stoy
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- Comment on let's kill proton mail 4 hours ago:
I agree that we should work toward a more private society, but we are not there yet.
And to answer your question, yes, Proton is required to store the CC info.
- Comment on let's kill proton mail 9 hours ago:
Well, not everyone needs to be good at opsec, most people are fine as is.
Most people are not working against the government either.
But if you are going against the government, or any large and powerful entity, you absolutely need good, reliable opsec.
When the police comes knocking on your door, you can’t just blame Proton for not informing you about not using your own CC to sign up for your service.
This isn’t a playground, you are dealing with the big boys now, and they have far more tools than you have, unless you learn and adapt, you will get burnt.
So while you are right that bot everyone can be expected to be good at opsec, that isn’t the issue.
The issue is that this was an opsec failure of the guy, it wasn’t Proton messing up.
- Comment on let's kill proton mail 1 day ago:
And that is why you would have failed at opsec.
You can’t demand warnings about stuff like that all the time, YOU need to teach yourself these things.
You can’t rely on anyone else for your own opsec.
That is the entire argument here.
The guy should have read up on protecting his anonymity before he started his activities.
Opsec fails have brought down many, many people.
From darknet site owners, to government agency operations, to countries at war and more.
Opsec sounds easy at first, but it is extremely difficult, and you can’t rely on anyone else doing your job for you.
You need to develop OCD like habits, you need to understand why they are needed, and what you are giving away when breaking them.
You imply that a warning would have prevented the guy from using his credit card, I don’t think it would have made any difference, the guy would either not understand at all, or just ignore it
Unless he intuitively understood that Proton was required to retain cc numbers for X years, and that these cc numbers were tied to a specific transaction, his account and his identity, I just don’t see him taking a warning serious.
This is the real world, it isn’t fair, it doesn’t care, you need to care about this for your self preservation.
- Comment on let's kill proton mail 1 day ago:
They clearly give you options to avoid this scenario, this is not on Proton, this is simply an opsec fail of the user.
Don’t get me wrong, opsec is hard, exhausting and just annoying, it needs discipline and constant focus, you only need to fail once for it to be ineffective.
The customer signed up for Proton, but didn’t follow their guidelines for anonymity, that is not a failure of proton, it is a failure of the user.
- Comment on let's kill proton mail 1 day ago:
Arguing about what people should or should not have to do is pointless.
It changes nothing and removes the debate from being practical to being theoretical.
- Comment on let's kill proton mail 1 day ago:
I saw a post about this earlier, it is a nothingburger.
The user in question paid for his account with a personal credit card, he didn’t use an anonymous payment alternative which are available.
Proton has stated that they will comply with law enforcement requests, but are working to maintain as few logs as possible.
This is an opsec failure on the user’s side.
This is not Proton handing IDs of their customers to the government on a silver platter, this is their customer not understanding the service they use.
- Comment on Littering 🚯 1 week ago:
I live in an apartment, so I need to find a good place to shoot before I get a rifle, I’ll also checkout what other kinds of pellets I can get.
- Comment on Littering 🚯 1 week ago:
Hehe, I’d be happy to tell you my general understanding of the laws, I am not a gun nut, and there are probably a few details I get wrong.
Anyway.
In Sweden you can only get a gun for two reasons, hunting or competition, getting a gun for self defense is illegal.
To get a gun for either reason, you need to pass tests and for competition licenses, display an active need for the gun in competitions.
Wikipedia has a better summary of the laws on this page:
- Comment on Most Of Billionaires’ $7.6 Trillion Has Never Been Taxed - Americans For Tax Fairness 1 week ago:
It’s all about the highscore baby!
Who cares if there are people destitute, my bank account needs a higher number!
People in thrown out on the street due to layoffs serving only to increase my the value of my bank account? Fuck them, they deserve what they get, they should have been born lucky!
/s
- Comment on Littering 🚯 1 week ago:
Yeah, I just know I am bound to miss and don’t want to contaminate anything.
- Comment on Littering 🚯 1 week ago:
This is partly why I haven’t got into air rifles, I have wanted to for a long time, but there is no good place to shoot it nearby.
Some may say that I should just go out in the woods and shoot there, but I don’t want to spread lead in nature.
I know there are lead free pellets, but I have heard mixed opinions about them.
Why an air rifle specifically?
Because I can get a low power one (10J muzzle energy) without a license, and I can’t be arsed to get a license for a proper firearm as it requires a fair commitment here.
- Comment on Finally received my NX-01 Flight Jacket from Hero Within 2 weeks ago:
ENT was the only show in Star Trek that had sensible uniforms.
- Comment on Get. Out 2 weeks ago:
Lol they did that this year here as well, used AI to make them look like superheroes, didn’t work…
- Comment on Annon relfects on W doing it for the love of the game 2 weeks ago:
Say what you will about dubbya, but he seemed to at least have respect for the office he served.
- Comment on Get. Out 2 weeks ago:
Early last year I had to attend a company conference, it is a yearly thing where mgmt get to stand on a stage and have their peons aplaud them after telling everyone how amazing they are.
That year was particularly insulting.
The CEO brought up a person who he said had inspired him and how great the guy was.
The only thing that guy spoke about was how proud he was to have moved high income jobs to low income countries.
That, in front of a crowd of high income employees in a high income country.
And we were expected to applaud him…
And what is ridiculous was that most people genuinly did seem to enjoy the talk.
Granted, this was a company in the finance sector, and I work in IT, but come one people at least have the decency of looking uncomfortable when someone is happily talking about moving similar jobs to yours to other countries to your face.
- Comment on Anon goes to Japan 2 weeks ago:
Fair point.
- Comment on Anon goes to Japan 2 weeks ago:
It’s worse, the American standard is mm/dd/yyyy.
- Comment on Anon goes to Japan 2 weeks ago:
Just America’s stupid date format.
- Comment on Anon works in cybersecurity 3 weeks ago:
I hate the word “hackerstars”, the rest is fine
- Comment on Are you not entertained?! 3 weeks ago:
AI slop
- Comment on What is the best alternative to a "smart" cell phone today? 3 weeks ago:
A smartphone that you don’t sign into or use any apps on.
- Comment on Anyone has videos of JD Vance getting booed? I can’t find proper booing videos, but those supposedly exist 3 weeks ago:
No three-letter agency can crack this device.
Have crowbars become that expensive?
Wow!
- Comment on The radical woke subliminal message in Bad Bunny's halftime performance 3 weeks ago:
Most sports arenas have shit acoustics, so it makes sense that the sound quality is bad
- Comment on Anyone has videos of JD Vance getting booed? I can’t find proper booing videos, but those supposedly exist 3 weeks ago:
Wait, you can’t copy and paste text on GrapheneOS?
That seems really dumb.
- Comment on Just a few 3 weeks ago:
It is also important to not forget about how the Bible was formed.
What we know as the Bible is a collection of books, selected by a committee during a conclave centuries ago.
Any decision made by humans in power and influence will inevitably be favoring their own goals and politics.
There are plenty of other Christian texts that were excluded, how would they have changed Christianity if they were included?
- Comment on Anyone has videos of JD Vance getting booed? I can’t find proper booing videos, but those supposedly exist 3 weeks ago:
Found this, I don’t hear the booing myself but it claims to show it:
- Comment on Japan cancels cherry blossom festival over complaints of tourists littering and ‘defecating’ in yards 3 weeks ago:
Mainland Chinese tourists are infamous for their lack of manners.
- Comment on Checkmate, atheists! You are going to vagina hell! 4 weeks ago:
Why are NASA using microscopes to look at space?
- Comment on Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster 4 weeks ago:
I didn’t know they had Pepsi when these were used…
- Comment on Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN 4 weeks ago:
I really enjoyed the first one, and am looking forward to the second, but first it needs to get a better price, and preferably get on GOG.