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AgainstAllAuthority said:
The Alchemist7 said:
I have seen no hostilty from anyone to you for sharing cyber-security advice. In the worst case as far as I've read you had some opinion exchange with members who also have knowledge in the field to a degree. As I said before, the vast majority of members here are not knowledgeable into cyber-security, therefore having the expectations from them to apply your advice will likely lead to dissapointment (or it led already). The general advice from JoS was to use a paid VPN plus Tor and a protonmail account for communication to protect their identity, location, PC features etc. and most likely those 3 points would suffice for the purpose of keeping someone anonymous and safe while visiting and logging into this forum. Anything more than this (like the advice you have been providing) require extra time, extra resources or software, extra knowledge, which most people don't have. What I was thinking is since you are an expert in cyber-security, you can help HP Cobra and the members involved into making the JoS forums and websites as `protected` as possible from attacks given the number of times the sites were taken down or the worst, when the forums had to be moved to new domains, this of course if you wish to. While cyber-security may not have many adepts among the members, it is definitely of extreme importance to keep cybernetic attacks away from this place.
If creating and sharing a PGP key is too hard then we are doomed.
You had a really good idea with your PGP post. But the command prompt is not user-friendly. The idea of asymmetric encryption is easy for everyone to understand, but it should not require people to run all those commands. It's also not very user-friendly to save message to local files before operating on them. I had gone through your whole procedure and posted my PGP key, and you did a great job, but I can see why so few people have done it, and it's not your fault. To be user-friendly, and thus more popular, people should be able to just click a button to generate keys, sign, or encrypt, etc, without needing any tech knowledge. There are online PGP generators that do this, but it's hard to find a trustworthy one.
Also, PGP is way over-complicated for just emergency messaging or proving one's identity. If Satanists here want such a tool, I could make a simple webpage that does this (with well-commented code for people to audit). You could simply click one button to generate the key pair, then copy and paste each one and be done in 30 seconds. Encrypt, sign, verify, and decrypt would be equally easy with buttons. And without all the PGP overhead, the keys can be just 32 bytes long each! I'd guarantee you that more people would use that, even though it's functionally the same as what you posted.