[-] TuxEnthusiast@sopuli.xyz 18 points 2 weeks ago

Privacy in the UK is dead.

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submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by TuxEnthusiast@sopuli.xyz to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

YouTube won't let me watch this video with my VPN on. Is this a new thing?

[-] TuxEnthusiast@sopuli.xyz 15 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

This is why I hate the FOSS community. Everyone freaks out and cries wolf the second a platform doesn't share their political opinion, even if it's completely irrelevant to privacy or FOSS.

[-] TuxEnthusiast@sopuli.xyz 44 points 1 month ago

They can't stop us all!

[-] TuxEnthusiast@sopuli.xyz 59 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

How does this even make sense? The criminals would just move to another platform like SimpleX or use a VPN.

Whole article in English:

The encrypted messaging app Signal is growing - now even the Swedish Armed Forces use it.

But the government wants to force the company to introduce a technical backdoor for the police and Säpo.

  • “If this becomes a reality, we will leave Sweden,” says Signal's CEO Meredith Whittaker, in an exclusive interview with SVT.

If the government gets its way, the bill will be passed in the Riksdag as early as March next year.

The bill states that companies such as Signal and Whatsapp will be forced to store all messages sent using the apps. Leaving Sweden

Signal - which is run by a non-profit foundation - has now told SVT Nyheter that the company will leave Sweden if the bill becomes reality.

  • “In practice, this means that we are being asked to break the encryption that is the basis of our entire business. Asking us to store data would undermine our entire architecture and we would never do that. We would rather leave the Swedish market completely,” says Signal's CEO Meredith Whittaker.

She says the bill would require Signal to install so-called backdoors in its software.

  • “If you create a vulnerability based on Swedish wishes, it would create a path to undermine our entire network. Therefore, we would never introduce these backdoors.

But don't you have a responsibility as a supplier to support anti-crime efforts?

  • Our responsibility is to provide technology that upholds human rights in an era where those rights are being violated in more and more places. In today's digital world, there are very few places where we can communicate privately or whistleblow. Armed forces critical

Whittaker cites the 2024 attack by the Chinese state actor Salt Typhoon on several internet service providers in the US, where text messages and phone calls were leaked. She argues that a Swedish backdoor would open up for the same thing.

  • “There are no backdoors that only the good guys have access to.”

The aim of the bill is to allow the Security Service and the police to request the message history of criminal suspects after the fact. Both authorities were positive in the consultation.

  • “The ability of law enforcement authorities to effectively access electronic communications is crucial,” said Minister of Justice Gunnar Strömmer (M) earlier at a press conference.

But the Swedish Armed Forces are opposed and recently urged their personnel to start using Signal to reduce the risk of interception.

In a letter to the government, the Swedish Armed Forces wrote that the bill could not be implemented “without introducing vulnerabilities and backdoors that could be exploited by third parties”.

[-] TuxEnthusiast@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Its the only way to make anonymous payments (XMR) in a world where everything tracks and spies on you. And it's not only used to buy illegal stuff https://kycnot.me/ . I think of it like the TOR browser. Its great for people who are trying to escape an authoritarian government, but it can be used for bad things as well. But it should exist as I believe privacy is a human right.

[-] TuxEnthusiast@sopuli.xyz 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I woke up to an email saying ni***r balls lol

[-] TuxEnthusiast@sopuli.xyz 42 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

uBlock origin is enough :p

[-] TuxEnthusiast@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Title says "Are now banned" but in the article it says "Can now be banned". That's weird..

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by TuxEnthusiast@sopuli.xyz to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

DAITA: Defence Against AI-guided Traffic Analysis. Which one of these would consider to be the best option for privacy? I can't have both on at the same time.

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TLDR: He does not recommend CalyxOS and gave it a score of 3/10

[-] TuxEnthusiast@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 months ago

I know that GrapheneOS is really easy to install. Problem is that I don't have a Pixel.

[-] TuxEnthusiast@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

From the looks of it GrapheneOS still seems like the best choice by far..

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submitted 2 months ago by TuxEnthusiast@sopuli.xyz to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

I'm looking to get a custom ROM that has good compatibility with my device. Would you recommend /e/? I couldn't find a tutorial on how to install it with Linux but I don't think it should be that hard to figure out.

[-] TuxEnthusiast@sopuli.xyz 35 points 2 months ago

seems like i cant escape elon musk on my feed..

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by TuxEnthusiast@sopuli.xyz to c/japaneselanguage@sopuli.xyz

Hi. I'm a big YouTube guy. I spend a ton of time watching YouTube videos. But for the life of me, I can't seem to enjoy Japanese YouTube. I do enjoy watching SOME vtubers occasionally when they play fun games. Other than that I don't really read much unless it's on reddit/lemmy or github. Someone pointed me to a Japanese mastodon instance but it has a pretty intense VPN block.

What do you guys watch/read in Japanese?

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by TuxEnthusiast@sopuli.xyz to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

I've been trying to find a good privacy respecting browser, but I can't really decide on what to use. I don't like the search results with Brave Search. DuckDuckGo shares my information with Microsoft and SearchXNG shows me NSFW images even with strict search on. I really like Presearch, but I'm not really sure what they're about.

EDIT: After tinkering with the settings of my SearXNG instance, it seems to have reduced the amount of NSFW images. I think I will stick with SearXNG for now.

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