this is just the start of a general attack on EU organisations...
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@the_wub @glynmoody Yesterday I tried to make an online hotel reservation, and my credit card was declared invalid. I called the hotel and asked if they could help me. At first they were mystified, and then the clerk said it was my email that was being rejected. I use proton.me, so I asked if it would accept protonmail.com. That version was approved. The next time I have trouble with a transaction I’m going to test this out, but it’s setting off alarm bells for me.
@grammasaurus @glynmoody I once had a problem recovering a Skype account.
My parent had originally registered the Skype account with the @googlemail.com version of their email address.
This as gmail.com was not universally used at the time the account was created.
However, MS account recovery systems refused to accept that their email address with @gmail.com was the same email address as the version @googlemail.com.
It took an hour to work that out.
You might have hit a similar problem.
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@grammasaurus @glynmoody I once had a problem recovering a Skype account.
My parent had originally registered the Skype account with the @googlemail.com version of their email address.
This as gmail.com was not universally used at the time the account was created.
However, MS account recovery systems refused to accept that their email address with @gmail.com was the same email address as the version @googlemail.com.
It took an hour to work that out.
You might have hit a similar problem.
@the_wub @glynmoody I think you’re right about that. They’re two versions of the same address, one a few keystrokes shorter than the other.
But I’ve also had my proton address refused by our city government’s servers for “being hosted in another country” (I’m in the US)
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/117171566603371463
this is just the start of a general attack on EU organisations...
@glynmoody I find it interesting that no one thinks about banning pen, paper and fire to destroy said paper. Or using PGP yourself and sending the encrypted message through whatever service you want to use.
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/117171566603371463
this is just the start of a general attack on EU organisations...
@glynmoody host your own email addresses: mailcow!
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/117171566603371463
this is just the start of a general attack on EU organisations...
@glynmoody in their hallucinatory state they're gradually cutting themselves out of the world while thinking they are cutting everyone else out. See how well it worked for Russia! Smart Americans will probably jump ship before it's too late, the rest I'm afraid it's going to be in large percentage supporters of this self destructive madness
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@glynmoody in their hallucinatory state they're gradually cutting themselves out of the world while thinking they are cutting everyone else out. See how well it worked for Russia! Smart Americans will probably jump ship before it's too late, the rest I'm afraid it's going to be in large percentage supporters of this self destructive madness
@pepintheshort yes, not going to be pretty
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@glynmoody I find it interesting that no one thinks about banning pen, paper and fire to destroy said paper. Or using PGP yourself and sending the encrypted message through whatever service you want to use.
@dr_jt it's just kneejerk, imaginary stuff
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@glynmoody We badly need a non-us based card payment system.
@annehargreaves and much else besides
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Extreme Right with money from #BigTech is blocking press freedom and privacy of those that do not agree with them...
Grave Erosion of Democracy ...
@Pettet8 it is, and will get worse
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It casts a pretty big shadow on the 'Land of the free' too.
@ReggieHere it does
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@glynmoody As IF we needed any more proof as to the urgent need for digital sovereignty.
What next?
Tutamail, Proton, Posteo, Mailbox.org...
Any of those services using non-EU domains that can be yanked at will by the US?
@the_wub we should have been doing this a decade ago, as some of us warned...
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@the_wub we should have been doing this a decade ago, as some of us warned...
@glynmoody Maybe the #preppers have been right all along. We just didn't understand what the real threats to our lives actually were.
If the shit were to hit the fan tomorrow then we have enough firewood to burn in our ranges to get us through the winter.
When the harvest is finished this weekend there should be sufficient potatoes and onions in the cellar to feed us for at least six months.
In the worst case scenario we can get water from the river at the end of our plot or melt snow.
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/117171566603371463
this is just the start of a general attack on EU organisations...
@glynmoody
It may be the sort of gateway that is reciprocable.The Royal Mail under Elizabeth 1 was, I think, not just read in the Post Office, but understood to be so, and to reduce the suspicion about communications, if they went through it.
The UKCrypto discussion list sed to be fascinating, when Crypto meant cryptology and -ography and not some scam involving large numbers of fungible promises between unreliable people.
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@datenwolf @glynmoody Well the way it is going, as non-USAians we soon won't have to worry about whether WhatsApp is more or less secure than Signal as our smartphones could just stop working on the whim of a presidential order.
Your Tesla suddenly stops working due to a "software update".
Want to order a doctor's appointment with that smartphone app that needs a Google or Apple account for verification?
We're stuffed!
@the_wub @datenwolf @glynmoody people need to actively refuse that crap!
- Do #CryptoParties
- Get #Monero
- Install #Tails
- Use #Tor for everything
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@datenwolf @glynmoody Well the way it is going, as non-USAians we soon won't have to worry about whether WhatsApp is more or less secure than Signal as our smartphones could just stop working on the whim of a presidential order.
Your Tesla suddenly stops working due to a "software update".
Want to order a doctor's appointment with that smartphone app that needs a Google or Apple account for verification?
We're stuffed!
Stuffed through every orifice and then some.
The frustrating thing is, that people like me went around advocating for truly decentralized net infrastructure for decades.
Nothing, absolutely nothing about IP requires connection to centralized ISPs. Even the most basic el-cheapo-routers bring everthing to mesh them. Put one of those things into every basement and peer with your neighbors.
But try to convince people to do this: "… nahhh – this is too complicated."
*groan*
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Stuffed through every orifice and then some.
The frustrating thing is, that people like me went around advocating for truly decentralized net infrastructure for decades.
Nothing, absolutely nothing about IP requires connection to centralized ISPs. Even the most basic el-cheapo-routers bring everthing to mesh them. Put one of those things into every basement and peer with your neighbors.
But try to convince people to do this: "… nahhh – this is too complicated."
*groan*
@datenwolf @glynmoody For a short while we had a router from our ISP.
The configuration for the router was managed centrally at the ISP and I needed to log into "MinSide" to check anything.
So when our internet connection went down I could not check the router configs or status at all. Even though I was sitting right next to the bloody router and connected to it via an ethernet cable
I replaced the ISP's router with my own shortly after I discovered that.
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@datenwolf @glynmoody For a short while we had a router from our ISP.
The configuration for the router was managed centrally at the ISP and I needed to log into "MinSide" to check anything.
So when our internet connection went down I could not check the router configs or status at all. Even though I was sitting right next to the bloody router and connected to it via an ethernet cable
I replaced the ISP's router with my own shortly after I discovered that.
As far as I'm concerned, if connecting to a centralized ISP I want the link to talk plain Ethernet (and no funny encapsulation nonsense like PPPoE or similar BS) and simply have a DHCPv4 and v6-radvd on the other end and otherwise just forward IP packets.
… can you tell, that I've an enormous disdain for the ISP landscape?
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Stuffed through every orifice and then some.
The frustrating thing is, that people like me went around advocating for truly decentralized net infrastructure for decades.
Nothing, absolutely nothing about IP requires connection to centralized ISPs. Even the most basic el-cheapo-routers bring everthing to mesh them. Put one of those things into every basement and peer with your neighbors.
But try to convince people to do this: "… nahhh – this is too complicated."
*groan*
@datenwolf @glynmoody So.
Is there a way out of this mess?
I am in rural Norway so systems relaying between Wifi routers simply won't work.
I am stuck with fibre or 4G controlled by companies albeit with a choice of ISPs.
Get a radio ham licence and set up IP over ham radio?
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@datenwolf @glynmoody So.
Is there a way out of this mess?
I am in rural Norway so systems relaying between Wifi routers simply won't work.
I am stuck with fibre or 4G controlled by companies albeit with a choice of ISPs.
Get a radio ham licence and set up IP over ham radio?
HAM radio doesn't allow to transmit any kind of commercial traffic (that includes things like browsing the website of the independent book store next town over), and you musn't encrypt traffic.
So it's no bueno for regular internet.
My suggestion: Run/bury fiber to your neighbors. Fiber is dirt cheap (you can get a 50km spool of bare fiber for ~1k€). The most expensive part are the splicers, and you can get those for under 1k€. Maybe form an "internet cooperative"?
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@the_wub @datenwolf @glynmoody people need to actively refuse that crap!
- Do #CryptoParties
- Get #Monero
- Install #Tails
- Use #Tor for everything
@Netzblockierer @the_wub @datenwolf seems to be less common these days
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