>For years companies have been steadily asking, mandating or even trickling users to give them their phone numbers under the excuse of security (while the real reasons were different), now what? >How can they be trusted…
People still post about crime on the internet? A LOT of anti social people seem to act badly thinking no one is going to even look at what logs exist due to existing policy, let alone illegal sources of info that are…
> and can do whatever they want. That's not quite correct - they need to follow the laws of the state they are headquartered in.
>Why should we care about the battles between corporate titans over how they treat each other?... the enemy of my enemy is my friend. You should read a bit about the cold war in my opinion. This logic can burn you.
Can you please define activism for me, in your own words? I'd hate to try to utilize my legally protected free expression rights, but accidentally do activism instead, so any tips or tricks you have would be greatly…
>He pointed out the OTR plugin, and it blew my mind that it was guaranteed that no one could possibly snoop our conversation. That's wonderful but how do you handle the trust aspect? I hit a wall on infosec stuff…
Yeah, that's one reason I prefer verbal convos. Electron aside, how many people even keep their phone on the latest version? There's all sorts of ways to slip up with Signal, though now that I'm not violating COPPA by…
>"the largest market" always reminds me of "Bin Ladens right hand". If they're not selling guns, child abuse imagery or other extreme stuff maybe treat it as a source of intelligence rather than keep playing whack a…
So what's the second largest? (Also does largest == best? A market could have a huge volume of mostly scams for example)
>The main problem with projects like these is that I don't know (without manually checking myself) whether they are actually tracking the Signal source code effectively. That's my main complaint with Signal - lots of…
>For years companies have been steadily asking, mandating or even trickling users to give them their phone numbers under the excuse of security (while the real reasons were different), now what? >How can they be trusted…
People still post about crime on the internet? A LOT of anti social people seem to act badly thinking no one is going to even look at what logs exist due to existing policy, let alone illegal sources of info that are…
> and can do whatever they want. That's not quite correct - they need to follow the laws of the state they are headquartered in.
>Why should we care about the battles between corporate titans over how they treat each other?... the enemy of my enemy is my friend. You should read a bit about the cold war in my opinion. This logic can burn you.
Can you please define activism for me, in your own words? I'd hate to try to utilize my legally protected free expression rights, but accidentally do activism instead, so any tips or tricks you have would be greatly…
>He pointed out the OTR plugin, and it blew my mind that it was guaranteed that no one could possibly snoop our conversation. That's wonderful but how do you handle the trust aspect? I hit a wall on infosec stuff…
Yeah, that's one reason I prefer verbal convos. Electron aside, how many people even keep their phone on the latest version? There's all sorts of ways to slip up with Signal, though now that I'm not violating COPPA by…
>"the largest market" always reminds me of "Bin Ladens right hand". If they're not selling guns, child abuse imagery or other extreme stuff maybe treat it as a source of intelligence rather than keep playing whack a…
So what's the second largest? (Also does largest == best? A market could have a huge volume of mostly scams for example)
>The main problem with projects like these is that I don't know (without manually checking myself) whether they are actually tracking the Signal source code effectively. That's my main complaint with Signal - lots of…