I was just thinking as a phone number for all those services that ask for phone numbers to sign up.

What stops anyone outside the us from using this service? The postcode doesn’t need to be verifiable, if needed, just use a VPN?

Convert a CSV into a wmv.

Man what a world, to have to pay for privacy.

For those out of the know: what’s the advantage of using open VPN?

Like all the words fit in boxes? Like a pictogram? I’m sure there’s a technical term for it

Could this be adjusted for traditional Chinese as well? Or Korean? Seeing as how they are also kind of ‘blocky’ languages?

Hmm. That’s not been my experience. I’ve been using proton with VPN with no issue. But yes, as you say, if that’s your experience, it’s shady. I would stay away from them were I in your shoes.

I wonder if it’s by region. Are you outside EU?

But proton doesn’t need a phone number? You can just do a captcha. I would never use an email that asks for a phone number.

What are some (legitimate) examples where public records can’t be released?

Wouldn’t it fall under 2a to just shoot all these?

To me a smartphone is defined as a full fledged computer with dumb phone capabilities.

What is the rest of Google (alphabet) doing?

For example, in China the crime rate is incredibly low.

I think a correction is in order: petty crime such as what you have described is indeed low, but organized crime is through the roof. Far higher than in countries considered ‘the west’. Scammers mainly. So much so they’ve had to expand to neighbouring countries in the south/southeast to expand their ‘market reach’.

Wouldn’t it then be a simple matter to notice that a 10gb for only yielded 5gb of “innocent” data after decryption?

Especially since it would be (I assume) simple to ‘predict’ the size of the (“unnested”) plaintext if the cipher and key is known

Sorry. Got the terms mixed up. Ciphertext is it. Thanks

But if two different messages are encrypted with the same key, doesn’t it by nature produce two different ‘plaintext’ ciphertext? Unless the real secret is much smaller than the decoy message as in the example of the ww2 artist

But wouldn’t a VPN be encrypting my cable internet traffic? (Same for VPN on the phone)

Isn’t there some information theory that says you can’t have two pieces of unique information inside one ?