accounts’ but I have just
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by WhackyIdeas 2y ago
‘Meta executives’ and ‘privacy’ - I wasn’t born yesterday.
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by WhackyIdeas 2y ago
I agree with your impression. It reminds me.. when someone is cheating on a partner, they are more likely to think they are being cheated on too. I have experienced this, being accused non-stop when actually they were the one cheating all a
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by WhackyIdeas 2y ago
I actually found it easier understanding the openbsd router than pfsense when I tried it. The abstraction confused me personally.
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by WhackyIdeas 2y ago
I did not know this, but I knew that tomatoes taste superior when left out of the fridge. The strange thing is when the packaging on tomatoes says to store in the fridge.
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by WhackyIdeas 2y ago
Is something like that really that necessary though, sure it has a lot of features but for a simple router it takes 15mins to follow a guide on openbsd.org to set up a simple router which works really well and is really secure.
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by WhackyIdeas 2y ago
For SSH, changing to a random port number resulted in zero connection attempts from bots for months on end. It seems bots just never bother scanning the full 65535 port range.
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by WhackyIdeas 2y ago
Wow. The user agent they are using is so shady. But I am surprised they thought someone wouldn’t do just what the blog poster did to uncover the deception - that part is what surprises me most. Other than being unethical, is this not illega
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by WhackyIdeas 2y ago
Downvoting - that will teach them!
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by WhackyIdeas 2y ago
This exact same brand are in the UK and I can confirm they are the spiciest thing I have ever eaten. They were too hot for me, but I seen it as a novelty item so bought more packs to dish out to friends.
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by WhackyIdeas 2y ago
I don’t mean this to be rude, but wake up and smell the coffee already. The reason why Silicon Valley has got to where it is with the complete erosion of user privacy is naive individuals not being able to see far in front of them. Recall i
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by WhackyIdeas 2y ago
As I said nearly three weeks ago on HN: “Even if they say that they’ll be abandoning this idea as they have ‘listened to user feedback’ or some other bull, the complete damage has already been done here. Thank the lord there are an abundanc
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by WhackyIdeas 2y ago
I’m not from the USA nor am I going to be hoodwinked by American double think of ‘defense’. Batter in though. Yes, opinions are like arsehole’s… everyone has one. However, for lack of logical opinions like mine in a sub thread relating to t
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by WhackyIdeas 2y ago
a) Defence? Sorry to be nitpicking here, but most of the world would say those missiles are being used for anything but defence. b) So tell me, would Boeing benefit from whistleblowers being too scared to blow their whistles? If I am wrong
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by WhackyIdeas 2y ago
I remember my Grandad ranting about the wonders of the 5600K modem back in the day. He introduced me to Doom back in ‘96, then showed me BASIC in ‘98. Without him, I’d have never have got into computing. So I bet he knows the 2400 baud mode
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by WhackyIdeas 2y ago
After what happened with Adobe, Microsoft and Sonos this past week, I have decided to try limit my use of American products. Don’t get me wrong, I love the USA - I have tonnes of family there and I have met some super nice people on my mont

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