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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  • nuko147@lemm.eeEnglish
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    24 days ago

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

  • Owl@lemm.eeEnglish
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    25 days ago

    You play games on steam? clearly brainwashed.

    also how dare you slander Malwarebytes like that

  • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    25 days ago

    As a US citizen your crypto transactions need to be individually listed in your tax returns. It’s the main reason I don’t use crypto, it makes my taxes super complicated.

    • hash@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      25 days ago

      I absolutely report all of my cryptocurrency that the government would need to break PKI to trace back to me. I would never violate laws that I could rely on never being caught violating.

      • wolfinthewoods@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        25 days ago

        So what’s the deal with i2p? I heard it was a more secure alternative to vpns, I downloaded it but I haven’t been motivated to figure out how to set it up on Linux.

            • swelter_spark@reddthat.comEnglish
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              24 days ago

              In some ways I2p is more secure, but it has its own pros and cons. It’s primarily used with services & sites within its own network, similar to onion sites, and used that way it’s said to be faster than Tor. It can be used for torrenting with a client that supports it, like qBittorrent or BiglyBT, without harming the network. There are outproxies you can use if you want to anonymize access to normal websites, but there’s only a few of them, and it’s slow. You can have it and Tor running at the same time without them interfering with each other, though.

              • wolfinthewoods@lemmy.mlEnglish
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                21 days ago

                So, it sounds like you’d be better off just running Tor or a vpn unless you have a specific use-case for i2p. I looked briefly at the install instructions, but it seemed to be like it would be a hassle to initially setup on my linux build.

                • swelter_spark@reddthat.comEnglish
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                  19 days ago

                  I think that would be fair to say. I mostly run it to contribute to the network, so that other people can communicate or share files more privately. (On OpenSuSE, it can be installed from the repo and just run with no special configuration.)

            • sploodged@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              24 days ago

              as a darknet it’s more secure than tor, but less people use it so less anonymous. the benefits are really for using in-network services there, not so much for accessing the clearnet, though you’ll find clearnet things bridged to i2p

  • kn0wmad1c@programming.devEnglish
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    25 days ago

    The problem with mullvad is a lot of its IPs are flagged as bots or denied around the web. Is there a good VPN that will still give access to most of the web?

    • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
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      25 days ago

      Those are mutually exclusive.

      Just avoid those shitty websites that don’t respect their user’s privacy.

    • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      25 days ago

      I’ve never had that issue with Mullvad unless it was for a streaming app.

      Sometimes I get detected and it makes me do a cloud flare “I’m not a robot” page.

      • YexingTudou@lemmy.ml
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        25 days ago

        I just got Mullvad again and the main site I get flagged on is reddit. Which I wouldn’t care but the state of search is so abysmal that I still regularly have to query reddit to find what I’m actually looking for (for some types of info anyway). It’s fine though, there’s some mullvad servers that haven’t been flagged yet so I just server hop as needed. Less convenient, but not terrible

          • Novaling@lemmy.zipEnglish
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            25 days ago

            LibRedirect + Libreddit instances is fantastic.

            Honestly, Reddit is one of the few services that can be redirected easily now. Invidious, Freetube, NewPipe, etc. is constantly being nuked by Youtube, and while Twitter redirects are still alive, they were dead for a short period, ProxiTok never works, nor does Proxigram instances…

        • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          25 days ago

          Oh yeah! Reddit does that? But I just login with a throwaway account.

          Sometimes after logging in, it will say there was a problem or just reload the login page.

          If that happens just click login again and it will load normally.

      • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
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        25 days ago

        Gotta use less popular locations close to what you need. As a german I have mostly been using Finland and other smaller eastern European countries, those generally work just fine. Germany itself barely ever.

  • rekabis@lemmy.ca
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    25 days ago

    Any Chromium-based browser in anything but the top-most panel is a non-starter with their abandonment of Manifest v2. Manifest v3 seriously cripples any Chromium-based browser’s ability to be secure, as extensions like uBlock Origin are no longer compatible by design.

    Google has it’s ad business to protect, after all.

      • rekabis@lemmy.ca
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        24 days ago

        Vanadium is purely for GrapheneOS, and Trivalent is purely for Linux. Both of which also appear (looking at this on mobile) to require compiling by the user.

        Soooo… an appropriate pair of tools for, what, 0.5% of all computer users in aggregate?

        Really appropriate suggestions, there. /s

        Show me something Windows based that can be as secure as LibreWolf along with the appropriate extensions for blocking ads, fingerprinting, CDNs, and other spyware-like content.

        Because Chromium in any variation, it ain’t.

        • The 8232 Project@lemmy.mlOP
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          24 days ago

          Both of which also appear (looking at this on mobile) to require compiling by the user.

          Vanadium comes preinstalled on GrapheneOS, and Trivalent comes preinstalled on Trivalent. Compatible Linux distros can add the Trivalent repo to install it without building.

          Show me something Windows based that can be as secure as LibreWolf along with the appropriate extensions for blocking ads, fingerprinting, CDNs, and other spyware-like content.

          LibreWolf is far from secure, as it is based on Firefox and so comes with the same security issues. If you meant to say privacy and not security, the reason nobody makes high threat model browsers for Windows is because Windows itself is not private and it would be a losing battle.

        • standarduser@lemm.eeEnglish
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          24 days ago

          Not outright stated. Closest I could tell on a skim of their site is third party blocked by default

  • mmhmm@lemmy.ml
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    25 days ago

    I was at the bike shop a few weeks back and a ghost walked in. He came in wearing a medical mask covered by a bandana, sunglasses, cap. They wore gloves, long sleaved pants and shirt.

    First question from staff, ‘this a robbery?’

    Ghost, ‘no, I just need 27 2.5 tubes, miss.’

    They get the tubes, he agrees. Staff asks if he has an account. Ghost says, “nope, why would I need one?” Staff says they do it for records, insurance claim assist, and discounts. Ghost goes with a John Doe, pays cash and peaces the fuck out.

    Total King, but dude was given up a lot. Half of us were drinking beers enjoying a warm evening in spring. I hope he has had some good rides.

    I can say with confidence thay he was a white male. In his 50s. About 5’10". 140 lbs-ish. If anyone wants to get any tips, good luck!

      • mmhmm@lemmy.ml
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        25 days ago

        Speaking as a former kid of rural america you would be doing the lords work, friend

    • baaaaaaaaaaah [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      25 days ago

      I respect it but what’s the point? I kinda hope he’s some kind of super-criminal or as you say he’s given up a lot to hide from a state that probably doesn’t even care he exists even if they did know who he was.

        • mmhmm@lemmy.ml
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          25 days ago

          I’d have guessed white nationalist if it was anywhere but a bike shop

            • mmhmm@lemmy.ml
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              25 days ago

              Exactly right. My bad. Thanks for the reminder. Geography and majority opinions in the area were coloring my perspective but are not relevant

      • Broken@lemmy.ml
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        25 days ago

        I’m no ghost, not even close. Be careful though, “what’s the point?” Is essentially the question everybody asks at every phase of that iceberg diagram.

        A possible answer to your question though, is that even if the state doesn’t know or care about him today that might change tomorrow.

        That’s not my threat profile but it’s a valid one.

  • mycamgirl@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    24 days ago

    I wouldn’t put Telegram at the level. I would put it in “The Brainwashed.” Its encryption is disabled by default. You need to manually enable it on each chat, and you can’t enable it on group chats. The app gives a false sense of privacy. Telegram flaunts its end-to-end encryption, but it never mentions that it is disabled by default, and it refuses to enable the default. The final result is that people are not using the feature.

    A cryptographer and professor wrote a good piece about Telegram’s encryption, calling it “unusual” and the “non-standard authenticated encryption mode ever invented”: Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?

  • Anna@lemmy.ml
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    24 days ago

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