Where I speak some advantages Signal has over the bigger richer rest of tech:
“We don’t have to be full of shit. We’re not a surveillance company. I’m not trying to pretend Facebook is good. I don’t have to toe a party line that is divorced from reality”
After all, @signalapp does in fact comply with #Cyberfacist demands of the U.S. government and restricts #Signal's functionality based of "striclty unnecessary" data like #PhoneNumbers!
Whereas @torproject is specifically designed to be incapable of doing so, even if all their maintainers were simultaneously held at gunpoint.
#YlvaJohansson's department specifically targeted people in member states that had been critical of her proposal but excluded people who are likely to value #privacy.
@MOGiS already wiped the floor with #Zensursula almost two decades ago, and she still owes everyone who can change #DNS settings an apology for claiming everyone more #TechLiterate than her is a "hardened pedo-criminal"...
So excited For @signalapp and proud to be a monthly donator
"We believe that the key encapsulation mechanism we have selected, CRYSTALS-Kyber, is built on solid foundations, but to be safe we do not want to simply replace our existing elliptic curve cryptography foundations with a post-quantum public key cryptosystem. Instead, we are augmenting our existing cryptosystems such that an attacker must break both systems in order to compute the keys protecting people’s communications."
@yawnbox So they just added another cipher in the chain.
Nothing spechal, as it doesn't fix the issues #Signal has... @signalapp
But at öleast they put their money where their mouth is re: devs...
I just wished they and their fans would stop pretending that a #SinlgeVendor & #SingleProvider system can be secure, espechally when founded and controlled from a #cyberfacist nation that literally created #CloudAct...
I probably shouldn’t tell you that whenever you encounter a paywalled article on the Internet, or a popup that blocks the article from you unless you sign up or disable your adblocker, you can put the URL in archive.is and read it there comfortably, so I won’t.
Even if it's just to annoy #Tracking and #Advertising agencies and rightfully complain to Websites so that they #DontBlockTor and towards politicans to stop labelling people using #Tor as #Terrorists.
Why would anyone want to use #TornadoCash on #Ethereum / #ETH, which is written in the systemically unsafe Programming Language that is #Solidity when #Monero :monero: / #XMR exists?
The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide
"The U.K. Parliament is pushing ahead with a sprawling internet regulation bill that will, among other things, undermine the privacy of people around the world. The Online Safety Bill, now at the final stage before passage in the House of Lords, gives the British government the ability to force backdoors into messaging services, which will destroy end-to-end encryption. No amendments have been accepted that would mitigate the bill’s most dangerous elements. "
The only valid reaction is to unilaterally reject any #LEA requests from the #UK per principle if not literally blocklist all their agencies from being able to eMail, call, fax or otherwise contact one if not #Geoblocking#UK visitors and forcibly redirecting them to an info page explaining why the service is taken down for them.
i understand how people have learned to love ActivityPub, and we are all wanting to defend it, we share this
a Google (Facebook) getting into the email (ActivityPub) business has not made email worse, its just an option. sure, surveillance ridden and cop friendly, ok, then dont use it
i was thinking last night how awesome it was when WhatsApp adopted the Signal protocol and gave 2 billion users worldwide strong content privacy by default. is it ever going to be a utopia? lol no
Because in the 21st century, effective #cryptography doesn't require some bulky appliance but is #code and the only ones being penalized are #civilians whereas #NorthKorea and #Iran OFC will have unrestricted access to technology.