I believe it’s a much more complex topic than that.

I think, most likely, you overestimated the consideration of the majority. I may be wrong, though. Most opinion I read or heard about are more emotional drived.

I have googled it and I just found this report here.

Signal is offering the most accessible e2ee messenger right now.

Doesn’t matter. In the reach of EU, some law about Chat Control. If they make this into law, no provider within the EU will have a choice in this matter.

And the majority thinks this way for what reason?

Because “Fake News” and missinformation has been framded as a danger for our societies for a long time.

Telegram has been banned in Russia, as far as I heared.

If you don’t care for the guy, you will nearly certainly lose privat messaging in Europe. Maybe, it’s even too late by now.

“I do this for good reasons, trust me” is not a valid argument.

Yes. The problem is, when one country has had a intelligence agency and the other has not, the one with the agency has a advantage. At least, under the same conditions.

I see the tension between a republican (res publica, “thing of the public”) State and the existence of such secrets. The question is if a state without this could exist under the current circumstances. There are a lot room for doubts here, I fear.

Not all of us lived in America.

I never say that. Thats a straw man-argument.

Sorry, but the cases are too different. The secrets of the government serve a completely different purpose than those of the citizens.

Thank you for your long answer. Even if it doesn’t contain the answer I looking for.

nd even if your mixmaster or tor traffic is really anonymized (which is dubious), the fact you are using such services at all probably flags you for attention.

I think so, too. But in my imagination, one who uses tor or a remailer is just a short flash on the radar. If it doesn’t follow more, they would not investigate further. Since 90% or so of all tor users doesn’t do anything bad. Even agencies doesn’t like wasting of time and resources.

If you just want to exchange email with your friend when you are both on the down low, you might be best off just both enrolling gmail accounts.

With Google, I think, it will nearly 100% sure that it is tracked somehow. If both sides have no problem with this, its fine.

Plus, a lot of attention in the crypto nerd world shifted over to things like bitcoin.

Never considered this angle. Thanks for this.

I have heard there was a recent development in single server PIR (private information retrieval).

I remember, I have read, over 5 years ago, a PDF-File from a German university about this. It was a so called “blinded read”-method.

I have a vagly idea how this can work but I lack the mathematical knowleade to explain it further.

There is Tor but that seems to overreach enough that I can’t really believe in it.

You mention tor. I don’t thing its an accident. tor and the mixmaster has a lot in common in my eyes. Both use a model of 3 levels at the default (entry, mid and exit), both use a similiar principle to avoid tracking by the time when informations floud throught the system.

They all want real time video and active web pages. It is unfortunate.

You can have both. Anonym communication and social media with posting pictures of your food. But with things like mixmasters, it’s remains your choice which level of privacy you need.

P.S.: Maybe, I should ask on reddit or in a technical forum about it?

Yeah, I wouldn’t be too confident in Facebook’s implementation, and I certainly don’t believe that their interests are aligned with their users’.

I’m quite sure, they arn’t. This statement doesn’t mean that I think they have bad intention or something. It’s just, at least for me, obivious that the interest of the users and these of the companies are highly different. This is also the case with other companies and their customers.

Having access to the data means that they will be required by law to provide that data to governments in various circumstances.

A more paranoid person than myself would suspect that any big enough gouverment world simply force the companies to collect and share data.

The metadata problem is common to a lot of platforms.

From the viewpoint of the cooperations, this is a good deal. Enough privacy to keep people on the plattform and still enough data for advertisment.

Meta-Data is a good wordplay here, even if not intended and the correct wording…