A subpoena can still reveal the owner's information to the world. Even if it's a frivolous lawsuit that ends up getting tossed.
refalo
joined 7 months ago
let's try to be nicer
NFC payments that require my unlocked phone to use are a lot more secure than a physical card that can be stolen.
No access to google pay is a non-starter for me, I use it constantly to pay for lots of things.
you don't have to load the code every time, you can save it and run locally, this is exactly what the Element desktop app does, it's just an electron loader for a local copy of the website, and you can choose to update it whenever you want
We can see you totally didn't do that. Also how would you even get the update?
Japan has been requiring fingerprints AND photographs for all incoming visitors for the better part of two decades now.
If a foreign national who is required to be fingerprinted and photographed refuses to comply with this requirement, he/she will be denied entry to Japan.
https://www.mm.emb-japan.go.jp/profile/PDF%20file/newime.pdf
Open Technology Fund
Which is funded by US Congress, and they also funded Signal.
For those do not wish to use privacy-related projects funded by a world government, what is a good (in your opinion) alternative? Both with and without Tor involvement (since US govt funded that too).
Yes I realize encryption, computers and the internet are all also govt-funded, but everyone is free to pick their battles.
I tried OpenSnitch but it would always randomly crash while interacting with the GUI, and it would reset all my tcp connections every time you start it back up.
For windows I either use a mingw toolchain from mxe.cc or just run the msvc compiler in wine, works great for standard C and C++ at least, even when you use Qt or other third party libraries.