Wrong, it is a secure app. There has been no reproducible proof to the contrary. Most often people says it does not support PFS, but “PFS is only relevant in the case where your long term private key is obtained by the attacker. The only way this should occur is if the attacker has access to your device/seed” It would take a whole Bitcoin network billions of years to break just single user encryption, per my understanding.

On an anonymous and private messenger https://getsession.org/ is a Monero community https://session.directory/view_session_group_user_lokinet.php?id=2785 , even it is not crowded, but you will be likely replied daily.

In my layman opinion, you can exchange or swap from ETH (or other cryptocurrency) to a XMR as you have mentioned, then just send received XMR into another wallet of yours, resulting in anonymization (breaking the trace), details: https://lemmings.world/post/10085958

Other option is RetoSwap (Haveno Reto) as mentioned by MalMen, but you need some XMR to start.

I did tens of trades XMR -> € on https://github.com/retoaccess1/haveno-reto (or https://retoswap.com/#about ) worth maybe €50,000 and have NOT been scammed.

Linux is a minority of their audience and it is good that their prioritize majority, to help most people.

Majority is using different OS, that is the fact, so do not blame them to prioritize other OS in many cases.

“Microsoft OneDrive is rolling out AI face recognition for your photos.” To disable (for now), go to Privacy & Permissions → People section. (if you are in EU, maybe it is deactivated by default) source: https://x.com/ProtonDrive/status/1978109833690665463

#microsoft #onedrive #privacy #ai

Proton staff says that one can purchase through these authorized proxies:

• https://digitalgoods.proxysto.re/en/brand/proton
• https://coingate.com/gift-cards/proton-vpn-plus

at least one of these supports Monero.

Some of your questions may be answered in the topics:

• I need to do how many Monero transactions between my wallets before i break the trace?

• Sweep/churn my Monero balance more or less often to improve anonymity?

Maybe you should edit your post and explain in greater detail what is “instant exchange”, how you would use it, which data you would provide to them.

My Pass desktop app (which shown an offer for Proton Duo) does not have such option. But the frequency of the popups does not bother me significantly and it is sometimes useful. I am Unlimited user.

#Issue no longer happens:

OP is here. I do not know why, but now several times Pass remembered my settings. I suspect that I have used password for the 1st time to login Pass app, before I remember only scanning a QR code from my other device. Maybe that prevented the issue described in leading original post.

Just a wild guess, but does it use your system keyring for credential storage?

$ dpkg-deb -I proton-pass_1.32.6_amd64.deb|grep -E “key|xts|sec”

 Section: utils
 Depends: libgtk-3-0, libnotify4, libnss3, libxtst6, xdg-utils, libatspi2.0-0, libdrm2, libgbm1, libxcb-dri3-0, kde-cli-tools | kde-runtime | trash-cli | libglib2.0-bin | gvfs-bin
 Suggests: gir1.2-gnomekeyring-1.0, libgnome-keyring0, lsb-release
  Open-source and secure identity manager.

applications in auto-start may query this service before it’s up

I have been starting Pass manually couple of minutes after booting, so this should not be the problem. I do not know why, but now several times Pass remembered my settings. I suspect that I have used password for the 1st time to login Pass app, before I remember only scanning a QR code from my other device.

English?

Wrong (again) lol. I am aware about this text.

Lumo apps are open source:

https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClients/tree/main/applications/lumo - web client

https://github.com/ProtonLumo/android-lumo - Android

https://github.com/ProtonLumo/ios-lumo - iOS

source

I have seen that at same time the https://miningpoolstats.stream/monero shown a 42% (not 51%), so I would rather trust that 42% number (it can not be faked?).

I think that you are wrong. My source is https://xmrig.com/benchmark/ Go somewhere to the middle of the page (to get rough middle performance CPU). For example I can see: 984 Intel® Core™ i5-10500T CPU @ 2.30GHz (6 threads CPU). I click it and mean hashrate is 1839. Divide that by 3, you have 613 hashes.

it’s practically free to run the miner

I mostly agree, except no PoW mining is free. It requires to pay electricity, which is obvious.

According to the attacking pool statistics (can be wrong and faked), their pool reeched 51% of the XMR hashrate, but at same time, https://miningpoolstats.stream/monero shown a 42% share of that pool. So the difference is pretty big. I would rather trust that 42% number (it can not be faked?). We should mine and do not promote that selfish mining pool.

1/3 of the regular CPU resources is around 1000 hashes per second according to my calculation. We would need 1 million such users to produce 1 gigahash per second. The 51% attack currently needed around 3 gigahash per second.