@HonkHase @AG_KRITIS Viel Glück.

Jch denke mal wir sind alle der gleichen Ansicht dass #Govware, besonders aus #Drittstaaten und von genozidalen #Milliardären finanziert sowie von menschenverachtenden Soziopathen geleitet nicht mit der #FDGO vereinbar ist.

• Zumal dank #CloudAct weder #Datenschutz noch #Sicherheit garantiert werden kann!

@GossiTheDog @xaitax if this isn't the final nail in the coffin to #BanWindows and espechally #Windows11 from any #IT then IDK what else would be sufficient…

• Cuz that isn't just #Malware, but literally #Govware!

@old_angry_queer really?

I think the demand.to shove #Govware into an #OS itself is so inherently wrong that it needs to be opposed like "#DeathPenalty", "#AgeVerification" and banning #anonymity in one go.

• Remember: #WhatWeAllowIsWhatWillContinue and.it starts with us #TechLiterates consequently refusing to comply as a matter of principle!

@N33R no, being #based af:

• NOONE has a legitimate reason to use #backdoored #Govware like #Outlook that sends credentials to #Microsoft!

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Microsoft-lays-hands-on-login-data-Beware-of-the-new-Outlook-9608798.html
https://docs.monocles.eu/services/mail.service/#insecure_email_clients

#MicrosoftOutlook

@lackthereof no, it's not because unlike #Phones and #PhoneNumbers, #eMail is not necessarily traceable by circumstances.

• Because a Phone "Line" (regardless of whether it's POTS, ISDN, VoIP, GSM, VoLTE, …) and #telephony in general are designed for realtime communication, they inherently necessitate an active, ongoing connection.
  • Even if it's just some App/PBX/… to connect to the provider and constantly state "I am on the network and able to recieve calls!" (with PSTN networks, there a physical line that gets assumed to have a phone connected)…

Whereas with eMail (and any #asynchronous #communication) you don't have that requirement.

• So unless the provider is being taken over or otherwise "cooperative" there's no means for a sender to know where, when and how a message was retrieved unless the recipient wants the sender to know of it!
  • Besides, even if you don't have an eMail provider like cock.li which natively supports @torproject / #Tor useage with an #OnionService, unless said provider explicitly prevents you from doing so, you can use not just Tor but also other techniques to make it extremely hard (not necessarily impossible, but at least unfeasible at scale!) to get tracked down.
  • In fact, you could even use #Sneakernet - Style distribution through "#MeatProxies" and #DeadDrops (aka. #dr0p) to further twart tracing attempts.

Or to put it simple:

• You can ring up someone and thus circumstantially verify the chain of #PhoneNumber -> #IMSI -> #ICCID -> #SIM -> #IMEI -> Device -> Location -> Owner quite quickly.
  • Whereas you can't positively verify whether an eMail address and/or #XMPP+#OMEMO account belongs to me unless I want you to know that it does!

So either way a phone number is just a horrible means of doing that.

• And don't even get me started on the fact that legally speaking noone truly owns their number.
  • Because even if you got some spechal case number (like UPT was) you still depend on neither regulators nor telcos to not block or otherwise interfere with it. Which is in contrast to say an OnionService which can only be shutdown effectively by sabotage aka. (more or less figurately) "unplugging" it.

I mean, it's not as if I didn't gave @signalapp a fair chance.

• I wanted #Signal to be good - honestly...
  • But I'm old enough that things rarely are that simple as #TechPopulism & #Propaganda claim it to be.
  • Just like 5th grade #SexEd is not a substitute for Endocrinology, Gynecology and Andrology and actually licensed, medical professionals.

So any #Messenger service that requires a #Phone Number for signup and/or useage is truly not a real replacement and inherently makes PROVEN WRONG assumptions [i.e. that it is legal and possible to obtain a phone number anonymously at someone's juristiction] about it's customers' ability to shield their privacy…

• Cuz all the "#Metadata" claims of Signal are complete #MarketingLies by virtue of them storing a Phone Number and not just being (as per admission by @Mer__edith) 'hard locked-in' with #aws but also subject to #CloudAct.
• They certainly are not deploying real #E2EE cuz you neither get #SelfCustody nor #SelfHosting and have to blindly trust them (aka. "#TrustMeBro!") that what they release as #SourceCode is actually what they deploy.
  • It's like all those "#VPN" shillings which one cannot verify to be true or false!

THIS is why I am going fucking ballistic on #TechPopulism aiming at #TechIlliterates because it's spreading a "false sense of #security" whilst completely disregarding absolute fundamentals when it comes to the underlying systems.

• And I don't mean shit like #Govware of the #SS7 kind, but absolute basics in #ITsec, #InfoSec, #OpSec & #ComSec that every @cryptoparty@chaos.social / @cryptoparty@mastodon.earth / #CryptoParty worth it's name touches on.
  • Signal can't and won't save peoples' asses and the sooner we realize that "complex problems are hard to fix" the less we waste Resources on #HoneyPots that stench like #CrytpoAG & #ANØM!

@vfrmedia @gettie Point is that #Telco regulations stems from #Telegraphy and #Postal operations, and whilst there are legitimate reasons for #regulators to disconnect phone lines (otherwise #robocalling and #SMS-#Spam would be even more rampant than #eMail-#Spamming!)

• Which OFC also intertwines with "#LawfulInterception" and the means of Governments to exercise control.
  • So anything claiming #security must inherently acknowledge the unfixable #insecurity of the #PSTN and completely cease using it and it's per-design compromised Infrastructure as a matter of principle.

That's why any "#secure communications" treats it as a hostile network and not to be trusted!

• And that's not even scratching the surface that countries try to outlaw #anonymity - starting with #Prepaid - #SIM - Cards.
  • Because those traditionally had no reason for "#KYC" as there was no means for a customer to incur #debt or commit #fraud against the telco that provided said services, so there was [and IMHO still is] no "legitimate interest" in demanding any #ID for those, as any crime committed would be investigated with the existing #Govware inside the networks and thus found out.

@adulau I think this is a deliberate #Govware #Backdoor by @signalapp since others don't do that shite yet offer encrypted backups anyway…

@benroyce @FQQD I know the details:

@signalapp are criminally incompetent like #EncroChat at best if not a #HoneyPot like #ANØM aka. #OperationIronside aka. #OperationTrøjanShield...

#Signal #Govware #incompetence #PII #PhoneNumbers #ToldYaSo

@digiges @CCC generell bedarf es ein #KI- ubd #Govware-Verbit sowie #Sanktionen gegen #Genozid- und #Demozid-Mittäter wie #Palantir!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lYsO4k7OIY via #GamersNexus

@nixCraft I'd just refuse.to comply as a matter if.principle because #Cyberfascism is always bad.

• Same reason why @delta don't integrate #Govware #Backdoors and snitch on users despite #Russia's #Cyberfascists (#Roskomnadzor) sueing them…

@earthshine precisely that is the poibt of it and also the correct answer to #FUD by #CCSS vendors (i.e. #Microsoft) against #FLOSS (i.e. #Linux)…

• Also #transparency is key, cuz then #Backdoors (i.e. #Govware) like #GoldenKeyBoot are nearly impossible to hide.
  • The middle-ground is #SourceAvailable like #Tarsnap, where providing the client sourcecode is done as means to build #trust with #evidence to claims (in this case 'here's the code, you have custody of all the keys, we never have them!'…

@DaveMasonDotMe always assume that with physical access they can.

• Worst-case they'll just lace it with #Govware!
  • Cuz if #Russia can afford that and has been caught in the act, than the #USA is doing it as routinely as murdering people with #Drones and #ForciblyDisappearing them…

@iuvi AFACT, #SSH-Tunneling works as means to circumvent #VPN blockades from both #Russia and "P.R." #China because they both need that for their own #CyberCrime and #IndustrialEspionage operations.

• Personally, I'd recommend to use @torproject / #Tor and #TorBridges, which you can get at http://yq5jjvr7drkjrelzhut7kgclfuro65jjlivyzfmxiq2kyv5lickrl4qd.onion & https://bridges.torproject.org respectably.
• Ideally make yourself a flashdrive with @tails_live / @tails / #Tails and use that as a more secure option once you got yourself a handful of obfs4 bridges.
  • If you have friends overseas, they may be willing to host a Private Tor Bridge just for you. Unlike an #ExitNode this won't tarnish said IP reputation due to #abuse nor do they have to trust you (unlike a privately setup VPN)…

#VPNs like @mullvadnet are more useful when you need #UDP traffic for #VideoCalling like #JitsiMeet & #WebCall or just #Streaming i.e. #IPTV…

• OFC neither Tor nor a #VPN protect you against targeted attacks, espechally in "meatspace" and you should assess your own security needs and demands carefully.
  • If you already got "love letters" from local authorities, expect to be on their shitlist!
  • Russia is known to deploy #Govware and when you face targeted surveillance against yourself individually you'd have to expect them to only wait for a reason to kick in your doors.

So I do hope you already use #Tor and/or #VPNs…

• OFC this is #NotLegalAdvice!
  • be careful...

@agowa338 @JenMsft yes .am, because I literally had #TechIlliterates create at least two tickets each day with that issue under #Windows.

• It was the final straw that made me choose #Linux & my #sanity over that #Govware…

@gtronix given that #Apple is having #Govware #Backdoors and was willing to implement them to retain access to key markets (not just "P.R." #China!) I consider these worthless...

@kaschmir allein die Nutzung jener #Govware (#Microaoft #Windows) verstößt gegen #DSGVO & #BDSG!

@marado people still use that #VibeCoded #Govware / #Malware that is #Windows?

@Joerg_Zimmermann Ich würde diese Behauptung nur gelten Lassen, wenn Mensch genauso konsequent #reguliert wenn es um #Angstkultur, #Entrechtung, #Polizeistaat und #Überwachungsstaat geht und #Menschenrechte wie #Bürgerrechte stärkt.

• Angesichts dessen dass "#AI" exakt NULL im Bezug auf letzteres fördert sondern nur dazu dienen kann #Cyberfaschismus zu entwicklen, halte ich dies so verantwortungsvoll wie der Export von waffenfähigem Uran nach Nordkorea unter der "Prämisse" dass dies der Stromerzeugung dient!

  • Die Tatsache dass #Palantir nicht als #Terrororganisation verboten und deren #Govware wie jegliche andere #Malware sanktioniert wird ist das Problem!
  • Die #Grünen besonders in #BadenWürttemberg tragen die Einführung von "#Gotham" sogar mit!

I'd not buy any #tech, espechally not #military equipment, from the #USA.

• Espechally since they have #Killswitches in said tech!

  • Why else would #Israel insist on installing their own #Avionics and #Electronics in anything they import?

#defense #cyberfascism #electronics #ElectronicWarfare #Killswitch #Govware #Malware

@opensuse #WhatsMissing: A #Linux - Countercampaign that takes the #Microsoft - #FUD against Linux ("#GetTheFacts") and instead of a mutating #Tux shows the #Enshittification and #Govware of #Windows (espechally #Windows 10 & #Windows11) and shows these as facts.

I just doubt @linuxfoundation has the spine to piss off a major donor (Microsoft) that way, so #Distros like @SUSE & @ubuntu should do it themselves!