resist1984 @resist1984@social.privacytools.io
Joined Mar 2019
#AstraZeneca is surprisingly approved by more countries than any other #vaccine: https://web.archive.org/web/20210730161956/visaguide.world/news/vaccine-checker-proof-of-immunity-for-travel/ ...which suggests you can probably enter more countries having been immunized by AstraZenica.
@yogthos Indeed. Transparency is lacking. Laypeople probably don't know that the metadata is plainly visible to PM admins & all mail servers transacting w/Protonmail. Msg payloads are protected by crypto unless malicious js is pushed to someone who is targeted. #Hydroxide fetched over Tor can counter that (right up until #Protonmail pushes a #CAPTCHA which forces users into a browser).
@yogthos The US has a history of being fast and loose with their warrants as they often target whistle blowers, & that rightly scares people. But I don't believe the Swiss give a blank check to the US. Would the Swiss gov cooperate with US in an investigation against Snowden or Danial Hale? I hope not.
@yogthos I don't mean to imply #Protonmail is safe from mass surveillance. There is no reason to suspect gov-sanctioned mass surveillance AFAIK, but Protonmail users are still vulnerable to corporate mass surveillance at the hand of hCAPTCHA, #Google, & #Apple, since the protonmail app is exclusively distributed via #Playstore and Apple store.
@yogthos What would be interesting is to spotlight the nature of the investigations. Targeting someone making death threats to Anthony Fauci is the system working as expected. But if there is an example of the Swiss abusing that power by, for example, probing an activist/dissident/journalist, then that would be interesting to spotlight. Many govs can't resist the urge to abuse subpoena power
@yogthos The article clouds the difference between mass surveillance & targeted surveillance. The benefit to Swiss law is that it protects people from unwarranted mass surveillance. But Swiss law does not protect criminals from warranted investigation that targets them. What developed country differs in that regard?
When archive.org gives bad results (e.g. “you've sent too many requests”) the next escalation is often to use metasearch.nl or xeek.com to search, then use their “cache” feature which visits the site through #MortyProxy. But those two search engines often come back with “Warning! This instance does not support direct URL opening.” Is there a more robust proxy?
I don't know if the fax machines/servers of CT Corporation are so-called “secure fax”, but it wouldn't it be funny if they were receiving faxes like many people, that is by a 3rd party service that just delivers the fax by email anyway?
So if you fax a letter to a corp whose resident agent is CT Corporation to the fax# of CT Corporation, they will print the fax & send it by UPS at their client's expense. So have fun sending letters to corporations that say "sorry I cannot/will not email outlook/google for $whatever_reason.. so I'm faxing your reg. agent" They will pay around $6 for each letter sent that way
I think I've found an interesting way to punish corporations that outsource their email to #Google or #Microsoft. US corporations usually hire a registered agent to receive court docs, & it's just one dominant company (CT Corporation) in most cases. CT Corporation apparently does not forward correspondence to their clients electronically. Instead, they send it by UPS or FedEx letter.
The only transatlantic LCC that allows passengers to check 2 bags at no cost, #NorwegianAirShuttle, has quit serving the US: https://www.cntraveler.com/story/norwegian-air-shuttle-ends-all-us-flights
#ITAsoftware users: where do you buy tickets for air travel now that some company bought hipmunk.com & killed it? AFAIK, #Hipmunk was the only way to buy tickets using #ITA codes. It's hard to sort through all the garbage travel sites that block Tor or push CAPTCHAs.
the consulate website says “You must book your tests before you travel and leave enough time for them to be delivered to your address in England.” So strictly speaking it's prohibited to spend less than 24 hrs in the UK, which is short of making sense (if you leave before the results are in, you're no longer a risk)
Anyone know if it's possible to do a day trip in #London when coming from an “amber” country? What I've read seems to imply that a post-arrival #covid19 test is mandatory & it's also mandatory to provide a UK address to receive results. Of course if you arrive in the morning & leave in the evening, there is no address to send the results to. You're gone before results arrive.
resist1984
boosted
@wendy The flip side is bad too. It has become illegal to enter #Belgium without a mobile phone. Travelers are forced to complete a Passenger Locator Form (PLC) with SMS confirmation as a required field: https://travel.info-coronavirus.be/ People without mobile phones are marginalized during #COVID19.
resist1984
boosted
@Br0m3x I was considering doing a day trip in the UK, but they require a test before and after arrival, & the test site must have a UK address to send results to. So if you want to spotlight a stupid requirement, there it is. I had to nix a day trip because I would have no UK address thus no way to receive the test results.
@Br0m3x I was considering doing a day trip in the UK, but they require a test before and after arrival, & the test site must have a UK address to send results to. So if you want to spotlight a stupid requirement, there it is. I had to nix a day trip because I would have no UK address thus no way to receive the test results.
@Br0m3x I was thinking about passing through France on a day trip. Yet I they've rolled out the #covidPassport. Does that mean I need to go through all the hoops of getting a covid passport for just one day? I hope not.
Joined Mar 2019
