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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Every privacy app asks you to trust them. We ask you not to. (github.com)

submitted 2 days ago by anongratis@thelemmy.club to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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We build free, open-source privacy tools — encrypted chat, anonymous mail, untraceable voice, a whistleblower drop, a browser, a network layer. All given away.

But "free and open source" means nothing if you can't check it. So:

Source is public — read every line: github.com/Anon-Gratis
Hashes are signed — verify the binary matches what we published
Build it yourself — don't want our binary? Compile it from source

We don't want your trust. We want you to not need it. The only privacy tool that survives "trust me bro" is the one you can read.

🌐 anonymous.gratis · ✉️ admin@anon.gratis (PGP on site)

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[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Good point. The first repo, anon-vpn, has single commit made 3 weeks ago.

Security sensitive software require time, review or audit. Let's give this time. It may take from a few months to 2 years until there's enough scrutiny to either confirm it's safe, or reveal problems.

Until them, keep using well-known open-source software.