Looks like Gam Gam is becoming a liability.
this post was submitted on 03 May 2026
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Imagine planning Thanksgiving without proper opsec ππ€¦ββοΈ
The Wampanoag tried, and see what happened to them.
He's responding to his mom on iMessage! Can you believe that shit? π‘
The guy kinda sounds like a douche..
Right. Look, I want people moving to more independent services too, but I know that sometimes you have to meet people where they are. I keep Meta accounts because sometimes I need to see family pictures or engage with some random FB group.
You can work on getting people to try things and adapt without just going "Fuck you, you do it my way or not at all."
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I live in the Netherlands so everyone uses Whatsapp. Which is worse than just SMS, even if SMS is less secure. Giving your data willingly to the Zuck is beyond stupid. I setup Whatsapp Business to send an autoreply that says that I'm on Signal if they want to contact me. Almost no one switches over and they just send me a SMS message. To be honest I don't care, I'm just glad that I'm not part of many family group chats anymore.
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Wife and kids had no problem; they hate people listening to their chats. A couple of slightly paranoid friends came along.
You want to sell it? Tell them all those creepy ads that know too much about them are from Apple/Android chat apps that can listen.
I was able to get my family to move to signal but that was because they were already on WhatsApp.
This is a shitpost but some people are taking it a bit too seriously, a family group chat doesnβt have to risk profile to require a level of βOpSecβ that would require everyone to be on e2ee messaging. Donβt isolate yourself from your family over MMS group chat messages, maybe just donβt share your IBS flare ups in it if you are that concerned.
Yes, you do. Because we live in an era where Uber driver or nurse pay is based on surveillance: the more desperate they are, the lower the payment offered for the trip or the shift. Because we're facing surveillance pricing also, where surveillance is going to compute how much you're ready or desperate to pay for something, regardless its cost, and that might be higher than your reighbour's result. Because we live in an era where abortion is banned in multiple places and who know what else will be later, after one of your relative will have told you what will become a confession?
So yes, you do give a damn, and no you don't talk over corporate surveillance networks as much as you can avoid them.
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Granny did the risk assessment and decided that ease of use and low-maintenance is more important than security when it comes to everyday family matters.
Not everyone ends in jail when they fuck up their opsec. Granny doesn't run an online cocaine business.
Granny doesn't run an online cocaine business.
... or does she ?
She actually does, but cares about opsec there, so word hasn't gotten out that it's her.
Ease of use and low maintenance just means inertia. I remember back when people wrote Tech articles saying that Windows XP was intuitive as an argument against Linux but it turns out that intuitive only ever meant it works exactly like Windows xp. Then people got smartphones and using a second type of computer interface turned out to be no big deal. And now Linux market share is growing rapidly, something we were told was never going to happen because of all sorts of reasons that apparently don't apply.
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Whenever people start talking about "opsec" and it's not people doing sensitive work I'm just like "what ops?"
The stuffing recipe is fire
what ops?
sounds like a question a fed would ask π
Gotta keep that green bean casserole recipe safe! The world can't know the secret of a can of cream of mushroom!
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Signal? Lmao like i was gonna trust anything from america
Like i told my mum if you're not sending me gpg-encrypted messages on a bunch of rotating IRC dead drop, we're not talking
This is an obvious joke yall
Everyone says that until mythos 0days gam gam's pacemaker
^/s^ ^in^ ^case^ ^that^ ^wasn't^ ^obvious^
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My whole family is on signal. How did I get them there? I didn't. Didn't even talk about it. They just popped up, one by one, over the years. Unfortunately we don't celebrate thanksgiving :(
You are so lucky.
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Gam gam survived the depression.
Someone who is 92 in 2026 was born about 1934. The Great Depression persisted (in the U.S. at least) until about 1940. So she definitely survived some early childhood years during the Depression.
But goddamn are we getting close to the point where the surviving elders are way way more likely to not have been around during the Depression than to have been.
The family wouldnβt be installing Signal, a secure messaging app. They would be installing βthat app I only use to talk to that one idiotβ.
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Can't fault their logic tbf
Yeah, gotta keep the government from listening in on the Thanksgiving plans. ππ«©
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I was talking about something similar the other day, about people who "don't read sms", and I absolutely don't get it. This (Gam Gam) is the same: how the fuck do you manage to use Whatsapp, or any other messaging app, and not another? They're essentially the same! Apart from not having the old chat history, there's no difference! It's just mental laziness, IMO.
You're speaking like someone who doesn't have elderly relatives...
The brain's ability to adapt decreases with age, to the point where it becomes very difficult to teach an elderly person anything new, and eventually even for them to remember or be shown how to do the things they've done for years but have now forgotten. It's very frustrating for everyone involved, and expecting them to adapt is expecting them to do something they simply can not do.
Okay, how does this explain the Boomers and up who seem to only be capable of using Facebook?
Like, if it's about adaptation, they had email and SMS long before Meta started their "clean" version of MySpace that has gotten so much worse than what it replaced.
I'm stuck with a yearly Christmas card from a lot of older relatives because they can't manage to step back an use services they did use before the big tech algorithmic fuckery took over.
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Unless they are going to talk about nuclear cooked turkeys, he could just set up a burner VM and communicate through that and a vpn. That's what I do when going to sketchy sites.
Just make a Signal account for Gam Gam too.
The only thing that keeps people submissive to the whims of technofeudalism is their intolerance to change, which worsens with age in an inactive mind.
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Would be better if Signal hadn't removed fucking SMS from their app
Except no because that provides a false sense of security to people who don't understand how SMS works. Either you care about privacy or you dont. If you take privacy seriously you should't use sms perioid.
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As a person who very slowly moved my family and friends to matrix by bringing up the conversation one at a time and helping them get started, that guy sounds like a next level asshole.
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My poor family has to reach me on Briar.
luckily I got my mom on signal for about 3 years now
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