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by dngray 5y ago
> Doesn't sound like a great plan really. If I were you I'd work harder with the domain owner to get control. It sounds like he's just hard to reach, not obstructive as such. For context, we did bring this up with Burung H
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by dngray 5y ago
> The founder is Jonah Aragon right? No, he's the system administrator, the founder was Burung Hantu. https://privacytools.io/about/
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by dngray 5y ago
That blog's author also suffers from obvious mental issues if you look at any of the articles on it. Nearly everything he says there is not substantiated. The links don't actually support his arguments, and in fact disprove them
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by dngray 6y ago
It's actually quite reasonable if you think about it from a financial perspective. Company makes game, their intellectual property. Someone else makes a cheat and makes a lot of money destroying their IP, causing them to lose money as
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by dngray 6y ago
Yes.. what you want is Temporary Containers, it can be used in conjunction with Multi Account Containers above. https://medium.com/@stoically/enhance-your-privacy-in-firefo... You can get it to open things with the sam
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by dngray 6y ago
I really like "Temporary Containers" https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/temporary-container... which is a really useful privacy-enhancing usage of the containers API. https://medium.com&
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by dngray 6y ago
I've found this extension https://www.daniel.priv.no/web-extensions/amp2html.html rather useful for dealing with that. It also means I am less likely to share an AMP link.
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by dngray 6y ago
Were you thinking of this? https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2011/staatstrojaner https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2015/bkag
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Protecting Your Privacy with a Virtual Machine While Using Zoom(blog.privacytools.io)
3 points by dngray 7y ago|0 comments
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by dngray 7y ago
> A well-known standard in this regard is XMPP and another competing is Matrix. XMPP is much older and part of the 'official' standards by the Internet Engineering Task Force, while Matrix is younger and setting a stronger foc
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by dngray 7y ago
> This is missing some fundamental ones: gclid and dclid. I always preferred CleanURLs as it has an autoupdate feature, which pulls down this json file https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls/raw/master
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by dngray 7y ago
I use newsboat https://newsboat.org as I like no distractions. In my "urls" I have things organized like so: # Blogs ## Software Development Blogs https://example1s.com/ "blogs/s
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by dngray 7y ago
> You don't seem too impressed by those that make the choice to live off the grid... I don't think the author of that post is living "off the grid" at all. I am surprised nobody noticed that he mentioned he uses OKC
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by dngray 7y ago
> Proxmox is pretty cool, but it doesn't make sense unless you're running many machines and utilizing ceph. For a home user, Debian (or some other stable distro) is still going to be the best distro for doing hypervisor stuff.
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by dngray 7y ago
> Many banking apps refuse to work on rooted phones, and the apps are often required to use the banking services. My understanding is you can get around that with things like: • Magisk: https://forum.xda-developers.com/
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by dngray 7y ago
> Google engineers if you're listening - FIX AND IMPROVE HANGOUTS AND STOP WASTING YOUR EFFORTS ON NEW MESSAGING PROJECTS No don't fix hangouts, help out with matrix.org. They are really offering what nobody else is these day
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by dngray 7y ago
RCS was a steaming pile of shit from the moment it was first announced. No instant messenger platform should be developed in this age without E2EE. https://www.privacytools.io/software/real-time-communication... I do t
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by dngray 7y ago
We recently pushed a new update re-organizing the instant messenger recommendation thread on our website https://www.privacytools.io/software/real-time-communication...
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Choosing the Right Messenger(blog.privacytools.io)
2 points by dngray 7y ago|1 comments
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by dngray 7y ago
Yes and this is because it meets the criteria https://www.privacytools.io/providers/vpn/#info specifically the item that got it there was that they had external auditing. > Mullvad's VPN clients have been
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by dngray 7y ago
> It is the only VPN that I am aware of that works out of the box with softether. I have not tried it yet. I currently use Astrill. Astrill is not cheap but works pretty well to circumvent censorship. A disadvantage of Astrill is that i
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by dngray 7y ago
> Why can't every VPN review site say the same thing? Serious review sites don't accept sponsorships. This one does. Should it be taken seriously? I don't take it seriously. 1. We currently get _no_ money from _any_ VPN
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The trouble with VPN and privacy review sites(blog.privacytools.io)
181 points by dngray 7y ago|120 comments
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Interpol plans to condemn encryption spread, citing predators, sources say(reuters.com)
1 points by dngray 7y ago|0 comments
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by dngray 7y ago
You know what is better than extensions: Old Reddit Please https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/40897-old-reddit-please Works great in Violentmonkey/Greasemonkey.
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by dngray 7y ago
> It doesn’t indent I just use a carrot and make it italics, easy to see. Though it should be: > "It doesn’t indent" • https://getitwriteonline.com/articles/titles-italics-or-quot... • https:/&#
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by dngray 7y ago
> Mozilla should include a proper PGP implementation in their browser. In fact, I have no idea why a browser that positions itself as pro-privacy doesn't already have a way to sign, verify, encrypt and decrypt text. Maybe somethin
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by dngray 7y ago
> The same as if they start emailing you all the time: you block them. > And since phone numbers are harder and costlier to just generate and use, that block is more meaningful blocking an email address. You might think that but t
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by dngray 7y ago
That article states why PFS for email isn't really all that useful: > As far as I know, Brown et al.'s proposal is not often used. One reason for this is that forward secrecy is not always desired. For instance, if you encrypt
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by dngray 7y ago
> In Denmark, due to the GDPR, almost non of the digital letters we receive from the government can be sent by email (since they would contain personally identifiable information such as Social Security Numbers), so instead we just get

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