Any Linux distribution besides Ubuntu (who was caught capturing and sending desktop search bar activity to crapathon (Amazon)) is good, but I recomend people try to steer clear of ones that use soystemd (SystemD) because it is going the massivesuckage (Microsoft) route of trying to get its fingers into everything for no good reason.
In general, I would avoid anything that steers their users into using a smartphone app. There is a lot of data collection going on there, and ethical companies have no excuse to not support the universal web browser. Signal is lower on my list for that reason, although it does seem to have better acceptance by non-tech people.
It is a fork from Signal that allows more privacy such as not requiring a phone number and using an encryption key as your identifier for other people to message a decrypt your devices. The best of the lot imo but one of the least used.
It's not 0% for me since I don't know much about him but what he says about Telegram security & privacy is true from what I have researched myself (I encourage you to do the same as well).
Telegram is monitoring and selling your data to be used against you. Whether the money goes zuckcuck or telegram, the end result is the same against you.
Have been on element for much longer than telegram but I have picked up telegram to be apart of some particular chat groups that don't exist anywhere else yet
(May 17, 2021) Don't Use Telegram. Don't Use Telegram. Don't Use Telegram. Don't Use Telegram. Don't Use Telegram. | Luke Smith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBTsUVrCDAQ
A small minority has been telling the retards to stop using Telegram for quite awhile now.
The majority take convenience over privacy & security.
Use instead:
Element
Signal
Session
Jami
Jitsi
Briar
And several others here
https://www.privacytools.io/privacy-messaging/
Ain't that the truth. We are probably doomed to be the minority forever.
People whine at me when I explain GPG is the best bet for authentication too.
I haven't gone tat deep into opsec but this is good info to know!
A Practical Guide to GPG Part 1: Generate Your Public/Private Key Pair
https://www.linuxbabe.com/security/a-practical-guide-to-gpg-part-1-generate-your-keypair
If looking for good OS
https://tails.boum.org/
Have fun.
Any Linux distribution besides Ubuntu (who was caught capturing and sending desktop search bar activity to crapathon (Amazon)) is good, but I recomend people try to steer clear of ones that use soystemd (SystemD) because it is going the massivesuckage (Microsoft) route of trying to get its fingers into everything for no good reason.
The first Q&A on Artix' page gives part of the situation on soystemd: https://artixlinux.org/faq.php
Oh and Snapd. Stay FAR away from that because it is proprietary and controlled by Canonical (Ubuntu).
I recall rumblins about systemd being soyed into oblivion. Did a search and found this.
https://heads.dyne.org/about.html
I will have some homework for tonight.
Thanks for the info.
In general, I would avoid anything that steers their users into using a smartphone app. There is a lot of data collection going on there, and ethical companies have no excuse to not support the universal web browser. Signal is lower on my list for that reason, although it does seem to have better acceptance by non-tech people.
I use signal alongside telegram. To say that signal is safer is also suspect.
The code is open source, its been audited several times, your messages are end-to-end encrypted. It is safer than Telegram.
Anyone have any experience with this one? https://getsession.org/
It is a fork from Signal that allows more privacy such as not requiring a phone number and using an encryption key as your identifier for other people to message a decrypt your devices. The best of the lot imo but one of the least used.
Here is their litepaper summary
https://getsession.org/lightpaper
Here is their more detailed whitepaper
https://getsession.org/whitepaper
Here is some technical documentation
https://docs.oxen.io/products-built-on-oxen/session
Very helpful. Matrix, XMPP here I come. I guess this is the cryptic 'poisoning' Gregg Phillips was on about.
Interesting how this all comes out 2 weeks before midterms.
Psyops are a hell of a concept.
Ive never been a fan of telegram but the general public is pretty stupid and doesn't research what they use at all.
Good one.
Thank you.
It's not 0% for me since I don't know much about him but what he says about Telegram security & privacy is true from what I have researched myself (I encourage you to do the same as well).
I know its not a super safe chat. But it takes money away from cuckerberg and thats good enough for me.
Telegram is monitoring and selling your data to be used against you. Whether the money goes zuckcuck or telegram, the end result is the same against you.
Were mostly all in that boat. If you want more adoption to safe alternatives you should list that in this thread.
Just did it, thanks for the suggestion!
https://greatawakening.win/p/15K6SrRrOR/x/c/4OeznXOBWap
Have been on element for much longer than telegram but I have picked up telegram to be apart of some particular chat groups that don't exist anywhere else yet
Yeah I understand. The problem is there needs to be a way to put in fake phone number that doesn't trace back to you.
Online VoIP numbers haven't worked for me when signing up to telegram.