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Pretty wild to see misleading accusations from a proprietary Bittorrent-but-not-really social media network.
It's also violating the GPLv3 license by bundling mxlibs. Maybe the developers behind WireMin will give you the source code to their application if you email them, but I'm not so sure they care about things like licenses, going by the Derek Bailey clip they've embedded into the application as a notification sound. Using Microsoft Maps for showing location data (rather than an open project like a self-hosted Open Street Maps server) also doesn't really match their privacy goals. The San Fransisco typeface they package with their app is also clearly a violation of Apple's license.
I can't be bothered to check their encryption, but WireMin doesn't seem all that great.
Whew! Good spot, that's not cool at all.
Also, as soon as I saw
I knew that something was up, how can you flaunt your care for privacy, decentralization and all that and then use Gmail as your contact??
Like, at least use your own domain name with underlying Gmail if you want to mislead us effectively
It's this type of stuff that makes me think this is a side project for a college student or something. It's the mix between "decent ideas" and "shoddy execution" that I've seen with many of these projects. The Beehive social network (the Twitter clone that forgot to implement authentication in its backend APIs) also comes to mind.
Agreed, it kind of unjustly vilifies the concepts to which they're attached too, which is a shame.
Ah, never heard that one, know where can I read on it?
Misremembered the name, I meant this one: https://www.hivesocial.app/
Here's a recap of the story: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/12/hive-social-turns-off-servers-after-researchers-warn-hackers-can-access-all-data/
If you try it out, be warned that your full date of birth was still sent along your profile information a month or two ago, so better lie about that, just in case.
Thanks!
That's really bad, well, wasn't intending to try it out anyway XD