Sharing privacy and security setups, the digital equivalent of leaving a detailed map to your treasure chest and then wondering why pirates are interested. True privacy, as a concept, becomes a rather slippery thing when you attempt to explain it publicly. It’s a paradox, isn’t it?

I’ll share a “true” secure setup. Four laptops: secure communications, normal communications, a decoy, and an “airgap” (a computer that had never gone and would never go online).

So use no messenger? Any decentralized options?

Alternatives to Signal that prioritize decentralized communication.

• Briar Project (https://briarproject.org/ ): A compelling choice for censorship resistance. Briar employs peer-to-peer messaging, connecting via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or Tor, and incorporates privacy features by design. It’s a robust solution for those concerned about surveillance.
• Delta Chat (https://delta.chat/ ): A decentralized and secure messenger application. It’s often praised for its ease of use and integration with existing email accounts.
• XMPP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP ): Less of an application and more of a foundational protocol. XMPP is an open standard for instant messaging, allowing for decentralized implementations – though setting up and maintaining such a system requires a degree of technical expertise.

I’ve tried many desktop environments: Flux, Gnome, KDE, XFCE, Cinnamon, Mate, Enlightenment, OpenBox, TWM, and screens. Naturally, Gnome prevailed. I can’t resist a system that allows for endless tweaking.

Here are two reasons you might not want to use Signal: Your contacts, your settings, your entire Signal experience is tied to a Signal account managed by Signal. Metadata—who you’re talking to, when, and how often—can still be collected and analyzed. Question everything.

A VPN does not provide inherent security. It is only as trustworthy as the entity providing it. As I understand it, A VPN to a safe LAN with firewall or such, yes. A VPN to a sketchy third party that will basically log everything you do, no.

I like Liquid Prompt[1] (A useful adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh) Examples:

θ70° 2z termight@zone51:~ $ vi .bashrc

θ71° 2z termight@zone51:~/docker/invidious master(+34/-17)* ±

[1] https://github.com/liquidprompt/liquidprompt

What’s the practical takeaway here? Just don’t have an email basically

@Cgers@lemmy.dbzer0.com The takeaway here is not “don’t use email at all.” You can employ OpenPGP, and encrypt your emails. Also, host your own keys. Perhaps don’t allow a single corporation to have your private key and access to your encrypted messages simultaneously.

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No single organization should be trusted. “Emails paint an intimate narrative of ourselves — the people we talk to, the books we read, the politics we practice. This information is powerful. When we lose control over it, it can do great harm to ourselves and our loved ones.” https://ideas.ted.com/why-we-should-all-care-about-encryption-really/

Using dino, blabber, gajim, psi+, or conversations, but will go back to pidgin when it adds xmpp to v3.