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Comment · 2 years ago
What security implications?
Comment · 2 years ago
You serious? I nearly cried watching what was happening in Ukraine early in 2022.

You are making bad assumptions here.

But if you want to put it into perspective… think about what is happening in Gaza. Now compare to Ukraine. Russia has plenty of missiles and by comparison (even while absolutely awful) have shown much more restraint. I don’t support them at all though!

Comment · 2 years ago
Surveillance on internet use in China probably results in many visits to forced labour camps. Or worse.

Imagine the Chinese people agreed and voted for their great firewall, wouldn’t we all think they were fooled into sabotaging their own freedom?

But they never had the chance to oppose it. We do. And so who are the real dummies.

With how popular Trump is in the states, that makes me think dictatorship is just around the corner. Settling scores is coming.

Comment · 2 years ago
Ok, I may have made an incorrect assumption (sorry).

But, do you have a method which results in the data being accessible to anyone other than the account owner?

I don’t know exactly what you provide. Or how you do it. But it does feel secretive, and that in itself makes people think the worst.

But I do know how NDA’s work, so that might be a part of it.

Comment · 2 years ago
Thank you. Is there any way you can share the exact things you do or provide when you are forced by a court order to give data about someone?
Comment · 2 years ago
Tor onion service relays are mostly on VPS. And those VPS are mostly American.

The number of tutorials I have seen about spinning up a tor relay on a VPS is crazy. These tutorials are probably written by three letter agencies - though I have no proof.

Regardless, protonmail doesn’t let people register when connecting with Tor unless you use phone number or card to make a payment. You will have to give up something which identifies you, and so it really doesn’t matter when you connect with Tor after you have already registered - there is a way to connect who you are.

Comment · 2 years ago
And indirect, through the use of manufactured ‘uprisings’ which the West are great at.

But really, you can go back many more decades than that. Innocent lives are not something the West (especially USA) have historically valued.

I hate bashing the West all the time, but come on, we aren’t the good guys in the world. And it’s time we own up to who we are. I have ffs. And I do wonder if the world would have been a more peaceful place if we collectively had more soul.

Comment · 2 years ago
Why don’t you instead look at the number of people killed throughout the globe as a result of China and then compare that to the number with the West.

Literally soul destroying. As in life destroying.

Meta data kills people. Now it’s moving way further than meta data..

Comment · 2 years ago
It’s not a stupid question. But to think that it will make people more safe is double think. Right wing dictorship is on the rise across Europe and the World. No-one knows the future, but it’s sure looking bleak. We are all making ourselves less secure to the future.

And with AI… ooft. AI will get to a point where it takes over, and decisions like these help it to. We are destroying our future fast.

Comment · 2 years ago
PGP encryption should be taught in school. Ingrained.

Data privacy used to be trampled on with the fear of ‘terrorism’, but the Americans blasted the airwaves with the word so much that it diluted the word to the point it instills zero fear.

Now the new words of the times to trample on privacy is CSAM.

And like utter fools, the public fall for the same crap time and time and time again.

The truth is, the world will always be shit and have shit people in it. Those shit people will do shit things.

It’s a fight over your soul now. And the AI is going to love love love everything it has on every single person on the planet. I can’t wait for the AI to come for us all - we are collectively just awful (and I believe we the west are probably more awful to humanity than even the Chinese, Israel or the Russians, and that is saying something).

I am mad.

Comment · 2 years ago
Not really, no. Unless you want to self-host in your own home hardware.
Comment · 2 years ago
Can you explain more about this, I am clueless to this? Appreciated!
Comment · 2 years ago
Cool idea. But, if I personally wanted that functionality I would code my own solution with a shell script I think (because it is super easy to do).

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