cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/35909566
SMH @ activists using techno-fascist platforms for communications during an operation subject to state-actor level interference. I thought we recognised and acknowledged this problem 15-20 years ago already.
https://xcancel.com/CraigMurrayOrg/status/1965431513320927706
using the empire’s app and tracking devices for an act of defiance against the empire. they likely didn’t even think of it.
leftists and activists desperately need more computer literacy.
And they expected anything different???
They always do.
What is “freedom flotilla” ? Seasteaders or torrent pirates ? something else ?
It’s multiple boats, from multiple countries and locations on aid missions, all converging to deliver humanitarian supplies to Gaza. The Italian dock workers have threatened to shut down the entirety of Europe if their boats or any boats in the flotilla is fired upon. Which will be interesting because that has happened, a drone has struck one boat so far, nobody has been harmed yet.
Fuck were they using a compromised platform for :/
Company owned by a Jew that has Israeli glowies within its ranks is going after critics of the genocide state.
Normies do a pikachu face in disbelief
Not sure if you realize how derogatory this comes across.
It is a loaded statement… Which part hurt YOU specifically?
The comment seems to directly correlate being “run by a jew” as a reason the corp would be loyal towards Israel, when quite a few jews know exactly what’s happening there and know it’s fucking terrible. The fact that the CEO is rich and managed to succeed in the corporate tech world is more evidence of inclination for bias for western-aligned genocides, much much more than them being Jewish.
I’m guessing they are upset at the word jew, but I’m not sure why. It’s wasn’t used in a derogatory manner in my opinion.
I’m surprised they were using WhatsApp in the first place. Surely there are better options for something like this
Several people in the comments suggest Telegram, which doesn’t even encrypt group chats. Signal is likely the best option if the group is under 1000 members.
Oh, I thought Telegram does encrypt chats, just that you have to enable it rather than it being on be default. Is encryption only available for one-on-one messages?
Oh well, I can’t get my friends and family to use Signal anyway…
I thought Telegram does encrypt chats, just that you have to enable it rather than it being on be default. Is encryption only available for one-on-one messages?
It’s only available for 1-to-1, yes. But why would you rely on a service that hides the option to E2E encryption so well? Next step is to silently remove it.
Signal is private by default.
Telegram is owned by Russian Elon Musk and the FSB. Avoid it if you can.
If you fight against USrael, russia seems like a good idea. Worked for Snowden.
They’re both shitty imperialist countries responsible for wars and genocide.
I’ll take neither, thanks.
Durov only founded Telegram after he left Russia over Maidan. He was, however, recently arrested by the French, so…
He left it performatively. Since then, he’s secretly visited Russia, one time just around its unblocking in Russia, while pretending to be a fugitive.
Edit: Here’s an article on that.
Ah, just looked the guy up on Wiki. Yeah, Russian Elon musk seems about right.
We don’t use Telegram and I never plan to.
Yeah, 100+ kids is fucking wild.
It does not have the option to encrypt group chats last I checked, and even the one-to-one encryption is not particularly well-liked among security experts.
This isn’t about casual chats with friends and family, but political activism against the actions of a country. People doing that should be willing to put at least a trivial amount of effort into security.
Oh yeah, I know they’re dogshit and that the activists should’ve been using Signal, I just didn’t realize that Telegram doesn’t encrypt group chats.
Signal is sUS. Cia will read and genocide
It’s not Whatsapp, it’s Facebook/Meta.
That’s not a meaningful distinction. Either way they should be using matrix or anything else.
That’s a distinction without a difference. It’s clearly risky to rely on that company for important communications.
It is important because these big corporations are hiding behind different named apps pretending they aren’t theirs.
Meta does not try to hide its ownership of Whatsapp; it actively cross-promotes its other services in the Whatsapp UI.
