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Ironic

How about the one I linked?

I’m saying they they are right to be cautious about any messaging service and there are concerning stories out there about signal. However as you point out it seems like it is currently tight. But. That can always change if the human beings involved are put under pressure. https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/signal-facing-collapse-after-cia

Go visit it yourself.

These folks are specifically trying to stir shit. [It’s like walking into an Indian reservation and yelling that we speak English here, that this is a white country and if you don’t like it you should go home. Then they try to get the reservation closed due to the roughing up and expulsion they received] The usual form this takes is repeating long debunked anti-communist propaganda, that a majority of people in the western media orbit have swallowed whole, so the resulting mod action seems disproportionate.

If you join there yourself you will find, like most instances, respectful conversations and a healthy community. And like anywhere else you will find a spectrum of personalities and a handful of kooks.

Signal’s creation and running costs were largely financed by the US intelligence community. So they’re right to be cautious.

It may seem like it’s technically impossible to track usage but nothing is 100% safe as long as there are humans involved that can be bagged up and dropped off in some offshore torture site.

Block away. The doxing is obvious, you’re just trying to seal lion.

What do think doxxing is?

You responses are most helpful and you are, no doubt, a charming fellow however you don’t seem to understand that doxing can be a very serious problem for some people. Maybe I’ll buy you a coffee!?

Gyrovague’s blog

I disagree with your disagreement :p

It is a common manipulative method of praising something right before landing a substantive blow on it as a way lending your argument credibility.

Anonymouse has the most wonderful posts I have ever read, however I believe in this case he is down playing the threat to the owner of Archive.today that is represented by doxing them. Snowden isn’t hiding in Russia because he loves the weather. Assange didn’t hide in the Columbian Embassy because he liked their exercise bike. There’s a reason that the person who released the Panama Papars is only know as John Doe. And why can’t Francesca Albanese’s bank cards no longer work. Amongst the powerful elites are psychopaths.

Acting as if doxing someone who undermines the elite’s grip on PR is some benign act and irrelevant to the owner of archive.today’s reaction is a leading distortion of the reality of the situation.

I do wonder what the motivation of gyrovague to dox the owner of archive.today was?

From Hacker News:

“Gyrovague”, the author of the post we’re commenting under has for reasons unknown engaged in targeted harassment of the owner of “archive.today”. Now the owner of archive.today is attempting a rather lazy DoS attack against gyrovague.com. A rather mild response to gyrovague attempting to bring the archive.today owner physical harm by spreading potentially identifying information about them.

There’s really very little to be said about this whole thing besides that Gyrovague should try to be a less awful person in the future.

It is relevant to this discussion to mention that archive.today keeps in the public sphere that which governments and powerful people have scrubbed out of general awareness by applying various forms of pressure. So we should expect them to come under pressure too.

Maybe related, maybe not: Wikipedia’s owner came under pressure it seems to muddy the debate around the genocide in Gaza. Archive.today will hold a record of the propaganda warfare in mainstream media and more ephemeral web content like videos/blogs uploaded from within Gaza. So by excluding this particular archive Wikipedia seems to be prioritising media sources that are manipulated by governments and the powerful.

I’d go with Necrophobic so that people get the impression I stayed at the party for twice as long as I was able to manage.

You can’t bring me down

I worked in a private library that still had it’s card catalogue up until 2005. People were always ripping out the cards (there was something like a metal knitting needle that passed through a punched hole in each card to stop idiots from destroying the catalogue, so the gobshites ripped them out instead).

The early digital catalogues weren’t great so the old card system persisted.

Trump and co. are merely impatient oligarchs that feel that they now have the technological and propaganda controls fine tuned enough to reduce the chances of blowback ever reaching them as they ramp up the extraction of value from the rest of us.

For the other lot were doing this apace too but most of the worst of their efforts were hidden in the global south.