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Cake day: February 20th, 2021
  • rcbrk@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Signal CEO dismisses Snowden archive research about NSA supply chain attacks, backdooring, civillian surveillanceEnglish
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    1 hour ago

    Whittaker’s phrasing is ambiguous. Could be read as expressing one of a number of things:

    • The paper/article is misleading and distracting from meaningful threats to privacy.
    • That the original tweet is using misleading accusations to distract us from the article’s revelations of meaningful threats to privacy.
    • That Appelbaum’s authorship of the research is an unwanted negative association which undermines the attention deserved by the threats documented in the paper which are misleadingly justified as necessary by eg. governments.

    It’s difficult to know without a better understanding of Whittaker’s position on the various matters at hand, so I don’t know.

  • rcbrk@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Tutanota / Mailbox.org?English
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    7 days ago

    What ideally I’d like is some sort of good encrypted email […], which can achieve decent Android integration. Proton apps are pretty useless to that effect […]

    Don’t need provider-specific apps if their services use standard protocols:

    • IMAP: Fair Email or K-9 Mail(/Thunderbird)
    • CalDAV: DAVx⁵
  • rcbrk@lemmy.mltoFediverse@lemmy.ml•Working on MèngZǐ, the Federated Search Engine AlternativeEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Really interesting proposal! To a degree the structure of Lemmy/Mbin/etc may be quite close to the categorising and moderating aspect, and might be a good place to start collecting URLs to crawl.

    Each community could be considered analogous to a (rather chaotic) webring. When an instance doesn’t meet your moderation expectation, defederate; if a MengZi user wants to see search results from different defederated segments, use a MengZi instance that federates with both, or just have both plugged into a searx instance.

    The categorising side of MengZi could be (from an activitypub perspective) like a very cut down version of lemmy –each webring/category being a community, each website being a post, comments disabled or limited/filtered to hashtags.

    A webring could be a specific sort of category/community, where a submitted website’s url’s page must contain specific metadata definining its membership in that ring or it is automoderated and removed. Such a category could automoderate the url and title to be the default page defined by its membership metadata. Existing webring html element standards could suffice.

    A website could be crossposted to other categories, including to other instances, even to/from lemmy or other compatible activitypub sites. If a (cross)posted post is not a url returning the correct mime type for a category then it can be automoderated and deleted; same for other arbitrary criteria a category could define.

    A website/post on MengZi could be accompanied by relevant crawling metadata, even full search database data available via the api for sharing to other MengZi instances to save duplication of crawling effort while distributing the database.

  • rcbrk@lemmy.mltoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Email with own domain service but local?English
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    2 months ago
    • For incoming mail, on your server run a mail retrieval agent like fetchmail to fetch mail from the externally hosted mailbox into a maildir on your server.
    • To serve that maildir to your clients, on your server run a mail delivery agent like the IMAP server Dovecot.
    • To accept outgoing mail from your clients, on your server run something like Postfix with a relayhost configured with the details of your externally hosted SMTP server.

    There’s nothing unusual or tricky about any of this arrangement.

  • rcbrk@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Today I saw hopeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Jitsi works really well, and the developers seem to have made an effort to have it work well on any platform, even mobile browsers and PSTN. I’ve always found it the lowest friction teleconferencing method for all types of users.

    It’s self-hostable, integrates with SIP, and 8x8’s commercial offering mentions HIPAA, BAA and GDPR.

  • rcbrk@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•I answered: Are VPNs essential?English
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    3 months ago

    The article does not explain the primary design purpose of a VPN – providing an encrypted tunnel into or between two private subnets.

    For example, your home subnet is typically all 192.168.nnn.nnn addresses – a class of addresses which the wider internet does not route, and which your router/modem does not allow the wider internet to access unless explicitly permitted.

    Say you have a NAS on your home network, and you want to access it from your laptop while at a cafe; you could set up a VPN between your laptop and your home router, and it can make your home network appear as your local network to your laptop, giving you access to your NAS.

    Or between two office locations of a business – their database servers, accounting systems, printers, etc can all be freely accessible between offices without being exposed to the wider internet.

  • rcbrk@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.world•Australia bans social media for under 16sEnglish
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    3 months ago

    The ban and age verification requirements apply to pretty much all services which allow communication of information between people, unless an exemption is granted by the minister.

    There is no legislated exemption for instant messaging, SMS, email, email lists, chat rooms, forums, blogs, voice calls, etc.

    It’s a wildly broadly applicable piece of legislation that seems ripe to be abused in the future, just like we’ve seen with anti-terror and anti-hate-symbol legislation.

    From 63C (1) of the legislation:

    For the purposes of this Act, age-restricted social media platform means:

    • a) an electronic service that satisfies the following conditions:
      • i) the sole purpose, or a significant purpose, of the service is to enable online social interaction between 2 or more end-users;
      • ii) the service allows end-users to link to, or interact with, some or all of the other end-users;
      • iii) the service allows end-users to post material on the service;
      • iv) such other conditions (if any) as are set out in the legislative rules; or
    • b) an electronic service specified in the legislative rules; but does not include a service mentioned in subsection (6).

    Here’s all the detail of what the bill is and the concerns raised in parliament.