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@inthehands Pardon the footnote, and in no way to meant to defend ProtonMail (I did a "fuck ProtonMail" post the other day), but LTS/SSL is great for protecting you from random baddies but not powerful state actors. We believe the NSA has the power to crack the popular recommended ECDSA curves used, and VeriSign has just signed certs for the FBI, which is a massive backdoor. I don't know if GPG/PGP's encryption has held up, but that was what we were using (and some people still do) for E2E email

@inthehands That doesn't give you privacy on who you are talking to (and also doesn't guard against disclosure after recipients have decrypted email from you) and the whole identity thing is bad as much as some people like key singing parties. But it isn't a black box, and doesn't attempt to do dodgy key escrow like stuff that ProtonMail does. So maybe I'll go put my public key in my profile or something again. "Move discussion elsewhere" is a good idea but it's also often observed that...

@inthehands with things like Signal, the platform you're running it on may be the weakest link. Broadcom etc broadband processors are considered back doored even if you install a 3rd party Android fork and trust the 3rd party app store's apk.

@inthehands Someone suggested in response to my thread that this might be badjacketing of ProtonMail to shepherd people to less secure things; that makes me wonder if ProtoMail itself wasn't an attack to steer people away from GPG.

Given Proton's CEO coming out as a right wing chud, I'd like to point at Proton's policy of immediately re-charging your credit card if you dispute any charge with them, how they promise free refunds if the service doesn't work for you but make it impossible to cancel, the snake oil of key escrow where they manage encryption keys for you, and having already thrown one environmental activist to the cops. Fuck Proton.

@AnthonyJK Happily agree with most of that, but if you'll indulge me, in the San Francisco bay, the light rail system moves about ten times as many people across the bay as the bay bridge each day, and it's a "chunnel" type thing buried tunnel under the bay.

@craigmaloney @mozilla Starting to think the solution to the fuckup Mozilla CEO problem is to stop having CEOs. That's clearly not working.

@tillshadeisgone The CIA was importing cocaine. Of course missing money is being funneled to blackops projects. The security state basically threatens congress with another 9/11 (or with a major incident, before 9/11) if they aren't allowed free reign and congress absolutely bends over backwards.

@kaia * Alt for anyone who needs it: a baby Yoda apparently made entirely of sheets of fondont, looking a mess, and maybe his eyes are bloodshot too, with a bunch of lit candles stuck in his head. Please pardon the @, just trying to make sure I have alts for things I boost in to my timeline =)

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