You need to make sure no one is available to assist your installation of ANYTHING while you do any kind of install. #opsec

@mrmasterkeyboard I hope this is a #shitpost, not a real setup, because #RedStarOS is literally the #GovwareOS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LGDM9exlZw

@BrodieOnLinux @torproject @guardianproject

At this point I'd like to ask when @EUCommission and other #regulators start #banning #StasiBook and other #GAFAM|s for their blatant actions as #OrganizedCrime to violate #privacy standards in the #EU and elsewhere?

https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114733606176520273

Cuz at this point the €32B fines at maximum are a joke.

• I think that people espechally in Germany who may be affected [I'm not!] consider seeking legal advice and potentially file charges for said digital espionage and computer sabotage against #NSAbook!

Simply because this isn't a mere violation of #GDPR, #BDSG and other standards, but literal #malware that has been deployed against users in the wild...

• Anything but actual prison sentences & arrest warrants against the persons responsible would be undue leniency.

@BrodieOnLinux I am pretty shure @torproject / #TorBrowser and any #App that does #Proxy through @guardianproject / #Orbot for #Tor access is not affected but I do encourage both #Tor and Orbot devs to test against #LocalhostTracking!

@delta also #deltaChat natively supports #Proxies, #VPN|s and @torproject / #Tor so not only can people use it that way but also use any other bypass method.

• Obviously, the classic #Sneakernet with people doing uucp with foreign mobile networks near borders works just as well...

I'd not be surprised if delta Chat is also used by #RimjinGang* and #38North** for a "contactless sneakernet" tho I am convinced they won't confirm or deny that for #OpSec, #InfoSec & #ComSec reasons alone...

• I mean, both #Iran and #NorthKorea ain't #Iraq and #Syria where one could just take a phat satellite dish, strap an LTE stick or even external antennas on and just point it at turkish or lebanese radio towers near the border, as owning any satellite equipment in these places is a guarantee to get publicly executed for "espionage"...

@afreytes +9001%

• It's impossible to get #GDPR compliance with #GAFAMs' products!

• It's impossible to get #ITsec, #InfoSec, #OpSec & #ComSec on a compliant level when a literal #Govware (#Windows) is being used.

• I cannot work as #Linux Sysadmin unter WinShit just like a cardiologist can't perform a heart transplant just cutlery from a prison mess hall and NSAIDs and just like a nurse can't CPR a toddler with a pneumatic jackhammer!

@Cappyjax IDGAF about "passion". All I care about is the security of users!

Requiring any #PII like a #PhoneNumber is inacceptable when it comes to #ComSec, #InfoSec & #OpSec, espechally given @signalapp is not only able but entirely willing to restrict service based off said numbers, making their "solution" insecure by design.

• There's a reason why #XMPP+#OMEMO and #PGP/MIME [both each over @torproject / #Tor] is the evidently superior and more secure approach, as being unable to "#KYC" a user is a matter of security...

Espechally since obtaining a phone number anonymously is oftentimes illegal (i.e. #Germany made it illegal starting 07/2017, so using any service that demands a phone numner is out of question)

• And even if one can get an anonymous #SIM (with a phone number) or god forbid #eSIM, (which is at best pseudonymous as tracking down users by virtue of matching ICCID, IMEI & IMSI to location and time) the chances are high that one ends up with recycled phone numbers that have already been used.

Obviously the devs of #Signal and @Mer__edith are well aware of this critical flaw, which is why I consider them to act as "useful idiots" or rather "controlled opposition" as #Signal could've been shutdown trivially by the #US Government or forced into banning users based off their #PhoneNumbers (they may call this "#sanctions #compliance" given they added a #Shitcoin - Wallet into Signal!)...

• All the "but #Metadata" #FUD turns into #MarketingLies once put under the looking glass and examined against the risk of state-sponsored / -endordsed / -supported attackers.

Whereas with @monocles / #monoclesChat, @gajim / #gajim and @delta / #deltaChat and @thunderbird / #Thunderbird respectably I can not only use Tor, but do #SelfHosting for the entire #communications infrastructure (i.e. using an #OnionService = only reachable via Tor) and get the advantages of a self-routing, self-authenticating & battle-hardened against censorship proxy network that can't be shutdown!

• And if you think this is too tinfoilhatted, then consider yourself privilegued enough of having your mere existance not being criminalized by the government under threat of public execution!

https://ilga.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/ILGA_World_map_sexual_orientation_laws_December2019.pdf
https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114697690127511140

@aud @are0h@h-i.social

Completely agree, but if you post identifiable pics of protesters, PLEASE obscure faces and stuff before posting. You now have a 'secret police', and need appropriate #OpSec.

I do NOT want to read that a friend over there has been arrested bcs they turned up to a protest, and some knob put their face on social.

@pascal_f @kuketzblog @forthy42 @ulrichkelber

Eben! Ich betrachte es ferner als naiv angesichts #CloudAct, Anbietern proprietärer #SingleVendor / #SingleProvider-"Lösungen" wie @signalapp das vertrauen zu schenken!

• Und wenn das bedeutet dass Leute #Windows11 & Co. rausschmeißen dann ist dem so.

Gerade weil #ITsec, #InfoSec, #OpSec & #ComSec zusammenhängen und nur zusammen funktionieren...

@Urban_Hermit

Bingo! You messed up. You gave out your PII.

Do not chase shiny objects like AI.