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   Nomen Nescio to Gabx   
   Re: what is APA-S about   
   17 Feb 25 18:18:04   
   
   tk4facb76jgl3sc3nda3sz4fqd.onion> e8c6f118   
   XPost: alt.privacy.anon-server, sci.crypt   
   From: nobody@dizum.com   
      
   Gabx  wrote:   
   >Nomen Nescio wrote:> On 16 Feb 2025, Cane Cieco  posted   
   some   
   >> news:20250216171021.162934060D@4uwpi53u524xdphjw2dv5kywsxmyjxtk4facb76jgl   
   >> 3sc3nda3sz4fqd.onion:   
   >>   
   >>> Nomen Nescio wrote:> Anark Pnk   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> Is APA-S fighting mass control or is it an archaeological museum of   
   >>>>> used things?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> A knife is a tool from the Stone Age, nevertheless still   
   >>>> indispensable. And here in this group it's about principles of   
   >>>> anonymous communication that have stood the test of time resisting   
   >>>> surveillance and censorship.   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> And do you think that resisting with a knife is only a purely   
   >>> aesthetic gesture or something absolutely effective?   
   >>   
   >> How effective do you think you'll be in knife fight without one?  I'll put   
   >> a combat trained militarist with a KA-BAR up against a Hi-yah guy without   
   >> one any day of the week because I know who's going to win 99.9% of the   
   >> time.   
   >>   
   >> Same goes for "legacy" anon communications.   
   >>   
   >> Would you bet your life on Whatsapp or Telegram?   
   >>   
   >   
   >Unfortunately, the era of melee weapons has come to an end. I don't want us   
   to end up like Don Quixote, whose visionary stubbornness leads him to see   
   reality through distorted eyes. We can keep mistaking outdated tools for   
   bastions of security,    
   vulnerable algorithms for impenetrable shields, and obsolete protocols for   
   solid   
   fortresses, but the truth is different: fighting with dull weapons is not an   
   act of resistance—it’s digital suicide.   
   >   
   >Today, the landscape of global surveillance is evolving into something we   
   have no experience of.   
   >   
   >Those who insist on clinging to outdated technologies are not protecting   
   privacy; they are endangering it.   
   >   
   >Those who control the present have already deciphered the keys to the past.   
   >   
   >Gabx   
      
   Are you just trying to spread FUD in order to support half-baked   
   experimental toys, or are there any clear indications that conventional   
   encryption is broken, all remailers are compromized and Chaum mixes are   
   a flawed concept?  So which proven alternatives would you recommend?   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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