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Posted by ybceo 3 days ago

Privacy doesn't mean anything anymore, anonymity does(servury.com)
452 points | 290 commentspage 6
vladyslavfox 3 days ago|
> Privacy is Marketing. Anonymity is Architecture.

But in order to read the article you need to enable JS. What a joke.

hilbert42 3 days ago|
Exactly. I run sans JS by default. At least this warns me to either avoid the site or to take the risk (browser button--red for JS block, green unblock).
derelicta 3 days ago||
Good luck guys, you will surely attract the attention of Feds very quickly.
vpribish 3 days ago||
hyperbolic.

anonymity in your product could be a sensible design choice that your customers could value. fine. go nuts.

but in general? hard disagree. anonymity is fragile and can't be guaranteed, privacy is a legal obligation which can actually be enforced if push comes to shove.

also that page reads like slop : it's not X, it's Y. blah blah blah. this is a marketing piece trying to go viral.

hexbin010 2 days ago||
LLM slop, Cloudflare, potentially lying about certifications, privacy hypocrisy...a pretty bad look.
mac-mc 2 days ago||
Dude, disclose the AI writing; it has AI smells all over it, such as contrastive sentences.
undeniablemess 3 days ago||
AI generated article. What a slop.
zwnow 3 days ago||
How tf are you supposed to provide working authentication without storing the email somewhere? Should i just disable password resets and tell the users to fuck off if they forget theirs? Cant even use passkeys as they make users identifiable too.
pona-a 3 days ago||
How do passkeys make users identifiable beyond being a random token? I recall FIDO shared hardware key serial numbers with websites, but at least on Firefox, it prompts you to deny it.
zwnow 3 days ago||
In that case one could argue emails dont make users identifiable either, if the addresses dont contain any meaningful names
pona-a 3 days ago||
A passkey is always one per site. Emails tend to be naturally reused, unless the visitor uses a paid aliasing service (plus trick is trivial to canonize, having a dozen mailboxes on a self-hosted email still associates them with each other, because there's no anonymity set to speak of, and major email providers like Gmail won't let you register an account today without a phone number, credit card, or passport).
zwnow 3 days ago||
And yet your passkey and therefore app access is tied to a singular key connecting that with all the user info.
K0balt 3 days ago|||
Users need to have hard memorization or record of a paraphrase, same as a crypto wallet. Or just use web3 for auth, that can work well if users have decent opsec.
wrxd 3 days ago||
That’s a trade off if you don’t want the service to know who you are
fithisux 3 days ago||
Is this a joke?
heliumtera 3 days ago||
Nice ad you bought! Oh wait
vitonsky 3 days ago|
Yet another promotional post of Mullvad team. Nice story, but I don't buy it.

Email is fine when it is an option. Mullvad have even option to pay with a credit card & PayPal. That's more sensitive data than Email.

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