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  • scytale@piefed.ziptoPrivacy@lemmy.mlHelp balancing convenience and privacy
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    8 days ago

    I think you need to step back and review your threat model. Grab a pen and paper or open a spreadsheet. List all the tech you use for various things. Then determine what threats you are protecting yourself from for each. Try to use a scoring system to rank importance/criticality and convenience. Then try to find the balance, which ones you’re willing to sacrifice convenience for and ones you are willing to compromise. Then take action one by one.


  • scytale@piefed.ziptoPrivacy@lemmy.mlOver confidence in VPNs
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    8 days ago

    Well privacy doesn’t necessarily mean anonymity. They are different things and have different solutions. A VPN gives you privacy but doesn’t automatically make you anonymous. I think the other comment has a good point that VPNs are overselling their products. And it’s true, defense-in-depth is the proper way to go about it, and not to rely on one thing to solve all your problems.




  • Because everyone else they know is there. If the people they follow and interact with moved to Mastodon or switched messengers to Signal, you’ll see how quickly they will move. It’s hard to convince someone to sign up or install a new app if it’s only you they’ll find there. I was able to switch my family over to Signal and they literally use it only for family group chats, because they don’t know anyone else who uses it. And they were a little easier to convince because they’re family. I won’t be able to convince people with less close ties to me like friends, acquaintances, and neighbors.





  • They had fun writing this article:

    allow an attacker to get a corporate email account with which to conduct a little filet-o-phishing

    with no server-side checking, allowing a Hamburglar to order food for free

    eventually got through to a security McEngineer who said that they were “too busy” to fix the flaw

    Coincidentally, I saw on linkedin last night they were hiring a Security Operations manager. They should get an Appsec person instead to fix those issues.



  • You won’t get anywhere if you use the “leave your bathroom door open” or “unlock your phone and give it to me” arguments, because to them that is a different thing and they pretty much know what it means to have privacy on those aspects. What they don’t care about are the things they don’t see (i.e. social media tracking, location data access, etc.) and that’s what they consider nothing-to-hide-nothing-to-fear.

    So the best examples I could think of to counter those arguments are:

    • Surveillance pricing
    • Abysmal security of home security cameras

    If they DO care that prices on the stuff they buy is influenced based on their habits and the data companies collect on them, or if they DO care that anyone can potentially tap into their home cameras to watch even just their outdoor cameras (let alone indoor ones), then they DO care about privacy and just don’t realize it.