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BlackWinnerYoshi wrote
Reply to comment by Wahaha in The Consumer Router Trap by HMTg927
The dumbarse forgot to renew the certificate before 2021-09-20T15:00:39+00:00, lmao. At least it was not a Clownflare certificate.
Wahaha wrote
Reply to The Consumer Router Trap by HMTg927
I get a certificate error on the page, archive link: https://archive.is/oM6QY
dontvisitmyintentions wrote
Proton is the end of a long-overdue overhaul of the UI to fit with the modular, quicker backend, if I understand it correctly. The addon API was more painful but similar. Both should have happened a long time ago, and would have saved countless developer time spent on the old codebase.
They could have done it all at once with a full experimental browser again, which is what Phoenix originally was. But that doesn't fit with the branding and telemetry obsession Mozilla has.
It's not as bad as they make it out.
DoctorForesight wrote
Reply to 2021.09.06 NOT AGAIN!?! No-Log ProtonMail Logs French climate activist's IP Address With Authorities After Swiss + INTERPOL Court Order. Always use PGP too! End-to-end encrypted email service provider ProtonMail compromised fully by Swiss INTERPOL and Swiss Gov! by smartypants
Well that's just ducky
Wahaha wrote
Isn't it because Firefox is made by Mozilla who is paid by Google who created their very own spyware Chromium and has an interest since then to slowly strangle the life out of Firefox?
It all started around 2011 and all the decisions since then cannot be explained away with coincidence or mere incompetence.
Seidoken wrote
Reply to comment by Rambler in 2021.09.06 NOT AGAIN!?! No-Log ProtonMail Logs French climate activist's IP Address With Authorities After Swiss + INTERPOL Court Order. Always use PGP too! End-to-end encrypted email service provider ProtonMail compromised fully by Swiss INTERPOL and Swiss Gov! by smartypants
Might have to spread P2P mail services.
Rambler wrote
Reply to 2021.09.06 NOT AGAIN!?! No-Log ProtonMail Logs French climate activist's IP Address With Authorities After Swiss + INTERPOL Court Order. Always use PGP too! End-to-end encrypted email service provider ProtonMail compromised fully by Swiss INTERPOL and Swiss Gov! by smartypants
To be fair, if you're the type of person who may draw any amount of attention to yourself then it's really up to you to use the tools made available to you to keep yourself private.
Sounds like they didn't utilize the onion service. Sounds like they didn't do enough on their own to protect themselves.
While I know this looks bad for ProtonMail, the reality is that service providers aren't investigative units and can only share what information you give them to share when given a lawful order to do so.
smartypants wrote
Reply to I have to sell the software by vikramsingh
I think many I know could code that in 3 months for $50,000 complete with various repost-rescale jpg self correction and Raptor codes.
BlueHat wrote
Google should try out new things. Now that OnlyFans is acting weird, maybe dive into the porn industry? Release a dating app? Call it Google Fuck?
Wahaha wrote
Truthfully speaking, I cannot think of a device I longed for a decade ago that had a major price drop. The Kinesis Advantage II keyboard is still $500. But luckily now there's the Moonlander, which is only about $400.
awdrifter wrote
Reply to I have to sell the software by vikramsingh
10 BTC is only $500k.
BlueHat wrote
Reply to I have to sell the software by vikramsingh
You got the numbers wrong dude.
Onetwofree wrote
Reply to comment by Wingless in Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care doctors switch to Odysee after Vimeo censorship by Hitler_Was_Right
If you don't like the ad scripts move to LBRY desktop app. Odysee has a sustainable business model but if you want control of your content and you don't want to be tracked use the desktop app and Peertube isn't sustainable because it has no business model behind it expect tips but LBRY has LBC. Also LBRY Desktop app is open source and more stable than Odysee.
dontvisitmyintentions wrote
Reply to Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care doctors switch to Odysee after Vimeo censorship by Hitler_Was_Right
It's believable, because Vimeo always leaned lefty.
But were they paid members? Did the membership lapse, making some unavailable? Do the missing videos say they were removed for any particular reason?
I don't see any posts on covid19criticalcare.com from the 10th, and the 11th ones don't look related. Do you have a link to their post or to the posts with missing videos?
Wingless wrote
Reply to Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care doctors switch to Odysee after Vimeo censorship by Hitler_Was_Right
Their case on the facts seems iffy, but what is beyond doubt is that if a site only lets you say what they want said, you need somewhere else to publish your own work.
I'm not convinced Odysee was a bright move though. It looks heavy with ad scripts from sites like casalemedia and google. Why not a nice Peertube?
AWiggerInTime wrote (edited )
Reply to comment by sgji2p in Don't Use Telegram. by Hitler_Was_Right
use some random free XMPP Server to register at
Any recommendations? It turns out that it's hard to find a server with open registration which is fairly stable and keeps history.
And the client is smooth and simple.
We call it simple, others call it spartan. If XMPP won't work then try Matrix, the bridge argument usually works.
Hitler_Was_Right OP wrote
toggin wrote
Reply to Apple will actively scan your Iphone and snitch you to the cops if it detects illegal content. by Hitler_Was_Right
Not sure who relied on apple for privacy in the first place, if you want privacy you simply have to go with open source, mainly for two big reasons :
- You have no real way of actually knowing for sure that the OS isn't backdoored
- The company responsible for programming that operating system can change their stance on privacy at any time, like apple is doing here.
Personally, i would never, ever lay trust on a closed source application or system for privacy, it's just asking to get fucked in the ass. if you wanna do private shit, use open source software exclusively for that, no exceptions imo.
Wingless wrote
Reply to A Spy Ring formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies is significantly expanding the types of content shared between firms in a key database, aiming to crack down on Whites. by Hitler_Was_Right
I posted the same shit and got two upvotes. Somebody posts under "Hitler was right" and thinks it only stops on the race angle, and they get 4? This kind of shit is why I never believed in upvotes. The only posts I was ever proud of on Reddit were the ones that got -50 or better.
Wingless wrote
Reply to Hackers Can Turn Everyday Speakers Into Acoustic Cyberweapons (By the way, there is a presidential alert scheduled for today at 2:20 pm ET) by etc
The ultrasound isn't nominally designed to harm hearing - the point they have for including it is spyware monitoring of "air gapped" devices. They seem to have turned it down a little - I remember ten years ago the ultrasound from my old computer was severe enough I could hear if a game of Dwarf Fortress had paused itself (a stupid thing it loves to do) despite it having sound disabled, the speaker muted, and the display window completely minimized out of sight. Well, either they turned it down or my ability to hear ultrasound is waning, but I still hear it when bringing the computer out of hibernation - it just seems more focused on transmitting some ID code and finishing. I assume it's part of the OS, or at least, I never found a visible sign of it.
yk4v2 wrote (edited )
Reply to A Spy Ring formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies is significantly expanding the types of content shared between firms in a key database, aiming to crack down on Whites. by Hitler_Was_Right
The firms, which include Twitter (TWTR.N) and Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) YouTube, share "hashes," unique numerical representations of original pieces of content that have been removed from their services. Other platforms use these to identify the same content on their own sites in order to review or remove it.
I can think of one way to get around this but it has some downsides for privacy so I think it should be used carefully and only when necessary.
You can open up a picture with Notepad++ or another text editor and add whatever text you want so that the hash will be different and not match what's in their database. You could even add a hidden message if you want. You could add hidden messages to other files too using steganography techniques and that would change the hash.
The downside is that now the file is more traceable. So lets say someone posts some meme about vaccines on poal but they edit it to include the text "Death to all jews" when you open it in notepad. Someone else saves it and shares it on Facebook without knowing about the hidden text. Now if this system is set up to track image hashes across platforms, the feds know that the facebook user either got that image from poal or got it from someone else who got it from there. The exact same picture could be on lots of other platforms but they would know from the hash where this particular user got it from.
awdrifter wrote
Reply to Apple will actively scan your Iphone and snitch you to the cops if it detects illegal content. by Hitler_Was_Right
They are finally admitting to the backdoor now.
Hitler_Was_Right OP wrote
Reply to comment by Wingless in Google’s Jigsaw proposes real-time, cross-platform monitoring of “hate clusters” to “disrupt their reach” by Hitler_Was_Right
For me it was very hard to avoid 4chan bans they must have strong invasive tools to identify you even if you delete your cookies and change your IP address.
dontvisitmyintentions wrote
Reply to NOT AGAIN!!! 10% of Internet to go offline soon! Let's Encrypt HTTPS ROOT certificates built deep inside most OSes all go dead Sept 30th 2021 for All internet able devices made since 2001 and 2 years ago, or turned off for 2 years and not OS updated. Hundreds of millions of users screwed that week. by smartypants
So you're saying that old Androids and Kindles can't phone home? Sounds pretty great.