Q: How do you convince people to use privacy respecting technologies for communication?
I am looking for real life use-cases to include into my #FOSDEM talk and beyond.
If you have encouraged someone to switch to say Signal, or Sessions, or XMPP or some other tool/protocol, please share here or via DM.
Anonymity is guaranteed. You can use also my Sessions messenger session: 0531634…
Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester https://www.404media.co/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-stop-cop-city-protestor/
Analysis: since the end of 2025, Polymarket users have rarely bet large sums on US strikes the next day; before the Iran strikes, 150 accounts placed such bets (Amy Fan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/upshot/…
Anonymous Content, the production company whose lead investor is Emerson Collective, names Ford Foundation ex-president Darren Walker as president and CEO (Robin Pogrebin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/arts/design/darren-walker-anonymou…
How Anonymous Bettors Cashed In on the Iran Strike, Just Hours Before It Happened (Amy Fan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/upshot/prediction-markets-iran-strikes.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260303/p158#a260303p158
“Disease combinations are often unique – anonymization of health data is therefore particularly complex” An interview on reconstruction risks by @…: https://www.
I wrote about @… on the Official Swift Blog https://www.swift.org/blog/building-privacy-first-analytics-with-swift/…
Serwer. Again. 👏👏👏
❝Legal immunity plus anonymity equals impunity. It would be logical to think that [always being masked], agents could literally get away with murder.
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People who are assured that they won’t face consequences for abusing power almost inevitably do so. One wonders if this is actually the government’s purpose in masking them.…The masks may work less to protect federal agents from danger than to to make it easier for them to do unspeakable things.❞
https://archive.ph/2026.02.02-201429/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/masks-ice-immigration/685834/#selection-979.139-979.260