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Making sure that deleted messages are actually deleted and unrecoverable — From Delta Chat account in Mastodon: Making sure that deleted messages are actually deleted and unrecoverable is more involved than most folks think. The FBI could recently recover deleted Signal messages from an iOS phone because the notifications you see on your phone were stored in an extra database. Apple has now fixed this, also making #deltachat iOS users safer. Few know that so called "forward secrecy" is all…
💬 1 comment · Apr 23 · 2 weeks ago · #privacy #security
I miss computers without the TPM chip
💬 3 comments · 1 like · 2025-11-03 · 6 months ago · #computing #freedom #privacy #software #tech
privacy for hosting gemini site? — Hello friend I know gemini use the limited protocol itself to protect the privacy of the client, but what about the host? How do you protect your own privacy when you hosting a site? or do you not worry about exposing your information (like your IP or your email or anything people can get from your domain name) on the net? If you think it is not a concern, I would love to hear your reasoning. Maybe I am just overthinking? And if it does bother you, please...
💬 4 comments · 2024-04-21 · 2 years ago · #privacy
Surveillance in Gemini — Adversary can tell very specifically which one gemini page a user is requesting, based on the size of server response. There is no need to decrypt the channel to learn which page is transmitted there, the only thing that matters is the size of that message. The same thing works all the way around, if someone has submitting a picture or a text to the gemini forum, adversary can see corresponding portion of encripted traffic going from specific user. Again, there is no...
💬 6 comments · 4 likes · 2024-01-25 · 2 years ago · #privacy
Question about the Small Web — I'm not sure about a lot of the benifits of the small web. Like there's nothing to stop web crawlers from mining data and using LLMs to associate a user name to a legal name, there's very few people that share the same life story. I bet the archives in Textfiles.com has pointed what a kid said 35 years ago to his late 40's legal name by some Pinkertons. There's also nothing we can do about if one day there's spam like there's Spam in usenet now. There's also...
💬 17 comments · 2024-01-14 · 2 years ago · #bloat #privacy #spam