nimbus5000

joined 2 years ago
[–] nimbus5000@techhub.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

@ExLisper

I think there are defendable grounds for saying someone posting about privacy on YouTube is and is not ironic. How surprising or unexpected it is depends on many factors like the poster's goals, threat models, and degree of altruism, user expectations regarding the poster, and congruence or incongruence with all of the above.

@FarLine99
@xad

[–] nimbus5000@techhub.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

@pound_heap

When you send an encrypted email to a non-Proton user, you click on the lock icon to encrypt the email and assign it a password, which you need to get to your user. The recipient then receives an email with a link. They click on the link, enter the password and and can then view your email, which to my understanding is decrypted client-side.

https://proton.me/support/password-protected-emails

@zerodawn

[–] nimbus5000@techhub.social 7 points 2 years ago

@flying_wotsit

Buying one or more domains and using those with protonmail gives you 100% portability. Just redirect your domains to a different mail server if you decide to make a switch.

@nothingcorporate

[–] nimbus5000@techhub.social 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

@nothingcorporate

If you set up a domain with Protonmail, you can have unlimited email addresses for that domain, although they all go to the same inbox that way. I like to use a website's name as the user when I sign up with a website, so it's like officedepot@mydomain.com. If I start getting emails to that address from somebody other than Office Depot, I know those rat-bastards sold me out.

@dansity @privacy

[–] nimbus5000@techhub.social 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@hoodlem

You can also do private groups, forums, and blogs on #Briar.

@SteleTrovilo

[–] nimbus5000@techhub.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@gravitywell

Oh man, Telegram is a total cesspit. Unfortunately there are several l#Ukraine related channels I'd like to follow on there, but I've resisted the temptation so far.

@bruzzard @privacy

[–] nimbus5000@techhub.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@Makeshift

I've never noticed Firefox to be janky, error-prone, etc. and I use a good number of plug-ins, including sandboxed, categorized tabs, no-script, privacy-badger, and an ad-blocker, among others. I don't doubt that the benchmarks say it's slower, but as a practical matter, I've never thought of the browser as slow.

@CAPSLOCKFTW @privacy

[–] nimbus5000@techhub.social 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

@lengsel @Dark_Arc

Lavabit was formed and located in the US, while Protonmail was not. As a result, the US had jurisdiction over Lavabit, while it does not have the same level of jurisdiction over Protonmail.

[–] nimbus5000@techhub.social 2 points 2 years ago

@PrivateOnions @cambionn
More messenger apps need to be interoperable, with options for leading end-to-end encryption algorithms built into their interoperability protocols.