“In most countries, 90% of online #search is conducted on #Google, which gives the company even more power to flip elections than it has in the US and, with internet penetration increasing rapidly worldwide, this power is growing. In our PNAS article, Robertson and I calculated that Google now has the power to flip upwards of 25% of the national #elections in the world with no one knowing this is occurring. In fact, we estimate that, with or without deliberate planning on the part of company executives, Google’s search rankings have been impacting elections for years, with growing impact each year. And because search rankings are ephemeral, they leave no paper trail, which gives the company complete #deniability.”

https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-internet-flips-elections-and-alters-our-thoughts

The writing style was extremely similar and likely written by the same person

#plausible #deniability

The excuse ‘we didn’t know, honest’ seems to be a theme with Israel. After all without that pesky data, the government can carry on denying it all. And remember substantial (8 I believe but happy to be corrected) cabinet ministers are ex chairs of Labour Friends of Israel.

Meanwhile Netanyahu is pursuing a policy of murdering journalists to ‘reduce’ those pesky facts.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/23/foreign-office-unit-israel-potential-breaches-international-law-closed

#WarCrimes #deniability #Ignorance #Israel #WestBank #Gaza #Lebanon #Labour

PrivateBin

Current version: 2.0.3

Anyone on the FediVerse running PrivateBin on their own (small) network?

• PrivateBin
• minimalist
• Open Source
• online pastebin
• server has zero knowledge of stored data

Data is encrypted & decrypted in your browser with 256bit AES in Galois Counter mode.

• PrivateBin is a fork of ZeroBin originally developed by Sébastien Sauvage
• PrivateBin was refactored to allow easier & cleaner extensions
• it has many additional features.

https://privatebin.info/

#encryption #programming #PrivateBin #Zero #Knowledge #plausable #deniability #networking #AES256 #Galois #Counter #technology

@kkarhan Yes I was aware of that one. That's where deniability comes in: on the official SimpleX client there is a hidden profile feature: to display hidden profile you type in a password you set previously but you type it into the chat search bar so there is no indication in the GUI that you have any hidden profile. I think each hidden profile can have their own associated password so you can type in a password and say there you go thats all my hidden profiles when actually there are more

#FLOSS #PSA #Privacy #Anonymity #Simplex #Deniability

I like how people are recommending a bunch of FLOSS messengers now, its an opportunity to check out underrated projects like I just a few minutes ago learned about the FLOSS project Quiet (https://tryquiet.org) from a discord community trying to relocate.

The website says its all E2EE P2P with tor built in, channels like slack/discord, no email or phone number required. Unfortunately no quantum resistant encryption on the roadmap so I still would recommend SimpleX for general purpose instant messaging but Tor-by-default and P2P are genuine advantages over Simplex

If you found this post interesting you might also be interested in these decentralised encrypted messengers with various pros and cons compared to eachother:

Cwtch
https://cwtch.im
http://cwtchim3z2gdsyb27acfc26lup5aqbegjrjsqulzrnkuoalq5h4gmcid.onion/

Briar
https://briarproject.org/

Meshtastic
https://meshtastic.org/

#FLOSS #E2EE #PSA #Privacy #Security #Anonymity #Deniability #Meshtastic #Briar #Cwtch #SimpleX #Quiet #P2P #Tor #Slack #Discord

@thejessiekirk

You're probably going to find a lot of suggestions, heres two comparison tables for E2EE instant messengers:

•https://eylenburg.github.io/im_comparison.htm

•https://www.messenger-matrix.de/messenger-matrix-en.html

even if its not got all the same features as discord, instant messaging is a part of discord and I guess it could be something you're thinking about

Edit forgot to mention: for reasons you can find on these tables and that I can elaborate on if you want I suggest simplex for private anonymous deniable and censorship resistant chats

#FLOSS #E2EE #PSA #Privacy #Security #Anonymity #Deniability #Discord #SimpleX

@kkarhan I was just pointed at this:

https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=unstable&query=Shufflecake

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3576915.3623126

#FDE #FullDiskEncryption #Deniability #PlausibleDeniability #Shufflecake