refalo

Actually, everything is a remix

this is dangerous advice. courts can still subpoena the usenet provider for your information.

yes

not falling for the bait

Russia would never do that

hahahahahahaha

They're confident because they're dumb.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

Just leak it before publishing it. Also most authors will give you the pdf for free if you just email them and ask for it nicely.

there are many solutions, but they should stay hard to find

you can't because it's explicitly against the whole point of having endless choices. when everyone works on something different, the quality spreads out to where it's mostly just mediocre stuff across the board.

https://xkcd.com/927

hardware compatibility is also a huge problem. for everyone that says "it works fine for me" there are a thousand others for whom it does not.

It's also an attack on legitimate services that get inundated with spam/bots/abuse/etc. and one of many reasons why they're not a widespread thing to begin with.

There are a good number of resources for what you want but I don't want to name names because they should stay hard to find on purpose IMO.

There's also many other e2ee chat apps that don't require a phone number such as SimpleX, Briar, Tox, Session etc.

signal has proprietary blobs, you want Molly-FOSS

I think this sums it up nicely.