I see myself doing this when older. For now I am annoyed by social networks but a smartphone is good when traveling and for communication from abroad, so what I do is I do not put anything other on it just couple communications apps like signal, organic maps and thats pretty much it. No urge to check it 100x a day, only when needed so it stays in the bag most of the time.
On November 16th, Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal, published a detailed breakdown of the popular encrypted messaging app’s running costs for the very first time. The unprecedented disclosure’s motivation was simple - the platform is rapidly running out of money, and in dire need of donations to stay afloat....
Good info. I use e/OS on my old Samsung phone as a daily driver. I consider the phone to be a communication device, so have just couple of messenger apps there. All else is done on a PC so dont consider the security to be an issue. But its good to be aware of it. However, I think privacy is orders of magnitude bigger thread to a common person than an attacker spending resouces and targeting a random person. Sure, someone could attack me, but to get what? While google attacks privacy 24/7.
The video you posted 100% proves my point. Nothing in the video is security related, Its all privacy points. Getting attacked by scammers, phishing emails, phone calls etc are privacy threats, because you provided your main email, phone number etc where you should not/did not have to. I am saying again privacy is orders of magnitude bigger thread to a common person than an attacker spending resouces and targeting a random person. Please recognize that privacy and security are different things, people obsess with security when its a smaller threat to them.
Non of the threats in the video would happen if people didnt share their lives, emails, phone numbers etc all online in plain sight. Non of the threats required an attacker to use a vulnerability to enter into pc/phone/network etc.
Privacy - use email aliases for different websites, different phone numbers for 2FA, do not use social media or at least do not post all your life , real identity, email and a phone number on there etc
Security - dont use no longer supported software, use an offline password manager, you still have no chance against 0 day vulnerabilities
/for a good measure, i copied the link you posted and entered into piped.video, example of privacy.
I get the hate on Google. I use a degoogled phone and got rid of google everywhere else. But I am not a fan of this. Its their store. Imagine a goverment comes to your own grocery store that you built and tells you whose products to put where and how much to charge for them. Instead of trying to build an alternative to compete with Play Store we will give more power to goverments. Thats not good.
Would be nice if it was possible to subscribe to en email to receive this blog automatically. Also, would be nice to post youtube links via piped or some other front-end app, since its about privacy :)
yeah never used that to be honest, I guess I have a reason to check it out. Still, to reach people a newsletter straight into an inbox is better. What RSS is recommended?
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Privacy friendly Ubuntu antivirus ?
Hi, would you know an efficient and privacy friendly Ubuntu antivirus ?
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On November 16th, Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal, published a detailed breakdown of the popular encrypted messaging app’s running costs for the very first time. The unprecedented disclosure’s motivation was simple - the platform is rapidly running out of money, and in dire need of donations to stay afloat....
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