Every privacy app asks you to trust them. We ask you not to. (github.com)
from anongratis@thelemmy.club to privacy@lemmy.ml on 05 Jun 23:50
https://thelemmy.club/post/50543589

We build free, open-source privacy tools — encrypted chat, anonymous mail, untraceable voice, a whistleblower drop, a browser, a network layer. All given away.

But “free and open source” means nothing if you can’t check it. So:

We don’t want your trust. We want you to not need it. The only privacy tool that survives “trust me bro” is the one you can read.

🌐 anonymous.gratis · ✉️ admin@anon.gratis (PGP on site)

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Chewt@beehaw.org on 06 Jun 00:05 next collapse

Love the message, but personally I won’t use software written by LLMs.

OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml on 06 Jun 07:18 next collapse

Human vetted. So long as it’s good sound code. I see no issues. Needs to be human expert vetted.

fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 06 Jun 18:41 collapse

Or it could be written by a human to begin with and not have endless subtle bugs that take greater expertise to find and fix than just writing by hand.

idriss@lemmy.ml on 06 Jun 12:29 next collapse

yep, instant skip

IratePirate@feddit.org on 06 Jun 22:07 collapse

Where are you taking this info from?

Steve@communick.news on 06 Jun 00:07 next collapse

So many people conflate privacy with anonymity.
They’re largely unrelated.

birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 06 Jun 01:46 collapse

I think this would be a relatively straightforward explanation. Correct me if I’m wrong.

Privacy - whether your door’s keys are given to someone.

Anonymity - whether or not someone can see what’s behind your door.

Security - whether or not your door is locked and has alarms.


Good & Bad practice examples

Good privacy: people can only enter and leave your door with your consent. Good anonymity: people don’t know what’s behind your door. Good security: people can’t break in easily, and if they do, you know. — Bad privacy: adversaries can enter and leave your door without your consent. Bad anonymity: adversaries know what’s behind your door. Bad security: adversaries can break in easily, and if they do, you don’t know.

Steve@communick.news on 06 Jun 02:06 next collapse

Privacy is about activity.
Anonymity is about identity.
Security is about ensuring the other two.

I would say: Privacy is everyone seeing you come and go from a house with no windows.
Anonymity is when you’re covered head to toe when you come and go. So nobody know who lives there.
Security is a measure of how good your locks and coveralls are.

Real world examples: Going to a protest with a mask is anonymous, in public.
Sessions with your court appointed therapist are private, not anonymous.

portnull@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 06 Jun 10:45 next collapse

Privacy is related to activity

Anonymity is related to identity

Security is related to access

WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works on 06 Jun 14:15 collapse

Anonymity - whether or not someone can see what’s behind your door.

that’s also privacy. anonimity is whether the neighbors know who lives in your house

snowydroopz@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 00:32 next collapse

So, is this like what proton shoulda been? Not exactly ik, but is this like a suite?

ag10n@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 00:45 next collapse

Hacktivists on GitHub. Show me your forgejo

patruelis@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 01:06 next collapse

Haha, perfect!

unitedwithme@lemmy.today on 06 Jun 02:24 collapse

Dude, right, I’m not great at code, but I won’t/don’t trust MsHub

davel@lemmy.ml on 06 Jun 03:33 next collapse

All these JVM-based packages just appeared out of nowhere three weeks ago and have no almost no git commit history. Your fediverse accounts are weeks to hours old. 🤔

Hirom@beehaw.org on 06 Jun 12:39 next collapse

Good point. The first repo, anon-vpn, has single commit made 3 weeks ago.

Security sensitive software require time, review or audit. Let’s give this time. It may take from a few months to 2 years until there’s enough scrutiny to either confirm it’s safe, or reveal problems.

Until them, keep using well-known open-source software.

helix@feddit.org on 06 Jun 23:32 collapse

Telltale sign of LLM usage.

dogs0n@sh.itjust.works on 06 Jun 11:08 next collapse

Um… vas? Maybe I don’t get it, but you’re just forking and tweaking already open source software? How does this change the model of anything?

porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml on 06 Jun 11:29 next collapse

We already have all this stuff, stop larping as a 1337 h4x0r and go fix some bugs in your preferred xmpp client or one of those Firefox forks

helix@feddit.org on 06 Jun 23:31 collapse

Oh no, another AI slop project.

We’re really getting drowned in AI stuff aren’t we 😒