Well said. The amount of people who associate privacy being about anonymity is absolutely crazy and they think it's ridiculous that someone would go as far as to protect yet still use idk Discord for example. People should start to realize privacy was never about being anonymous and that yes there's in fact a spectrum. Eric Murphy in some of his videos actually put up a cool image about the privacy spectrum and that determines where you're from here...
There's also the fact that people don't realize anything can go wrong or Change and one notorious move from governments spying on your device potentially getting you arrested the next day over some harmless joke or conversation so having the ability to encrypt the every day conversations we do and even cover the metadata we give for companies to track us down is in this state of where anything can change important. If there's an example that would be the EU cracking down on encryption the damage this would make is devastating...
It didn't used to be this way (obviously), but people have been slow to adapt to the new technological paradigm.
It's very unnatural and I think people are reluctant to acknowledge it because the reality strips people of a part of being human. Human memories that have not been committed to writing, fade, transform, and forget.
The machine, at least in theory, preserves the information indefinitely.
Yes. Mankind is entering its 4th epoch (see the only post I send on substack). But we have to be aware the PTB will fight to death, it won't be an easy fight. Tornado cash or wikileaks are proof of direct fight. Many other project got just hijacked too. Remember mozilla ?
A secret is not a secret once beiing said. Same with information. You can't control it once it's sended. Privacy is beeing as much anonymous as you can afford (because it could require several lifes to learn and implement it the fullest, you have to set a limit).
A secret you tell someone and they promise not to share it is a secret shared between 2 people.
Information you give to a company where you sign a contract that they agree to keep it private is information shared between 2 entities.
If a friend breaks their promise, there are consequences. If a company breaks their promise they should be held accountable, we should push back against the idea that they're allowed to do what they want with this information when our contract states otherwise.
That's theory, yes. My 14 years professional experience at national level (in a different field) makes me more realistic. You can't expect from a mafia (vernement) to make rules/laws protecting you (from other mafias or bad guys). Their very power relies on the fact you are NOT protected. Thus you can't have laws to punish people making bad use of information you gave them.
telling people "you are to blame, you shouldn't have shared your information with anyone" is unrealistic and also give companies carte blanche to do what they want. This is not the answer.
Choose companies that have a reputation of upholding privacy contracts and protecting you, and choose better friends who keep their word.
You're more empowered than you realize, and your power doesn't just lie in "never tell anyone anything." It lies in the incredible privacy tools all around us, and companies that have sprung up that actually care about privacy, and your ability to make better choices.
Companies do have carte blanche and that's not my fault. People naively believe firms have morals. Firms, by design, do NOT have morals. When they talk about moral values, that's just for business.
I don't blame anybody, even myself for communicating things. But I do know they have consequences, I don't lie to myself. And thus when I don't want to pass the limit I set, I just skip/shut up/hidde. Everybody does that. The same truth prevails on the internet and is called privacy. The sad thing is people are unaware yet of how their tools are working. They don't know they are talking private things to unmoral entities. They don't think they need to set any limit. They will learn by hitting the wall.
again blatantly false. Companies who put people first over profits for the long run are those that are definitely going to stay this way. Signal, Molly, Operating systems like Graphene, Linux (and those are a few examples) have the backings of thousands of dollars if not then millions from organizations and people alike.
Of course services like SimpleX are funded by VC but they definitely have not left their morals behind and have crafted one of the craziest messaging apps in the world imo and it's very well documented and fully open source and decentralized all with no user identifiers is a marvelous achievement to behold.
Honestly if there was the rarest (very very rare) day of winning the lottery of say 1-10 Million, I would definitely put up to 50% or more of the funds to open source projects and organizations that deserve because they respect the users...
Well said. The amount of people who associate privacy being about anonymity is absolutely crazy and they think it's ridiculous that someone would go as far as to protect yet still use idk Discord for example. People should start to realize privacy was never about being anonymous and that yes there's in fact a spectrum. Eric Murphy in some of his videos actually put up a cool image about the privacy spectrum and that determines where you're from here...
There's also the fact that people don't realize anything can go wrong or Change and one notorious move from governments spying on your device potentially getting you arrested the next day over some harmless joke or conversation so having the ability to encrypt the every day conversations we do and even cover the metadata we give for companies to track us down is in this state of where anything can change important. If there's an example that would be the EU cracking down on encryption the damage this would make is devastating...
Indeed, our data is forever. We should be careful who we give it to.
It didn't used to be this way (obviously), but people have been slow to adapt to the new technological paradigm.
It's very unnatural and I think people are reluctant to acknowledge it because the reality strips people of a part of being human. Human memories that have not been committed to writing, fade, transform, and forget.
The machine, at least in theory, preserves the information indefinitely.
Surveillance aside. I don't want corporations leaking and mining my data, specially to train AI. That's why I stopped posting on social media.
And be ready someday to have to face gov attacks. We (privacy aware people) are just at the very first stage (ignore/laugth/fight then you win).
We're indeed at the first stages of privacy awareness. Let's keep going 💪
Yes. Mankind is entering its 4th epoch (see the only post I send on substack). But we have to be aware the PTB will fight to death, it won't be an easy fight. Tornado cash or wikileaks are proof of direct fight. Many other project got just hijacked too. Remember mozilla ?
https://x.com/gnukeith/status/1845965252833251785?t=-OLLmsMGfb9kGbkOMQ9KFA&s=19
We have to keep going, slowly but steady.
A secret is not a secret once beiing said. Same with information. You can't control it once it's sended. Privacy is beeing as much anonymous as you can afford (because it could require several lifes to learn and implement it the fullest, you have to set a limit).
strongly disagree.
A secret you tell someone and they promise not to share it is a secret shared between 2 people.
Information you give to a company where you sign a contract that they agree to keep it private is information shared between 2 entities.
If a friend breaks their promise, there are consequences. If a company breaks their promise they should be held accountable, we should push back against the idea that they're allowed to do what they want with this information when our contract states otherwise.
That's theory, yes. My 14 years professional experience at national level (in a different field) makes me more realistic. You can't expect from a mafia (vernement) to make rules/laws protecting you (from other mafias or bad guys). Their very power relies on the fact you are NOT protected. Thus you can't have laws to punish people making bad use of information you gave them.
telling people "you are to blame, you shouldn't have shared your information with anyone" is unrealistic and also give companies carte blanche to do what they want. This is not the answer.
Choose companies that have a reputation of upholding privacy contracts and protecting you, and choose better friends who keep their word.
You're more empowered than you realize, and your power doesn't just lie in "never tell anyone anything." It lies in the incredible privacy tools all around us, and companies that have sprung up that actually care about privacy, and your ability to make better choices.
Companies do have carte blanche and that's not my fault. People naively believe firms have morals. Firms, by design, do NOT have morals. When they talk about moral values, that's just for business.
I don't blame anybody, even myself for communicating things. But I do know they have consequences, I don't lie to myself. And thus when I don't want to pass the limit I set, I just skip/shut up/hidde. Everybody does that. The same truth prevails on the internet and is called privacy. The sad thing is people are unaware yet of how their tools are working. They don't know they are talking private things to unmoral entities. They don't think they need to set any limit. They will learn by hitting the wall.
again blatantly false. Companies who put people first over profits for the long run are those that are definitely going to stay this way. Signal, Molly, Operating systems like Graphene, Linux (and those are a few examples) have the backings of thousands of dollars if not then millions from organizations and people alike.
Of course services like SimpleX are funded by VC but they definitely have not left their morals behind and have crafted one of the craziest messaging apps in the world imo and it's very well documented and fully open source and decentralized all with no user identifiers is a marvelous achievement to behold.
Honestly if there was the rarest (very very rare) day of winning the lottery of say 1-10 Million, I would definitely put up to 50% or more of the funds to open source projects and organizations that deserve because they respect the users...