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The Ice alert app founder sparking fury in Trump officials: ‘Pam Bondi said I better watch out? Please.’
(www.theguardian.com)
What a legend. Kudos!
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Yes, my whole thing is very, very privacy-focused. I don’t use Gmail. I run my own mail servers. I run my own web servers. I have always done that because I just don’t trust these companies who are reading all of your messages, and they’re doing it to harvest your data and market to you. I want myself to be private. I’m an individual. I think that lent quite a bit to the way that I thought about IceBlock.
Heck yeah, our self-hosted hero!
Now is IceBlock decentralized? His ISP can cutoff his email servers, he's not that safe. But I do admire this guy. Email servers are hard
Yes, I'm sure his ISP account is in his own name.
Multiple servers with fallback. Either a proper failover setup, or just use DNS.
Some say hes in this very thread... :')
Streisand Effect
It's weird that the fascist regime gets so confused when the people standing up to them aren't afraid of them. We're not idiots, we know the stakes, that is exactly why we're standing up to you.
Noem’s intervention ensured the app topped the charts for a number of days (although it has since fallen out of the top 100). Then last month Aaron’s wife, Carolyn Feinstein, was fired from her Department of Justice job in Austin, Texas. The couple believe it was clear “retaliation” for the app, despite Feinstein not being involved in the app’s creation or promotion.
Aaron is an unlikely figure in this space – he has a brash, rock’n’roll demeanor and not much experience in immigration activism. His background has led to some questions about how well the app protects its users, especially as it asks you to keep your location data on at all times. But a number of independent investigations have shown he is managing to keep users anonymous.
Sad part is when I first read that title, I thought it was part of the war on climate change data rather than tracking the new gestapo. Both are equally plausible.
Gestapo is local, climate change is global.
I hope a kennel of feral, rabid dogs is let loose on Noem sometime. That would be poetic.
Watch out? That's literally what he's doing with the app.
Any similar apps on Android people recommend?
"BLE Radar" I think was picking up body cams at one point
Coqui
He should receive the Nobel price.