When I announced I would be closing my communities earlier this year, a curious thing happened: a surprising number of regulars replied with some variation of “I think this is my exit.” While some were specifically talking about Matrix, claiming that mine was the only room they were really active in and therefore they saw no...
The problem with a threat model is that higher threat models are plainly dismissed by the community. For example, if your threat model is to escape the NSA, it doesn’t matter if you’re using a burner over TAILS to post this message, you will be dismissed.
The problem is not the tech, it’s the community that doesn’t want to engage
I torrent to a seedbox, and said seedbox has great access tools and you can install plenty of useful applications like Resilio Sync, Syncthing, etc....
Hi, I was planning to encrypt my files with GPG for safety before uploading them to the cloud. However, from what I understand GPG doesn’t pad files/do much to prevent file fingerprinting. I was looking around for a way to reliably pad files and encrypt metadata for them but couldn’t find anything. Haven’t found any...
I’m using rclone, do you recommend I run borg on top of it to encrypt said files? And does borg explicitly do what I’m trying to achieve? I’m going to take a look at the documentation, thanks
Is there no way to encrypt the metadata of files using GPG? And how do people pad their files to prevent fingerprinting? Surely I’m not the first person to be asking about this? I haven’t had much luck searching online
At least 2 separate Haveno networks have launched as of today. One is called Reto and the other is called HardenedSteel. Those are the only ones I’m aware of right now, and things are happening pretty fast....
Is Privacy Worth It? (blog.thenewoil.org)
When I announced I would be closing my communities earlier this year, a curious thing happened: a surprising number of regulars replied with some variation of “I think this is my exit.” While some were specifically talking about Matrix, claiming that mine was the only room they were really active in and therefore they saw no...
Syncing local server with seedbox
I torrent to a seedbox, and said seedbox has great access tools and you can install plenty of useful applications like Resilio Sync, Syncthing, etc....
Selfie with the crew (lemmy.world)
How to randomly pad files before encryption to prevent file fingerprinting?
Hi, I was planning to encrypt my files with GPG for safety before uploading them to the cloud. However, from what I understand GPG doesn’t pad files/do much to prevent file fingerprinting. I was looking around for a way to reliably pad files and encrypt metadata for them but couldn’t find anything. Haven’t found any...
EFF "cover your tracks" browser privacy test (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
coveryourtracks.eff.org Wanted to share this awesome tool to test your browser, also please do share your results in the comments.
He had his last dose of round 1 amoxicillin (lemmy.world)
Seriously, I can’t thank Lemmy enough. All of you are awesome people for helping him.
[Repost] Reliable alternatives to AWS Deep Glacier for ~5TB?
Hi everyone,...
There are currently multiple Haveno networks
At least 2 separate Haveno networks have launched as of today. One is called Reto and the other is called HardenedSteel. Those are the only ones I’m aware of right now, and things are happening pretty fast....
TIL about the utility "Smokeless_UMAF" That lets you access advanced BIOS options on AMD-based systems. (github.com)
What is it?...
New i2pd release 2.52.0 (github.com)
[2.52.0] - 2024-05-12...