"We pinky promise not to read, store and share your entire chat history, but we totally can!" To be fair to the service, they do offer TEE models now: https://venice.ai/blog/venice-launches-end-to-end-encrypted-ai However, even on their E2E encrypted models, the ones offering the strongest "privacy", you still have to trust the client-side encryption is adequately executed—and you cannot verify that because the client is proprietary. You just cannot trust E2E encryption when one end is essentially a black box.

Then an attacker would just have to pwn the secondary device and not the Graphene phone in order to track you. You've just made it easier for them.

Not a dev but the app was probably just simping too hard

Disgrace. Should be added to https://moneroshamelist.com/ Venice just smells like a massive honey pot (I have no proof of this, but last time I checked they didn't even offer TEE models)

Best to send your KYC'd coins back to an exchange in order to avoid tying your identity (offchain) to whatever the person on the other end of the swap does with them later. Consider that for chain surveillance companies the last known owner of those coins is you. Unfortunately there is always a risk of being framed with KYC'd bitcoin. A solid strategy would be to sell them to Kraken, buy the same amount of XMR, immediately withdraw it and begin swaping the XMR for BTC in random times and amounts. With your own bitcoin node with Tor and all that ofc.

Should have used Monero™

What do you mean by "you need more trust on purchases because there is no traceable public record"? As far as I know you don't need more trust for cash...

Yeah the VPN thing is tricky, this guide helped me a lot: https://privsec.dev/posts/qubes/using-mullvad-vpn-on-qubes-os/

amen 🙏

I think the War of Secession is a far better name for the conflict. I believe that's how we used to call it in Spanish but I could be wrong. A civil war happens when two sides compe for central control of a nation, doesn't make much sense to call it that when one side didn't have any interest in doing so. Also fun fact after the "Civil War" the United States ceased to be plural and became a singular noun (e.g. The united States are -> The United States is).