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Granny did the risk assessment and decided that ease of use and low-maintenance is more important than security when it comes to everyday family matters.
Not everyone ends in jail when they fuck up their opsec. Granny doesn't run an online cocaine business.
Granny doesn't run an online cocaine business.
... or does she ?
Ease of use and low maintenance just means inertia. I remember back when people wrote Tech articles saying that Windows XP was intuitive as an argument against Linux but it turns out that intuitive only ever meant it works exactly like Windows xp. Then people got smartphones and using a second type of computer interface turned out to be no big deal. And now Linux market share is growing rapidly, something we were told was never going to happen because of all sorts of reasons that apparently don't apply.
I was talking about something similar the other day, about people who "don't read sms", and I absolutely don't get it. This (Gam Gam) is the same: how the fuck do you manage to use Whatsapp, or any other messaging app, and not another? They're essentially the same! Apart from not having the old chat history, there's no difference! It's just mental laziness, IMO.
You're speaking like someone who doesn't have elderly relatives...
The brain's ability to adapt decreases with age, to the point where it becomes very difficult to teach an elderly person anything new, and eventually even for them to remember or be shown how to do the things they've done for years but have now forgotten. It's very frustrating for everyone involved, and expecting them to adapt is simply something they can not do.
except they’re not the same. at all. one comes with the phone she got from the walmart with a prepaid card and she’s not even really logged into it.
Would be better if Signal hadn't removed fucking SMS from their app
Except no because that provides a false sense of security to people who don't understand how SMS works. Either you care about privacy or you dont. If you take privacy seriously you should't use sms perioid.
I've seen it convincingly argued that an end-to-end encrypted chat app should not have the option for non-encrypted messaging so that you can't even accidentally compromise security.
Same.
This is why I just designated my phone as the privacy nightmare, no bookmarks, no logins (besides google which is also my designated privacy nightmare email) and no payment details saved on any browsers or anywhere on it other than what's needed by my carrier to pay for my plan. Lets me keep in touch with family while keeping my main PC a bit more secure.
That's not actually crazy. Personally though I would want a second mobile device that I can trust. It doesn't have to be smartphone shaped it just has to fit in my purse. I'm thinking of building myself a cyber deck but I don't really have the cash. At this point I'm done spending money on computers that don't love me back. From now on anything with a locked bootloader is either not getting my money or is going to be a cheap phone that I use for Mobile Banking and work purposes and nothing else
This is genuinely better opsec than trying to completely seal your communications off tbh
This is an obvious joke yall
Not as obvious as you might think, it would seem.
Yeah fair
Yeah but it hits dangerously close.
Just leave Gam Gam behind. She neither understands nor cares what happens in a group chat. Gam Gam is just happy to eat turkey.
She's the smartest of them all