Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy

On Wed, 19 Feb 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:

Adrian <bulleid@ku.gro.lioff> writes:
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I thought about that.  The thing is that 3 years ago we seemed to
manage happily without it, but one person changing job meant that it
now seems to be essential.  I've asked higher ups why we now seem to
have a defacto requirement to use WA, but no one seems to know.  And I
don't see why I should buy a second phone (and ongoing costs with
running it) for what this year is likely to be 10 days use.

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I totally agree that it's absurd.  But it's essentially a war and a
second phone is a weapon.
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I use the same technique with email. I have a spam-email that
currently has around 20k spam messages in it, and this is the one
most companies get.

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I have my own domain.  Companies usually get a unique email
address. Those that abuse it, or leak it, are soon found out, and may
lose business as a result.

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And I think we have to take back this spirit of running the Internet
ourselves.  Remember---we are the ones that really know how to run it,
not Whatsapp, Facebook users.  So I think we all should host our own
mail again, host our own code, our own NNTP servers, our own mailing
lists...
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I also feel that things are changing.  To what I don't know, but
essentially when the changes become more clear, we'd be ourselves ready
with solutions and also not worried that we're helping the movement
that's hurting us.  It feels great to realize that we don't put in even
a cent towards this movement.
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This is my idea on how to counter the laws all around the world that seek to forbid encryption. There is safety in numbers, and completely impossible for the authorities to arrest 10s or 100s of thousands of people.
My dream is that people will start to use small self-hosted, end-to-end encrypted chat services, so that the laws forbidding encryption become meaningless.