Ms-J

Hi dang, I sent you an email about all my comments showing up as dead and another problem, could you take a look when you get a chance?

Thanks.

Could you give us an update on how everything was resolved?

I believe the transparency would be a huge plus.

This happened to Wireguard, Veracrypt, Windscribe, and possibly others. Certainly not isolated and very unnerving.

There are still many unanswered questions...

Proton works with spy agencies and has been caught so many times with their pants down, doing the worst, that I can't keep up with it any longer.

Then on every thread they deploy a massive army of people to defend their bullshit. They do this here, Reddit, Twitter, etc.

It's CryptoAG all over again.

But to be fair, they aren't the only ones doing it.

"Prrrreeeaseee trust us with yerr sekretss!!1!!"

Edit: I'll throw this bone. They leverage your data.

Yes, exactly.

It is absolutely your right to express your self by not going to these places.

That is the beauty of freedom. You make the choice.

People have absolute freedom of expression.

"If you went to a restaurant and it had Confederate flags and pro-slavery memorabilia on the walls, would you think: “Well, that’s just their political view, I don’t have to share it to eat here?”

Yes? If you go to the southern part of the United States, there are many restaurants with Confederate memorabilia and Confederate flags on the back of truck windows.

Some trucks even have hairy testicles hanging off the hitch haha!

That helps a lot being able to see an example, thanks!

I don't know why all of these tools make it so hard to find the info to disable the telemetry/spying it's not just this one.

Regarding the formatting, I have no idea haha but there is a small "help" button on the bottom right next to the comment. Yes yes, I'm sure it won't help much.

Alternatively, possibly asking an LLM might help. It was able to link me the other day to a comment between a user complaining to the mod about the posting cool down period. I was able to learn that it can be disabled per account.

This was such a useful post, thank you have an upvote! I forgot about Aider.

I was looking into it but got distracted with other work, do you know if it does have any update checks or telemetry? I will check the source but I could miss something so I definitely want to ask people who have used it.

I think I also looked into Continue very briefly. I'm glad you put thos notes about it being more the IDE experience. Also for this one, does it come with instructions on a Github page or something on how to kill all spying/telemetry?

Thanks again!

"No legal mechanism with such breadth exists in Australia." No.

See: https://lowendbox.com/blog/australian-police-will-soon-have-...

"These new warrant powers include:

1. Data disruption 2. Expansion of targeted devices to include all devices a suspect uses or might use 3. Account takeovers"

Australia is extremely draconian.

From your link, it explains that they have to Switzerland:

"The developer of Session, an encrypted messaging app, has moved operations to Switzerland as ‘being in Australia just threatened our credibility as a privacy tool’."

What else in particular are you talking about?

With the phone number, I may have not remembered correctly for this particular software. If I could edit my comment, I would add a note.

But when going to the FAQ link I remembered how bad this piece of software was especially promoting cryptocurrency. I would never want a messenger to promote crypto, such a "Signal"

Edit: used different quote from the article

I'm looking for an agent, but thanks.

I forget the issue with Gpt4all as some have blended together when they weren't suitable for me.

Thanks for the recommendation, I took a look and maybe you can answer a few questions that I couldn't find a clear answer when doing some quick searching.

Regarding local models, can it use them? I found this discussion:

https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush/discussions/775

I didn't appreciate the meow maintainer's attitude converting it into a discussion and ignoring the issue even to this day.

"It does have internal telemetry and such (including updating its list of external models it can use) that can be turned off in the crush.json configuration file."

Is there a page or guide which explains the telemetry and any internet connected settings?

Forgot to add, I use Linux.

Session was Australian based which means they would have to do all sorts of horrible things when asked by the government, such as even letting police impersonate users...

I just checked and they claim to have moved their infra to Switzerland.

There are many other issues, some I've forgotten about since I would never trust it in the first place. They also require a phone number even!

Seeing them go, I feel neutral. It's always good to have more anonymity software, just not this for me.

Thanks for the tip.

That user has produced other interesting models, including aggressively uncensored variants which claim 0 refusals.

I will definitely try it as there can never be too many uncensored AI implementations.

Posted this earlier from a throwaway since my account wasn't able to reply for some odd reason and it was marked as dead:

Hello Jason!

I want to first thank you for all of your hard work developing Wireguard.

If I can find someone who is willing to put their name on it to help I definitely will, the problem is the spy agencies don't want your project to exist. It makes it harder to put resources to this. I've worked in security departments of certain companies and saw everything you could imagine.

Same for Mounir over at Veracrypt.

Both of you are developing some of the most important software that exists today.

Keep doing what you are doing by keeping everything in the open. User trust almost doesn't exist for these type of projects. Any hint of an issue would wipe that out in seconds.

This leads me to one question I do have for you zx2c4:

Why does Wireguard attempt to contact your servers and auto update on Android with no toggle to turn this off? It's a threat to everyone. Maybe it also does this on other platforms but I haven't tested them all.

I can think of reasons as to why you did this, none nefarious, but still it would be nice if you included that option so I don't have to patch each update to turn this off.

Thanks.

Scroll down to my other comment, I've used it specifically for coding as well.

"It couldn't even debug some moderately complicated python scripts reliably."

Any American's I've spoke to either are so sick of wars and of course don't want this or they actively oppose it.

The only people you find wanting this war is israelis and their kind. They sit back and relax while having their blackmail controlled, ancient, American politicians do all of the dirty work while sending their sons and daughters to die for isreal.

Why isn't Iran doing more? It seems like they are pandering to the USA when they have the moral high ground.

Anthropic and ClosedAI are some of the biggest bullshitters in the industry.

The is no moat, no special "capability" and when the time comes when we can run these models on our own, they will be cheap SaaS gimmicks marketed to corporate and making more slop pictures for social media.

Z.ai and their GLM models are pretty low quality.

I've been testing it for awhile now since it seemed to have potential as a local model.

With this new update it still cannot parse simple, test PDFs correctly. It inconsistently tells me that the value in the name field in the document is incorrect, and has the name reversed to put the last name first. Or that a date is wrong as it's in the past/future, when it is not. Tons of fundamental errors like that.

Even when looking at the thinking process there are issues:

I used a test website for it to analyze and it says that the sites copyright year states 2026 which is in the future and to investigate as it could be an attack, but right after prints today's correct date.

I'm in the process of trying to get it uncensored. Hopefully that will create some use out of z.ai

Edit: by the way, which is the best uncensored model at the moment?

It is very true. Look at the Ukraine war for a current example.

Wouldn't it be possible to use a printed drone or one with flashed firmware to remove the spying such as broadcasting an ID?

If the drone is stolen by the police there wouldn't be any identifying info and by that time the operator would be able to leave the area without them tracing the signal back to the source.

Owned like a slave to the government.

You did a reasonable check in my opinion. Perhaps if you had said that you already did search I wouldn't have written the last part.

Also if I had an answer to your question I would say it. Hope you are able to find the answer.

If you spend a moment to verify the info that is the fact check.

No one can do the thinking for you.

Maybe they shouldn't be attacking Iran? Duhhhhhh.

Play store is the largest distributor of spyware and viruses for Android.

Not even a small fraction of a percentage of scams come from installing software normally, but only from Google Play store.

But then how would they police what you install?

Maybe you have the criminal idea of installing an adblocker, for example.

That is not allowed since corporations need to make money.

The government and ad networks need to track you for your benefit.

Ads are needed before listening to each minute of a song.

You must submit to crpyto miners running in the background from the ads, increasing your electricity bill and pollution.

Only USA sanctioned and approved ads are allowed, also. We wouldn't want you seeing an ad from a competing entity, right?

If you install an ablocker, you are a terrorist and broke 324582 American laws.

It's every for profit company. No exception. Charities and certain non profits may not count, but most are bad too.

How is it even possible that you got down voted for this?

Exactly. It is my device. End of story.

If I could point out, the vast majority of people you see writing things as stupid as that are either have a huge stake in the company/industry or the government.

Thanks for all of your other comments in this thread I read them all and it is such useful advice for everyone, even seasoned security people.

It isn't natural to want less freedom.