Which effectively means the messages aren’t encrypted. Cool.
It also effectively means they are reading those messages.
I mean they’re encrypted in transit. They’re just not end to end encrypted.
Stop using fascist things.
Stores, websites, apps, cars, hosting, operating systems, and all other providers of goods/services should be audited by you. You should then ask yourself if you want to give them your money and/or your trust.
I’m trying, but they keep forcing it into devices I already own and even with turning it off in the settings sometimes it gets turned back on during updates. At least avoiding the X/shitter bot is easy enough, but the rest are just as invasive.
Out of curiosity what devices are giving you these issues? I may know of some alternatives depending.
Anything with a web browser. Work computers. Phone. Have to turn off the AI crap on all of those manually after they were added in updates.
Don’t really believe turning off the settings keeps them from farming data either, since they constantly lie about what data they collect and use for training.
For web browser’s, check librewolf or brave, I would lean further towards librewolf just because it’s oss which is something I value.
For search engines, we’re in a weird spot right now because Microsoft is restricting the use of Bing’s search API, but duck duck go is good, and ecosia as well, but they both may be in a rough spot soon.
Work computer you can’t do much other than ask your supervisor to ask about moving away from ai stuff, all you can do directly is limit your personal information on your work station.
For phones, If you have apple, sorry, if not, you could look into changing the operating system on it to something like e/os or graphene os, they are both operating systems that are focused on privacy and security.
If you need anymore information about my recommendations, I am happy to help.
On my desktop (windiws) I use Libre wolf for most things, but Firefox for YouTube because I’m signed in with my Google account for subs and stuff. I use FF for only youtube on the PC though, and yeah open source few.
I use Firefox on my phone as I don’t think Librewolf has a mobile version.
I use duck duck on all the browsers, but it is going downhill.
At some point I will switch desktop to Linux, just haven’t come up with a plan for backing up data to do a smooth transition. Keep putting it off when life stuff come up.
Xchat is an irc client though.
The one true XChat
inb4 the logo looks like this:
This is the first thing that came to mind. I used that for ao many years, then went on to Hexchat.
I’m surprised nobody posted the surprised_pikachu.gif yet.
That’s not what “private” means. If they have both keys, the wording “might be able to” is at best extremely misleading.
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If a corporate entity made it and hosts it, and it isn’t foss, don’t chat on it.
There is another layer here. If you or the person you’re talking to are using an entirely unmodified android or apple phone, you don’t have any privacy even if you’re on TOR connected to an encrypted xmpp chat. Your entire existence is backdoored. The entire OS speaks back to its maker, especially that keyboard.
No way. Impossible. Of course convenience never has a price tag.
/s for typical users of today’s Web
