@dzwiedziu @fj @signalapp not really, as the #Metadata #FUD cited by #Signal is mitigateable with proper measures.

• You can't even run Signal over @torproject and even if that point is moot when you're forced to quasi-#KYC by virtue of a #PhoneNumber aka. #PII they have neither legitimate interest nor technical reason to demand in the first place!

Every claim that things like #ITsec, #InfoSec, #OpSec & #ComSec can be solved with "Just use Signal!" is "#TechPopulism" at best if not being a "#UsefulIdiot"!

• All #centralized, #SingleVendor & #SingleProbider systems are inherently insecure!

@Andromxda @mollyim no it's not bs and fanboying @signalapp isn't going to change that.

If #Signal was secure it would be the #1 comms tool of organized crime...

• Yet I've only seen #TechIlliterates shill it.

Real professionals use #SelfHosting capable, fully #FLOSS'd solutions like #PGP/MIME & #XMPP+#OMEMO.

• Again: Demanding #PII like #PhoneNumbers and shilling a #Shitcoin-#Scam (#MobileCoin) makes Signal literally untrustworthy and if it doesn't for you then maybe your standards are just too low...

It's just me reading the room: Cuz #ComSec isn't done woth "JuSt UsE sIgNaL!" and everyone who claims so without pointing out #OpSec, #InfoSec & #ITsec is BSing hard.

• The cold hard truth is that #TechLiteracy is irreplaceable and the only solution to it is to actually teach normies how to "get gud" with stuff like PGP.

Fortunatelty, @thunderbird and @tails_live / @tails / #Tails and many other tools make that easier than ever before.

• So rather than vomiting insults against my intellect in my mentions, go to the next @cryptoparty@mastodon.earth / #Cryptoparty / @cryptoparty@chaos.social and lend a hand.

how phishing etc. often plays on urgency to lower your defenses, remember to then also remind people that almost nothing is ever that urgent.

Above all, always remember that almost everybody is on a sliding scale of "out of their element" when using a computer. The most important ITSEC measure is helping people move that slider in the comfortable direction & the best way of doing that is helping people realize they're the masters of their machines & not the other way around.

@maldr0id it's called #InfoSec, #ComSec & #OpSec.

• Without it #ITsec is nonexistant.

Not to mention people got jailed for far less shite!