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   Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 23:00:12 JST Bread up, Bro
   with this and the news for protonmail, I implore you to remember don't put trust in any company. We live in a total state, and I understand this is hard to grasp.
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     Thunderwagon (thunderwagon@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 23:11:08 JST Thunderwagon

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     @sickburnbro The problem I've run into is that no one will use alternatives outside of techbros and people around fedi. Most people who want to post dissident stuff use Telegram instead of Matrix, in particular, and they aren't willing to slightly inconvenience themselves by switching.

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     ?uper?nekFriend ? (supersnekfriend@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 23:11:30 JST ?uper?nekFriend ?

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     @sickburnbro Uh, what news for Protonmail? :jahy_hurt:
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 23:11:30 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • ?uper?nekFriend ?
     @SuperSnekFriend nitter.poast.org/AutismCapital/status/1787855331001082019#m
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 23:17:01 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • King_Noticer
     @King_Noticer @SuperSnekFriend guys, you obviously did not take the one good xkcd comic to heart.
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     ?uper?nekFriend ? (supersnekfriend@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 23:17:02 JST ?uper?nekFriend ?

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     @sickburnbro I knew they compromised on politics by banning accounts of far-right guys, but nothing like this. DAMN IT!
     
     There's absolutely no good solution besides self-hosting, which is itself a nightmare.
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     King_Noticer (king_noticer@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 23:17:02 JST King_Noticer

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     • ?uper?nekFriend ?
     @SuperSnekFriend @sickburnbro I'm in danger :blinkscrem:
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 23:19:35 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • King_Noticer
     @SuperSnekFriend @King_Noticer yes, it's the password comic that I'm talking about.
     
     actually, I think the radiation one is not bad either, but overall not worth your time yes.
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     ?uper?nekFriend ? (supersnekfriend@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 23:19:36 JST ?uper?nekFriend ?

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     • King_Noticer
     @sickburnbro @King_Noticer Never read xkcd outside the password strip because the guy who did the comic is a fedora-tipping nerd who needed a locker wedgie in high school.
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     JohnSmith87298753 (johnsmith87298753@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 23:23:48 JST JohnSmith87298753

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     • ?uper?nekFriend ?
     They also did that a few years ago to somebody.
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     Summertime for Zeon (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 23:27:06 JST Summertime for Zeon

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     @sickburnbro The boomers keep bringing up tiktok thinking they preempt an eye roll saying "but muh american spyware too!!!" while overheating about how it's such a dire, horrible sin to allow "chinese intelligence operations free reign to spy on american citizens!!!!"

     I get it now: **Boomers don't see the government of the USA as their greatest threat, they do not realize it has far more animus to wield against them than any other government on earth.

     Kids now don't care about chinese spy balloons and karaoke apps spying on them, because the chinks have little mechanism to leverage against them. Meanwhile, the american glownigger industry will happily listen in on every conversation and let LLMs comb it for 'hate speech', just so they can pump up arrest numbers and ruin your life with a no-knock raid

     Very irritating because it keeps coming up lately. Consolation: Most kids know it's because of greenblatt and friends

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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 23:29:38 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • Summertime for Zeon
     @WashedOutGundamPilot yeah, this is a good point, and reasonable.
     
     related:
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 23:30:39 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • Summertime for Zeon
     @WashedOutGundamPilot but for people that you want in your country, people who will turn on institutions slowly is a good thing, it creates stability.
     
     But it means when those institutions are corrupted, you are floundering.
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     JohnSmith87298753 (johnsmith87298753@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 23:54:43 JST JohnSmith87298753

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     • Matty
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     • brittbratt_fingerpuppet
     https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2021/09/protonmail-hands-users-ip-address-and-device-info-to-police-showing-the-limits-of-private-email
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     brittbratt_fingerpuppet (brittbratt_fingerpuppet@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 23:54:44 JST brittbratt_fingerpuppet

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     • Matty
     • burner
     I use their VPN 😭
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     burner (burner@norwoodzero.net)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 23:54:45 JST burner

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     haven't they done this before?
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     Matty (matty@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 23:54:45 JST Matty

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     Allegedly they "just confirmed" that a certain IP address was tied to an account on their service. As far as I know they didn't give up any actual data but, you know.
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     JohnSmith87298753 (johnsmith87298753@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 23:54:56 JST JohnSmith87298753

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     • brittbratt_fingerpuppet
     https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37172091
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     JohnSmith87298753 (johnsmith87298753@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 23:55:10 JST JohnSmith87298753

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     • brittbratt_fingerpuppet
     https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/09/privacy-focused-protonmail-provided-a-users-ip-address-to-authorities/
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 01:08:41 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • Zucchini
     @Zucchini as we've seen, it's not even violating laws. "show me the person, I'll show you the crime" is in operation here.
     
     If you do anything that makes powerful people uncomfortable, don't expect technology to protect you.
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     Zucchini (zucchini@bae.st)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 01:08:42 JST Zucchini

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     @sickburnbro You should never expect technology to protect you if you violate the laws of the country you live in (just or not) you should also not expect any other accomplice to a "crime" to be loyal to you. It's the exception to the rule if someone does.
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     Mage (mage@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 01:54:36 JST Mage

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     @sickburnbro Sending paper letters is also tracked and allegedly scanned to the point of being able to be read inside. At least the encryption of Proton and Signal -- if the encryption is true and the software on either side isn't phoning home the "E2EE data" anyways -- is preventing half of what Google and the likes do.

     Low-speed, long-range radios in a digital mode sure sounds like an interesting solution to all communication being a spy platform (if it's a computer running disconnected from the internet and only connected to a slow radio, it can't send much information where the operator would be unaware), but radio signals could be tracked and "encryption over the air is illegal" in most FCC terms 🤔

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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 01:54:36 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • Mage
     @mage I think "not having google read every single email I send" is a good enough reason to use these services, and hopefully everyone else does too.
     
     As far as "encryption over the air" all I have to say is Navajo Code Talker