kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

This research shows that design of modern social networks creates feedback for outrage expressions.

Emotional tweets receive more “likes” and retweets. It makes people with moderate views become more radical.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abe5641

“The Government correctly believes that the ugliness of new development is one major reason why people oppose it” 🇬🇧

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/britains-newbuilds-ugly/

@deshipu @rysiek

Large parts of stocks market, certainly yes. Everything with high price/earning ratios is probably undistinguishable from Bitcoin, minus the ransomware factor. Significant part of the stocks market however still does the thing it was originally invented for - provide private funding for companies that actually do something useful.

@rysiek

Personally, I don't see any motives behind zealot cryptocurrency advocacy other than speculative profits of insiders. Amway from 90's comes to mind. Transaction volumes are needed for money laundering and ransomware collections, so you add a bit of libertarian bullshit and a crowd of fellow travellers does the job for you.

@TheFuzzStone

Oh yes, I wrote that already back in 2014 after merely reading their privacy policy

https://ipsec.pl/protonmail-security-promise.html

I'm just disgusted by the disparity between marketing ("WE LOG NO IP") and the legal reality they're living in. Not telling customers "yes, we can be forced to reveal your IP even if we're in Switzerland" is simply dishonest.

@TheFuzzStone

Their privacy policy says:

> By default, we do not keep any IP logs which can be linked to your anonymous email account

And then they shared not only the IP but also fingerprint of the browser.

🤷

@rozie @emacsen @cjd

That's what they say:

> By default, we do not keep any IP logs which can be linked to your anonymous email account

And then they shared not only the IP but also fingerprint of the browser.

If we were lawyers, we could certainly argue that "by default" creates a clever loophole that allows them to store IPs for specific clients 🤷

Fortunately, we aren't (at least not me) which saves our right to judge them from subjective and moral point of view 😄

@emacsen

And then there's the whole "unbreakable encryption" line of marketing — also false.

I wrote about it in 2014:

https://ipsec.pl/protonmail-security-promise.html

Kobeisi did in-depth analysis in 2018:

https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/1121.pdf

@cjd

@emacsen

Their whole marketing has been built on no logging and no data release "because Switzerland".

@cjd