I’m out of the loop, what did you find?

EDIT: I guess you’re talking about this? From a first reddit page about why is it down I could find.

The owner did it to themselves, by mounting a surreptitious DDoS campaign and altering the content of the archives to slander people, thus making it an unreliable source. This prompted Wikipedia to (correctly) remove it from all outbound links.

It’s moot if it’s online anymore or not - it’s not a valid archive.

I keep hearing about malicious QR codes, but how does it actually work? Unless there’s a serious vulnerability, how is it different from clicking on any link?

It has been a few years since I worked as a junior in offensive security, but that has been something I could never figure out when I looked into it.

Hmm, I guess you could use it for a pretty good phishing attempt. Just show a fake google login page and you’re set, or maybe a fake .apk download “to confirm the captcha”, but other than that, I don’t really see a vector of attack.

Interesting, it might’ve changed, I’ve had my domain for 5+ years by now, but if you set up all the signing keys, DKIM, SPF, and whatever properly, I never had a single issue as far as I know.

But I never tried sending my own emails - I’ve been using Protonmail’s custom domain option, which I’m sure helps. Running your own mailserver without a trusted provider might be a lot more problematic, I never even considered it. The idea wasn’t to run my own mailserver, but to be able to move my custom domain to a different provider that supports custom domains, so I don’t have to change my email anywhere.

I just made sure that my domain is passing all the email domain checker tests, and as long as I don’t get on a blacklist, I should be fine.

I’d highly recommend getting your own domain.

Make sure it’s something that’s cheap to renew, cloudfare registrar prices should be at wholesale price.

Setting it up correctly can be a pain, but once your privacy friendly provider starts getting inevitably enshitiffied, you can move your email way more easily.

I think so, at last. Never had to move from Proton yet.

PGP exists. If your threat model requires pretty good privacy, the absolute minimum you should do is manually add a second level of encryption with PGP with manually exchanged keys somewhere off-grid.

I have an atomic distro, and it lets me install apps without having to reboot or spin up distrobox.

Yeah, that was my point. There’s a whole part about them “taking privacy concerns seriously, but… [A lot of reasons why it’s actually good]”.

It doesn’t adress the issues I’ve highlited, and downplays them, and the general vibe of the article is " look, it helps solve crime, this is actually good"

Of course it will lead to reduced crime, and allow them to solve more of them. That’s kind of expected, when you can find and track where is anyone 24/7.

But then you inevitably get a far-right governemt, because that’s the rapidly rising trend all over the world, and suddenly ‘crime’ also means being trans, or feeding homeless, or not being far-right enough, or speaking up about how maybe we shouldn’t jail trans people.

10+ years ago, facial regonition like this would still be controversial, but you could maybe kind of have a benefit of the doubt that it might be worth the extremely reduced crime rate.

Now, when democracies are falling left and right and it’s only a matter of time when your country starts their own version of concentration camps, it’s a really stupid fucking idea.

So, fuck this bullshit propaganda piece.