Privacy is a basic human right. When connected online, privacy becomes extremely rare and difficult to achieve. When privacy is not easily accessible, it is easy for tyrants and bad actors to take control. Data and metadata can be used to influence, control or blackmail individuals. The worst part is that even if you learn about technology and become good with protecting privacy, other people can become and attack vector that is used to harm you.
If you keep your communication exclusive to privacy experts, you won't be living much of a life. It won't even be a form of freedom. One must be free communicate with whoever they like they must be able to do it without sacrificing their privacy. Applications and services that have an easy to UI/UX can empower billions to secure their basic human rights. Sessions play a very big part in this.
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Even WhatsApp messages are end to end encrypted. The problems is that everything else is definitely not kept private. Even the encryption behind WhatsApp is likely built with backdoors. Their is no way to verify its privacy and security since the app itself is closed source. Your location, contact list, who is talking to who and when are few of the data points that can be collected and processed by machine learning algorithms.
It is not very difficult to figure out who is having an affair with who without ever having to see the contents of messages. The accuracy could be lower. Two people who get tagged as an affair could be a whistleblower and a journalist or two spies for an example.
Learn More About Lokinet + OXEN
Session can be thought of as the flagship product of Lokinet and Oxen Project. The same team is behind 3 connected brand names. This lead to some changes and introduction of Session Network Token (SENT) and a pivot away from being a privacy coin built based on Monero's technology (OXEN).
Think of Lokinet as Tor + Cryptocurrency. This is an absolutely beautiful concept. HIVE is like an improved Fediverse + Cryptocurrency. We have accomplished far more amazing things that Mastodon and similar projects. I like Tor and even use Tor browser. But it does not help everyday people that much. Brave normalized Tor by adding Tor windows to the browser. Orbot is nice to have on a phone. It could even work as a secure free VPN.
The problem with volunteers is that either the quality of service is low (due to lack of available resources) or volunteers themselves become a tunnel visioned close minded group.
Tokenomic Changes Are Coming
These things are not finalized yet partly due to legal reasons. SEC is looking to crush any cryptocurrency project whenever they get a change to deal damage. Only $BTC managed to not be a security under Gary Gensler. It is best to spend your money based on utility and/or support for a privacy technology development team. Do not treat OXEN or SENT as investments yet.
Your Privacy is Affect Other
If all your friends take pictures and share information about what you do, stalkers will have an easy time. If the neighbor in front of your house install a Ring camera connected to the internet, your privacy will be messed up. Using Proton Mail, Tutanota or your own E-mail server won't make a difference when communicating with a Gmail, Outlook etc.
There must be a collective effort to create a more private world. Accessible technology combined with a good UX is a must for this. Education can a long way to onboard users to these apps that usually come lacking few features compared to the spyware normies are used to. Having friends and family on a private messaging application like Session is good for both us and them.
