I Solved the Phone Number Privacy Problem!
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The biggest threat that remains hard to resolve is the phone number threat. Each day it becomes even more important to protect because every platform now uses this as an identity card. Let me remind y...

What do you think of this solution?

  • LWD
    241·
    4 months ago

    Between the hardware Rob sells, the software he’s written (a social network that uses some very rudimentary end to end encryption… Which only runs on the server) and the Odysee URL all would have made me reach the same conclusion about his advice that the people who watched the video are saying:

    No thanks, yeah

    • S13Ni@lemmy.studio
      1·
      4 months ago

      Care to elaborate on hardware he sells and rudimentary e2e? I don’t watch him, but my paranoid non tech savvy friend does, and I wanna know what’s up 😂

      • LWD
        1·
        4 months ago

        Yeah, I’m sorry for sitting on this comment for so long. In the video linked from this post, Rob actually sells his expertise as a software developer as the reason to trust his product. Expect we know what his work as a software developer looks like because he’s put it online.

        Take braxme, his “encrypted” social network. The website just calls it encrypted, but his apps call it E2EE, end to end encryption.

        But his apps are open source, so we can inspect them. If you look at his server-side code, that’s where you’ll actually see the encryption happening. You hand the website the unencrypted messages and your keys, and it handles everything on its side, meaning you need to fully trust the server. Not only is this not E2EE, but it sounds like poor encryption at rest.

        While trying to research this further, I ran into people on Twitter talking about how Braxman overhypes his products to the point of maybe total dishonesty.

        https://twitter.com/avoidthehack/status/1630304829741383683

        http://web.archive.org/web/20220428021529/https://twitter.com/TommyTran732/status/1519500310070403075 (This post is still up, but broken for people who aren’t logged in to Twitter)

        • S13Ni@lemmy.studio
          1·
          4 months ago

          Thanks for the reply. I didn’t have time to investigate him myself, but I just always had sus vibes from him.

          Friend in question is really bad with tech but prone to conspiratory thinking, and always ends up doing the wrong things to improve his privacy that usually make his live harder and don’t improve his privacy / security in any way like disabling critical android system apps over just installing custom rom, making his phone not work right.

          Very frustrating cause I’m a busy guy and don’t have time to debunk all the nonsense he picks up online.

          Braxman seems to be someone who he mainly “learns” this stuff from. This might help explain it to him.

  • Supermariofan67@programming.dev
    18·
    4 months ago

    I’m skeptical of Braxman. For someone who is supposedly an expert on the topic, he’s made some pretty bizarre and incorrect claims, such as that an ordinary person can map someone’s ip address to an exact physical address

  • Political Custard@lemmygrad.ml
    8·
    4 months ago

    I like Rob, I trust him, but this video is a sales pitch for his voip service, I think this should be made clear up front. It could be the solution everyone is looking for but he takes six minutes to get to the point at which you discover it’s a sales video for a paid service he’s created.

    I am not complaining about the service or what he’s offering at all and it’s good that this video has been posted for people to see - especially a non-YouTube link too. :)

  • mahony@lemmy.world
    4·
    4 months ago

    Do you really not have prepaid sim cards in the US? that you buy with 5 bucks and it lasts one year, and then you just top it up for another 5? Those carriers are really milking you good over there.