anyone dunking on the article, this is pretty far away from a how-to-lilst; it's more of a "think about these things if you haven't up until now" and as such a net positive. wrong community for it, though.
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I doubt somebody running from a government is taking their tips from wired.com
I read through the whole list, and monero was the only decent privacy recomendation I could find. Everything else was US-hosted. A lot of it was just recommendations from Apple and Google on "privacy" services they offer.
No mention of syncthing, matrix, xmpp, even with sections dedicated to those categories.
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You're right, ha, I'm totally not.. they, I mean they are totally not! You got it guy! Everyone listen to this guy! I'd go as far as to say anyone reading this article is innocent of ALL crimes!
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A lot of practical steps, which is nice to see in an article like this.
That iphone drama might actually lead to proper interest from normie core?
Too bad private email access is essentially dead. Any service not requiring another email or phone number to sign up gets quickly shut down. A casualty in the war on whistleblowers.
email is never private, if its that sensitive it just shouldn't go on the internet
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You can sign up for Proton mail without providing email or phone number, as far as I recall.
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I'm glad they mentioned Monero in the article, but sad that they mentioned it alongside Zcash since Zcash is not private by default and not many people opt into the privacy and Zcash has shown willingness to be bad to their users by helping exchanges. Primarily because they are run by the Electric Coin Company, which is registered in the United States, and therefore they have to obey the laws of the United States. So, Zcash is not a good option.
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