How to overcomplicate simple things 101, 2024 Edition

The irony

Fucking ridiculous. If you want to prevent CSAM spreading across Europe do this instead:

• Ban churches, cults and other forms of self indulgent mass-schizophenia which promote the letargy of the mind and the seclusion, especially when it comes with the baggage of a self-validating autonomus and indipendent legal sysyem (yes I’m winking at you vatican), as a moral virtues.

RiP

Matrix

Signal

Conversations

Simplex

Wire

Deltachat too, FOSS, E2EE, it relies on users’ already existing email accounts to vehicle the messages (https://delta.chat)

But I will raise people one more. Waterfox

Never heard of it, I prefer LibreWolf
https://librewolf.net/#what-is-librewolf

but I’m gonna list some other popular forks

TOR Browser (anti-censorship enhanced fork, bundled with TOR network)
https://www.torproject.org/

GNUzilla IceCat (GNU version)
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/

Pale Moon (able to use old XUL based extensions)
https://www.palemoon.org/

Mullvad Browser (a security hardened fork, IIRC based on TOR, made by Mullvad VPN company)
https://mullvad.net/en/browser

ANDROID (Fennec/Fenix)

Fennec F-Droid (Fennec version available on F-Droid, clean of propietary blobs)
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/
https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild

Mull (hardened fork of Fenix)
https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/mull-fenix

IceRaven (yet another hardened fork of Fenix, able to install an extended list of extensions)
https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser

We’ve all been there brother

Rookie numbers…

One of these days

Obligatory Pink Floyd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48PJGVf4xqk

Careful with that icepick u/thegreekgeek@midwest.social

I tried a few, Fedora, LMDE(Linux Mint Debian Edition), and EndeavourOS.

I’d say LMDE if you want a rock solid system, being fundamentally Debian Stable with Mint treatment for user friendliness, or Endeavour if you want bleeding edge updates (and of course bragging rights to join the meme by saying “BTW I use arch”)

Got to say they convinced me at last and I finally upgraded.
…to linux

Never.Going.Back.

AFAIK it is audited, and its threat model is rather extreme, like there is no unequivocally binding id, you can give every contact a different id

They talk about for profit/no profit in their last blog entry
https://simplex.chat/blog/20240323-simplex-network-privacy-non-profit-v5-6-quantum-resistant-e2e-encryption-simple-migration.html

Consumers payments deserves their privacy, but business ones needs absolutely to be fully traceable.

Could it be possible to use two different yet identical interchangeable currencies, one traceable for making business only, and one untraceable for consumers retail transactions?

loosely i.e.

• wages are Business currency converted and paid in Consumer currency, accounted for the amount paid to the consumer in his name
• end-users/home/consumer purchases are made from consumers anonymously in Consumer currency, and this is converted converted into Business currency upon transaction, keeping only the consumer name anonymous but tracing everything else
• B2B transactions are made in Business currency, fully traceable

… I don’t know there is probably still a loophole

I"ve found way more practical uninstalling windows and switching to linux. An EU citizen.

It sure won’t after he’s gonna discover that his wife has chosen to leave him for her new AI driven dildo.

It is just a matter of time

You can have 2 different keys DB on keepassXC with different passwords, you can even try to save them in separate remote locations. The key points are data interoperability over different devices and its portability over different services, because the worst thing that can happen is that your favourite app, from where you cannot use or move your credentials elsewhere (like the Steam Guard app for instance), one day might stop working suddenly leaving you unable to access your accounts.

2FAS

It launched an NFT based donation program: https://2fas.com/donate/

and it is not available on F-Droid.

I’d go with Aegis for an App on Android, or a Bitwarden/KeepassXC password manager which can both handle 2fa tokens too.

Lol, fetching pop-corn

KeepassDX can quick unlock with the device pin or with biometrics but the major hassle vs bitwarden is the management of syncing the database, which can be opened as file from the mobile and the desktop app also at the same time, instead bitwarden access your pwd database only remotely and only querying it, but the file is opened only on the server.

But browsers plugin work in the same way, they connect to the local app like it was a server, so it might be possible in the future that there will be an app which can access the db remotely, with this being opened only from the app on the desktop.

just adding that granted FF already has a decent password manager there are also reliable, free and open source and audited independent password manager like as

• Bitwarden (remote service as basic or premium plan, optionally self hosted, user friendly service, very likely has some account migration wizard tool to help importing data from browsers) and
• KeepassXC (local, user managed, a bit techy)

which both can plug in any browser through their respective extension.

Being both an independent option from the browser they help the user not making him vendor locked to his browser through his saved data.