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Post by gonehome »

newscracker wrote: post #128
gonehome wrote: post #124

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Thanks for explanation - sounds like it's generally a tradeoff of UX vs. Security, didn't know things were that much better in the Telegram world. Seems to me though that if you're willing to use telegram you might as well just use iMessage or What's App though?

> sounds like it's generally a tradeoff of UX vs. Security Not necessarily. Wire has shown that a Telegram like UX is possible with end-to-end encryption, multi-device sync and multi-platform support. It's just that Wire and Signal are slow in catching up and seem like they need a slightly larger team and/or better management of the development. > didn't know things were that much better in the Telegram world. I keep…

> Not necessarily. Wire has shown that a Telegram like UX is possible with end-to-end encryption, multi-device sync and multi-platform support. It's just that Wire and Signal are slow in catching up and seem like they need a slightly larger team and/or better management of the development.

To clarify not that it's a fundamental tradeoff that you can't have end to end encryption with good UX, but that the current choice between Signal and Telegram is a choice between security (Signal) and UX (Telegram).

From everything I've read you'd probably be better off trusting iMessage or WhatsApp over Telegram.

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Post by thr0waway1239 »

behnamoh wrote: post #307
nostrademons wrote: post #203

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I've heard that rather than deleting your FB account, it's better to turn it into a piece of obviously-fictitious performance art. Don't try to remove your data from the Internet (which is futile; you know Facebook still has it on some archive somewhere anyway). Instead, replace it with nonsense. Set your interests to your competitors so that you get notifications everytime they release a new feature, and full inform…

Sorry, I'm new to Markov Chains, but recently I've been thinking about a way to "beat" ML algorithms of GOOG, FB, etc. So that the information stored about me is NOT true. For example, if someone keeps searching for "LGBT" while he/she is not one, GOOG will assume he IS one, or at least, interested in the topic. My question is, is there a general method for beating ML/AI algorithms and stay hidden from them? Thank yo…

If you watch the following video from Google (for about 5 minutes from the marked location), it looks like these algorithms have a pretty big blind spot: the unknown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sphFCJE1HkI#t=7m50s

So you can use Google itself to find words which are obviously not well known (just construct a dictionary filled with random characters and see how many results come back for each word). Take a passage of clean text, and randomly replace the nouns in the text with these garbage words (capitalize the first character), and post it to your social network. The surrounding text will provide legitimacy, but the garbage words will probably throw off the algorithms. Do it often enough, and someone at Google will probably investigate the issue :-)

Or maybe go and get public domain text which has a lot of words which are not in use today and fill up your FB/Google/Twitter feeds with such data. My view is that such data will very likely throw off the existing algorithms, and if people do it at sufficient scale, we may discover that ML algorithms are only as smart as the training data set.

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Post by Joof »

mnw21cam wrote: post #294
Joof wrote: post #273

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If you have a good alternative email I'd be down for that at least. Hosting your own turns out to be surprisingly difficult.

Make that surprisingly easy. Been doing it for more than a decade now, just on my house ADSL connection. It helps that a friend has agreed to host a backup MX.

Really? My email tended to be blacklisted and treated as spam and I had poor filters and search. Help me out here lol.

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Post by schwuk »

angry_octet wrote: post #283
0xmohit wrote: post #64

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Exactly. Moreover, a look at the permissions required by Facebook app would reveal how much information it collects about you: Device & app history retrieve running apps Identity find accounts on the device add or remove accounts read your own contact card Calendar read calendar events plus confidential information add or modify calendar events and send email to guests without owners' knowledge Contacts find accounts…

What happens if you deny it those permissions? (Android >= v6).

I've turned them all off and nothing has broken so far, but then again I'm a pretty passive user of Facebook.

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Post by chad_strategic »

CaptSpify wrote: post #207
chad_strategic wrote: post #182

-->How do I choose not to share my account information with Facebook? Answer: Don't use Facebook.

Not true. They still build shadow profiles of you.

That's the NSA funded wing of Facebook. (Don't tell anybody)

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Post by mnw21cam »

Joof wrote: post #314
mnw21cam wrote: post #294

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Make that surprisingly easy. Been doing it for more than a decade now, just on my house ADSL connection. It helps that a friend has agreed to host a backup MX.

Really? My email tended to be blacklisted and treated as spam and I had poor filters and search. Help me out here lol.

If you send email directly from your machine by looking up MX records from a home ADSL line, then yes this will happen. Instead, you should send your mail via your ISP's outgoing SMTP server, using the mail submission port number 587. Your ISP should provide this service, and you will probably have to authenticate using your username/password associated with your internet connection.

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Post by THROANN77 »

hi, am Anderson, i had my friend help me hack my ex's email, facebook, whatsapp,and his phone cause i suspected he was cheating. all he asked for was a his phone number. he's email is (cyberlord7714@gmail.com)..IF u need help tell him Anderson referred you to him and he'll help. Am sure his going to help you do it, good luck

Re: “How do I choose not to share my account information with Facebook?”

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Post by THROANN77 »

hi, am Anderson, i had my friend help me hack my ex's email, facebook, whatsapp,and his phone cause i suspected he was cheating. all he asked for was a his phone number. he's email is (cyberlord7714@gmail.com)..IF u need help tell him Anderson referred you to him and he'll help. Am sure his going to help you do it, good luck
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