They can't escape the fact that Ukrainian statehood has it's origins in the 90s and that the core of Ukrainian independence movement is a bunch of poles, force joined to current Ukrainian territories and forever seething about rule of Moscow and the dirty moskals in their general vicinity after it. This still in the context that most of "national ideals" of nation states are more or less manufactured utopian ideals to serve political goals, to be repeated ad infinitum until they become real enough. But in most of these cases in Europe are from the 19th and early 20th century and the bloodshed then is now history. Ukraine has a nationalist movement whose deep underlying goal of it's whole leadership is to milk their western handlers for money. Milk them for all they are worth and have enough western money in their travel bags to escape and life comfortably abroad, when impossibility of their project finally realizes itself and the shit goes down. Ukrainian state has and will never give anything positive to the nation of ukraine and neither will their heroes.

The point is that they could. We are discussing honeypots here. They don't advertise the fact if they are.

Be the phone numbers hashed/encrypted or not they will still get your ip. They are not routing anybody's messages otherwise. Phone number is just more directly tied to a personal details, unless it's a burner, but with burners you lose the account if you need to log in. Also you can set your phone number public, so it probably can be seen by the signal servers at some point. And what about discovery through phone number and like the actual sending of the signal confirmation code? How is any that suppose to work if the servers don't know your actual phone number? And your anonymity trick only works if everybody you talk to does it, which they don't. If they want to profile you they can profile you directly or through the people you talk with. If the people you are trying to hide from don't care about getting message logs and just association with some group is punishable or can lead to punishment or death then tough luck.

And you miss the main point. practically speaking you cant self host a signal server, therefore you can't trust it fully (in a way 'fully' matters anyway). if you do it's unsupported and not recommended and you probably need a custom client to access it. That added with it being under American jurisdictions, and Signal starting as a spook project should really set off alarm bells.

Most people only use vpn providers for streaming location hopping, torrenting, p*rn and on public networks. For day to day 24/7 use you are just trusting your VPN provider not to spy on your traffic instead of your ISP.

Signal I think. I don't mean that the end2end algorithm or messaging itself are itself unsafe, the algo has been shown to be secure. This is what people usually rebuke this with, with the reminder of Signal's OSS nature.

The issue the servers and the social networking data that can be harvested. The server code only partially exists in public and we just have to trust that that is actually what is running on whatever AWS server without tampering and self hosting is nearly impossible in practice if technically possible and nobody does it. The social network data (who talks to who) is more valuable than the actual messages logs, which give a massive, but mainly useless datasets. Until LLMs, like 10-15 years ago they were basically impossible to parse for any useful info without using large quantities of eye pairs. Basically if you are an organizer, criminal, government, part of a hunted opposition, you will leak the whole core group structure of your org with attached phone numbers. Whoever with that data can then target their devices and persons with other means. Plus it's literally built on top of CIA money. I think signal is totally safe and adequate for friends and family type of use, but not much else, but then all in all so is whatsapp, mostly since signal and Whattsapp share the same end to end algorithm.

Many such cases

Deserve has nothing to do with it. Only idiots approach this question on fantasizing about vengeance, morality, or "people who I consider not worthy of life getting their due".

It's not like these people's persons are a threat to anybody, especially when all their MoP has been taken and it's not like you gain that by killing them. They are just actors in a system and that system is the real enemy. Even if these people benefit from it greatly, they are still replaceable within the system. Calculated or not so calculated revolutionary terror is an other matter. Then interning and/or killing a few seething old men and their families who all represent the old order might become necessary to drive forward the revolution and/or cement the new order.

Do we all need new gpus for decoding if this comes the new norm?

Every American company is loyal to the empire. If not by gleeful obedience then at least by threat of court orders and political pressure. I guess in Google's case it's that kind of gleeful obedience.

Suez crisis for Britain was about UN, US and USSR not approving UK, Israel and France's shenanigans in Egypt and threatened to make shit difficult for them. Brits found this untenable and that made them back off. That was the whole humiliation. UK, the once great empire not being able to act with impunity on the world stage, when a third tier country takes it's strategically important shit, without asking their allies nicely first.

Hormuz is literally US begging for help to win a war that they started, didn't have to start, and now can't win. On the face of it, this is so much worse than Suez.

"The tiny amount of aid that was on the yacht and not consumed by the 'celebrities' will be transferred to Gaza through real humanitarian channels," the ministry added.

They will toss the aid to the wood chipper and laugh about it, won't they...

I mean at this point if you have seen what Israel has done, unfiltered by the media, then there is almost nothing that will shake people out of their views. If you support Israel after knowing that they purposefully shell hospitals and children, then you will most likely keep supporting Israel no matter what. Same goes for those who oppose Israel and it's genocide.

Why do kill switches when you can just hog all the work of maintaining some critical part of the infrastructure and make it's functioning and maintenance so opaque and impenetrable that the employer can't replace or fire you without their shit catching fire soon after. It doesn't have to be malicious or illegal.

https://youtu.be/0jK0ytvjv-E

His efforts to sabotage their network began that year, and by the next year, he had planted different forms of malicious code, creating "infinite loops" that deleted coworker profile files, preventing legitimate logins and causing system crashes

I wish this guy was were actually politically motivated, but he seems to have been just really petty minded person.