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Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records (www.wired.com)
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the White House has, for the past decade, provided more than $6 million to the program, which allows the targeting of the records of any calls that use AT&T’s infrastructure

the program takes advantage of numerous “loopholes” in federal privacy law

the DAS program has been used to produce location information on criminal suspects and their known associates, a practice deemed unconstitutional without a warrant

(This website is a bit annoying.)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For anyone who absolutely needs anonymity, simplex may already be better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What’s important when you’d like to have absolute privacy or anonymity is, to realize that you can’t. “Use this, and no one can read your message.” is a typical mistake. “This service is world most secure” etc. is just a lie. Anyone who claims that privacy can be simple/easy is either a liar or doesn’t know what they’re talking about.

A rare example of honest/true statements, on the other hand, can be seen on the Cock.li website: http://rurcblzhmdk22kttfkel2zduhyu3r6to7knyc7wiorzrx5gw4c3lftad.onion/

How can I trust you?

You can't.

In this specific case about the US, though, what’s most important is obviously to somehow stop this unconstitutional surveillance by the government (only making AT&T happy and rich). Please, don’t waste a lot of money to invade normal people’s privacy when you already have trillions of debts 😢

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While I agree with your statement in general, I think its still early and dangerous to be recommending simplex as a viable alternative. It hasn't stood the test of time nor been independently audited. I'm keeping my eye on it as it seems like a viable alternative, but I'd hesitate to recommend it to anyone who may be at risk.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Hence the "may already..." depending on use case obviously. You can't really recommend anything to someone who may be at risk, certainly not Signal. Not that I have anything against Signal (I use it daily and have been for years) but anonymous it isn't, not in big part of the world anyway.