I'm reading this post as a well-intended PSA for those who might not know that their computers keep logs, and I appreciate the poster for that. But also I got a laugh from it sounding kind of like this:
If you want to avoid providing incriminating evidence during a possible police interrogation, you must disable your brain's long-term memory functions by lobotomizing yourself
Ye Vagabonds are on a US tour right now, and I'm so excited to see them I've been listening to them nonstop. A lovely Irish folk music duo of two brothers.
My favorite recently:
https://youtu.be/3WMBtCOzYks
Your email is the root of your digital identity, and pretty much everything in your digital life is tied to it. If your email is provided by Big Email, they own your digital identity and it exists at their whim, with no recourse if it gets taken away, compromised, or abused.
If you own your domain and pay for mail hosting, you can at least move your email between providers if something goes wrong, and have some recourse with those providers since you're a customer instead of a product.
You should only enter a password once to log in, so maybe we just use our machines 1000x more than other people?
You're right, thanks!
Heated Killcount Rivalry
~~This looks to be running a full virtual machine via the Android Virtualization Framework in the same way as the new "Terminal" app in AOSP, so~~ you have full root control over it.
Edit: I was wrong about the backend, per below it uses proot instead
This is so cool! Thanks for your work uncovering these things, and thanks for posting it.
My adhesion was like this until I washed my bed with dish soap, and now I have to chisel my prints off with a hammer because they stick on too well.
This quote from your link on the main client e2ee issues captures the zeitgeist of modern tech so beautifully: