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S/MIME is insecure, outdated, depreciated, and should be discontinued; yet people don’t want to adapt or grow or change.

Because some organizations do use S/MIME; all email software is required to implement it, that is if they want to be adopted and used by said influential organizations.

OpenPGP and PGP in general is secure but suffers from usability issues and is often wrongly painted as user-unfriendly. (it’s really no worse than S/MIME, installing and managing keys is exactly the same hassle as it is with S/MIME.) The main issue is that some people are too lazy or resistant to change to adapt to it.

Lack of detailed audits…only in this case specifically…does not imply lack of security and/or privacy.

The protocol that Signal uses, which is in fact firmly audited with no major problematic findings, plus the fact the client is OSS is generally enough to lower any concerns.

The server side software in production for Signal.org is not OSS. It will not be. You are required to trust the server to use Signal; because the protocol and the client renders it factually impossible for the server to spy on your messages. The server cannot read messages; or even connect who is messaging who if the correct client settings are used. (Sealed Sender).

Non-OS stats software in general is not automatically lacking in privacy or security, particularly not in this case where the affected software does interact only with software that is verifiably open-source and trustworthy in general due to the protocols and how they are implemented correctly in a verifiable manner.

E2EE is, theoretically, secure. It certainly prevents a government from hoovering up your data when they casually cast too wide of a dragnet while “chasing a criminal”. …At least, when it is implemented honestly and correctly.

Now if governments wanted to properly backdoor some E2EE implementation; all they really need to do is compromise one end of the conversation. Of course, they want to be able to do it auto-magically; through delivering a court order to a single point; and not through busting down the door, or capturing the user of, one end or another of the conversation and compromising the device.

The question therein lies; do you as a person want the government to be forced to bust down a door? Some people think they should be forced to break doors and others do not feel that it is necessary. There are many diverse stances on this question; all with unique reasons.

It’s clear to me that E2EE works properly…the governments would not be trying to “end Encryption” if it did not work. Therefore it stands to reason that E2EE is not compromised, if a government is forced to pass a law in order to compromise the encryption or turn it off entirely. That proves it works.

I just logically proved Encryption works, without even taking a stance on the matter. For the record however; I do support Encryption. I think this law undermining it is a massive governmental overreach that will quickly lead to that same government finding out how critical Encryption actually is to their people. Just give it time.

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YES PLEASE!

Let the branches be forced to fight it out like a bunch of children in front of the SCOTUS; who will probably gleefully say “AHAHAHAH NOPE! You both get nothing, and I keep all of this power to myself.”

This 100%.

The more valuable and critical a government employee knows they are; the more effective they can be by doing this.

Everyone in any federal agency who is resisting and who is being ordered to do something they object to should be falling to this maliciously compliant default to the maximum extent they can afford to do so. Gum up the works; extend out projects, stretch deadlines out, passively resist every step of the way and insist that every possible reasonable rule be followed to it’s exact and literal definition…even if it’s not common practice or expedient.

Exhaust the servants of the tyrant of their every resource; run these liaisons ragged; overload them with petty questions and minor, but critical, decisions; especially if they’re bogged down. If you can make them quit or get fired by the cheeto in a non suspicious way; all the better. Making it impossible to keep a liaison in your department will keep them guessing if they keep quitting on their own due to extreme stress and overwork.

Anybody who is a Political Appointee should be considered a hostile co-worker automatically and kept out of every loop possible. Make them battle for every inch of information or status updates and give as little information as you can while only answering explicit questions. Bonus points if management is in on the game; and can ping-pong any information requests around violently across all the various managers and supervisors who each only leak a tiny tidbit of information.

This just means you wrap your signal links in a URL shortener.

A slight hassle; but all the more reason to hate the muskratt.

We should be quietly linking anyone with a need to send a signal link to a nice privacy respecting URL shortening instance somewhere that will basically delete the link in 3-7 days unless told otherwise to keep it around by the user at creation.

Heck; host your own URL shortener while you’re at it.

I.C.E. is obviously overstepping their boundaries here and needs to be pared down.

Someone should get on publishing EFF’s surveillance avoidance tactics in all the languages…or at least teach the immigrants in their lives to make sure to use throw-away emails, prepaid sim cards and pseudo-identities to criticize government.

Genuinely it’s not hard to not provide real world information online; you just keep your identities separated by a few things first. VPNs and Tor help as well to prevent tapping into data.

If the constitution decrees it; sure. I think death is too kind though. But it might be the only option; seeing as how the next GOP idiot who takes the Oval Office will probably pardon him out of it.

That is our worst federal prison by far; and it’s no longer only a military-prison; with the immigrants stopping there. :)

Good. Let the courts resist him on all fronts for what he is; a fascist. The more legal material the Democrats have laid at their feet; the faster they can use it to rebuild and build the case against Trump to convict him of base tyranny, treachery and treason.

Trump deserves to rot in solitude in our worst federal prison until he expires naturally.

We don’t have to. The straws will do all the heavy lifting for us. /s

It’s insidious stuff, those PFAS. :3

The shocked anger reaction coming from Trump is priceless as he finds out that there really weren’t as many immigrants as the far-right proclaimed there to be.

No doubt that number got inflated, much like it would in a game of telephone, when it was making furious rounds through the conservative disinformation machine. I hope he feels just as stupid as anyone who voted for him and are finding out that he really did not represent their ideals nor their best interests after all.

Now that the mandatory reminders of “It’s your choice” are out of the way; fwy will tell a bit about how fwy cracked.

Fwy has always been fascinated with various feminine things from a very young age; and that includes things like fashion, makeup, and other ways and forms of creatively expressing fwyself with fwy’s very own body.

Of course as you probably know, or have experienced, being AMAB typically means you get pidgeonholed into very specific, very utilitarian clothing and you don’t often get a lot of choices on the colors or things of that nature; and it’s typically even enforced at a high level that AMAB bodies also do not sport very many types of body accentuation or decorations that are not of a permanent and irreversible nature. No offense to those who do sport very colorful tattoos.

Even when Fwyfwy was just 8 years old; Fwy found immense pleasure in simple decorations of fwy’s own body. Given a box of washable markers and privacy; fwy would be very artistic and decorate fwy body, usually fwy feet and legs as those were easiest to sort of color or decorate to emulate something in some manner, to look like whatever fwy felt she most resonated with. Most frequently; fwy would resonate strongly with many female characters and found it strongly maddening that fwy couldn’t display fwy’s self decoration publicly; but it at least kept fwy sane to know fwy had the decoration on fwy’s own body underneath fwyfwy drab clothes.

This is only a fragment of fwy’s experience of being trans; but fwy feels it’s the best fragment to offer. Fwy does not want to be discouraging when you may just be seeking to feel like you are not alone. Rest assured that you are not alone.

WYKYK; “When you know, you know.”

Don’t rush yourself. Don’t let anyone try to crack your “shell” or treat you like an egg if you feel uncomfortable with that. Be yourself and feel it out.

If after hearing a few testimonies and stories from other trans people you personally feel that experience more closely matches yours; by all means don’t hesitate to consider yourself trans.

Explore our communities, hear some stories, explore the meanings on your own terms and find what fits!~

Welcome to being Queer/Questioning. <3 Lots of space to explore and even decide you want to venture out to explore under the even wider umbrella of being trans.

So yes; technically you could argue you’re trans; even as you are. If that makes you comfortable; do it. If it does not; you don’t have to. It’s your own labels and your right to self-assign whatever labels you feel fit you best.

Yes, Please.

Actually it’s not that hard and it’s even probably possible to even host SearXNG on the same hardware, or kind of hardware, that you’ve hosted your Pi-Hole or DNS server on.

I actually self-host my own SearXNG and Invidious instances and customize the settings on both, and it’s super useful. (Example: My SearXNG instance is aware of my Invidious instance on my network and will use it to load videos when Invidious is queried via the !iv bang. By doing this I’m not relying on public invidious instances so much; which oftentimes experience downtimes…because youtube hates those more, and frequently bans the public instances.)

This is all doable with a little bit of Docker or Podman action and a bit of editing the appropriate YAML files prior to composing the containers.

So you might be able to spin up a SearXNG instance locally on your network for her to use and configure it to use Google and any other search engines she might prefer. Then use something like LibRedirect (Firefox and Chrome plugin) to redirect her to the local SearXNG instance. (instead of using Google)

A video about setting up SearXNG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBLypfM9U-g

Regardless of that; another shenanigan exists for those who did make it to the polls; Gerrymandering.

Yes; it’s horrid as it sounds and it limits the voting power of lower class people, as well as the power of people who are considered to be “ethnic minorities” by the party in power. If there’s a neighborhood of blacks next to a poor neighborhood; well both find themselves districted together and their cumulative votes are diminished by how the votes are counted by district such that a 2-3 victory for Democrats; is actually counted as a 2-3 victory for the Republicans…all because the Republicans were already in power somehow and managed to re-district the place so that the vote result never changes anything…unless the unlikely event that all three neighborhoods choose to vote the same way occurs.

Yet another shenanigan exists where voting rolls are frequently “purged” due to false assertions of fraud and onerous and routine registration becomes necessary, which isn’t a problem if you don’t work full-time in the USA; but good luck getting a day off work if you do work full-time and need to vote. (Hint: YOU DON’T; OR ELSE YOU GET FIRED WITH NO RECOURSE!)

Even if that wasn’t enough already; many times the voting times, locations, dates and even rules change from year-to-year, and sometimes even month-to-month.

What worked this time might not work next time. From ID requirements to ballot order manipulation or even other flat out shady practices like misleading or leading poll questions on the ballot are all employed.

The media is even worse; and frequently spouts simple and blatant lies. they could literally be absolutely passionate about their issue in particular and still end up being misled or lied to; as there’s no accountability for this. This would result in mistakenly casting a vote for the wrong candidate who would then go on to not represent the will or needs of the citizens voting for them once they’re in power.

The average American, just simply can’t always be on top of every one of these things 24/7. It’s easy to get taken by any one of them by surprise.

^ Another American here; and I second this notion! ^