koper

So what is the reason for doing it that way?

The phone number link means forward security isn't possible. If ever the encryption is hacked, all your messages could be forfeit by anyone who's simply kept the encrypted data.

Can you elaborate on that? Obviously the phone number has privacy implications, but I don't think it can be used to decrypt messages. In the signal protocol, encryption keys are exchanged using ECDH (so wiretapping doesn't work) and periodically rotated (so even knowing the encryption keys at a certain point doesn't let you decrypt messages after that).

Stocks going up mostly benefits the wealthy. We shouldn't measure success that way.

Yes, the top part was clearly not written by a bottom.

So it's okay as long as you buy me dinner afterwards.

As long as it's not an exit node, nobody will be able to tell what the traffic is. It's all encrypted including the metadata.

Perhaps VOA news is not the most reliable source https://apnews.com/article/voice-america-democracy-trump-lake-fake-news-90039c76a8915d7906f5d7608c9e05f4

This 100%.

The US bullied the rest of the world into passing these anti-circumvention laws that make it illegal to modify the appliances you buy. Stick it to them and let us run our own firmware free of US cloud services.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/15/radical-extremists/

Last I checked Ukraine is ceding a lot of ground in Kursk. Are you saying that's all a lie?

Arooo, that may be so. But I know a place where the constitution doesn't mean squat!

Fun fact: some of these are made specifically for US prisons because you can't hide contraband in them.

Because it was never about the deficit, you dummies. It's a convenient lie to settle personal grievances and dismantle the regulators that are going after Trump and his crime partners. https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/27/beltway-bandits/#henhouse-foxes