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5·15 hours agoRight, understanding what your threat model is important. Then you can make a conscious choice regarding the trade offs of using a particular service, and you understand what your risks are.
Metadata tracking should be very concerning to anyone who cares about privacy because it inherently builds a social graph. The server operators, or anyone who gets that data, can see a map of who is talking to whom. The content is secure, but the connections are not.
Being able to map out a network of relations is incredibly valuable. An intelligence agency can take the map of connections and overlay it with all the other data they vacuum up from other sources, such as location data, purchase histories, social media activity. If you become a “person of interest” for any reason, they instantly have your entire social circle mapped out.
Worse, the act of seeking out encrypted communication is itself a red flag. It’s a perfect filter: “Show me everyone paranoid enough to use crypto.” You’re basically raising your hand. So, in a twisted way, tools for private conversations that share their metadata with third parties, are perfect machines for mapping associations and identifying targets such as political dissidents.
9·1 day agothe actual pirates of the Caribbean
4·2 days agoThere’s a Lenin quote which says that every society is three hot meals away from chaos. The political games being played in the US can only go on for so long, eventually conditions become unbearable for a critical mass of people and then all bets are off.
Basically, the job of the dem party is to act as sort of a pressure release valve to prevent people from organizing in effective ways.
I would say that ultimately they don’t matter at all because both parties represent the interests of capital and provide a superficial illusion of choice for the hoi polloi.
Unknown at this time.
6·2 days agoOpen sourcing these thing would definitely be the right way to go, and you’re absolutely right that it’s a general solver that would be useful in any scenario where you have a system that requires dynamic allocation.
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That’s the scientific method version. Here we’re talking about transformation of quantity into quality. :)
Yeah for sure, I do think it’s only a matter of time before people figure out a new substrate. It’s really just a matter of allocating time and resources to the task, and that’s where state level planning comes in.
it’s a pretty big case right now
mfbc told them so, liberals don’t have thoughts of their own
it’s like the most pretentious thing you could do online
Right, which really suggests that email is not the right medium if you want genuine privacy.