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NSA ’just days from taking over the internet’ warns Edward Snowden (cointelegraph.com)

submitted 6 months ago by homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14393091

NSA ’just days from taking over the internet’ warns Edward Snowden

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[–] DuckGuy@mander.xyz 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Because it isn't secure at all?

[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No social media is secure. That's kind of the point of social media.

[–] tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And Twitter is somehow safer?

[–] DuckGuy@mander.xyz 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Obviously not.

If you're saying this because Snowden said wait he said on Twitter, I'm sorry but I wouldn't know. Not because I didn't try to read the article, I did, but because my custom DNS flagged cointelegraph.com as being malignant and blocked it. True story.

Edit: cointelegraph, not "cointelegram."

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Cointelegraph might not be for someone who is very anti-crypto, but it's a legit website with well researched articles, not a source of malware/scams/autogenerated spam.

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 2 points 6 months ago

Their custom DNS is very ant-crypto. Janet Yellen is the personal resolver.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's a fearmongering website design to scare people into buying crypto.

Their articles that aren't about crypto get spammed to social media a lot. It's to get traffic on their site and hope they can hook some.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 months ago

While I can't recommend this site for general news, the article in question is pretty well written.

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

why does security matter?

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Can't he post over I2P/Freenet?