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One day we will stop positing technical workarounds to "evil administrator" attacks.

"This person has (and must have) 100% access to everything, how do we stop them from accessing it?!"

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This is cause by people whining about Mastodon Admins being able to read DMs and trying to figure out how to escrow E2E keys in a way that the mastodon admin can't ... just use
I mean,even without the fact that I know my administrator personally and know I can trust them.... I trust fediverse admins more than twitter and facebook and google admins who also have all that access because they're not working for a company that only cares about it's continued existence and profit
Yeah - that's definitely a thing I feel

You: Your husband can read your DMs
Twitter: Bari Weiss can read your DMs
Yes, definitely, but I think it would be reasonably true for anyone. Like I understand the anxiety, but what was that article in computer security? The one that essentially says, you need to find trust somewhere for the web to work... like understanding that it's essentially paranoia
Feudal Security - the Bruce Schneier idea - yeah
@silverwizard @Becky That was such a power move by Musk to weaken the “Your Mastodon admin can read your DM” position.
I think there's definitely something to be said for the fact that you can't selfhost everything


Though I definitely am wondering if I can get a block of IPv6 and just host my own damn BGP because my ISP isn't doing it