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[–] 115 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    He said something like this. I couldn't find the original article of what he said, but here is Kirk's back-pedaling

    "We are messengers here. We are relaying what we are hearing from your most loyal ultra-MAGA supporters all the time," Kirk said. "It's not that people are saying, you know, they want to learn about Epstein because they have any suspicion of President Trump ... No one thinks you're involved in any way in that stuff whatsoever."

    The president's backers in the MAGA sphere were joined in their dissatisfaction by half a dozen House Republicans, who are trying to force a floor vote calling on the DOJ to release any remaining Epstein-related documents it has in its possession in their entirety.

    https://www.newsweek.com/jeffrey-epstein-files-update-charlie-kirk-trump-message-2099999

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  • [–] [S] 93 points 1 year ago (32 children)

    I can’t really even detransition. I’ve lived my entire adult life as a man.

    I’m so terrified. What does this look like? Jail, inpatient institutionalization? Will they take away my testosterone?

    My brain is on fire. I don’t know where to reach out for help.

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago (17 children)

    prepare for surveillance of any social groups you belong to, harassment at security checkpoints, detainment if you say anything they can take out of context as evidence of some crime or threat, and random acts of violence. have armed security at any event where large numbers of trans people attend. improve your opsec - switch to Signal, get an iPhone or GrapheneOS, migrate from Discord/Google/Instagram. start carrying a taser and take self-defense classes. put together a bug-out bag. stock up on HRT if you can. don't break any laws, no matter how minor. if you are arrested or detained: comply with orders (under protest), don't tell them your phone PIN, say nothing except "I exercise my right to remain silent and I want an attorney."

    it remains to be seen how bad this gets. if they start rounding people up in masse, we'll all need to flee and request asylum.

    good luck.

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  • [+] 47 points 1 year ago (15 children)
  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    iPhones are highly regarded for security precisely because you don't have to trust that Apple won't hand over your data - it's encrypted, if you set it up that way. enable Lockdown Mode, don't use any services that aren't E2EE. they can still try to GrayKey your phone, but it's not Apple's doing - GrayKey uses exploit chains which Apple legitimately does well to mitigate.

    GrapheneOS is better for security than iPhones, but less noob-friendly. there are guides, though.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Iphone? More secure?

    Secure from fraudsters stealing your money? Probably.

    Secure from the government? LOL nope.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I'd trust an iPhone more than a random Samsung full of carrier bloatware, but I trust my Pixel running GrapheneOS more than either.

    I have the USB-C port disabled for anything but charging, a duress pin, and reboots after 8 hours without a login. I'm honestly not sure if GrayKey could unlock it. I have memory tagging and a bunch of other hardening enabled, running only open-source apps I've verified the signatures of, running with minimal permissions. It would be hard to hack.

    Yes, of course the NSA could almost certainly break it, but it would probably cost them time, money and vulns. If everyone uses GOS it will make their job very, very annoying :)

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  • [+] 30 points 1 year ago (12 children)
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    nope, neither of your sources says they can decrypt your content. in particular, from your first:

    Data transmitted to Google and Apple includes metadata "detailing which app received a notification and when, as well as the phone and associated Apple or Google account to which that notification was intended to be delivered," Wyden wrote. Sometimes data shared may include "unencrypted content, which could range from backend directives for the app to the actual text displayed to a user in an app notification," Wyden warned.

    as for your second, that's for unencrypted iCloud backups. you have to turn Advanced Data Protection on: https://www.macworld.com/article/2606947/icloud-encryption-how-secure-is-your-data.html

    note that iCloud Calendar, Contacts and Mail can't be e2e encrypted, for fundamental reasons (notifications, discovery, SMTP.) but you don't have to use those.

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  • [+] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago

    I don't trust corporations. I trust math, and code, and systems design. I trust AES-256, even though the NSA picked it, because 20 years of cryptography research has revealed nothing close to a break. I trust SELinux, even though NSA invented it, because hundreds of kernel devs from around the world have audited it and touch that code regularly. I trust even proprietary systems which have been extensively independently audited and reverse engineered by security researchers, though I do trust them less.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I know you mean the best, but an iPhone isn't any better privacy-wise than an Android is. Regardless of their public stance, these giant monoliths have proven time and time again there's no respect for an individual's privacy. If they get caught lying/breaking the law, the fine is merely the cost of doing business.

    It would be better to focus on universal ways someone could keep themselves safe. Drop WhatsApp/SMS for Signal, drop Chromium based browsers, use uBlock, a VPN, etc. Arguing over phones is just infighting and not worth the energy.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I disagree on dropping Chromium-based browsers. drop Chrome/Edge/etc. certainly, but Firefox is kept alive by a skeleton crew at this point, and almost certainly has more vulnerabilities than Chromium browsers. the sandboxing and process isolation, the defense in depth, it just isn't there.

    I use Vanadium, which has all telemetry disabled, JIT off by default, and blocks ads.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    almost certainly has more vulnerabilities than Chromium browsers

    Unless you have real world data that confirms it, this is just fear mongering.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Firefox CVEs

    Chrome CVEs

    93 code execution vulns in Chrome since 2015, 135 in FF. 975 memory corruption + 267 overflow for Chrome in that same time, while 142 + 536 respectively for FF, so in raw terms Chrome is higher, but A) most of the Chrome vulns are classified as DoS rather than RCE, which indicates their mitigations seem to work, and B) Chrome has way more market share, hence way more people finding vulns. Ladybird has like, 2 CVEs, but that doesn't mean it's way more secure than FF/Chrome, it means nobody's using it.

    Opzero.Ru (the quickest exploit market I could find) will pay $200k for Firefox RCE but $500K for Chrome RCE. Lower prices either mean less demand (low browser market share) or high supply (more vulns already in their inventory.)

    So no, I am not fear mongering. You may disagree with my conclusions but I'm trying to be objective.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    For starters, if I had not called you out, you wouldn't have provided sources. So my point still stands, your previous message, unsourced, was fear mongering.

    Onto your data. Funny that you wrote the total from 2015, not mentioning that 127 of those code execution vulns are from 2015 and 2016... So 8 code exec since 2017, versus 85 for Chrome. I don't think we can attribute that only to market share.

    Either you don't know how to read a table, or you purposefully ignored that part, perhaps hoping no-one would click on your links?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    or maybe the amount of research I could be fucked to do on my phone on a Saturday to reply to some snide lemming topped out at not adding up subranges by hand.

    I'm also skeptical of the RCE tallies, the more I look at them, given two JS sandbox escapes for FF were reported just days ago: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2025-73/

    I don't understand why so many people on this site take every opportunity to attack each other, rather than extending the principle of charity.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Well, the thing is, you just admitted that your initial comment about Firefox being more vulnerable was based on nothing, since you did your research only after. Then you so quickly went over the data you looked for that you only saw that total that seemed to confirm your unfounded bias, where the tables have that very readable color code to them, making 2015 and 2016 really jump to the eye.

    Of course, now that the data you found goes against your bias, you just look to discredit it, instead of thinking "you know, maybe this isn't as clear-cut as I thought it was".

    So no, no charity there. I'll keel it for those who act in good faith, thank you.

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  • you know what, that's fair. I admit I've heard so frequently (e.g. from the GOS community) that FF is less secure due to low maintenance, so I read the CVE statistics with that bias. I apologize.

    in your view, how ought we to assess the attack surface of things like browsers? I'd love to move back to FF if it's roughly as secure.

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  • [+] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Apple devices and just trusting their word that it isn't enabled? Why are you so bent on propping up Apple as a secure platform when it's so glaringly obvious they can't be trusted with your data?

    because, while I use GrapheneOS, it's a little hard to set up and lacks some creature comforts. Android devices outside of GOS/CalyxOS/Lineage are probably even less secure than iPhones.

    but perhaps it's better for me to encourage everyone to bite the bullet and switch to Pixels running GOS. it really isn't that hard.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    They have root access on your phone and it doesn't function without constantly connecting to apple severs for every little thing. If Apple wants access to your data, they're gonna get access.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Arm yourself. 2nd amendment is all we got left.

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  • [–] [S] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I lost my 2A rights because I put up signs at a troubled teen facility, and that apparently counted as “stalking” the CEO.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Hey, just jumping in here because this does sound familiar. My nana was a Jew in Poland, born in 1923. She saw the writing on the wall and left for Ukraine and the next 5 years on a farm over there. She came back afterwards and found nothing left for her, and that's how I'm now Australian - she went to Israel after the war, didn't much like it and kept moving

    Anyway, my point is get out while you still can. My nana was youngest of 7, and she lost 4 siblings. Don't know what's going to happen to you there. You can either stay and fight (one of her brothers was a officer in the red army) or just not deal with the bullshit and move on somewhere that you'll be more accepted.

    I'm sorry this is so crap but it feels familiar and I'm worried for you.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    https://www.blazingsword.org/

    Get armed, train, be ready.

    This isn't getting better any time soon.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Sooner or later they will decide only straight white cis people are allowed to own guns.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    from social media posts it seems like maga vigilantes are already doxxing people they perceive as lgbt or even just slightly left of themselves that show up at any of their gun related establishments

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Are you in an organization or a group that advocates violence against the government or your fellow Americans? If not, then probably nothing will change for you. If yes, leave that group. I'm supposing you're already living in a blue state.

    That site is trying to agitate you. Perhaps stay off of it. Just to be clear, I'm not saying they're incorrect, just saying that it's not improving your mental state.

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  • [–] 179 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    First they came for the Communists
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was not a Communist
    Then they came for the Socialists
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was not a Socialist
    Then they came for the trade unionists
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was not a trade unionist
    Then they came for the Jews
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was not a Jew
    Then they came for me
    And there was no one left
    To speak out for me

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  • [–] 103 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    They actually went after trans people first last time as well.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    they went after a Jewish sexologist who studied and advocated for trans people, so the Nazis really killed two birds with one stone. :|

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It really was a twofer to paint both with the brush of sexual immorality. Weimar Germany was the center of a sexual reform movement that promoted birth control for women, equal rights for both sexes, acceptance of sexual minorities, legalization and regulation of sex work and more. It was really ahead of its time.

    Then the Nazis came along and found common ground with the conservative religious groups to demonize and then victimize everyone involved.

    It's just... I know history doesn't repeat itself, but goddamn does it rhyme.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    History sure does rhyme. Unfortunately, it's because authoritarians learn from the failings of others

    I don't think we'll see the end stages of Nazi Germany in the US. That's what brought down Hitler. Putin and modern Russia is a much better example of what we could see going forward

    Much easier to keep people in line when the atrocities are vague and plausibly denied

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Depends on what you count as "first". The communist groups (that likely had trans people in them) were the first placed into concentration camps.

    You're likely referring to the first Nazi book burning which included sexual health literature on trans healthcare.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    That is true, the Nazi's didn't go after sexual minorities until 1934, but persecutions began for socialists, communists and sexual minorities (as their supporters were largely overlapped) years before that. I mostly have a burr in my britches over Niemöller leaving out other victims of the holocaust like the Roma and what today would be called LBGT+ people. But it's not a competition, the poem's point stands that the Nazis come for everyone eventually because fascist ideology is intrinsically corrosive - it needs a constant threat to justify it's ever-consuming need for power.

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  • [–] 74 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    A bunch of shit Nazis, obsessed with other people's genitals.

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  • [–] 55 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    whelp guess i gotta pull FBI aggro as a harmless cis white dude

    i'm the president of anitfa over here

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  • [–] 54 points 1 year ago

    Well if you start treating them like terrorists, some might choose that path. It is a very possible self-fulfilling prophecy. Especially when you threaten their lives like that.

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Trans people do not seem like a threat.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    our existence is a threat to traditional gender roles and family structure. the real thing they fear is "social contagion" - that trans kids will see us living happy lives, and realize they can transition too. they're afraid of gay people for similar reasons, but physical transition is a whole new level - they have a visceral reaction against it, like their innocent child has been irrevocably, physically corrupted.

    they realized that using their existing levers of power (cutting off funding, changing curriculum, ID laws etc.) won't do shit: we can DIY hormones, socialize on the internet and look out for each other. so now they become increasingly authoritarian, hence designating us as "domestic extremists" and calling for our forced institutionalization.

    the Heritage foundation is handling us like the SCP foundation handles a Keter-class anomaly.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    our existence is a threat to traditional gender roles and family structure.

    No, those are the euphemisms the fascists use. The word you're really looking for is "patriarchy".

    Don't let the enemy control the conversation.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago

    Hey, just like the NAZIs.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    JD Vance is a domestic threat.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The entire gop. Insert "we are all domestic terrorists . Gif"

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    Careful that's on the list of things you can't say about Republicans anymore

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    "The land of the free and the home of the brave" my a$$, dear us citizens

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    "A right wing podcaster got killed by a fan of another right wing podcaster, which is why we're declaring that trans people are terrorists."

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  • [–] 67 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Exactly how would this work? They just going start arresting trans people for existing? Are we really going sit by while they just start rounding up citizens who have committed zero crimes?

    This shit needs to be shut down before it starts.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    I have never seen one media person ask a blue state representative: "how far would you let things go, specifically, before you would use state law enforcement to directly resist federal agents to protect your own citizens? How bad would things have to get before you were willing to start shooting people?"

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Are we really going sit by while they just start rounding up citizens who have committed zero crimes?

    Americans already are. This is happening right now, lots of people were legal green card holders and in many cases citizens.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Are we really going sit by while they just start rounding up citizens who have committed zero crimes?

    They were for citizens who were kidnapped by ICE. And democrats won't get out of bed to help anyone not named netanyahu.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Says the furniture pervert

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    you mean vice president couch fucker?

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