Sure, I get your point and agree.

I just think that third party middleman attacks should be mitigated wherever possible and so far, in looking at online therapy I’ve never seen one that can back up their claims of being private with data, just vague references to how secure it is.

It’s a tricky situation, and I guess there’s no good solution because either we have to trust the third party or just the therapist and if neither can be trusted, well…

it just speaks to a larger issue with society as a whole, how we treat mental health and especially that we need to pay in order to deal with our issues, and that it hasn’t been understood yet that it’s shameful and scary to come forward about problems because of certain laws, and the possibility of either the original scenario or the one you proposed.

This is terrible. However it’s one reason online ‘therapy’ should never be trusted to be private.

Unless the therapists start using actually private ways of communicating like Signal, then stuff like this will keep happening.

Right ‘taught’.

More like spread misinformation and create worse outcomes.

This is why in my opinion it is better to say people are unethical/immoral than ‘criminals’ when they do something genuinely harmful.

Criminal is kind of a useless or neutral word if the point we want to get across is that someone actually did something heinous would do or is doing too, and I wish more people would recognise that.

Yep, that’s why mastodon only allows for 72 characters maximum in passwords, I assume.

https://immich.app/cursed-knowledge

Very few, if any tech companies care about consent.

Thank you

Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised. I love learning things about indigenous cultures.

As a pagan, not really sure what this actually has to do with paganism.

But okay, guess I’ll rejoice.

ʸᵃʸ

Today I learned that it’s an indigenous Māori word, and as such we should probably be respectful and stick with how they pronounce it.

Yeah!

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and an attack on encrypted messaging

lmao. It’s barely encrypted and what little of it that is (one-to-one DMs) have never been audited in a way where Telegram haven’t just either ignored the results or moved the goalposts.

I could recommend some youtube channels/videos if you’d like?

Fairly new, yeah.

Oh, right, yeah, that’s bad.

That’s fair, one reason I stay out of big groups, though you can set it not to be displayed to anyone, so I’m not fully grasping your argument.

What do you mean by passport? It will a bit, if someone doesn’t know the phone number of an account that sent a message.

Okay, interesting. I still think my points about it stand though.

And that’s fine and good, if you want that, I’ve no problem with people getting their needs met.

I just wish they wouldn’t call it secure or private or think there will be no consequences for using it, there absolutely could be because there is no encryption in groups and bad encryption in one-to-one contexts.

Apart from the lack of moderation and refusal to comply with police etc from a distance, there isn’t much keeping those who use it safe from arrest, discrimination etc.

Okay, I’ll bite. But considering Signal has no data and very little metadata to give people, what exactly is the problem? What evidence would they have to arrest people on?

Especially now that people don’t have to share phone numbers to add a contact and can stop others from finding them via numbers.