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The Mullvad founder gave millions to extremist far right party (mastodon.social)
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The IT company Mullvad’s founder Daniel Berntsson is behind a giant donation to the populist Örebro Party, which advocates “comprehensive re-immigration” from Sweden. “It’s sad that it’s needed,” he told Flamman.

~ https://www.flamman.se/techprofil-ger-miljoner-till-orebropartiet/

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[–] 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (20 children)

Signal was kickstarted by the CIA, so dissidents in regimes they wanted to topple could communicate securely, but at least that seems genuine.

Matrix was an Israeli spy company's invention.

Telegram is Russian.

Reddit started out as the creation of Aaron Schwartz, but he got demonised and committed suicide. Then it was left to that shit eater spez, who sold his soul to the Epstein crowd making Ghislaine Maxwell a powermod among others, also hosting r/the_donald and bridging Trump's popularity from 4chan into the mainstream. Now he sells everyone's data to Google, while still not paying the manufacturers of that data anything.

TrueCrypt got shut down because it was too cool.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Do you have Signal confused with TOR?

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  • [–] -5 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    No lol but I guess they did it twice?

    It was in the news a year or few ago that the CIA was ceasing its funding of Signal.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    If that was in the news you’d think I would be able to find an article…

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  • [–] -2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Thus was the first hit I got when searching.

    https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/signal-facing-collapse-after-cia

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    That article and sources are bollocks. They received donations in the past, from there the claim is that they are entirely compromised. There's a list of almost a hundred other apps and services, from fdroid to let's encrypt. Are they also compromised?

    Fear mongering and tinfoil

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago

    The truth is in between.

    The CIA funded Signal to be a truly secure and open source messaging platform for overseas dissidents to use, wherein they could support their efforts, while pursuing US political objectives.

    Eventually, people in the US started to use it to evade oppression, and the CIA went "NO!! NOT LIKE THAT!!!"

    Regardless, the proven facts of the matter are that the CIA funded Signal.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    TrueCrypt got shut down because it was too cool.

    VeraCrypt exists

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Matrix does have fundamental design issues you would expect from cellebrite devs...

    Simplex, Monero and Whonix are all as cool as veracrypt!

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    and the SimpleX creator is a far righter, too https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/114630877715286899

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    You'd think with all the trans programmers out there we would have more tech companies built by leftists...

    But I suppose the leftists are the ones building the platforms for a pittance while the generationally wealthy right-wingers are the ones paying people to do all that work...

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    Doesn't matter as much here. It's open source and has passed two audits. Look at the code. Use different servers if you want. Reimplement the protocol if you can.

    No really, please somone do it in go or rust. I don't want to learn kotlin 🥲

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  • [+] -8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Man, after his death Aaron Swartz has gone from an early employee of Reddit, to a founder of Reddit to now the creator of Reddit. Give it a few years and he'll have provided the VC money for it too.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Aaron Swartz is and always was the guy who coded the core functionality of reddit. He was the man who Tim Burners Lee said would lead the charge for the internet into the 21st century.

    Instead, the FBI drove him to death.

    Spez and that other dude had the idea to make reddit, but Aaron built it for them. Then Randall from XKCD made the "Best" sorting algorithm.

    Then Spez shat all over everything for personal gain.

    Then you came here to post.

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