antisocialist

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by antisocialist 2y ago
> Now, there exists a minority of extremely technical computer user for which Signal is a nonstarter (because you need a smartphone and valid phone number to enroll in the first place). > there presently isn’t really a good recommend
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by antisocialist 2y ago
Not if you disable your IPv6 stack. Or you can be smart and "easily" address such probing attacks in your FW rules... https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-50252
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by antisocialist 2y ago
That's interesting - it turned out markets, as distorted by Obamacare and so on as they are, weren't off by a lot. He couldn't find services he needed and decided to build it himself. But after many years of trying he couldn
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by antisocialist 2y ago
It may be valid against closed source apps, but I don't see how it can be more secure than build-and-self-host OSS apps for private messaging.
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by antisocialist 2y ago
They say don't roll your own encryption protocol (if something similar or same already exists and it's maintained), but these guys just can't resist. Using a secure decentralized messenger to share a download (or upload) loca
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by antisocialist 3y ago
Yep, whoever gets hold of those records can cross-reference logs from the same time to narrow down or even outright identify Signal chat participants.
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by antisocialist 3y ago
In other words, Nostr can't do almost anything that matters. > First, I want a replication strategy. xx Network has message replication built in. > Third, someone needs to delete some of these NIPS. xx Network lets you delete mes
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by antisocialist 3y ago
Okay, let's think about this: - Signal has stated they'll withdraw from the EU rather than cooperate - That means the app won't exist in the official EU app stores (iOS, etc.). Users will have to load the app on their own (wh
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by antisocialist 3y ago
Supposedly it's about the children. Sao Paulo solved the problem: > Many Brazilian states didn’t wait for the federal response. Sao Paulo, for example, temporarily hired 550 psychologists to attend to its public schools, and hired 1
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by antisocialist 4y ago
I agree. The web app itself can run locally in QubeOS or Docker, and the browser using it as well.
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by antisocialist 4y ago
"Supports some feature" vs. "suitable for specific use case" are two very different things. Does the foundation claim their application is suitable for such use cases? They have no choice but to assist the government wit
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by antisocialist 4y ago
Who ever told you Signal provides anonymity to the sender or recipient?
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by antisocialist 4y ago
Of course they will, because their security and privacy features would be misleading and rendered useless by this legislation. They have no choice. Resident crypto-haters can hate coin-based privacy networks all they want, but fully decentr
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by antisocialist 4y ago
Gateway operators are paid to successfully process data (which they can do if they stay online, have a fast connection to the Internet, and so on - not a shitty Raspberry Pi) Gateway operators are paid to store data Gateway operators are pa
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by antisocialist 4y ago
That is a laughable claim. What happens if no one pays?
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by antisocialist 4y ago
In most jurisdictions you're supposed to report it to the police, so that they can identify who has accessed it and who attempts to access it next.
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by antisocialist 4y ago
No, which is why it lacks incentives i.e. no economic reason to run relay nodes to store and transmit data.
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by antisocialist 4y ago
> But this isn't an alternative to Mastodon or Twitter, it's an alternative to Berty, Cwtch, Speek, Briar, Anonymous Messenger, and maybe Matrix And (not maybe) xx Network. Nostr isn't an alternative to these messaging and
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by antisocialist 4y ago
Nostr "relay" nodes have no economic incentive to relay and store data. Because of that, authors and readers of least popular opinions - which may be legal content that's censored elsewhere - are most likely to be easily iden
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by antisocialist 4y ago
Yes. Blockchain-based OSS regularly gets negative comments here on HN, but they do implement such workarounds (personally I think xx Network is well-protected), as do non-blockchain based Open Source projects. The problem for the latter is
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by antisocialist 4y ago
- Don't use WhatsSignalGram if it's incorporated in a country where this is possible - Don't create a platform where arbitrary changes can be made - Don't use a platform which can make arbitrary changes that decrease pri
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by antisocialist 4y ago
It amazes me that people try to read this stuff, and even worse, tend to believe some or all of it! Last time I checked shitposting on social media wasn't mandatory for the average person, and employees who didn't like their job o
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by antisocialist 4y ago
Yes, it's got critical mass. I haven't looked at Telegram's blockchain thing yet, but the non-blockchain version is not very private (and the same applies to Signal). xx Messenger ( https://elixxir.io/ ; source
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by antisocialist 4y ago
Landline is even worse. Do they rent burner landlines? xx Messenger also doesn't require any identification. And unlike Threema: - it's open source ( https://git.xx.network/elixxir/); Android users can build i
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by antisocialist 4y ago
I just checked their Web sign-up page at https://www.tchap.gouv.fr/#/register : "This password is too weak. It must include a lower-case letter, an upper-case letter, a number and a symbol and be at a minimum 8 cha
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by antisocialist 4y ago
Telegram is convenient, the bot feature's great. But some things about it suck and they're prone to government interference privacy-wise. One of the more recent E2EE private messaging apps with metadata shredding and no registrat
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by antisocialist 4y ago
No. You can't deprecate a project on its Github page if you can't access it. That's even mentioned in a comment from the page you submitted (but perhaps didn't bother to read). > There's no one around to merge PR
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by antisocialist 4y ago
When something is shared one of frequent questions is how it compares to something else. I provided information relevant to potential users. If you had something useful to say regarding OP or my comment, that'd be fine. What are your c
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by antisocialist 4y ago
Last time they tried to roll their own secure messaging (Tchap based on Matrix), it was a disaster. https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/19/security-flaw-in-french-go... Secure messaging doesn't have to be tha
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by antisocialist 4y ago
Awesome idea. You'd have no idea how many accounts they have, who they're talking to, and about what. Perfect privacy!

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