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Ive just written a quick post on secure messaging, hope it clears the picture a bit for folks who are new to security and privacy.

forum.privacytools.io/t/how-to

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me: I lost my phone. I need a new SIM card.
shop assistant: phone number please.
me: +436...
he: here is your new SIM. we will charge 10 € on your next invoice.

don't trust phone numbers as identifiers. #signal #whatsapp

Finally, I'm getting more followers from other instances than followers that are forced to follow me on this instance. Pretty neat!

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Please follow @privacytools for official announcements. I'll be using @BurungHantu for personal posts in the future.

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As a member of the team, I would like to welcome the private search engine @Qwant to our mastodon instance. Lets give them a warm welcome everybody!

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rant about firefox 

*sighs*

Folks, the thing that happened with Firefox was an accident. It was not part of some sinister plot. If you think it is, it's because you have no idea how complicated providing a browser and all its security features are.

Climb back from that ledge. Next you're going to talk about chemtrails and flat Earth.

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@nikolal @one @blacklight447 if you’re referring to this instance in particular we don’t currently block any instances.

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Hello everyone!

We at .io recently launched our new forum and we would like to invite you to join it!

It is a place were can all discuss privacy and security related topics, talk about the latest news, and scan over the newest methods to protect your privacy :).

we host the forum ourselves and use the complete opensource software. We are tor friendly, and reachability over an .onion is in the works, join us at forum.privacytools.io !

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@jj probably. for now we just have the homepage setup. eventually we'll have all(?) the other services protected by Tor with the new alt-svc setup Cloudflare is primarily working on, but I'm waiting for trac.torproject.org/projects/t to be resolved.

@Ceilingfan I'll wait to judge it until it releases and has been in-use for a couple months, but it seems... unnecessary I guess, reskinning FOSS projects and passing them off as new things.

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I have noticed that I have less followers in Mastodon than Twitter, yet people interact with me and my posts much more often on Mastodon. If you're reading this from Twitter... Come join me on social.privacytools.io!

@marc0janssen I use it with Mail.app on macOS but I don’t think I’ve ever sent an encrypted message since I don’t know anyone else with keys, pretty useless. I just sign everything by default and that’s about it.

@socialprivacy the mod of /r/privacy locked your post because you aren't being constructive, and this isn't helping your case.

Stop spamming my Mastodon instance, thanks. If you have a problem you can PM me directly instead of spreading misinformation.

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