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  • And you can’t even trust that - good luck finding hardware with open source schematic that is not ancient.

    All processors have built-in spyware (Management Engine etc.), and that’s not going to change, since there are only a few highly sophisticated factories in the world that can make them, and the factions controlling those have no interest in producing consumer grade spyware free hardware. Modern processors have become essential for weaponry and warfare, so this is not going to change, only get worse.


  • oij2@lemmy.worldtoPrivacy@lemmy.mlDo you trust Proton?
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    After the WhatsApp scandals, my trust in encryption is limited. I’m not a mathematician (which is a goddamn shame), and if there is a backdoor in the mathematics themselves, I wouldn’t be able to catch it even if I read the source code. And there is always the possibility of decryption by quantum computers…

    So where we store our data is very important, even if it is decrypted. Encryption is just a secondary defense, the primary is limiting the accessibility to the data itself. And where you store the data, and to whom you allow access, determines the accessibility


  • That makes absolutely no sense - at the very least, this is unimplementable for an email provider.

    I am trusting someone for my data. Ownership belonging to the people running it, who just want to make a living, has the meaning that our interests are better aligned than a multinational ad agency or a nation state whose subject I not even am. That relationship is more healthy, the contract is clearer and more balanced.







  • What makes linux cool is that there are alternatives for literally anything. The fact that there is a constant debate going and people using all sorts of implementations just means that less of the system becomes a black box and more people are actually looking at and eventually working on the code. This keeps the system alive, and means it hasn’t ended up with some rotten filesystem like NTFS or a shitty Registry configuration system like windows.

    The most popular distro on distrowatch is MX Linux which uses initV but has ability to run systemd services - but however, initV became 10x faster and more usable because of rewrites that were sparked by the systemd debate.

    This is literally pure nerd rage energy being turned into amazing code, and it’s beautiful.