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The Privacy Iceberg

This is original content. AI was not used anywhere except for the bottom right image, simply because I could not find one similar enough to what I needed. This took around 6 hours to make.

Transcription (for the visually impaired)

(I tried my best)

The background is an iceberg with 6 levels, denoting 6 different levels of privacy.

The tip of the iceberg is titled "The Brainwashed" with a quote beside it that says "I have nothing to hide". The logos depicted in this section are:

The surface section of the iceberg is titled "As seen on TV" with a quote beside it that says "This video is sponsored by...". The logos depicted in this section are:

An underwater section of the iceberg is titled "The Beginner" with a quote beside it that says "I don't like hackers and spying". The logos depicted in this section are:

A lower section of the iceberg is titled "The Privacy Enthusiast" with a quote beside it that says "I have nothing I want to show". The logos depicted in this section are:

An even lower section of the iceberg is titled "The Privacy Activist" with a quote beside it that says "Privacy is a human right". The logos depicted in this section are:

The lowest portion of the iceberg is titled "The Ghost". There is a quote beside it that has been intentionally redacted. The images depicted in this section are:

  • A cancel sign over a mobile phone, symbolizing "no electronics"
  • An illustration of a log cabin, symbolizing "living in a log cabin in the woods"
  • A picture of gold bars, symbolizing "paying only in gold"
  • A picture of a death certificate, symbolizing "faking your own death"
  • An AI generated picture of a person wearing a black hoodie, a baseball cap, a face mask, and reflective sunglasses, symbolizing "hiding ones identity in public"

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[-] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 8 points 13 hours ago

Using basic things like Graphene OS and keepass shouldn't be considered privacy activist

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago

I keep my passwords in an encrypted file instead of a bunch of sticky notes! I'm a privacy activist!

[-] Slaxis@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 hours ago

Next step: Faking your own death

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[-] simop_jo@lemm.ee 2 points 10 hours ago

Is tuta better than protonmail?

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[-] usuarioimanol@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Is it easy to implement Openwrt?

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[-] utopiah@lemmy.ml 3 points 13 hours ago

I already made browser suggestions https://lemmy.ml/post/29712598/18453254 but I would also add Ceno https://ceno.network/ in the 5th layer due to its P2P and caching nature.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago

I don't like hackers and spying

brave

lol. lmao, even.

[-] Charger8232@lemmy.ml 18 points 23 hours ago

A beginner will choose what seems private, regardless of whether or not it actually is.

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[-] admin@lemmy.today 9 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

The only thing stopping me from being 'the Activist Group' is that Mullvad requires payment. Sorry, but I'm running a little tight on budget.

At the same time, I can't use Proton VPN for torrenting.

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[-] DimFisher@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

I m definitely a privacy enthusiast, but I use searx also, the rest I have no clue what they are

[-] candyman337@lemmy.world 61 points 1 day ago

It's genuinely wild that Firefox and LibreWolf are nowhere on these

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 17 points 23 hours ago
[-] Bahnd@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago

I was disapponted at that, I spooled up one of those instances a few months back and its federated and is magical. If only I could convince my family to move away from that old group text grumbles in person who cosplays as a sysadmin

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Same. It's so hard to get ppl to switch.

[-] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

Probably because people above the waterline don't know Mozilla exists, and people below have seen how things have been going lately.

[-] candyman337@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Firefox is really bad a portraying what they're actually doing, and the privacy concerns people have with them have been widely overblown. But on top of that librewolf is a privacy oriented fork not made by Mozilla

[-] cardfire@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago

For want of $100 /year Apple developer subscription , the libewolf team can't sign binaries for Silicon M series Macs.

I spent an hour and a half trying to get librewolf to work, and just gave up for Waterfox instead.

On my laptop I run Firefox for some things, Watefox for others, and fall back to Chrome only as absolutely necessary when Gecko can't get me there.

[-] candyman337@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

I tried waterfox and it was just too glitchy for me I had many more crashes than Firefox, and their claim to fame was that chrome extensions worked with it but I literally never got a single one working. Session buddy just saves your sessions locally, but that would not work AT ALL on waterfox.

[-] cardfire@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I didn't even know that they claim Chrome extensions will work, I simply use the Firefox extensions in Waterfox.

My browsing style is antiquated, my ADHD will only afford me about eight tabs per browser window and I usually have about four of those going at a time.

I aggressively kill tabs to save my own mental memory more than the machine's memory.

[-] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago

They do perhaps know, Firefox did have about 27%+ of the market at one point and people outside of the USA are more likely to know about it. Nevertheless, FF is currently about 3.25% of the total browser base. That is still about 160+ - 200+ million users.

[-] sharps9@lemmy.world 57 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

ExpressVPN is an arm of Israeli intelligence and should be on the tip of the iceberg: https://www.reuters.com/technology/expressvpn-employees-complain-about-ex-spys-top-role-company-2021-09-23/

All users should cancel their accounts immediately.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago

A man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017.

Did AI write this?

[-] Charger8232@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 day ago

"As seen on TV" does not imply privacy, it just implies a large advertising budget. These are software that market themselves as private (and are sometimes better than nothing at all) but may still be just as bad as software on the tip of the iceberg.

[-] neuroneiro@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

Was going to say links or it never happened but you provided them! And categorized by level! Excelsior!

Thanks also to the comments giving more information.

So grateful for this platform. For the most part.

[-] nuko147@lemm.ee 5 points 19 hours ago

Enthusiast level. Not bad. Not bad. Also where would you put librewolf?

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[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago
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[-] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 97 points 1 day ago

Funny how you need more and more technical knowledge to go deeper into privacy, until the last level, which is basically giving up on technology itself.

[-] wolfinthewoods@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 day ago

The last level is living in a cabin in the woods and writing manifestos about industrial society and the ills of technology O_o

[-] hummy_bee@mander.xyz 8 points 21 hours ago

Also, I am out of the loop? What’s up with firefox? I have used it on linux mint for maybe 6 years now with uBlock. Currently trying to use DuckDuckGo as default browser because that Google AI results thing is starting to annoy me.

[-] Philzlaus@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

I'm a big fan of Duckduckgo, since Im using it for a couple of years. The search results have become much better compared to the past.

[-] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago

It's fine. For legal reasons (particularly in the EU and California) they had to add a Terms of Use fit the browser, and the had to translate a bunch of broad, idealist, simple phrases into legalese so they wouldn't get killed by those governments.

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[-] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago

Apple: “Brainwashed”

iMessage: “Beginner”

Well which one is it?

[-] hummy_bee@mander.xyz 6 points 21 hours ago
[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 10 points 21 hours ago

Open source router you install it on your personal router instead of the vendor firmware and gain 200% of the functionality.

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[-] grendel@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

How the heck is TOR less secure than any of the vpns? Also nice vpn psyop/ad.

[-] Charger8232@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

How the heck is TOR less secure than any of the vpns?

This isn't a ranking of security. It is ranked based on the experience level at which people generally begin to start using certain software. They build on top of each other.

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