@rysiek @agturcz that's not how you fix #TechIlliteracy, espechally since things changed for the better.

@monocles / #monoclesChat & @gajim / #gajim are quite easy, whereas @signalapp / #Signal demands #PII in the form of a #Phone number which is more often than not not legally obtainable without "#KYC" aka. "forced #SelfDoxxing" all whilst being an extremely #centralized, #SingleVendor & #SingleProvider solution that falls under #CloudAct ant thus cannot adhere to #GDPR & #BDSG!

• Sorry, but "#TechPopulism" alike "JuSt UsE sIgNaL !" won't fix #TechIlliteracy but rather provide false sense of security to #TechIlliterates when the correct solution is to teach proper #TechLiteracy like @cryptoparty@chaos.social / @cryptoparty@mastodon.earth / #CryptoParty does...

Otherwise we'd only perpetuate the #Enshittification-#Lifecycle as has happened with #AIM, #ICQ, #BBM and so many more...

• Mark my words, cuz I've been proven correct up to this point.

If #Signal and @Mer__edith actually cared, they would've setup their system truly decentralized as an #OnionService over @torproject / #Tor!

@Robbe_Duesseldorf nach der Logik müssen.eir auch #NSAbook & #Vkontakte verbieten...

• Das Problem ist #TechIlliteracy & #MediaIlliteracy!

@puppygirlhornypost2 @navi yeah, but that's a common problem based off #TechIlliteracy and lack of proper explaination!

• Given the #CryptoAPI of #Windows is #backdoored for #Govware [#NSAKEY_ & #SSL-Updates I'd consider #BitLocker insecure and the least of it's problems!

Bonus points if #TPM bs prevents #DataRecovery.

• My biggest problem with #FDE/ #FullDiskEncryption is that is mandates direct access to a system to authenticate, thus one needs to manually mount stuff on servers post-boot instead.

@roofjoke ist das nicht bei allen "antisocial media" - Seiten so?

Vlickbait & RageBait funktionieren nunmal bei Tech- und MediaIlliteraten ganz gut, sonst wären AxelSpringer & BLÖD nie so groß geworden!

@jackyan I do agree in the problem, but the problem is socioeconomically and politically desired #TechIlliteracy.

• Sadly #TechLiteracy isn't even #mandatory to be taught in schools...

@kkarhan
The biggest recent loss is #techilliteracy at universities. Self-hosting may be out of reach to a large portion of households but if you go to univerisity today it’s a quite depressing sight.

E.g. Do an MX lookup on mit.edu. The answer:

mit-edu.mail.protection.outlook.com

Indeed, #MIT where you expect to find the biggest brains and they’ve dumbed tech down to where they cannot even handle hosting their own email service.

A university campus should be a highly capable self-serving village with minimal dependency on the outside world. Universities should be leaders, not followers. Students should have campus jobs to run in-house services and inherently learn from experience.

If the university outsources everything and demonstrates dependency, of course it’s going to produce graduates who are dependent and incapable.

IMO there needs to be a university comparison project that tests competency by measuring what they outsource both in terms of commercial closed-source software and services.

@lmorchard @vkc

@mdhughes yes, because people and Businesses CONTINUE TO BUY AND USE THEIR GARBAGE against knowing better...

I've spent 10 years politely convincing people to yeet #Windows and go with #Linux, and I'm beyond asking and instead go full "#BenevolentDictator" on #IT systems, literally denying users sudo access to protect themfrom their own #TechIlliteracy.

• As long as #TechIlliterates are allowed to be CxO's and make #IT decisions, shit will get worse!

@Quinnypig the sheer fact that #Microsoft and #Windows11 ain't banned across the #EU to this day is an indictment to the #TechIlliteracy of politicans in the @EUCommission & @europarl_en despite

• #PRISM
• #GoldenKeyBoot (aka. #CensorBoot got owned!)
• #CryptoAPI #backdoors they refuse to acknowledge or fix at all!
• #CloudAct
• Unwillingness to comply with #GDPR out if the box

and now

• #Recall aka. the worst disguised #Govware / #Spyware in existance that allows anyone to simply extract credentials without the need to install a #Keylogger, #ScreenRecorder and/or commit #ProvilegueEscalatiom successfully at all...

And since @GossiTheDog managed to get it running on a system w/o "#AI" acceleration aka. "#NPU" it's safe to assume that it'll be perfectly possible to retroactively shove it down everyones' throats without recourse!

• Actually there are options for recourse besides "#ThoughtsAndPrayers" that regulators like @bsi would actually take this seriously:

Like: Stop using #Windows and get some help migrating away from it to a good #Linux distro!

@NoraReed here it's just not available due to #TechIlliteracy of medical professionals and unwillingness of providers to accept billing for it.

@kevinriggle @dalias @timixretroplays @misty

I guess forcing them is a necessity then.

If we let Tech-Illiterates dictate stuff, we'd not progress at all!

Personally I see "Use XMPP+OMEMO or eMail with PGP/MIME !" as a sufficient filter against Spam...

Simply disregarding unencrypted comms works!!!

https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/111956104031695726

@fabiscafe Peopleblike that are the reason why I as #Sysadmin pull a #BenevolentDictator:

I've got neither the time nor the resources to deal with weapons-grade, active-agressive #TechIlliteracy.

https://mstdn.social/@fabiscafe/111380644875472260

@kobayashi90 I mean, we gotta have to inform the #TechIlliterates that may stumble upon this thread and they too need to be informed on ~why~ claims made by @protonmail, @signalapp and other #centralized #SingleVendor & #SingleProvider solutions are inherently wrong!

We can't complain about people being #'TechIlliterate without doing our part in reducing #TechIlliteracy and making people more #TechLiterate...

@SwiftOnSecurity EXACTLY!

I'm shocked at the #TechIlliteracy of post-millenial #Kids despite them having easier access to #Documentation and #HowTos than I could've ever dreamed of, despite having #ISDN in 1999...

@RisenValkyrie #TechIlliteracy is a big problem!

@jensclasen #KI ist eh fast immer nur #BigData #MachineLearning...

Das Problem ist dass wir fast nur #TechIlliteracy haben, weil #IT kein #Pflichtfach ist!

Und nein, die #Microsoft-Werbeveranstaltung namens #ECDL zählt nicht!

@offby1 we both know that it's a figleaf by the #EFF.

They could've chosen any hill to fight on but they chose that toxic open pit mine...

It's not about "free speech" but the fact that they thing there should be a "right to consequence-free speech and IP transit"...

Which is a horrible idea and just shows their #TechIlliteracy...
https://mstdn.social/@kkarhan/110987470524664901