Bomnam

joined 8 months ago
 

With how many lawsuits they get and the total amounts they now have technically lost in court, how is it possible they still hide their hosting infrastructure? Anna's archive hosts a truly monumental amount of content and its not like its exactly easy to host petabytes(?) of content in secret easily. Hell the orders for hard drives should make it easy to find them. It's not like they can just tuck a raspberry pi with an Ethernet connection somewhere and throw up a proxy and call it a day. What kind of techniques are required to hide that amount of infrastructure? Especially under such scrutiny as the US government and many publishers coming for their throats I can't imagine it's a small feat.

[–] Bomnam@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

As time goes on I'm hoping more products like this that give what was once only possible via locked down proprietary software a new open and repairable life as theres many new products and tech that I see but could never use unless I'd want to just upload everything I do to whoevers servers and pray that they don't get breached.

 

This can't like just be a coincidence right? I feel like all of those symbols in the same tagline suggests something more than just coincidence.

[–] Bomnam@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 3 months ago

Those reports do NOT show active zero days in signal. The pieces of spyware talked about in those are capable of reading messages once already having compromised a device which isn't insane as if you have access to read storage from a device arbitrarily, of course you can just read the messages. If you want to solve this, A: Use GrapheneOS or an iPhone on lockdown mode with data over USB disabled or B: Use Molly with local encryption.

[–] Bomnam@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 4 months ago

These systems still only operate once you've opted into them, meaning if you just never enable brave ads or disable it, these systems won't reach you or have any of these possible problems. Personally I don't use these browsers without disabling everything (ads, daily usage ping, ads on new tab page, etc) and once you've done that it is still a pretty great option for a privacy browser especially when considering its better web compatibility compared to Firefox which still lags behind.

**I am not saying Firefox or brave is definitely better than one or the other, I do not want to strike the hornets nest. **

IMO, if you disable all the aforementioned features, it is still good as a privacy focused browser. And especially if you disable things like ads and daily usage ping, you won't be contributing anything to brave devs at all and can use it just as a browser without supporting or enabling the words of their founder.

[–] Bomnam@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 months ago

Funny enough they actually just recently ended their partnership with flock, possibly hinting that they're looking to compete with them.

 

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/55146202

Everyone saw this coming but it's terrifying to watch it become a reality.

 

Everyone saw this coming but it's terrifying to watch it become a reality.

[–] Bomnam@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 5 months ago

This is a perfect example of why privacy and security in smartphones is so incredibly important. Delivering food to your neighbors is not illegal and you shouldn't be followed because you put a Mexican person's address into Google Maps or your notes. Absolute insanity.

[–] Bomnam@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 6 months ago

I hate that we've reached a point in US history where a semi civil war is at risk of happening to stop government overreach from taking and killing whoever they want who gets in the way of their agenda to oppress as many people as possible and reduce everyone's rights to dust.