Unnecessary and deeply concerning bow to the new “king”

  • Claudia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 months ago

    My take is that a libertarian who thinks big government (or the spooky 👻 deep state) is out to get him is an attitude I want for the ceo of a privacy company.

    If Trumps associates are going to jail for refusing to turn over passwords to their proton accounts, then I think the service is working.

    Gonna be super funny when Trump turns on him anyways though, and bans proton from the US, because only his privacy actually matters.

  • 7112@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Sad. The way tech companies are changing stripes, we are about to hit a surveillance state by summer

    • DavidGarcia@feddit.nl
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      11 months ago

      I don’t understand how everyone can be so blind to the surveillance that already exists.

      Literally all your communications or purchase or browsing history, 90% of people’s photos and contacts, everything you ever say near your phone/smart devices, your health data with devices like fitbit, cm resolution spy satelites, 4D maps of the entire globe being created via services like Pokemon Go, phones create and store in the cloud high resolution 3D maps of your face, mesh networked devices like Alexa now surveil without you even having internet access, your home and your exact location down to a meter are already being live spied on. Not to mention full remote access to all your devices.

      Sometimes with a thin veneer of privacy on top of it, like Apple pretends to have.

      Basically the only part of you that the surveillance state doesn’t constantly surveil already is your butthole.

      Even avoiding just 10% of this surveillance in your daily life is almost impossible.

    • Hubi@feddit.org
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      11 months ago

      The US are a surveillance state already. But I guess it could get even worse.

      • darthelmet@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        It’s like everyone forgot about the Patriot Act and NSA stuff. This shit has been going on through at least 4 different presidents. And that’s just the modern surveillance state.

    • bazingabot@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Clearly unpredictable times with a guilty criminal as president who clearly has dictatorial/fascist tendencies…so the only option, get all slimey to still get a piece of the cake in the future

  • a4ng3l@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I can understand being fine with a nomination that aligns with his personal interests but from there the journey to « party of small people » likely takes a convoluted path.

  • mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    Hypothetically, if Hitler saved a child from being hit by a car would you publicly sing Hitlers praises and be happy to make positive quotes about it?

    Does being on the right side of a single issue negate everything else?

  • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
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    11 months ago

    say what you will about trump. sure hes a small pathetic man. sure he is under musk and putin, but there are people under him. He may be a sycophant but he is the head sycophant.

  • tomatol@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Very disappointing that this is the CEO and founder of Proton. I’ll be moving my stuff elsewhere and deleting my account this week.

  • Ballissle@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Ffs. I just switched a ton of stuff over to proton. Hopefully this is an individuals view and not that of the company as a whole.

      • frozenspinach@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        11 months ago

        It was intended to kind of be my new primary universe for personal communications, leaving behind Google for work/biz.

        But… maybe the water is warmer at Tutanota?

        • Ballissle@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          11 months ago

          I was considering tutanota but it felt too small and lacking some features that proton seemed better for. I may look at it again.

          I cannot move from simple login though. I bought a lifetime plan which also includes proton pass and i use simple login extensively now.

          I do use a custom domain but not for most things which i use simple login domains. My custom domain uses my full name and i dont want that associated with some random newsletter or game company etc. But important services are on my custom domain so not the end of the world and can change them all. I dont know who could replace simple login though.