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Posted by ybceo 3 days ago

Privacy doesn't mean anything anymore, anonymity does(servury.com)
452 points | 290 commentspage 4
paradox460 2 days ago|
I've been beating this drum for years. The problem with signal and most other privacy ware is that they require you to effectively deanonymize yourself, typically by making you use a phone number to use their service. Knowing who someone is talking to is, in many circumstances, far worse than knowing what they're saying
themafia 2 days ago||
> Knowing who someone is talking to is, in many circumstances, far worse than knowing what they're saying

How?

I go to court for knowing a drug dealer. That case goes nowhere.

I go to court for buying from a drug dealer. That's open and shut.

I'm not a CEO of a trillion dollar corporation or the president of anything. My privacy needs are far different from theirs.

shark_laser 2 days ago||
It's why I'm so excited about Nostr, and apps built on top of it, like 0xchat: https://www.0xchat.com/
slimebot80 2 days ago||
The blog post and homepage do a terrible job describing the product?

Wasn't Crypto recently revealed to be used by FBI (or similar) to track major criminals? They don't broadcast it, since they want people to continue thinking it's anonymous.

specialist 3 days ago||
> "privacy" has become the most abused word in tech

Ideally, an argument about privacy would start with its notion of privacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy#Conceptions_of_privacy

sloppppp 3 days ago||
This was authored using an LLM, wasn't it. The style is unmistakable. Stop wasting our time with this slop.
karanSF 3 days ago||
I can't stand the style as much as the excessive use of hyphens. The "It's not just ..., it's ...." every 5 sentences is too much once you notice it. However, every LLM seems to converge on this style. It wouldn't wouldn't write like that if it didn't work to some degree, so maybe it knows something we don't.
politelemon 3 days ago|||
Here's the thing. It's not just x, it's hyperbole y. Hyperbole. Y.
abnercoimbre 3 days ago||
Yeeeep. I'm very disappointed because the subject matter is important.
152334H 3 days ago||
thank you. absurd no other comments noticed
Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe 2 days ago||
Is that legal? I was under the impression that in europe hosting servers had KYC rules. I'm regularly getting emails by OVH asking me to confirm my name a d home adress.
gobblegobble2 2 days ago|
Do you have a domain name registered with them? It may be just RDRP mandated by ICANN, not KYD.
combyn8tor 3 days ago||
How do you accept crypto payments? Is there a Stripe style service that provides an API and/or payment portal? Id like to implement something for my SaaS but generally can't be bothered with crypto.
canyp 2 days ago||
A company talking big about privacy generally comes across as dishonest, and you'd have to get all the details right to avoid unleashing the Internet's wrath. It looks like you screwed up between the server logs and Cloudflare. Unfortunate, but it seems to me that it reflects a lack of experience more than ill intent (I do not have such experience myself either.)

Honest question, but did you add the Cloudflare proxy to solve an actual problem, or did you deploy it a priori without an actual justification?

joemazerino 3 days ago||
I like the idea of this but I'm a certain this article is AI generated.
austin-cheney 3 days ago|
I would much rather have privacy with e2e encryption than have anonymity. The way that works is a direct connection between two parties without use of a central server, like webRTC.
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