Cool story, bro. And for every such cool story you can bring up I can bring you a hundred, probably, of people who got set up on Linux and returned to Windows because it was a horror show from their perspective.
Let me give you the clue: “The Year of the Linux Desktop” has been declared with monotonous regularity since the 1990s. It still hasn’t arrived. There’s a reason for this, and the quicker Linux (and other F/OSS) advocates grasp why this is, the quicker will the year actually arrive.
Until then, Linux is a fringe OS for techies. (And there it excels. As I said, I’ve been a non-stop user of it for ages.)
“When you use Signal, your data is stored in encrypted form on your devices. The only information that is stored on the Signal servers for each account is the phone number you registered with, the date and time you joined the service, and the date you last logged on.”...
Signal is a great secure private messenger app until you realize that the keyboard is a third-party piece of software and is thus easily compromised. This is doubly so for people in CJK space where third-party IMEs are absolutely essential; Signal doesn’t provide its own keyboard under its control and it certainly doesn’t provide IMEs. So any keyboard/IME can phone home with everything you type into your “secure” app.
Privacy isn’t an optional mode — it’s just the way that Signal works. Every message, every call, every time.
Yes, there is in fact a duty to at least warn people that their very means of input is an attack vector. Yet the Signal App public-facing messaging says nothing of the sort. Instead it says:
State-of-the-art end-to-end encryption (powered by the open source Signal Protocol) keeps your conversations secure. We can’t read your messages or listen to your calls, and no one else can either. Privacy isn’t an optional mode — it’s just the way that Signal works. Every message, every call, every time.
You have to go pretty damned deep in the documentation before you finally get the tepid warning about keyboard apps. Like really deep. With no actual mitigation suggestions or recommendations. Almost as if, you know, they don’t actually give a damn.
If your target market is security professionals, this is barely forgivable since they would presumably know about attack vectors like this. This, however, is what Signal seems to view their target market as:
And I, for one, think there’s a responsibility when security pros market to normies. A responsibility which Signal App has been actively dodging (they’ve had their feet held to the fire for this from multiple sources!) for years now.
Almost as if, you know, they don’t actually give a damn.
Indeed. That’s one of the gratifying things about the deaths of all the billionaire-owned sites. It’s giving room to breathe for those of us who don’t want their vision of a future of humanity on their knees before them servicing them.
Why YSK: Beehaw defederated from Lemmy.World and Sh.itjust.works effectively shadowbanning anyone from those instances. You will not be able to interact with their users or posts....
The point you're missing is that it doesn't matter if their intentions are honest or not now because even if they are (that conditional is a seriously important word there!) there's no way to ensure they will remain that way.
There is no safe way to bring surveillance capitalism into a commons, no matter how pure the motive may or may not be at the moment.
Some trouble (lemmy.world)
YSK: Signal is a great secure private messenger app comparable to others on the market. (restoreprivacy.com)
“When you use Signal, your data is stored in encrypted form on your devices. The only information that is stored on the Signal servers for each account is the phone number you registered with, the date and time you joined the service, and the date you last logged on.”...
Discussion: Do you think recent Twitter mess up will cause new wave of #TwitterMigration?
I honestly think it sure will. People will probably go in 3 directions:...
YSK: If you're on Lemmy.World or Sh.itjust.works you should not subscribe to any Beehaw communities
Why YSK: Beehaw defederated from Lemmy.World and Sh.itjust.works effectively shadowbanning anyone from those instances. You will not be able to interact with their users or posts....
YSK that Apollo is subject to auto-refund and you can decline this refund before the weekend. (appleinsider.com)
Apollo can’t afford Reddit’s fees and will be subject to auto-refund for shutting down, so users can help by declining the refund.
Best thread I've seen thus far on the issue of Meta joining the Fediverse (social.coop)