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New: Privacy and Security on Mastodon  

All Em's Privacy Guides articles 📚

Queer Dating Apps: Beware Who You Trust With Your Intimate Data 💔

You Can Say NO 🙅

Stay Safe, but Stay Connected 💚

Selling Surveillance as Convenience  

The Importance of Data Privacy For The Queer Community 

Your Online Life Is IRL  

KeePassium Review: A Flexible Password Manager for iOS and macOS 🔐

Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball 👁️

Age Verification Wants Your Face, and Your Privacy 🪪

In Praise of Tor: Why You Should Support and Use Tor  

Encryption Is Not a Crime 🔑

Interview with Micah Lee: Cyd, Lockdown Systems, OnionShare, and more 

Privacy Means Safety  

KeePassXC + YubiKey: How to set up a local-only password manager  

Privacy is Also Protecting the Data of Others 💛

How to Reset Your YubiKey and Create a Backup  

The UK Government Forced Apple to Remove Advanced Data Protection: What Does This Mean for You? 🍏

No, Privacy is Not Dead: Beware the All-or-Nothing Mindset 🔒

CryptPad Review: Replacing Google Docs 🛡️

The Future of Privacy: How Governments Shape Your Digital Life 🌐

Using Tails When Your World Doesn't Feel Safe Anymore 💜

Personal blog (older articles): 👇

The Solutions to Proctoring Software 🎓

The Problem with Proctoring Software  

The Mastodon’s Guide to the Fediverse  

Easy Practical Privacy Tips for Everyone  

The Importance of Using Messaging Apps With End-to-End Encryption, Which Ones to Use and Why  

Improving Your Privacy Using Compartment­alization  

#Blogging

I must say, I'm impressed with the new features added in Mastodon 4.4. I quite like this pinned posts carousel and featured hashtags. Many other fantastic improvements.

Thank you and well done @MastodonEngineering Team!   

#Mastodon

Mastodon 4.4, now available, has a small setting that’s a big deal. See Administration/Server Settings/Discovery, “Allow external sites to see your Mastodon server as a traffic source”.

It means that every time you post a link to a site, that site is going to see as many hits as the number of instances that you have followers on, and those hits are going to be labeled as coming from Mastodon.

This is going to seriously increase Fediverse visibility. Get your instance admin to turn it on!

Magical backdoor only for "the good guys" is a complete fantasy 🔑✨

Let's say the strategy is akin to creating a MagicalKey that unlocks every door (a magical key because thinking encryption backdoors would only be used by "the good guys" is a great example of magical thinking).

Imagine only 1000 police officers have MagicalKeys.

Overtime, let's say only 1% of the police officers accidentally lose their MagicalKey. Now 10 MagicalKeys are lost in the wild and could be used by anyone else, for any purposes, including crime.

Then, let's say only 0.1% of police officers get corrupted by a crime gang. That's just one right? This corrupted "good guy" lets the gang create a double of the MagicalKey. Which crime gang wouldn't want a key that can magically open any door?

Now, the gang creates doubles of the MagicalKey they have. They use it subtly at first to avoid detection. They make sure they never leave traces behind, so victims have no idea their door got unlocked.

During this time, they steal your data, they sell it, they use it to impersonate you, they use it to harm you and your loved ones.

Then, another criminal figures out on their own how to emulate a MagicalKey without even having access to one.

The criminal creates a reproducible mold for this Emulated-MagicalKey and sells it to other criminals on the criminal market. Now, the MagicalKey™️ is available to any criminals looking for it.

Restrictions on the backdoor are off. Your personal data is up for grabs.

This is what is going to happen if backdoors are implemented in end-to-end encryption. But don't worry they say, "it's only for the good guys!".

At least, the criminals' data will also be up for grabs, right?

Nope! The criminals knew about this, so they just started using different channels that weren't impacted.

Criminals will have their privacy intact, they don't care about using illegal tools, but your legal privacy protections will be gone.

Backdoored end-to-end encryption isn't end-to-end anymore, it's just open-ended encryption. This offers pretty much no protection at all.

Extract from: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/11/encryption-is-not-a-crime/

#Privacy #Encryption #E2EE #RootForE2EE

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