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#TechIlliterates

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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@joo4mart @phreaknerd @melsdung Ja und entgegen @nocci's reply liefer ich "Praktikable Lösungen" auch.

Ich helfe auch gern, nur gegen Unwillen und Faulheit kann ich nicht agieren.

  • Besonders wenn ich weder dafür bezahlt noch dazu authorisiert bin als #WohlwollenderDiktator entsprechendes durchzusetzen!

Gibt @cryptoparty@mastodon.earth / @cryptoparty@chaos.social für jene die sich drum scheren.

  • Den Rest bestrachte ich als #Risiko in Sachen #InfoSec, und leider hat meine Lebenserfahrung mir damit bisher immer Recht gegeben!

Macht doch was ihr wollt aber heult nicht wenn vorhersehbare Konsequenzen weh tun!

MastodonDer vegane Debianer 🇺🇦 🍀 (@joo4mart@social.tchncs.de)@phreaknerd @kkarhan@infosec.space @melsdung@nrw.social @nocci@punk.cyber77.de @torproject@mastodon.social @monocles@monocles.social Danke für die klare Sicht auf die wesentlichen Dinge. Zudem sollten wir immer bedenken, dass ca. 95% der Menschen keine Nerds sind, die sich stundenlang mit Details spezifischer Software beschäftigen wollen/können. Und für diesen vielen Menschen braucht es praktikable Lösungen.
#thxbye#EOD
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@JessTheUnstill @Pibble

And yes, I treat all devices as insecure and would rather invest the time and effort needed get #TechIlliterates up to speed on the #OfflinePGP method!

Given the cheapness of storage (legitimate 1TB microSD cards exist and they ain't 4-digit items!) I'd legitimately look into #OTP #encryption and (IF I had the €€€€€€ to do so!) would even sponsor implementing it in #OpenVPN, #WireGuard and #OpenSSH (for #SSH-Tunmeling).

  • The #US is a #RogueNation with a Rogue Government! The sooner we accept this reality the sooner we can not only adjust to it but act accordingly…

I sincerely wish y'all could legitimately call me a tinfoilhat but so far I've been proven right all the time...

YouTube[English] Pfandleiher on... The offline-pgp-method and why Encrochat, SKY ECC and ANON are failing.By Pfandleiher
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@JessTheUnstill @bohwaz @punkfairie @ajsadauskas @tomiahonen @fuchsiii

Granted, @tails_live @tails / #Tails and @torproject / #TorBrowser are propably one of the best & most battle-tested options that are useable for #TechIlliterates...

THAT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!

If not for being absurd then for the fact that people need to get things done!

  • And it's not as if I haven't taught people how to get started, ranging from having to crash-course someone remotely via chat to hand-on #CryptoParty sessions: If it's way more complex than an AKM chances are people won't stick with it!

So you can imagine how glad I was when @thunderbird merged #Enigmail into #Thunderbird so there's no more fiddling around getting #PGP/MIME to work!

YouTubeLord Of War - AK 47By Angelking762x39
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@JessTheUnstill @bohwaz @punkfairie @ajsadauskas @tomiahonen @fuchsiii Exactly...

Coincidentially, that's why #Android (and #iOS) doesn't let users have #root access because billions of devices owned by mostly "#TechIlliterates" that hardly get #SecurityUpdates would be an even bigger risk if they didn't boot a locked-down #ROM image, thus only allowing for #malware in user-privilegued userspace!

Cuz having a mobile OS that shoves everything through #Tor and only allows #userspace-Apps in the form modern web technologies would be a big #security and #privacy gain.

  • Not to mention #amd64 is on it's way out and inevitably they gotta have to transition to supporting #arm64 and eventually #RISCv-#64bit at some point.
#amd64#arm64#riscv
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@ajsadauskas @JessTheUnstill @tomiahonen @fuchsiii

And #MeeGo aka. #Maemo kinda was lauched dead in the water, with even less support than the #OpenMoko powered FIC Neo1973 in it's days, which was as approachable to #TechIlliterates as a F-22 cockpit to an illiterate…

Vivaldi SocialAJ Sadauskas (@ajsadauskas@vivaldi.net)@kkarhan@infosec.space @JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange @fuchsiii@oxytodon.com On Nokia, I know @tomiahonen@mastodon.world is on Mastodon, and might be able to shed more light on what happened internally there? But the short version is Nokia chose the worst of all possible worlds by going with Windows Phone. Yeah, Symbian was reaching the end of its life. There were three choices to replace it: a) MeeGo. Ended up only shipping on one phone: The Nokia N9 in 2011. People still rave about that phone today. Possibly the best option. b) Android. Basically, what Nokia's successor HMD is doing, except they would have had far more momentum by going early. c) Windows Phone. History shows how that multi-billion-dollar blunder worked out. And I liked WP. I used it for around a year at one point. But MSFT completely mishandled it. As for Firefox OS, I think Mozilla completely misjudged the market for it. No, the first market for an open source phone with an app ecosystem based on open web standards shouldn't have been underpowered devices for emerging economies. It was for people who run Linux on the desktop at home, people who run deGoogled Android, and people who work in software development/IT/InfoSec.
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@Andromxda @mollyim no it's not bs and fanboying @signalapp isn't going to change that.

If #Signal was secure it would be the #1 comms tool of organized crime...

Real professionals use #SelfHosting capable, fully #FLOSS'd solutions like #PGP/MIME & #XMPP+#OMEMO.

It's just me reading the room: Cuz #ComSec isn't done woth "JuSt UsE sIgNaL!" and everyone who claims so without pointing out #OpSec, #InfoSec & #ITsec is BSing hard.

  • The cold hard truth is that #TechLiteracy is irreplaceable and the only solution to it is to actually teach normies how to "get gud" with stuff like PGP.

Fortunatelty, @thunderbird and @tails_live / @tails / #Tails and many other tools make that easier than ever before.

YouTubeSignal's Terrible MobileCoin BetrayalBy The Hated One
#cryptoparty
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@f @ai6yr @briankrebs I think it's less of a "#political" question but an act of #SelfDefense and #MutualDefense at this point.

Re: #TechIlliterates that are unwilling to learn, act like a "#BenevolentDictator" and enshure they can't harm themselves in the sense that they don't get #sudo or other administrative privilegues and can't do any #persistent #changes.

  • And if that means they get forced to use #Tails then that's a "necessary evil"...

After all, societies almost everywhere ban people from driving motor vehicles faster than 6 km/h by people who actively refuse to even take basic exams and classes for a #DrivingLicense.

  • And I'm convinced one can do more damage as #TechIlliterate with a #PC than a single-cylinger two-stroke engine driven motorcycle...
#techilliterate#pc
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@ai6yr @briankrebs OFC this targets #TechIlliterates and the only effective means here are:

  1. Teach #TechLiteracy instead of consumerism.
  2. Mandate #confirmation & #notification - #PopUp|s for every use of #Clipboard (similar to #webcam use by websites)...
  3. Ban #JavaScript - seriously!
  4. Ban #Windows, because it's a #Govware, espechally since #Windows10 and even more so on #Windows11 that is *insecure in every configuration!
  5. Put #TechIlliterates before a system they can't feck up. I.e. @tails_live @tails / #Tails for that reason alone (can't run such commands if they neither got #root nor any #persistent #storage to target).
  6. Normalize the use of @torproject #TorBrowser!
  7. #Teach #tech #literacy instead of #consumerism!
  8. Ban #GAFAMs and their shitty products!
  9. Migrate every #TechIlliterate to #Linux and don't give them administrative privilegues.
  10. Teach tech literacy instead of consumerism!
#techliteracy#confirmation#notification
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