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maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2016 13:42:31 EST 
maiyannah
@loki @moonman There's actually a few friends I cannot communicate with on XMPP because they use insecure XMPP servers. While I could lax server restrictions for them or create an exception, I feel it is better for all involved for me to advocate them finding a secure server instead, or help them set up their own. I helped my almost 90-year old grandmother set up… -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2016 13:36:37 EST
maiyannah
@katiekats Basically all I got for gifts except from you and George and Trish and Hala was like, candy and sweets and stuff so I guess maybe it wont be healthy at all but I got food for a bit, heh. -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2016 13:29:34 EST
maiyannah
I would go so far as to say there are many people whom are in the free software movement for the same reason many others join religions, for instance: they want to feel they follow a system of morality that makes them superior to others. They are not and never will be. We are all humans and none of us are better than any other. -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2016 13:25:56 EST
maiyannah
Actually on this note: "However, if I am visiting somewhere and the machines available nearby happen to contain non-free software, through no doing of mine, I don't refuse to touch them. I will use them briefly for tasks such as browsing. This limited usage doesn't give my assent to the software's license, or make me responsible its being present in the computer, or… -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2016 13:24:09 EST
maiyannah
https://www.stallman.org/stallman-computing.html#internetuse -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2016 13:21:01 EST
maiyannah
If your response to secure solutions is "but that's hard", you probably don't deserve security. -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2016 13:20:23 EST
maiyannah
@loki @moonman Prosody will not communicate with insecure xmpp servers unless you make it, at which point you are assuming the risk. -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2016 13:18:38 EST
maiyannah
@moonman @loki How is putting the path to a ssl certificate in a single configuration variable confusing? -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2016 13:17:26 EST
maiyannah
> yum install prosody
> there is no step 2
> ???
> profit
Done -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2016 13:16:32 EST
maiyannah
@moonman GamerGate is dead. -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2016 13:16:07 EST
maiyannah
@loki @moonman It takes literally five seconds and very little technical knowledge to set up Prosody. There is no excuse except laziness. -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2016 13:10:13 EST
maiyannah
@bob It is a way social groups try to avoid internal strife, in this case the Democrats don't want to blame themselves both because it avoids uncomfortable soul searching and because it would provide political advantage to Bernie Sanders whom has the hearts of many dissatisfied DNC voters right now, and the establishment wants to keep him out of power. But by havin… -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2016 13:07:57 EST
maiyannah
If I can literally get my grandmother to use XMPP, you can use it too. -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2016 13:06:19 EST
maiyannah
@moonman @hector @bob Understand the chain of custody of every message you transmit and you'll be better off than pretty much 99% of the people around you. -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2016 13:03:38 EST
maiyannah
@moonman @bob If you use standard opsec and understand the level of security various channels give you, and act accordingly, you'll be fine. The problem is many people do not, because they are lead to believe certain things are much more secure than they actually are. -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2016 13:02:41 EST
maiyannah
The Russian hacking allegations kind of is the coping mechanism of the United States democrats in the face of the election results. They are an external face to their problems that for some reason or another has credibility as a source of their problems they can shove fault and responsibility for the election onto so the DNC doesn't have to admit the reason they failed is much, much closer to home than the Kremlin. -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2016 12:59:16 EST
maiyannah
@bob Nope, but we do have some decent proof that the Department of Homeland Security tried to hack voting machines on Election Day in the States. -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2016 12:55:29 EST
maiyannah
@moonman @bob Yes -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2016 12:54:11 EST
maiyannah
@moonman @bob Any software you cannot audit should be assumed to be 100% insecure. Any other assumption is foolish. -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2016 12:49:08 EST
maiyannah
@bob @moonman A conspiracy would imply there's some effort to cover it up. There is not.
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