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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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I am genuinely horrified to see how much data google collected from me (lemmy.zip)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I created a google takeout and in that zip file I found some files containing a ton of data about me. It has logged every single page I visited while using the google search engine and chrome browser. It even logged every single time I opened an app on my old android phone. It even has VOICE RECORDINGS of me and a log of every time I used google assistant. This is just some of the data and I'm very sure there is even more data they have.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No, Tails doesn't solve this issue at all. It's built for maximum anonymity, not security. It also uses Tor for all connections, which will get your bank account locked immediately. Qubes is a good option for security, but it's way too complicated for most users. Stop making up some random shit and accept that mobile devices running modern operating systems are reasonably secure and definitely more secure than your ordinary desktop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You can't get persistent malware if all browser history and installed apps disappear every time you reboot. Yes, TAILS was designed for security. Yes, TAILS was also designed for privacy. Obviously its no longer anonymous if you log into your bank.

Tor Browser is by far the most hardened & secure web browser. If a bank is blocking Tor, that bank probably doesn't understand security and its a red flag. Choose another bank. Or, better, use monero. Its way more secure than banks.

Disclaimer: I used to work in info security for a bank in Europe.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Basically every bank blocks Tor and many even block VPNs. Also, Tor Browser is not particularly secure. It's been designed for fingerprinting resistance and network anonymity through the Tor network. The Tor Browser is based on Firefox, which lacks many important security features like site isolation, Control Flow Integrity or any meaningful sandboxing. I absolutely hate Google and their monopolistic business practices, but Chromium is by far the most secure browser. Especially when it's running on a secure mobile operating system. GrapheneOS goes even further than Android and deploys a hardened memory allocator (which was actually ported from OpenBSD), which significantly reduces the risk for memory coruption. On the newest generation of mobile SOCs (ARMv9), GrapheneOS enables memory tagging by default. Again, find me a desktop platform with MTE. This once again proves my point that mobile devices are simply more secure. Every single piece of hardware and software in your phone has been built with a strong focus of security.

Or, better, use monero.

I absolutely agree on this one. Look at the Lemmy instance I'm on. I'm a big fan of Monero, but unfortunately there aren't many places that accept XMR.