@net_gremlin I muted @hcf because I habe better things to do that facilitate the platforming of the dangerous disinformation being founted by said account…
- You can't reason with criminally incompetent and ignorant #TechIlliterates!
#TechIlliterates
@kubikpixel ja, besonders #TechIlliterates scheinen #AIslop-basoerte #Desinformation zu suchteln!
@dw_innovation @torproject I wounder if anyone else thought about some good "#Homepage, but on the #Tor network" ?
- Cuz I do have a curated list of bona-fide sites that are available as #OnionService|s and certainly we need more "#TechIlliterates" and #Normies to use #TorBrowser for said bona-fide activities more...
@gravitas yeah.
I just wanted to put this out so that "#TechIlliterates" don't think this is a valid substitute for @torproject / #TorBrowser…
Jemensch sollte "#TheMorpheus" mal ins #Fediverse einladen...
- Weil der macht durchaus gut verdaulichen Content den auch #TechIlliterates konsumieren können...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhVOkm8B9z4
#Kommentar #Linux #Windows #SwitchToLinux #DecadeOfTheLinuxDesktop #YearOfTheLinuxDesktop #FLOSS #tech #Edutainmant #Entertainment #deutsch
@pluralistic thus I coined the term "#TechLiteracy" (or lack thereof as "#TechIlliteracy").
- As this is a more fitting term to differenciate between "us" #TechLiterates (who know how to setup some lightweight #Linux distro and make it work (not just for us bot others) and those who believe the #Enshittification, #bloat and crap is "a fact of life" (aka. "#TechIlliterates")…
- Just like #literacy enables people to learn, interact and communicate, the same applies to using #technology and #media (see "#MediaLiteracy")…
Thus I see it as both moral and social duty to spread "Tech-Literacy" among society because decades of #illiteracy in #tech are now paying dividends and #Cyberfascists actively work on sabotaging and destroying #HumanRights and #CivilRights under #FalsePretenses lile "#YouthProtection" (see "#AgeVerification")…
@sebastianlaube Jain.
#Windows misshandelt regelrecht die eigenen User*innen und für 08/15-#TechIlliterates die nur zeugs konsumieren ist ne 08/15-Distro wie #UbuntuLTS bereits "gut genug".
- Natürlich bedeutet das auch mal 15'-60' darin investieren die Nutzer*innen einzuführen, aber das lohnt sich ungemein!
@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.liwhich 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.
- Besides, even if you don't have an eMail provider like
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.
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
OnionServicewhich can only be shutdown effectively by sabotage aka. (more or less figurately) "unplugging" it.
- 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
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!
@kkarhan @GrapheneOS @tails_live @torproject @signalapp
"GrapheneOS chose their requirements and they can happily design their own platform instead."
There's no need to reinvent the wheel. AOSP is a secure, open-source platform that has been around for almost 20 years. I don't want to debate rumors that Google wants to make AOSP proprietary because there is no evidence to support this, especially since it would not benefit them in any way.
"I just think that their stubbornness"
It's not stubborness and I explained why.
"They are the antithesis to #Tails when it comes to #UserFriendly-ness and approachability for #Normies and #TechIlliterates
It's probably the first time I've seen “Tails” and “Normie” in the same sentence, It's not that Tails is difficult to use, but I'm really not sure that many “normies” use it or even know it exists. The user experience on GrapheneOS is almost identical to Pixel OS, the standard operating system for Google Pixel devices, so using GrapheneOS is likely to seem much simpler and familiar to normies, as they will already be used to it.
"Espechally since the problems woth #MobilePhones and the underlying technology ain't fixable with an #AndroidROM
GrapheneOS is not a ROM, Pixel OS is not a ROM, and LineageOS is not a ROM either, theses operating systems are not ROMs.
"Instead we need to foster a #SecurityCulture and proper #ITsec, #InfoSec, #OpSec & #comsec
Indeed, and what GrapheneOS does about security is completely appropriate, including informing people and giving them good advice.
"Otherwise we'll see them fail the same way @signalapp did, which is eitger getting shut down (#EncroChat-style) or being uncovered as a controlled opposition / honeypot (like #ANØM aka. #OperationIronside aka. #OperationTrøjanShield)…"
Signal did not fail, and mentioning Encrochat, ANON, and honeypots in the same sentence is irrelevant. These things have absolutely nothing in common with Signal, you seem to be believing made-up stories.
@Xtreix well, @GrapheneOS chose their requirements and they can happily design their own platform instead.
- I just think that their stubbornness makes them look like Stallmanist extremists to the point of being unbearable cringe and completely loosing the plot.
- They are the antithesis to #Tails when it comes to #UserFriendly-ness and approachability for #Normies and #TechIlliterates.
To the point that it's cheaper to go black/red and teach that to people, even at the risk of inconvenience.
- I mean, in many juristictions one will have to do so anyway, but that's not tue point here…
I think #GrapheneOS prefer to "die on their hill" of "moral superiority" than fave the reality that 99% of people can't and won't blow $500 - $1000+ on a phone when any half-decent Netbook with @tails_live , @torproject and #4G or #5G modem can do the same.
- Espechally since the problems woth #MobilePhones and the underlying technology ain't fixable with an #Android-ROM.
- Instead we need to foster a #SecurityCulture and proper #ITsec, #InfoSec, #OpSec & #ComSec.
Otherwise we'll see them fail the same way @signalapp did, which is eitger getting shut down (#EncroChat-style) or being uncovered as a controlled opposition / honeypot (like #ANØM aka. #OperationIronside aka. #OperationTrøjanShield)…
@dirtwizard666 @vantablack exactly that
What is even more necessary is to spread #TechLiteracy!
- Because #TechIlliterates, like #Illiterates, are easier to cintrol and surveil than #Literates!
@mschfr @SonstHarmlos Ja, aber das ist ein gesamtgesellschaftliches Problem aka. #TechIlliterates und daher auch (wie alle sozialen Probleme) nicht mit #Technologie fixbar!
https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/116182091827804320
#AdBlockers are a necessary #ITsecurity measure because #Malvertising is a huge problem!
- Espechally targeting #TechIlliterates and vulnerable people...
- Thus it's imperative to not just normalize #AdBlocking but also blocking #Malware like #JavaScript which is used to commit these acts alongside #CryptoJacking and even abuse visitors' browsers for #DDoS attacks!
Because by observation I can claim with confidence that most #JS is unnecessary #bloatware if not #malicious as it's #WastefulComputing and used to #track and #deanonymize users without setting #Cookies!
#ITsec #InfoSec #OpSec #ComSec #Advertising #Cryptocurrency #DriveBymining #CyberCrime #Crime #Internet #Enshittification
@snugglybun well, #TechIlliterates are lazy af.
- I gave up trying to convince those too ignorant 10+ years ago and movend on with life…
@byte because so many never got forced to show #Accountability and take #Consequences…
- Not to mention #TechIlliterates making decisions that they are neither competent to do nor should be doing is a problem…
Ah yes, the classic saga of epic proportions: #JavaScript and #cookies holding the world's largest #democracy hostage 🤦♂️. But don't worry, once you've conquered that technical Everest, you can finally indulge in the riveting discourse on how the real VIPs are actually just entitled techno-illiterates 🍪💻.
https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/02/22/indias-vip-culture-is-out-of-control #TechSaga #TechIlliterates #HackerNews #ngated
@avatter Shite like this is why I don't give #TechIlliterates sudo permissions.
- They gonna fuck up everything…
@anneroth EmAm Ende sind es #TechIlliterates, #MediaIlliterates und #Cyberfaschisten denen es nur darum geht #Minderjährige zu desorganisieren und deren #Pressefreiheit zu rauben.
- NICHTS ANDERES!
Danach verbieten die #U18 jegliche Organisation!
- Weil den #Gerontokraten geht @fff aufn Nerv…
@medwds that's even harmless.
#Micron axed the #Crucial brand, and the cheap-ish #BX500 #SSD's went from €75/TB to >€250/TB and competitiors now even more expensive.
- The "#AI" / #AIbubble-driven extreme scarcity is so bad that #Phison warns that their clients and thus a shitton of #ConsumerElectronics firms are aboutbto go broke!
- The Problem is that regulators like @EUCommission didn't step in to regulate #Scalping & #Hoarding by #ClosedAI ("#OpenAI") becaue they are a bunch of #TechIlliterates.
Already people are #PanicBuying even #UsedSystems because unless that #bubble pops tomorrow, shit ain't getting better for 5 - 10+ years!!!
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