I know. I never said otherwise. I’m responding to someone who said they can’t seed at all without port forwarding.

idk I don’t port forward and have 10+ ratios regularly

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=j2TyrLZT0r0

I think it would be fine if it were opt-in, but then you wouldn’t get enough data to get accurate traffic estimates

I was also confused at first, but OP is using “plausible deniability” to mean “depending on what decryption key you attempt to use, you get different ‘decrypted’ data”, so you can have an alibi I suppose. Not “plausible deniability” in the sense of “plausibly this isn’t encrypted at all”.

Depends on your threat model, the degree of interest in you from states, the resources and competency of the states interested in you, etc… Also, I think privacy for privacy’s sake and without any real threat to which it’s responding to, is entirely fine and understandable. If nobody were interested in my data at all I’d still practise a reasonable level of privacy because I think it’s creepy for other people to know my business.

Don’t bring your phone?

They meant that they wanted to do a test to see if they would get any gpg-encrypted emails from people who saw the hat in real life; the “experiment” doesn’t work if you allow internet strangers to email you too, as then you don’t know where a person may have gotten the email address/key from

OP never claimed the encryption of WA and iMessage “work for us”. They just said they were encrypted. That’s a neutral statement.

??? What does that have to do with what OP asked

What do I use the most or what do people use the most? I use Matrix the most as most of my friends are on it (+ have it bridged with some chats that aren’t on Matrix). Then after that SimpleX. I don’t know what the most popular encrypted messengers among the general population, except for the ones you listed, are.

You don’t have any way to find out about these things outside of Discord and Snapchat from your classmates??? How do your classmates find out then? It’s not going to spontaneously generate into a Discord server. There has to be an official channel where people find out about these things.

I don’t know what info is so critical that you can’t miss it but also can only possibly get it on Snapchat or Discord. If you use it to talk to other students you could get them to talk to you on another platform, otherwise it doesn’t really sound like they’re worth talking to, but you do you.

Forced? How? Why can’t you just uninstall them?

I think if you just publicly practise decent privacy, people will be more inclined to do the same. e.g. all my friends know I’m not on WhatsApp and don’t use proprietary software in general. They know to talk to me on other platforms, and the fact that I’m like this means that others will likely feel more able to do the same if they are inclined. Nobody ever told me to care about privacy; I have always thought it was creepy if others can see all my personal business. I can’t imagine that that’s such a rare innate mindset to have, so other people who feel the same way should feel more able to put that into practice if they see you doing so. If they really want to broadcast all their personal data to the state and tech companies then they are within their right to, and I don’t see the point in trying to convince them to not do what they want to do.

I prefer Mullvad. I’ve found it a lot more reliable. I was a paying Proton customer but still had connectivity issues a non-negligible number of times, whereas I’ve literally never had Mullvad be the cause of connection issues in my years of using it. It’s great that they take cash and have literally only an account hash associated with your account.

I’ve also found that Mullvad customer support are responsive, helpful, and know what they’re talking about. I’ve had experiences with Proton’s customer support that were ok, but occasionally had the typical customer service hiccups along the lines of being assigned a new support agent who doesn’t read back all the conversation (understandable—I had one bug I was dealing with for months) and you have to explain again what the original issue was and what has been done since.

I think both options are perfectly fine, but I definitely prefer Mullvad, and it’s what I recommend to people if they ask me to recommend a VPN service.

It’d be unambiguous in the context of a hospital.

They use it for Google Maps as a pin. Nothing new, and not particularly weird either. You can just skip it and not tell them.

In this case it’s because part of the joke is the quote tweet. You could also link to the tweet instead of a screenshot but then we need to connect to Musk’s servers at some point (even if through a proxy like nitter)

Not just screenshots. Generally look at the permissions apps have; screenshots is one of them, but all sorts of other data can be sent off by any app with internet access.