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#privacy #research

I dedicate this account to the issue of fediverse privacy.

Unfortunately we are seeing a widespread use of software as an alternative to corporate networks that does not encrypt private messages and user data.

Mastodon makes it very easy to sniff on users and should be rejected by a community of people with many having a professional background in programming and security.

As I already received a lot of harassment for pointing out facts I prefer to stay private.

#FOSDEM #Fediverse #Mastodon

People on FOSDEM: please discuss why the Mastodon software does not encrypt your user data and why it does not support end to end encryption for private messages. We need to stop using a software that is basically a re-creation of Email of the 90s before the Fediverse will experience its first "endless November" event. We can not establish a system that has such major privacy flaws and let the masses flock into this kind of unsecure infrastructure!

Generalization is a weapon of fascism.

Not over thinking things, very short ad media text pieces, talking nation x / y / group of people A / B are tools to train people into generalization.

Goal: cultivate hate, send people to war, profit.

"stop thinking and just follow"

If you want change, you can not use the same tool.

This is why "boycott country x" is bad political practice, lack of differentiation is a fascist tool. Precision helps.

Talk "Government of X" or "exact crime".

Very good idea, but how are you handling potential contamination in the debris?

Modern bombs leave a lot of unhealthy chemicals and radioactive elements in debris, you must check for these before building houses from that rubble!

@flamepanther but using AI can indeed make sense for whistleblowers, to overcone stylometry
@caseynewton Is there a reason you run AI ads on your website?