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> As opposed to the well-secured IRC? It's less about the protocol itself and more about the community/culture, I trust tech savvy people more to care about p
by diath 5y ago
> As opposed to the well-secured IRC?
It's less about the protocol itself and more about the community/culture, I trust tech savvy people more to care about privacy than profit-driven platforms like Discord.
- ferdowsi 5y agoI'm sure that the culture is very privacy/tech savvy, but Freenode even couldn't be bothered to enforce TLS on all connections. There's no need for overt collaboration at that point since communication is just wide-open for spying. It appeals primarily to a subset of Web 1.0 enthusiasts.
- wernercd 5y agoYou mean like the tech savvy people that ran the encrypted platform Anom? https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-sting-using-anom-platform-leads-to-global-roundup-of-suspects-11623165556 https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-sting-using-anom-platform-l...
- diath 5y agoI have never stated that things run by tech savvy people make things inherently secure; they make things *more likely* to be secure/privacy oriented, especially if you consider the fact that somebody would be more likely to speak up about potential foul play if they're a volunteering enthusiast rather than if they're working for a for-profit company that would just tell them to shut up or get fired and deal with the legal consequences.
- theshrike79 5y agoI've saved every single IRC log since 2003 on every channel I've been on. They're all fully searchable and indexed on a private psql instance.