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Another parts source...
- Thread starter Msfitoy
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Ya I know...I hate FB but this store doesn't have a website...
I found it through this channel...
I'd be wary of any source that is:
1. Overseas
2. Lacks a legitimate storefront
3. Requires payment by a means that provides me no recourse.
This seller meets 1 & 2, not sure about 3. Buyer beware.
1. Overseas
2. Lacks a legitimate storefront
3. Requires payment by a means that provides me no recourse.
This seller meets 1 & 2, not sure about 3. Buyer beware.
op46
Active member
Concur, or not Twitter, or the the other censoring social media sites. Have never been on them since I'm anti-social, but if I was going to I would do it this way.
I like Telegram better than Signal since it was discovered it has been hacked by certain 3 letter agencies. Proton mail (paid subscription) for when you really really don't want THEM to read. They can see you sent but not able to read it so far. Am GAB Pro member and will be moving to GAP Pay from PayPal soonest.
I like Telegram better than Signal since it was discovered it has been hacked by certain 3 letter agencies. Proton mail (paid subscription) for when you really really don't want THEM to read. They can see you sent but not able to read it so far. Am GAB Pro member and will be moving to GAP Pay from PayPal soonest.
Unless you're open to some risk, I would wait and see if the shop scales up, or if you happen to have a friend in Thailand work with them to get the parts. Shops like that are very common, some make it and others don't, shipping delays and communication can be big issues. I bought parts from Mugello back when they only sold over social media and now they've gotten big enough in the Ducati market that they have a website set up for international ecommerce. As the CT125s roll out to their new homes, hopefully the same happens here.
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I'd be just as wary of those alternative social media sites. They're the same thing just on a different end of the spectrum and with different money behind them, run and represented by people who are very publicly vocal about their political and/or religious views to the point that they shape the platform, founded on the premise of free speech yet they just censor at the other end of the spectrum from what Big Tech censor, and they often let hate speech masquerade as free speech. Breeding grounds for Fake News. They have poor track records for security and leaks just the same as Big Tech (speaking of Gab and Parlor in particular).
If you use Telegram be sure to enable Secret chats to actually make use of end-to-end encryption.
For browsers like Brave that ship with more of the Google tracking ecosystem absent, better default security settings, and out of the box tracking-blocking and ad-blocking, there is the disadvantage of that since it's built off Chromium any vulnerabilities found in the browser software will almost always have their patches make their way to Chrome before the browsers built off of Chromium. That might not seem like a big deal, but it's a big enough deal that companies and gov agencies with strict security policies often prohibit their use vs Chrome or Firefox.
I'm a strong supporter of DuckDuckGo, ProtonMail (and GPG or PGP encryption on email in general), and Signal though. These tools/platforms are prevalent in the infosec community and either open source or making an effort of transparency with some open source components.
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I'd be just as wary of those alternative social media sites. They're the same thing just on a different end of the spectrum and with different money behind them, run and represented by people who are very publicly vocal about their political and/or religious views to the point that they shape the platform, founded on the premise of free speech yet they just censor at the other end of the spectrum from what Big Tech censor, and they often let hate speech masquerade as free speech. Breeding grounds for Fake News. They have poor track records for security and leaks just the same as Big Tech (speaking of Gab and Parlor in particular).
If you use Telegram be sure to enable Secret chats to actually make use of end-to-end encryption.
For browsers like Brave that ship with more of the Google tracking ecosystem absent, better default security settings, and out of the box tracking-blocking and ad-blocking, there is the disadvantage of that since it's built off Chromium any vulnerabilities found in the browser software will almost always have their patches make their way to Chrome before the browsers built off of Chromium. That might not seem like a big deal, but it's a big enough deal that companies and gov agencies with strict security policies often prohibit their use vs Chrome or Firefox.
I'm a strong supporter of DuckDuckGo, ProtonMail (and GPG or PGP encryption on email in general), and Signal though. These tools/platforms are prevalent in the infosec community and either open source or making an effort of transparency with some open source components.