Unlucky_Boot3467

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Is Firefox any more private/secure than Brave? in c/[email protected]
Is there a FOSS Android app that tries to collect all data it can and then show it to you? in c/[email protected]
Wonder how long it will take for the "Average Joe" to care about these things in c/[email protected]
[–] Unlucky_Boot3467 1 points 1 year ago

All govs want to protect or further their personal interests: Monopolies of violence, power, and intelligence. The citizens be damned.

Signal Essay about CIA ties and anti-FOSS in c/[email protected]
[–] Unlucky_Boot3467 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The essay gives some. Also look into Session Messenger.

Have you ever had this happen to you? in c/[email protected]
[–] Unlucky_Boot3467 1 points 1 year ago

It didnt say why it was sending me a survey. It was just generic, saying they want me to have a good experience. The last time they did that was over two years ago. I don't think it's a coincidence that i had gone into their store a day before.

Digital Euro in c/[email protected]
[–] Unlucky_Boot3467 1 points 1 year ago

people like you will actually wait until the very day that such a thing happens, THEN you will complain. How sad.

Lemmy and privacy issues in c/[email protected]
[–] Unlucky_Boot3467 2 points 1 year ago

There's nothing you can really do about it. Lemmy should encourage as much privacy as possible, and it's plain to see that there is work to be done in that realm, however, you should always protect yourself from the servers you connect to and store data on, regardless of whether it's oriented to privacy or otherwise.

Using VPN or TOR, not saying anything that could identify you, making multiple accounts, things like this.

Proxigram: A privacy focused and open source front-end for Instagram in c/[email protected]
[–] Unlucky_Boot3467 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nice. Hope to see some public instances and eventually integration with those redirect extensions.

Wonder how long it will take for the "Average Joe" to care about these things in c/[email protected]
[–] Unlucky_Boot3467 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So lucky to have a cool mom <3

Wonder how long it will take for the "Average Joe" to care about these things in c/[email protected]
[–] Unlucky_Boot3467 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Because that's what they are told to think. The notion that they are thinking on their own is laughable.

Have you ever had this happen to you? in c/[email protected]
[–] Unlucky_Boot3467 4 points 1 year ago

I never turn on BT. I have mac randomization for wifi

Have you ever had this happen to you? in c/[email protected]
[–] Unlucky_Boot3467 2 points 1 year ago

i didnt scan any barcode when i went in recently. I was saying that I did before (a couple years ago i think), which could be how to attached facial data to email, if indeed they did do it the association that with facial data

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Have you ever had this happen to you? (self.privacy)
 

So recently, I went into a shipping service store, that is well known, etc etc. I walked in, asked a question, then walked out. I did nothing else.

A couple days later, I get an email from them, to the email address that I have used for them in the past. The email wants me to take a survey.

Now, since I have made a shipping label online with them before once, then took that label (attached to a parcel) in the store, which was then scanned, I can only assume that this recent email I got was the result of facial recognition data gathering.

I am an extremely privacy conscious person, but this tactic evades even me, as the only way to avoid it, would be to never set foot into their store.

I really really hate myself too because the email I used with them is one of my personal-name emails and now they have that. I did that before I became privacy conscious. I can only imagine how other people feel, who are much deeper in the hole than a random facial recognition incident.

Have any of your ever experienced this? where you walked into some place and then got an email? It's so creepy..

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Panama as a privacy jurisdiction? (self.privacy)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Unlucky_Boot3467 to c/[email protected]
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The only service that comes to mind for me is NordVPN, which is based in Panama.

Is Panama the big brain move? If so, why aren't more privacy services doing this?

What kind of privacy laws are good in Panama? Any that aren't? Does it have a history of bowing to Five Eyes requests?

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Signal Essay about CIA ties and anti-FOSS (dessalines.github.io)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Unlucky_Boot3467 to c/[email protected]
47 comments fedilink
 

We as a community must stop recommending Signal. For far too long we have blindly followed this app without a second thought. It has created a cult of followers, when there are much better apps out there for us to use.

https://archive.is/Lhe24 archive for the essay

This essay was posted to r/Privacy and subsequently removed and censored for literally No Reason. This is honestly really scary: https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/wj5svi/signal_messenger_revealed_to_have_cia_ties_funded/ https://archive.ph/FZr1d

I am seriously hoping we can have a discussion about this on lemmy. @TheAnonymouseJoker , I know you from r/PrivateLife, and thought you'd be the one to go to about this. Thanks for being open in the past and not bowing to the inner circle of reddit cringelords.

I also am preparing an essay of my own about a complicit honeypot-ish web going on between Signal, Skiff, r/Privacy, r/PrivacyGuides, etc. They have a crazy little cabal that is very creepy. Any materials are welcome. Every time i turn over a stone i find two more. More to come.

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