Oh my gosh! Is he okay??

Lol lmao wrong one I meant your reply to the other link I posted. I don’t mean “oh this person arguing w you is so dope”

No pressure, I am a turn-based human being

He should have a missile in his hand and a burning school under his feet. This is too pleasant. Also it’s accurate.

Oh yeah my issue is with the ideology of anti-authoritarianism that all these privacy people adhere to, thanks for clarifying what you meant. Anti-authoritarianism is an ideology that crosses many academic fields, as a result of the CIA (well, the OSS started it) bankrolling loads of orgs, as well as deciding the publishing & reach of their work. Very fine process of elimination. Leftism was exploding across the humanities and history departments, they needed their own brands (so many) to swallow it all whole worldwide. They needed to explain why they were fighting the people who drove Hitler to his grave (why, Stalin is secretly superhitler, please disregard Wall St’s involvement with the Nazis and Allen Dulles’ high treason against FDR, trying to make a deal with them before the soviets swooped in).

Privacy orgs often treat US governments as at risk of devolving into authoritarianism and dictatorship, contrasted with a mix of states the west is besieging with those it has bent and shaped into internal catastrophes, like Egypt in that recent Mullvad advertisement, India which has its whole ID system (AADHAR) managed by Google and Mossad (what’s the difference at this point). But the states they treat as at risk of being corrupted are the ones running the global surveillance apparatus. They have the luxury of allowing these software solutions. They control the hardware manufacturers, they have compromised your firmware. This stuff is not opaque to them, unlike the less technologically advanced states it targets (including the satrapies it calls allies).

Would you agree, even if not with the former points (I’m sure, as this is coming from entirely different premises than yours), that historical education among STEM workers and programming hobbyists is very lax? That they trust western journalistic institutions? Leaving them wide open to this capture strategy?

Putting this last so you get the framework before the trivia gotcha type thing: Arendt was in a relationship with a Nazi and these academics deliberately whitewashed his history. When Heidegger was a rector at Freiburg he would begin his lectures with “Heil Hitler!”. Not a great authority on authoritarianism (depending on your definition, just to do the stupid wordplay)

Will try to expand on these points later, maybe someone else can help. I have to go grab a lot of this reference material as I’m typing.

Oo intriguing last guy I asked about this never answered very good

But not the best, that would be this: https://lemmy.ml/post/48487241/26181321 :)

I’m not sure what the original post was about, but it’s very true that privacy is an extemely political thing. I wonder if the open source & security communities are preparing themselves for a future where western monopolies on hardware manufacturing and datacenters slip away and they become more hostile to these things. Western nonprofits funded mostly by corporations, and academia, these are totally bound by legality and could disappear with a few penstrokes. Autopen sorry

I can abide evil, but surveillance against Europeans 😱

Yeah it’s just easy to use and cheap. I know it’s CIA. So is my ISP. Neither are seriously bound by legality.

Their server list always made this statement implicitly. I’m glad they’re getting more into the blatant fed marketing since people will be able to see it.

No, that doesn’t make any sense! You’re just using American brainworms to justify more of them!

Gemini is very cool I found out about it through RSSGuard, which has a browser for it built in

Tuta would make sense to me as a honeypot. Who called them out? Add it to the list of free providers I use that are just the CIA… In order to “anonymize” my social media profiles on their other sites lol

Great catch, is this still default behavior?

Bizarre fantasy, seek help