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mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitchInternet privacy advocate | Volunteer Signal beta tester | Veteran Major Incident Manager (MIM)
22 Followers
34 Following
50 Posts
Joined November 19, 2022
Replying to @evacide@hachyderm.io
@evacide@hachyderm.io I do wonder if this would still be considered a crime under an administration that isn't actively trying to turn America into Russia/Nazi Germany.
Replying to @SuperMoosie@mastodon.au
@SuperMoosie@mastodon.au @briankrebs@infosec.exchange AI-generated?
Replying to @BlueBrogues@social.vivaldi.net
@BlueBrogues@social.vivaldi.net @evacide@hachyderm.io See my comment re: America turning into Nazi Germany/Russia. Federal law enforcement is walking the streets, ripping people out of their homes, and shooting citizens in the face.
Replying to @evacide@hachyderm.io
@evacide@hachyderm.io I hope the U.S. can celebrate like this sooner than his term ends.
Replying to @lnsy_dev@mastodon.social
@lnsy_dev@mastodon.social @camless@m.ai6yr.org @evacide@hachyderm.io Laws became meaningless after the president organized and executed a coup, and didn't go to prison.
Replying to @cmthiede@social.vivaldi.net
@cmthiede@social.vivaldi.net @evacide@hachyderm.io Holy random cast, Batman!
Replying to @evacide@hachyderm.io
@evacide@hachyderm.io Watch the movie "2073" to see a glimpse of the future we're heading toward if we don't kick out shit politicians and re-institute antitrust laws.
Replying to @DrOinOR@mastodon.social
@DrOinOR@mastodon.social Recently left. Honestly the prices are shit in Oregon too. In the time I lived there, the cost went from 12 cents/KWh to 19 cents/KWh. By the time I left, even keeping the AC set to 72 and heat to 68 didn't make much of a difference. Still paid $150/month on average for a relatively small house.
Replying to @taylorlorenz@mastodon.social
@taylorlorenz@mastodon.social “Body cameras can help de-escalate conflicts, ultimately contributing to a safer environment for everyone."
They thought the same thing about police body cams, but cops still murder people in the street every day. I'll be avoiding Walgreen's as much as possible.
Replying to @semitones@tiny.tilde.website
@semitones@tiny.tilde.website @signalapp@mastodon.world Brian Acton, the acting CEO, has no salary. The president is Meredith Whittaker. Her salary is about $800k.
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/824506840
And her salary doesn't even crack the top 10 charity executive salaries in the world.
Here is the top 10:
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Selwyn Vickers, M.D., President/CEO, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, $5,787,159, Fiscal Year Ending 12/31/2023
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Kathryn Martin, Past COO, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, $4,762,491, Fiscal Year Ending 12/31/2023
Replying to @evacide@hachyderm.io
@evacide@hachyderm.io @sil@mastodon.social @acesabe@infosec.exchange Absolutely. I'm happy you get enjoyment out of it. I just really don't care to put a lot of time into it, and prefer to be easily forgotten when out in public.
Replying to @xdej@mamot.fr
@xdej@mamot.fr @signalapp@mastodon.world Nothing is "disguised". It's clearly identified as an official chat with Signal, and all messages only go one way (them to you), so it's not a conversation.
Replying to @izby@mastodon.social
@izby @signalapp I don't really care what happens to them since I rarely use them. It would be better for everyone if the 3B people on WhatsApp and billion on Telegram also used Signal, but that's not currently the case.
WhatsApp has been Zucked since 2016. Constantly screaming about how private and secure it is while not being open-source means it's probably not secure or private, and even more so when it's a Facebook product.
Everything you do on Telegram is stored in plaintext by default on Telegram's servers, it has a long history of sketchy security, was created by a Russian billionaire, and has been banned, unbanned, and could be banned again in Russia. There was a report in October last year that Telegram is very likely an FSB Honeypot: https://rys.io/en/179.html#:~:text=The%20assumption%20seems%20to%20have%20always%20been,this%20is%20much%20less%20of%20a%20consideration
I have WhatsApp and Telegram, but I don't do much on either but lurk in sports channels.
This is why I stick to Signal for all my communication. They don't have data to hand over because they don't collect it: https://signal.org/bigbrother/
Replying to @leoschuldiner23@linernotes.club
@leoschuldiner23 @gettie @kkarhan It depends. I have 5 phone numbers all used for different purposes.
Replying to @izby@mastodon.social
@izby @signalapp Email registration would turn Signal into a spam and bot cesspool like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram etc.
Replying to @semitones@tiny.tilde.website
@semitones@tiny.tilde.website @signalapp@mastodon.world You might be thinking about the blog post that said $20M across *all* employees at Signal, inclusive of salary, health insurance costs etc.
Replying to @Tjader@mastodonsweden.se
@Tjader @signalapp Is there a source for this "declaration of war"?
Replying to @hpk@chaos.social
@hpk@chaos.social @compl4xx@chaos.social @gaufff@piaille.fr @cwtch@fosstodon.org @element@mastodon.matrix.org @signalapp@mastodon.world @delta@chaos.social And decentralized messaging is worthless if Grandma can't set it up herself.
I've tried decentralized messaging options, like Matrix, and they're always too slow and too difficult to use for average people. Nobody has the time to handhold every person they know through setting them up, but anyone can download an app and enter a phone number when prompted to register on Signal, and that's why I push people I know toward it instead of others apps that don't have the ease of use and global high regard among Cybersecurity experts and cryptographers that Signal does.
Compared to Signal, Delta, Matrix, etc. are niche, highly experimental, and unproven. Maybe that'll change in 10 years.
Replying to @compl4xx@chaos.social
@compl4xx@chaos.social @gaufff@piaille.fr @cwtch@fosstodon.org @element@mastodon.matrix.org @signalapp@mastodon.world @delta@chaos.social I'm sure they have, but opt-in encryption is a no-go for me, and frankly unforgivable in 2025. Delta also lacks perfect forward secrecy. It's absolutely critical to have default end-to-end encryption and perfect forward secrecy now more than ever when previously democratic countries are sinking deeper into authoritarianism.
Signal literally does everything it can to protect users, including fighting subpoenas:
https://signal.org/bigbrother/
Replying to @derekmorr@mastodon.social
@derekmorr@mastodon.social @mansr@society.oftrolls.com @Mer__edith@mastodon.world @dalias@hachyderm.io MobileCoin wasn't "their token". It was a partnership with the company MobileCoin. All Signal did was build an opt-in wallet compatible with it.
Replying to @BeornTarben@mastodon.social
@BeornTarben@mastodon.social @signalapp@mastodon.world Have you tried using the Note To Self contact? It's been around forever.
Replying to @niklasnisbeth@mastodon.xyz
@niklasnisbeth@mastodon.xyz @signalapp@mastodon.world Six months ago when this went live in production: https://signal.org/blog/introducing-secure-backups/
Support article:
https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/9708267671322-Signal-Secure-Backups
Replying to @izby@mastodon.social
@izby Your pedantry is unwarranted and unappreciated, so I'm exiting this exchange after my next comment:
There was no way to know wtf you were even asking, so I responded as best I could. I've never had spam on Telegram, nor on WhatsApp. Have a good day.
Replying to @kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange
@kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange It's very obvious other people have access to his Twitter and Truth Social accounts because this demonstrably stupid motherfucker did not write "wherein they requested" or "we believe it is a workable basis on which" 🙄. There are also not enough random capitalizations, poor/no/too much punctuation, and there are way too many multisyllabic words.
Replying to @matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange
@matthew_d_green AppleCare One is a scam if you compare the details to individual per-device insurance.
Replying to @signalapp@mastodon.world
@signalapp@mastodon.world Avoid getting spam messages entirely by setting "Who can find me by phone number" to "Nobody". It's under settings > privacy > phone number.
Replying to @mansr@society.oftrolls.com
@mansr@society.oftrolls.com @dalias@hachyderm.io @Mer__edith@mastodon.world Even though it does nothing by default because it's off by default? Strange logic.
Replying to @zwecki@dresden.network
@zwecki@dresden.network @Mer__edith@mastodon.world They did that once. It didn't go well.
"In May 2016, Moxie Marlinspike wrote that federation with the CyanogenMod servers had degraded the user experience and held back development, and that their servers will probably not federate with other servers again."
Moxie also did an entire presentation about why it's inferior: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdM-XTRyC9c
Replying to @evacide@hachyderm.io
@evacide@hachyderm.io All of these bills and laws are just action for the sake of it. They don't have any real ideas left.
Replying to @scathach@stereophonic.space
@scathach@stereophonic.space @signalapp@mastodon.world You can just turn off discovery by phone number and never get a spam message again: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/6712070553754-Phone-Number-Privacy-and-Usernames#pnp
Replying to @mbootsman@toot.re
@mbootsman@toot.re @BucciaBuccia@mastodon.social @signalapp@mastodon.world That's correct. Linked devices has nothing to do with migrating devices or switching your mobile OS.
Replying to @Avitus@ioc.exchange
@semitones@tiny.tilde.website @signalapp@mastodon.world 6. Harlan Levine, M.D., President, Health Innovation & Policy, City of Hope & Affiliates, $2,915,943, Fiscal Year Ending 09/30/2023
- Michael S. Salem, M.D., President/CEO, National Jewish Health, $2,610,232, Fiscal Year Ending 06/30/2024
Replying to @adbenitez@mastodon.de
@adbenitez@mastodon.de @christmastree@mastodon.social @scathach@stereophonic.space Nobody can discover you on Signal if you disable it: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/6712070553754-Phone-Number-Privacy-and-Usernames#pnp
Replying to @rustoleumlove@mastodon.online
@rustoleumlove@mastodon.online @derekmorr@mastodon.social Meredith addressed this 18 months ago https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/111563865413484025
Replying to @lorenzofb@infosec.exchange
@lorenzofb If Krosseyed Kash spent less time being a beer-chugging frat boy...this probably still would've happened because that wouldn't fix him being an idiot.
Replying to @Avitus@ioc.exchange
@semitones@tiny.tilde.website @signalapp@mastodon.world 8. Laurie H. Glimcher, M.D., President/CEO, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, $2,339,457, Fiscal Year Ending 09/30/2023
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Jack Mahler, M.D., Chief Investment Officer, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, $2,126,373, Fiscal Year Ending 12/31/2023
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Debra Fields, EVP & Chief Transformation Officer, City of Hope & Affiliates, $2,117,612, Fiscal Year Ending 09/30/2023
Replying to @Tjader@mastodonsweden.se
@Tjader @signalapp Oh the American president. I thought you meant Meredith Whittaker 🤣.
Replying to @briankrebs@infosec.exchange
@briankrebs@infosec.exchange My LinkedIn stays frozen until I'm looking for a job again. No point leaving it active otherwise. I'm not interested in reading people's thought wanks about how great their employer is.
Replying to @apnoe_soeren@mastodon.social
@apnoe_soeren@mastodon.social @signalapp@mastodon.world Usernames and cloud backup were multi-year projects. Now that they're both released, they can start burning through all the little stuff that's been requested for years.
Replying to @gettie@fedi.catto.garden
@gettie @kkarhan Or hide your phone number, and create and share a username. Signal's had usernames for a couple years: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/6712070553754-Phone-Number-Privacy-and-Usernames
Replying to @rbairwell@mastodon.org.uk
@rbairwell @signalapp It's not always a new phone. Just a few months ago I purged Signal from my phone before going through CBP on my way back from an international trip, then put it back on the same phone.
Replying to @evacide@hachyderm.io
@evacide@hachyderm.io @k8em0@infosec.exchange I don't think it was unintentional to weaken American cyber security.
Replying to @gaufff@piaille.fr
@gaufff@piaille.fr @cwtch@fosstodon.org @element@mastodon.matrix.org @delta@chaos.social @signalapp@mastodon.world I'd stick with Signal. Take a look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdM-XTRyC9c
Replying to @lorenzofb@infosec.exchange
@lorenzofb@infosec.exchange Like everything with the Trump loyalists on the SCOTUS, there's an ulterior motive to this. Just makes me wonder how they're planning to fuck us in the future.
Replying to @Crystal_Fish_Caves@mstdn.party
@Crystal_Fish_Caves @lorenzofb Or when the secretary of defense shares classified information with uncleared family members that aren't government employees. Or when a national security advisor uses a Signal clone run by Israeli intelligence that backs up all the classified conversations he's having in plaintext.
Replying to @acesabe@infosec.exchange
@acesabe@infosec.exchange @sil@mastodon.social @evacide@hachyderm.io It was a philosophy started by Steve Jobs (among a certain type of people). If what you wear every day is the same, then you don't have to waste time and energy trying to decide what to wear.
Replying to @Avitus@ioc.exchange
@semitones@tiny.tilde.website @signalapp@mastodon.world 3. Robert W. Stone, President/CEO, City of Hope & Affiliates, $4,559,374, Fiscal Year Ending 09/30/2023
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Nancy Brown, CEO, American Heart Association, $4,388,845, Fiscal Year Ending 06/30/2024
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Jason Klein, Senior VP/Chief Investment Officer, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, $3,581,445, Fiscal Year Ending 12/31/2023