What about the issue of, the more accessible private browsing and messaging has become, the harder it has become to track down child porn producers.
this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2024
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It is a non issue, a fabulation of a pretext to strip away all your rights. Just look at all the gross politics wonks slinging pedophile accusations at each other all the time. How could anyone even believe this was anything other than the latest tool of character assassination after homo, commie and anarchistshave worn out their usefullness. Anyone going around yelling pediphile this pedophile that, recognize them for the troll that they are and tune them out, they have absolutely nothing valid to say.
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Step 1 of installing GrapheneOS for de-googling your life: Buy a Google Pixel phone
Look - I know, I know. I get it. Google allows you to unlock the bootloader while maintaining the phone's unique and excellent hardware security features. The argument makes sense. It is compelling. Other manufacturers do not give you this freedom. I am not arguing about that. I have a Pixel phone running GrapheneOS myself.
However... It is just so very obviously ironic that one needs to trust Google's hardware and purchase a Google product to de-google their life through GrapheneOS. I think that it is a perfectly valid position for someone to raise their eyebrows, laugh, and remain skeptical of the concept either because they do not want to support Google at all, or because they simply will not trust Google's hardware.
The reason why I think that this is "controversial" is because I have seen multiple instances of someone pointing out the irony, followed by someone getting defensive about it and making use of the technical security arguments in an attempt to patch up the irony.
It's obvious to me the blackbox radio contains an inscrutable backdoor that negates all privacy aspects.
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My issue with that is that Pixels are expensive, and in some places are not sold officially (meaning they can only be bought from smaller resellers with usually much less generous return policies). The newest models are outright unaffordable new. The only ones below $150 are either secondhand or out of support, so that's what poor people are left with? Plus, no headphone jack.
I use Graphene myself, but I dislike absolutism. I don't in the slightest regret buying my Pixel even though $300 is a painful sum to spend on a phone (and it was on the cheaper end if we're talking about up-to-date models!), but I know that my mother would never spend this much on a phone - so I look into Divest or Lineage on more common and affordable phones.
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Its not private if it needs a phone number (cough SIGNAL cough)
"Its to protect the kids", "Its to fight terrorism"
That one ~~filthy~~ muslim country banning VPN's with the guise of it being impermissible ("haram")
I don't even care about the privacy aspect per se. Phone number as user ID is a crappy UX that fundamentally does not work when international travel, multiple devices, or needing to get a number changed. It also doesn't work for shared accounts or people who might want multiple identities.
Some of these relate to privacy, secondarily, but my primary concern is the UX.
I've got nothing to hide.
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For me an AI topic is the hottest
Browsing with JS disabled by default and expecting most sites to have basic functionality like "display this text"
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Whether this guy should be forced to turn over his passwords or not:
https://www.theregister.com/2017/03/20/appeals_court_contempt_passwords/
The appeals court found that forcing the defendant to reveal passwords was not testimonial in this instance because the government already had a sense of what it would find.
Boy, I'm not a lawyer, but that sure feels like being forced to incriminate yourself.
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Browser extensions aren’t the answer to preventing tracking (as apps and other processes outside the browser aren’t blocked)
need a convenient solution to force traffic thru tor, doesnt tails have that? why isnt it commonplace tool?
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JavaScript canvas blocker add-ons (this one specifically comes to mind, because I've recently had to disable it since it makes life harder; is it worth the cost of admission, or is it a lot of effort for not a lot of reward?) Other types of privacy add-ons would be good to explore as well.
Private gun ownership e.g. via home manufacture (not illegal contrary to popular belief) or p2p sale. Also mandated gun registries.
Edit: so controversial I'm getting downvoted haha
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There is no expectation of privacy in public.
By which I mean that things like blurring a house from Street View are unreasonable.
IMO, blurring a house in Street View could lead to the Streisand effect, especially when 99% of all other property is unblurred.
If you want to remain private, in the case of Street View, your best bet is to keep it as inconspicuous as possible, otherwise people will start looking closer and ask questions; the exact opposite of what you want, even if you have nothing to hide.
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Signal as a centralized meta-data honeypot.
💯 but can it be a honeypot when the OG promise was connection not meta security?
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