@privacyguides I think it's not enough to just follow @echo_pbreyer and callout politicians, but to actively "gear up" and actively refuse to comply and teach others to do the same.
Do @cryptoparty / @cryptoparty / #CryptoParty and teach others to use #realE2EE with #SelfCustody of all the keys and @tails_live / @tails / #Tails as well as @torproject / #Tor for #anonymity.
- Because the only effective means to win is to refuse to comply and be able to enforce your Right to not self-incriminate as well as Right to remain silent, and the more we #normalize this among law-abiding, "#TechIlliterate" citizens the less it'll be possible to crimimalize!
Remember: #WhatYouAllowIsWhatWillContinue and if you rely on #MarketingLies by #VPNs and Messengers like @signalapp you'll be fucked by either cuz they can't and won't violate laws on their end and/or face jailtime for you!
#EUpol #EU #Cyberfascism #PoliceState #SurveillanceState #Resistance #HumanRights #CivilRights #Privacy #Anonymity #Encryption #E2EE
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“I’m gonna tell you a secret about “logless VPNs” — they don’t exist. Noone is going to risk jail for your $5/mo
https://t.co/Q2aOQJkG4g”
@dzwiedziu @0x4d6165 @F3715H I sincerely disagree, given the mounting circumstances.
The only secure comms are those where you are able to exercise your #RightToRemainSilent through #SelfCustody aka. #realE2EE. Regardless if #XMPP+#OMEMO or #PGP/MIME!
It would be dellusional to expect ANYONE from any messenger to be willing to face jailtime for a user/client!
- Again: Tell me where I'm wrong…
#InfoSec #5A #OpSec #InconvenientTruth #ComSec #ITsec #USpol #Signal
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Obviously, [this](https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/115406157263490476) is not #disinformation given the #facts and circumstantial evidence.
- TELL ME WHERE I'M WRONG!
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- #useast1 is in VA, USA. That's *very close* to #CIA and #NSA and if you think otherwise, buy yourself a fucking map!
- @[email protected] collects #PII in the form of #PhoneNumbers and stores them.
- Without the #US #Government's blessing they'd not merely *restrict* their #MobileCoin - #Shitcoin availability but be forced to not allow users from #Cuba, #Iran, #Russia and #NorthKorea to even sign up.
- #SIgnal almost certainly has been abused by bad actors (i.e. organized crime) by mere statistical inevitability and being forced to comply with duely issued warrants and other legislation (i.e. #CloudAct) or otherwise everyone from C-level down to developer would've faced jailtime until they complied.
- #Centralization of Signal isn't excuseable as stupidity or malpractise!
- The #FBI has pulled off bigger stings (i.e. #ANØM / #OperationIronside / #OperationTrøjanShield)...
I do expect the reinstatement of my [original post!](https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/115406157263490476)
@Mer__edith except @signalapp does collect #PII (#Phonenumbers) and demand it alongside camera access to even use it.
- Compare that to @monocles / #monoclesChat and @delta / #deltaChat, which don't demand any personal data nor permissions (beyond internet access and being able to store the login details, obviously!), this is absolutely unreasonable.
Plus unlike #Signal, both offer #realE2EE with #SelfCustody of all the Keys, support @torproject / #Tor for #privacy and don't rely on "Trust me, guys!" advertising and a long-term unsustainable model of donations from billionaires and millionaires to keep running!
My [reservations](https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114234551915193036) and [criticism](https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114862595629371002) re: #Signal are not just valid, but the reality is *even worse than I thought*:
- The fact that @[email protected] requires not only their shitty #Android #App, and a #PhoneNumber but literally won't allow people to use their shitty #Desktop-App unless they have an Android device with a camera pointed at it makes it utterly unuseable for certain users *who don't have a fucking #camera in their Android*…
Seriously, do they expect folks to deal with that shit?
- It's already worse in terms of #UX than #telegram and #discord and that too makes #XMPP+#OMEMO clients like @[email protected] / #monoclesChat & @[email protected] / #gajim easier and faster to onboard #TechIlliterates onto.
- Whichever asshole decided that a *replacement for #SMS* should mandate #PII like a #PhoneNumber & not be natively cross-platform should be banned from doing any #tech in their life. Trying to circumvent this shit and helping folks with it makes me so fucking angry that I'm now explicitly refusing to support it!
FIX THAT SHIT, @[email protected], and if it means you need to kick some devs in their crouch then consider this a necessary *"investment"*…
#sarcasm #TechSupport #TalesFromTechSupport #Enshittification #SignalSucks #TelegramSucks #Messengers
We have @[email protected] [rightfully!] crack down on #cars and their #emissions by demanding ever lower #FleetEmissions and #FuelConsumption numbers but still accept #Bloatware like shitty #WebApps and #Windows11 to demand so much #WastefulComputing that it's painful.
- Margaret Hammond and Grace Hopper must be rotating in their graves, pointing out how they got people on the moon with less storage than the SPD-ROM on a RAM stick and how their programming language still runs #TradFinance like a clockwork respectably, but somehow sending text messages is too much for a machine that costs €499 yet has more computational power than all the machines they worked on combined.
#WastefulComputing like all those [phat & enshittified messengers](https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114873864980037941) should be illegal.
- Espechally since they have 0 reason to be that resource intensive, even if we believe some of their security-focussed [marketing lies.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PW3O2mqTn8)
Kevin Karhan 