There are many reasons for choosing #private alternatives to Big Tech. Tracking cookies, targeted ads, and closed source software are just the tip of the iceberg. 🧊
What #privacy concerns are keeping you up at night? 🤔
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🇬🇧 Further objective of the #EUGoingDark surveillance programme:
Access to date in transit – in particular when encrypted or protected by "#privacy preserving architecture which prevents the identification of Internet users":
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"we could need this later" approach is widely adopted in mainstream tech which leads to data collection far beyond the scope of the service.
Security implications vary from private data leakage (via breaches or data trading) to government surveillance (as the services are obliged to fulfill government orders).
I worry about the 'back end' software that is used by providers like Tuta.com and Proton.me
Sure, their 'clients' may open source, and they may even publish the code that is purportedly used on their servers. But there's no chance of verifying whether or not that's actually the code that is used on the actual servers.
Not that being given access to the code used on the servers would help me; the last time I wrote a program, it was in BASIC.
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in reply to Tuta • • •Patrick Breyer (@echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social)
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in reply to Tuta • • •Eugene
in reply to Tuta • • •"we could need this later" approach is widely adopted in mainstream tech which leads to data collection far beyond the scope of the service.
Security implications vary from private data leakage (via breaches or data trading) to government surveillance (as the services are obliged to fulfill government orders).
TimePencil
in reply to Tuta • • •I worry about the 'back end' software that is used by providers like Tuta.com and Proton.me
Sure, their 'clients' may open source, and they may even publish the code that is purportedly used on their servers. But there's no chance of verifying whether or not that's actually the code that is used on the actual servers.
Not that being given access to the code used on the servers would help me; the last time I wrote a program, it was in BASIC.
10 PRINT "RUN FOR THE HILLS!"
20 GOTO 10