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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.

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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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[–] root@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] giacomo@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

ayo, I think I won the privacy bingo! thats what this is right?

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I just switched from Android to iOS, and while I have many complaints, I’m pleasantly surprised by how “walled off” the apps mostly are. Unlike Android, they have to comply to function for the general public.

It feels a lot more like tier two, where it isn’t like a spyware implant but your banking app or whatever will still function. And yes I know it’s far from good, just talking degrees here…

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

I just switched from iOS to deGoogled Android (e/OS setup by Murena) and as discussing with a friend yesterday, the biggest trade off is arguably security, namely than iOS and AOSP are relatively secure (even though far form perfect) and applications have both permissions to explicitly request and also containerized (e.g. limited file system access) ... yet you do not need a security flaw to exist if your data are being exfiltrated periodically by the OS or apps. So arguably depending on your thread model (e.g. voluntarily offering your data vs spam/scam vs private malicious actors like NSO vs state level espionage) and your needs (banking apps vs Web equivalent) then one can be more appropriate than the other.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Cash and Monero being on the same tier is very funny

[–] lennyuncle@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Malwarebytes is good in my opinion and ads didn't told me about it. I discovered it by myself. And nowdays ads can't really tell me much because I block every single ad I just possibly can.

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[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

I have a little bit of everything except As Seen on TV and Ghost.

I mostly have 3,4,5 and still use YT and Discord

[–] josefo@leminal.space 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Anyone else noticed you are descending and are dangerously low in the pic? I didn't realize lol

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[–] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I use Keepass but mostly for convenience and I don't understand why it's in the 5th category. If I have 50 different accounts with 50 different passwords but they can all be had with one keepass password, how is that different than having 50 different accounts all using the same password?

[–] Bazoogle@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago
  1. A password managed is basically like a physical vault. If someone gets into a physical vault, they've gained access to all your valuable items, but the vault is extremely difficult to get into.
  2. Random websites do not prioritize security like they should. So when there is inevitably a breach in one of those 50 sites and you end up on haveibeenpwned.com, that does not allow them access to the other 49 sites. Often when logins are breached, the people getting that information do not care about the actual site that was breached. Rather, they know a password you use and your email, and can now try to login to actually useful sites where people often use the same login.
  3. There should be multiple layers of security to your password manager. Password and Authenticator app should be basic (No SMS or Email 2FA, not secure enough). Ideally, we move towards passwordless logins altogether so there is no secret that can be compromised on the server side.
[–] refutablewife@reddthat.com 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you use an easy password for your password manager, it's trivial to crack with a few word lists and hashcat, just as any other account.

Websites get hacked all the time, and your login details (and PII) ARE available for sale from shady people right now. It's important that, the next time one of the sites you use gets hacked, you don't have to scramble to update all your other logins.

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[–] procapra@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What is so bad about nordvpn? What makes protonvpn better?

Been a nordvpn user for around 4 years now. If I need to switch I'll do it, this is just the first time I've heard it isn't all that great.

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