Updates are not every month like exactly the last version proofs. Unfortunately delayed security updates are the major issue when using /e/
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The point was privacy. Calyx has the philosophy that sending data to Google is good so you do not appear as unusual. But they forget that you can’t be detected by Google as an unusual user if you do not connect to Google at all.
Nonsense. Lineage calls Google and is not privacy respecting. /e/ is much better in terms of privacy.
Undertaker@feddit.orgto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Why does Signal want a phone number to register if it's supposedly privacy first?2·27 days agoNo it doesn’t. What is a need? It is for troll and spam and bot protection. How does the links show that there is no need for it?
Undertaker@feddit.orgto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Why does Signal want a phone number to register if it's supposedly privacy first?52·27 days agoWhat an answers. Completely nonsense
WhatsApp claim to use this. They do not show their code nor did they do any kind of audit. Therefore we have to assume that there is no encryption.
Oh yeah, that’s what parents need… Do you need some medical help?
Consent coming from those, that did not sign Tte contract obviously…
They blocked all the time. If you weren’t Blockes before, it was luck.
No database. No background processes
So it’s no IAM.
If privacy is your topic, iPhones are out.
You could check /e/OS for example with Fairphone that includes parental control feature.
Your parents do not matter in this context and it would be shameful to use such features.Avoid tracking apps and tracking in apps. Avoid big tech like Meta and use Signal instead. If your child is not willing to do without Tiktok, Insta and so on, you won’t prevent. You can only explain. Remember: Divice literacy is not media literacy
Undertaker@feddit.orgto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Tuta Launches Post Quantum Cryptography For Email31·3 months agomaking Tuta Mail the world’s first email provider that can protect emails from quantum computer attacks.
I don’t see how mails are secured when being sended from or to a Tutanota user and to or from a non Tutanota user. Those mails are only secured on their servers.
This. You can’t use your client, not on your phone nor on your PC. Therefore Tutanota was never a viable option
Undertaker@feddit.orgto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Ironfox doesn't have privacy.resistfingerprinting set to true in about:config?61·3 months agoThey changed some basics from Mull and decided to go other ways. That’s why I’m not using thus browser
Undertaker@feddit.orgto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Merz won the German election. Here’s what it means for ~~Europe~~ [privacy].31·3 months agoHell no. The oposite. He is in favour for chat control. Thus going to be the end for freedom and democracy in Europe
Undertaker@feddit.orgto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Apple Pulls Encrypted iCloud Security Feature in UK Amid Government Backdoor Demands1·4 months agoI don’t think so
Undertaker@feddit.orgto Privacy@lemmy.ml•How can I discourage my dad to install Telegram?2·4 months agoBut it’s Telegram. Avoiding laws, their registered office tells us enough. No encryption (only in a few cases after one’s own initiative). I don’t see a better option.
Undertaker@feddit.orgto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Arguments for Signal over Whatsapp, Messenger, and SnapChat422·4 months agoFirst of all, Signals code is open. Many people arround the world can check (and they already did) if the messenger lives up to its promises, is secure, private and so on. The others are not. Whatever you think they do, you have to trust a company like Meta. You wanna be that naive?
All those apps collect data: when you are online, where you are online, who is talking to who. Maybe also what you are talking about… we can’t know. For example: Some psychatrists do not use WhatsApp because using such an app in the waiting room would provide Meta with information like ‘you have mental health issues’. Signal on the other hand does verifiable not collect such data.
We also can see bahaviours coming from big companies to direct societies into a direction of their favor. They act like this, because maximum profit and power is what they are working for - they are simply companies. Signal on the other hand is a foundation which aims to provide security, encryption, privacy and fight against censorship (not in terms of content but in terms of countries blocking messenger services). What could be the more trustworthy base?
Btw Signal uses donations to pay their development and Servers so you can use the app for free. What does Meta use to handle costs for WhatsApp, Facebook and so on… Maybe they are charitable 🤞
To name differences:
- No adds
- No tracking
- Local backup (not on Google services or something like that)
- No exchange of personal data like phone number (they use a hash instead)
- You can use a pseudonym in form of a user name to get in contact with others (without telling them your phone number) and you can easily delete it and use a new one
- Signal created the Signal protocol which is called the gold standard, as it is the most secure and to encryption mechanism. They were the first so add resistance against quantum computers
And finally the better question is:
Why should the world use WhatsApp and co and not Signal? They do not have one advantage. If the whole world would use Signal, Threema or similar apps, it wouldn’t lose anything but would win so much. Think about that
They already has these but made changed (they would say enhancements) to it. Unfortunately nothing relevant was included, but we waited more than two month for an update and we got one with patch level from two month ago. That is ridiculous.