Skip Navigation
My idea of maintaining E2EE between people in the age of the UK's and EU's anti-privacy laws
  • if everyone started to use p2p messengers with asymmetrical encryption, the EU would have very little they could do

    Totally agree with you; a p2p network is resilient and unstoppable. Every user acts as a node within the p2p network, and as long as people are actively online, it can survive. This means it cannot be banned by any country or government.

    Plus, since a P2P network is a decentralized network, there is no central server to store user data such as chat histories or contact lists**. From a data privacy perspective, nothing can compare with a p2p network.

    I know people are quite familiar with Signal and Whatsapp due to their E2EE services. However, they are managed by tech companies and utilize a centralized network (central server = another computer). All your chat histories and data are kept in their giant computer/server. Even though it is encrypted, who in the world knows if they have memorized your private key (I think they do, by the way, because governments need these things to monitor suspicious activities or potential criminal incidents).

    So, start using applications that operate on a decentralized P2P network; it is the safest way to safeguard your privacy rights.

  • Elon Musk’s X sues watchdog Media Matters for its damning report
  • Ditch centralized platforms.

    TUCKER: “Media Matters is a censorship organization funded by George Soros and others who hate Western civilization designed to prohibit people from saying certain things.” And what they are prohibiting are the truth.

    Manipulation can be stop by decentralization.

    WireMin, Damus are both good choices.

  • 'Signal tests usernames to avoid using phone numbers.' Great move?

    It seems useless to me, at least regarding the cybersecurity aspect. Of course, it's helpful when people ask for my contact information, and I don't want to share my phone number or email address.

    But they still require information that could be used to prove or be linked to my identity for registration, right? This means a hacker could still reveal your IP address, phone number, email, and your passcode. Likewise, the development team can access these as well.

    I know I'm overly cautious about my privacy, but that's just how I am.

    24
    LinkedIn user data leaked: Database shows emails, profile data, phones, full names, and more confidential info.
  • And we share real background information, very specific details. This could lead them to our friends and colleagues!

    But I'm not sure it can be called social media, though, but if you are looking for social media platforms that can avoids data leaks, and don't ask for your personal info when register, WireMin and Damus are both good choices.

    Speaking of which, we should have a version of LinkedIn that is decentralized!

  • LinkedIn user data leaked: Database shows emails, profile data, phones, full names, and more confidential info.

    The same threat actor has leaked larger amounts of data from LinkedIn dated 2023. They claim this new data contains 35M lines and is 12 GB uncompressed.

    !

    90
    Removed
    Switch between an encrypted messenger and a decentralized social media platform.
  • First of all, this is not a spam account, so why blame me for writing a review? I am just pointing out things that I found interesting. I am not convincing or forcing anyone to download the application. As I said, 'all I need is their source code' — I am not giving my 100% trust to WireMin. I'm simply saying that if they could publish the source code, they might go viral from my perspective. That's it.

  • X is officially worth less than half of what Elon Musk paid for it
    www.theverge.com X is officially worth less than half of what Elon Musk paid for it

    A steep drop from Musk’s $44 billion purchase price.

    X is officially worth less than half of what Elon Musk paid for it

    A year after he bought Twitter for $44 billion, Musk thinks the company is now worth $19 billion, a 55 percent drop.

    Let's recap what he did to Twitter, I will go first:

    • Changed the original name Twitter to X.
    84
    X’s privacy policy confirms it will use public data to train AI models.
    techcrunch.com X's privacy policy confirms it will use public data to train AI models | TechCrunch

    X's recently updated privacy policy informed its users it would now collect biometric data as well as users' job and education history, Bloomberg spotted

    X's privacy policy confirms it will use public data to train AI models | TechCrunch

    Big techs' have forgotten that social media is for people to interact and connect.

    Our data belongs to us, and no one has the right to use it without permission.

    35
    UK's "Online Safety Bill" should be renamed the "Online Exposure Bill
    www.wired.com The UK Is Poised to Force a Bad Law on the Internet

    WhatsApp and Signal have threatened to shut down services in Britain if the Online Safety Bill includes restrictions that undermine encryption. The government is pushing it through anyway.

    The UK Is Poised to Force a Bad Law on the Internet

    I believe the "Online Safety Bill" should be renamed the "Online Exposure Bill," and here's why:

    1. Age verification likely involves estimating age based on biometric data – essentially, using an algorithm to scan a photo or video of the user." making our identity transparent in the digital world.

    2. "Client-side scanning, where a phone or other device would scan the content of a message before it’s encrypted and flag or block violating material." This effectively renders E2EE (End-to-End Encryption) useless!

    23
    Users report being banned on Telegram despite never using it

    This occurs because some platforms sell real phone numbers that haven't been registered on Telegram(or other platforms require phone number or email to register), as well as email addresses.

    We should be cautious about sharing our phone number or email address online. Once it's out there, it can be challenging to erase, cuz they are all saved in a cloud server, and keeping everything in one place is easy for hacker to attack(don't ask me y).

    Now, Twitter/X requires users to verify their ID From my perspective, the digital realm should remain separate from our offline lives. Internet exists because it offers us capabilities that are restricted in the physical world.

    People should really start to migrate. I only use Twitter for daily news check, for other communication or disscussion needs.

    What are you guys using for these services? I use WireMin, cuz it is decentralized, which means no central cloud server to keep our data, and not require personal info to create an ID.

    8
    What really sparked fear in the news of Elon suing CCDH, drives my attention back to privacy issue....

    转发自: https://lemmy.world/post/2507246

    > Data leaks everywhere... > >'X is a free public service funded largely by advertisers.' > > 'the CCDH gained access to X’s data without Brandwatch’s authorization'

    0
    What really sparked fear in the news of Elon suing CCDH, drives my attention back to privacy issue....

    Data leaks everywhere...

    **'X is a free public service funded largely by advertisers.'

    'the CCDH gained access to X’s data without Brandwatch’s authorization'**

    3
    Do you know what is an 'Everything App'?

    Elon is always obsessed with WeChat's model. (For those who don't know about WeChat, it is basically the name of the 'Everything app'.)

    Everything in one single point is pretty convenient but has led to a bunch of risks...

    Leave a risk that you know in the comment.

    108
    X is the Everything app = Monopolistic/Censorship/Monitoring
    mastodon.social WireMin (@WireMin@mastodon.social)

    Attached: 1 image An 'Everything app' means: - Collecting your data - Linking it to your identity/bank card/payment address - Monitoring. #Freedomofspeech can't exist on an Everything app, #dataleaks can. #Xwitter #ElonMusk #Tweet #bluesky #Meta #twitter

    WireMin (@WireMin@mastodon.social)

    He is trying to be the master of data in this world

    1
    Tonkasu Sandwich for lunch

    Had a really fullfilling breakfast(last post) so usually I would only have a sandwich for lunch.

    Come join! https://i.wiremin.com/invite/?g=k49012607450 It is an Anonymous decentralized chatting app called WireMin I will post my daily meal here, and I want to see What R U Guys having too!!!

    0
    InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)WO
    Wothe @lemmy.world
    Posts 28
    Comments 154