Why NextDNS if you already query DNS through Mullvad?

Matrix can’t be forced to put backdoors into their software because they are not s company. Signal can.

Pick 4 NGOs per year. Donate 10% of income at the end of the year to them evenly.

Next year pick another 4 NGOs that you think did great work that year.

Yes, if you want privacy then you need a good VPN provider

Mt ISP can’t see my traffic or my DNS lookups lol

This is misinformation. Flatpaks are far less secure than installing from apt. All packages installed from apt are cryptographically signed. This isn’t the case with flatpaks.

Ah, if it’s only available on flatpaks, that’s why few people know about it.

Flatpak is a very insecure method to download software BTW, you probably should avoid it

Edit: It’s curious that I’m getting downvoted for stating a fact. It seems a lot of flatpak users don’t understand security. But that’s kinda the point: even the flatpak developers don’t understand the difference between integrity and authenticity

• https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak-builder/issues/435

Flatpak currently does not provide authenticity, and one developer made it clear that he doesn’t understand why that matters in the above ticket that requested signatures of packages back in 2016. It’s been 7 years and still they haven’t fixed this. I don’t think the flatpak team understands or cares about security.

How is this better than zim? Is this in the Debian repos?

Meta was never a source of news…

Of course, tons of tax dollars are spent hoarding vulns

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7

The deals will allow the coders to serve these significantly lighter sentences than expected in New Zealand rather than being extradited to the United States

Honestly the location is probably more relevant than the time. Nobody wants to go to a US for-profit prison, where torture and rape are commonplace (both by inmates and guards)

Yeah exactly, you’re misinformed.

As soon as you use Tor Browser (which you won’t try), it’ll lock you your account until you give them your phone number and an OTP sent to that number.

We’re not discussing anything that requires that level of privacy

For some people, everything requires privacy. For some people, they can’t access the Internet without services like Tor.

You’re being intentionally dismissive of folks at-risk. That harms our community.

Yeah? Go signup for a new account on Discord with Tor Browser and see how far you get.

This is not misinformation; it’s very informed information. I use Tor Browser everyday, so I know very well which services treat me like a second-class citizen and ban me just for existing (without doing anything bad). See also Paypal, Ebay, Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, 90% of banks, etc.

Unfortunately, most fraud detection systems these days use Machine Learning algorithms that ban you before or immediately after you create an account because they can’t uniquely fingerprint your session or because you “look” like someone who did something bad in the past (again because they can’t uniquely fingerprint you). These are false-positives, and they don’t care because not enough people complain about needing services for anonymous users.

I work in cybersecurity; this is a very informed opinion.

That’s not possible on Discord. They require a phone number. Many countries have Mandatory SIM Registration laws that make it illegal to get a phone number anonymously.

And Discord will auto-ban your account just for using Tor Browser or other privacy addons in your web browser.

My point is: don’t use Discord. Use a service that allows you to only use a throwaway email.

Message sent from Tor Browser using an account on Lemmy registered with a throwaway email

Please don’t use discord. It’s a platform that doesn’t allow people to participate anonymously, and it’s bad for privacy.