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ementally··on Flatpak builds are not reproducible and why that's a practical problem (2022)
Related: "Flathub is insecure for distributing cryptocurrency software".

https://github.com/feather-wallet/feather/issues/47

ementally··on Flatpak builds are not reproducible and why that's a practical problem (2022)
Guix seems the best when it comes to reproducibility https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2024/identifying-software/
ementally··on Show HN: Memories – FOSS Google Photos alternative built for high performance
How is it compared to https://ente.io/ ?
ementally··on Debloat non-rooted Android devices
Just disable the apps, no need to debloat.

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/universal-android-debloa...

ementally··on GpgFrontend: Open-source, Cross-platform GnuPG Front end
https://github.com/saturneric/GpgFrontend
ementally··on Tell HN: "Default" FileZilla download bundled with adware
Also Cheat engine https://github.com/cheat-engine/cheat-engine/issues/2105
ementally··on Default" Cheat Engine download bundled with adware
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheat_Engine#Malware_distribut...
ementally··on Tell HN: "Default" FileZilla download bundled with adware
Same with Cheat engine https://github.com/cheat-engine/cheat-engine/issues/2105
ementally··on Privacy focused platform Skiff is joining Notion, Skiff to be sunset
Interesting, I really like your technical blogs https://peergos.org/blog.
ementally··on Mullvad Uses Gmail
Discussion thread: https://old.iris.to/note1hekrtdrtnfk40xuktjaw8y06um9eyf6seh7...
ementally··on Psst: Paper-Based Secret Sharing Technique
Yeah you are right. It is more like https://bs.parity.io/#/-BananaSplit-shamir
ementally··on Psst: Paper-Based Secret Sharing Technique
Reminds me of https://superbacked.com/ and https://github.com/Twometer/hyperbacked which is an open source clone of superbacked.

Both Generate Encrypted QR parts using Shamir's secret sharing.

ementally··on Apache Open Office as an unmaintained project?
>Or the committer is making very small changes that are hard too see amongst the massive whitespace changes his auto-formatter makes every time she saves a

How about you show it? lmao

Can't believe that this is even a comment.

ementally··on Some new snippets from the Snowden documents
Should have just kept it off.
ementally··on The Messaging Layer Security (MLS) Protocol
From https://simplex.chat/blog/20230722-simplex-chat-v5-2-message...

>Why not hosted groups with MLS?

>Initially, we considered the design with the dedicated servers, potentially self-hosted, that host groups. This design would require adopting MLS (or similar) protocol for group-wide key agreement. Unfortunately, this design is not sufficiently resilient and easier to censor than decentralized design. Also, MLS protocol is very complex to implement, requires a centralized component, and reduces forward secrecy. So we decided against this approach.

ementally··on Welcoming Shopify as a Ladybird sponsor
Nice!

Would be great if it is being built with security in mind.

ementally··on Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days
Probably important for competitive games only.

60 fps is great for anything else.

ementally··on Signal Groups V2 is a privacy downgrade
Signal's Sealed sender is broken

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35058706

ementally··on Testing a new encrypted messaging app's extraordinary claims
This was an article about the app [0].

"Man Creates Messaging App FBI Can't Crack and Anyone Can Download, Stopped at Airport Days Later"

I would just use SimpleX tbh [1]

[0]https://www.westernjournal.com/man-creates-messaging-app-fbi...

[1] https://simplex.chat

ementally··on Anonymous Tor Phone
Brave https://www.privacyguides.org/en/mobile-browsers/#brave

About Vanadium, it is mostly focused on security, and it takes advantage of OS hardening to do that. Brave is a fine choice, and it does offer fingerprinting protections that Vanadium doesn’t. It’s up to you which you’ll choose for you use case, but Vanadium takes the cake when it comes to a robust, secure and minimal browser

ementally··on Anonymous Tor Phone
You are probably better off with GrapheneOS + Orbot.

Here is the list of issues I have with this blog.

1) LineageOS https://github.com/beerisgood/Smartphone_Security#custom-rom...

2) Riseup email, they have a mailing list, which apparently makes them unable to add a proper DMARC policy. As a result, anyone can spoof an email at any @riseup.net address, and the email would show up as a legitimate email on most recipient mail servers and they do not encrypt the data at rest per-user with the user's own keys like ProtonMail.

3) Session is great but lacks PFS (perfect forward secrecy)

4) bromite usually behind in updates which leaves it vulnerable to exploits

btw, On Android, Firefox is still less secure than Chromium-based alternatives: Mozilla's engine, GeckoView, has yet to support site isolation or enable isolatedProcess.

ementally··on Privacyguides.org – The guide to restoring your online privacy
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/about/privacytools/
ementally··on Every web search result in Brave Search is now served by our own index
I actually find their Goggles [0] feature really interesting.

[0] https://search.brave.com/help/goggles

ementally··on Show HN: Jellylade – Turn your screenshots into posts
Probably useful for people doing web stories.

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/enable-...

ementally··on Smartphones with Qualcomm chip secretly send personal data to Qualcomm
A reddit thread about CalyxOS making connections to xtrapath1.izatcloud.net .

https://old.reddit.com/r/CalyxOS/comments/pym8l1/calyxos_con...

ementally··on Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant – customer data not compromised
a) If they are unable to identify the user by any means then this is their only resort and google is going to happily hand it over.

b) Depends on the country you are in. You might be the only one connected to a specific VPN server at specified time, this also answers point c.

c) Would be surprised. Have a read of this recent Affidavit https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23723268/pompourin-af...

ementally··on Proton announces Proton Pass, a password manager
https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonPass/comments/12su1vq/proton_... They claim that using it as cloud service prevents brute force.
ementally··on Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant – customer data not compromised
If your ISP suspects your IP address (can see your are connected to specific VPN server) they can just contact top websites, example: twitter, facebook or google and ask them if there are any users connected with the same IP at given specific time.
ementally··on Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant – customer data not compromised
How can you be sure that you are the only one in your country not connected to the same IP address provided by a VPN server?
ementally··on Codeberg – Fast open source alternative to GitHub
Repo is still private and the dev removed all of his updates.

https://web.archive.org/web/20221125051241/https://orenom.fi...

The repo: https://codeberg.org/orenom/wikiless

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