Haven’t heard much from EFF or Proton on their happy applause for anti trans policies.

[hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange]

@Infoseepage I’m sorry but if company CEO is a nazi the company is a nazi

[darkathena@beige.party]

@hacks4pancakes Shit what did the EFF do?

[hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange]

@Starcross https://about.fb.com/news/2025/01/meta-more-speech-fewer-mistakes https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/104597/proton-ceo-andy-in-trouble

[hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange]

@DarkAthena “yay the new meta policy is free speech ️”

[darkathena@beige.party]

@hacks4pancakes Oh now I’m confused. I know Meta went full Nazi. I’m unclear on the EFF.

[nbailey@mstdn.ca]

@hacks4pancakes I just finished moving about 8 years of mail out of proton. Re-pointing my many domains as we speak. Not paying another dime to those pricks once I decoded the binary in his reddit username

[crankylinuxuser@infosec.exchange]

@nbailey @hacks4pancakes what do you mean, binary in username?

And I also killed my account too with proton. More curious than wanting more proof.

[nbailey@mstdn.ca]

@crankylinuxuser @hacks4pancakes

[risottobias@tech.lgbt]

@nbailey @crankylinuxuser @hacks4pancakes

88

88 is a white supremacist numerical code for Heil Hitler. Read more about the meaning behind the numbers, as well as how it’s used in non-extremist forms.

ADL (www.adl.org)

(For reference)

[jdp23@blahaj.zone]

https://mastodon.social/@eff/113789440544631242

Followed by https://mastodon.social/@eff/113801429396283911 but still.

@[email protected] @[email protected]

[fedithom@social.saarland]

@Infoseepage

"He then started a personal account on Reddit with a binary version of 88 (Heil Hitler) at the end."

He ... wait, he did WHAT??
Can you link a source?

My SE-Fu falls short. But I did find this post by Andy, which looks ... more detailed, I guess, and not all that bad:

(www.reddit.com)

@hacks4pancakes

[dpnash@c.im]

@fedithom @Infoseepage @hacks4pancakes It's still *possible* to be someone born in 1988 and not be aware of the choice of user name when using (part of) their birth year to do the usual quick-and-dirty username disambiguation.

But a CEO of a company with a popular product used for a long time largely by people who really, really don't want to be associated in any way with Nazi shit should recognize this as a Bad Choice (TM). And if they don't...well, that says something right there.

(Obfuscating 88 with binary is particularly sus. It requires you to actively *think* "I want to put '88' in my user name and *not* just because using my birth year is convenient -- because otherwise I'd just use the decimal version.")

[infoseepage@mastodon.social]

@dpnash @fedithom @hacks4pancakes And the thing about dogwhistles is they're often used in a form which is deniable. No, I'm not putting 88 because I'm a Nazi, I'm putting 88 because it's my birth year. No, that Swastika isn't because I'm a Nazi, it's an ancient pagan symbol used by many cultures. No, I didn't use all these alt-right word choices to offend. How can you think that?

It's tribal recognition. It's signaling. It's gang colors.