But you can turn off sealed sender messages from anyone, so they’d have to already be a trusted contact

The setting to mitigate this attack (so that only people who know your username can do it, instead of anybody who knows your number) is called Who Can Find Me By Number. According to the docs, setting it to nobody requires also setting Who Can See My Number to nobody. Those two settings are both entirely unrelated to Signal’s “sealed sender” thing, which incidentally is itself cryptography theater, btw.

15 minutes of it are available here: https://archive.org/details/insidececot

You can literally turn off read receipts in signal

But you can’t turn off delivery receipts, which is what this attack uses.

those best practices don’t mitigate the attack in this paper

i posted this here after being reminded of it by this (3 minute video)

The linked clip omits the awkwardness that follows; you can see more of it here.

And while you’re on the Erika Kirk channel, see also her freudian grift slip

https://www.wired.com/story/larry-ellison-is-a-shadow-president-in-donald-trumps-america/ (archive.is paywall bypass)

You think the Trump admin tells Larry Ellison what to do?

someone tell Avery Brooks

They just need to say they are using the archive for AI training data. Then it’s legal.

Straight out of 1984.

yt-dlp can download from thousands of sites, including streamable. you can install it on android using termux.

don’t drive a car afterwards

shouldn’t they dismantle it? or is it cool to just dump things like imploded bridges in the mississippi?

A road analogy only works if it’s their private road which youtube maintains

Their desire to restrict how you interact with their “free” service necessitates eliminating your fundamental ability to tell your computer what to do - not just for “their private road”, but in general. This is what the “war on general computation” is about. (I assume you haven’t watched the talk linked in my earlier comment? there is also a transcript here…)

To be clear, they have not won this war yet - which is why all of the software linked in the body of this post is still able to exist! But, they are continuing to move in that direction and offerings like YouTube Premium are predicated on their (correct) assumption that, for many people, having agency over their own computers’ behavior is already unimaginable.

So, re: your earlier comment:

That feels dystopian in the same way that a car mechanics offering services like brake pad replacements is dystopian, which is to say, a pretty big stretch. My uncle and his buddies would giggle, a la, Hank Hill if anyone suggested taking that stuff to a mechanic. But for 90% of people, that’s the norm.

I’d say this not at all like car mechanics existing and offering brake pad replacement service. Rather, it is akin to it being made intentionally more difficult and/or outright illegal to replace one’s own brake pads - and also to have them replaced by any local mechanic who does not pay a recurring fee to the company that manufactured the car.

see also previous !canada@hexbear.net thread about this: https://hexbear.net/post/7014306

the war on general-purpose computing isn’t akin to car mechanics offering services. if you want a car analogy (😬) it is more like car manufacturers attempting to restrict which roads which cars are allowed to drive on (and selling license keys to enable access to other roads).

google’s offer to accept payment for these “features”^[1] (each and every one of them) is predicated on their assumption that many people are not in control of the software on their own computers.

they haven’t completely won the war yet, but the extent to which their assumption is correct is imo pretty dystopian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outdoor_advertising#Regulations billboards are banned in several cities and, surprisingly, in four entire states of the US.