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Cassandrich

Protip: do not trust any privacy/anonymity product or service unless the people behind it are explicitly, vocally antifascist.

If they just use vague language about freedom and privacy, and are ambiguous/ambivalent about what the intended purpose is, they're cryptofash.

@voidoverseer2501 Yeah this principle isn't specific to privacy products, but that's an area where folks seem to get duped..

@dalias@hachyderm.io I feel like this might be a Proton subtoot, lol

@Willow Yes but not just. Also Session, SimpleX, and lots of other bs.

@dalias

do you know any news/articles about session being bad (technically or ethics wise) ?

@dalias@hachyderm.io what sucks so hard is that I also want to see a certain amount of professionalism to trust all my email with it. So, I feel very stuck between Proton, where the CEO praised him (unnecessarily, and incorrectly, of course) but they seem like they probably do a lot of the technical parts well, and some random service I’ve never heard before. 😭😭😭

@dalias@hachyderm.io most of the best privacy services are backed by people who put their life and reputation on the line, and their real face behind the product, to defend people who would actually be fucked without them (mullvad, tor, etc)

if there is any amount of hand-wavy language or "we're just a business, they were in the wrong" going on... the platform likely isn't going to be up to any reasonable standards for the people that need privacy/anonymity the most in life, when you're seriously pushing the boundaries of society you need people behind you who will actually back you up when the pressure increases too

@dalias I see your point. But I'm not sure I agree. I think it's a bit more complicated than that.

I'm a happy user of Signal, and of F-Droid, who I trust. I'm a developer in Debian and now in my day job at Tor. I don't think any of those institutions have explicit antifascist statements. There are good reasons for them not to.

I think what you want to be using is systems endorsed by antifascists and recommended by computer security/privacy experts. Ideally, systems endorsed by antifascist computer security/privacy experts. Happily there's quite a lot of us and we often like to share our opinions :-).

@dalias
onionshare is coded by Micah Lee...it's the most bad ass tool for immediate chat/fileshare anonymity. Pair with qBittorrent for larger files. And onionshare runs great on MAC and Linux...haven't tried it on windows. Anonymity is easy and free.

@dalias and even then there are going to be some fakers (riseup)