I feel bad for everyone who needs censorship bypass apps.
Also if anyone needs a pointer, I just tested Element again and it’s gotten good enough, and it’s technical design makes the matrix protocol more resilient against censorship of any kind. Although I would love to see some more audits and comments from experts.
Yeah if you wanna go tht way you have to go etheral and memory only. That means either a VM with auto reset, or tails or something. However, this is not feasible for the average Linux user.
This is more of a “be aware of your footprint” and less of a “security concern”. This post is pressing hard on the fear of data getting stolen, however none of these things are major ways in which your data gets stolen.
It’s phishing, social engineering, default configurations, weak passwords, no MFA, compromised online-services and supply-chain-attacks, and then, and only then are we even talking about actual CVEs in your local system and app environment. And usually we are talking old ones; for apps which you haven’t updates in a while, as they are the most common.
What I’m saying is for your target audience, this is exactly the wrong thing to focus on. Tech savvy users might wanna look into this but they are very likely aware of all these things, and amateurs definitely should focus on basic security practices.
“he deserved it because - he played music in a heated geopolitical landscape”
Yeah nah that doesn’t do it for me. No one deserves that, period.
What do you mean by charts?
If you just mean general engagement, the beat for matrix would be to wait until element is stable enough that we can recommend the platform to a broader audience, and then it’ll just be lots of patience.