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just something basic and open source

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Talks about all the attacks on crypto freedom recently. Great overview and article.


"Their system demands KYC that subjects us to data breaches. 5 billion plus known records breached so far in over 2000 publicly disclosed incidents in 2024.

Crypto has seen its hacks and exploits, but legacy finance permitted $3.1 trillion in dirty money flows last year alone.

I thought they were supposed to be protecting us. Maybe we should just protect ourselves."

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works to c/monero@monero.town

Monero.garden is an awesome Monero learning site for both beginners and advanced, but also touches upon some very simple but highly pragmatic philosophy for privacy

https://monero.garden/3-notes-for-humans/trying_things

But there’s a less discussed yet maybe even more pervasive phenomenon, self-censorship. When we’re being observed, we behave differently. Privacy is the freedom to try things out.

https://monero.garden/3-notes-for-humans/fresh_start

Identities formed in base of our true desires and interests will foster connections to people that make our lives better for us, to jobs that are a genuine fit for us, to knowledge that boosts our chances to feel our lifes balanced, and worth living. These identities have the chance to spill over, either gradually or in a sweep, to our meat space identities. If all those interactions are monitored, we face having too much risk and not daring to try. Or make it very difficult to even create such identity because of its ties to our current one.

Monero and Privacy are the keys to the utopian future where we aren't afraid to try to be better, do more, discover more, reach more.

There are more arguments for privacy in this site but this just one.

This is all so awesome. These kind of arguments prove that things like secrecy and privacy and freedom of choice dont need to boil down any more to these "well i should be able to do whatever I want" things. but in fact prove that they are necessary to literally make society better.

I really hope all privacy centric communities adopt these values and arguments as their primary points

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I made a post here about the danger of Cloudflare and the nightmare about how it functions:

https://sh.itjust.works/post/20529148

Cloudflare is a MITM can see everything going on and every request I'm making plus all the data I'm sending.

So explain to me why Trocador is using it? Are they a honeypot? They pride themself soooo much on anonymity, NoJS, Onion support, deletion of records, No KYC, No logs unless fully necessary, but yet, they allow Cloudflare to record every single piece of data about my interactions on trocador, all the requests, both POST and GET, all the addresses and amounts im inputting, quotes im making, and of course, associate my browser fingerprint and IP with all that yummy data that the NSA would be really happy to collect ;) ! How curious indeed..

It's a known fact that Cloudflare works the way I described. So why would Trocador willingly give over everything I'm inputting into the site over to Cloudflare? Please, someone explain this to me.

And it's not just trocador. soooo many Monero and privacy oriented sites are using Cloudflare MITM. Today I'm picking on Trocador but later I'll pick on more as I remember/come across them.

Here is a relevant paragraph I wrote:

I'm sick to my stomach of all these orgs and companies and people talking about privacy, and then they constantly do all these kinds of things thst prove that they don't actually care about privacy or anonymity or anything in between. They are Vipers and Snakes trying to make a quick dollar on a buzzword. It's become sadly trite.

I'm fully ready to somehow(?) be wrong about all this and eat my words.

[-] Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works 39 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

If a substantiated news article came out showing that Cloudflare shared SSL keys or otherwise gave direct access to various intelligence agencies without a court order, that would essentially destroy the company. So they certainly aren't doing that.

excuse me, what?? The Snowden documents came out showing all these companies literally giving over all their data to the NSA like it was water from a spring, and they are all still in business. AT&T, facebook, google, microsoft, dropbox, etc. Yet you claim somehow cloudflare would be destroyed?? This isnt even funny bro.

more recently, Hetzner was showed to have given backdoor access to the feds, yet people still buy VPSs from them, and in fact, 20% of TOR guard nodes are sitting on their infra RIGHT NOW!

Case in point: people using such companies either don't care or are really ignorant or stupid.

[-] Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works 29 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

the corporations dont care. why should the archive be under the pressure of the soulless suits at all? any "stunts" are just excuses for doing what they will do anyway: pick on anyone who doesnt bow to their petty whims.

no, saying that this is the archive's fault is so gross, and just says that you accept their bullying and blackmail as somehow moral

archive should decentralize, that's the only real solution imo

[-] Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works 110 points 5 months ago

corporations attack anything that might challenge their ability to make a quick buck: everyone and everything else be damned. sadly the only way to overcome this kind of monster is a decentralized network of information hoarders. appealing lawsuits is just a bandaid.

the internet archive needs to reorganize. as long as it makes itself into a target as a centralized org, it will also get shot at by soulless corporate husks. im envisioning moving everything onto ipfs, that way anyone can help host as much or little as they like.

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Warning, this site right here is a scam! -> traderogre.com

This is the real site: tradeogre.com

I let my friend use my account and they accidently put in the wrong domain and got phished. Just wanted to let you guys know about this.

You may have seen the post i made a bit ago about trade ogre draining my accounts, but actually the account was just phished. I feel really stupid for jumping the gun but someone pointed it out to me.

I only lost a couple hundred dollars, thankfully, so, lesson learned.

Stay safe guys!

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works to c/monero@monero.town

EDIT: this post is deleted now, but me and my friend got phished, this was not a scam by TradeOgre themsleves.

[-] Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works 44 points 5 months ago

please dont say privacy focused then drop a google play link 😂

[-] Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works 87 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

If e2ee is what is really keeping you from catching child abusers, then your department is INCOMPETENT and LAZY. Sorry, but all this does is tell me that you are a piece of shit human being(s) that thinks they have to have god-like controls to do your job of jailing actual criminals. or else it's just an excuse to control everything (it is), in which case you are just evil

Fuck these nosey oligarchs

[-] Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works 40 points 6 months ago

Mullvad is awesome. i think this is the second android bug/incident they brought to light?

Anyway, really really hope this gets fixed upstream, maybe by Graphene

How much you wanna bet this was intentional by Google? 😏

[-] Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works 31 points 7 months ago

both have worse UX than Signal. pretty much all except Signal are lacking on this front. OSS developers are allergic to a smooth UX in general

[-] Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works 35 points 7 months ago

Cool, another one of those people that equates privacy with crime. just what we need

[-] Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works 31 points 7 months ago

Privacy is not paid for. Privacy is taken. it is something that only you can achieve for yourself. paying ransom money will do little

[-] Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works 50 points 7 months ago

this is a wrong take for a few reasons, if we're talking about trust.

Also, Signal literally was taking money from the CIA for a decade and also is based in the US anyway, and no one hardly said a word 🤣🤣 "Privacy" activists are a joke lmao. Also signal made a crypto coin and took away features like SMS, but of course they get a free pass for that too. Makes you wonder.

  1. SimpleX is fully open source, verifiable, and audited. If there are changes that are bad, the community will talk about them, and at worst it can be forked

  2. SimpleX has made it clear that they dont want you to trust them. It's decentralised and anyone can run their own relay, and the servers are designed prevent correlation. They also make it very easy to use TOR and multiple circuits. This is contrary to the inferior Signal model where you just have to trust that the centralized Signal org isnt leaking your phone and IP to the feds.

moving towards a decentralised, open, and trustless world is better for everyone. In this kind of system, I really dont give a damn where they are getting their money from, as long as they arent putting crap in the software, and if they do, we will all know about it. But so far they have shown that they are committed to extreme security and privacy, and they obviously arent trying to appeal to normies, so i doubt they would ever even try to put VC-pushed garbage in.

If you want a good app, you will need funding from somewhere. Look at apps like Session that arent funded well. They suck. So I'd rather SimpleX be funded by a VC instead of by the feds like Signal, as long as everything stays open, free, trustless, and decentralised

Time to get downvoted! See you guys at -50 😁

[-] Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works 26 points 7 months ago

not a nothing burger, but very close. de-identify means that they will absolutely not do it in an effective manner lol. sorry but this will affect very little in the longterm.

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