• Pennomi@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Sounds like it’s time to leak a bunch of politician nudes to show them why encryption matters.

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    The solution is to stop putting your data on other people’s computers. You can’t control other people’s computers. Apple does not care about you any more than any other trillion dollar corpo. Take back control.

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      24 hours ago

      The very funny thing Apple could do in response to this is allow people to self-host iCloud data storage. They do make privacy a huge part of their advertising after all. The chances of this happening are astronomically low though.

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        Like back when they sold Time Capsules as a home backup solution? I could sort of see that happening. You can already backup the phones to a Macintosh. I don’t think that would stop the UK government demanding a backdoor to the product, though.

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      Or don’t use someone’s encryption if you don’t have the private encryption key. Encrypt it yourself. But still then, it is only a matter of time when the encryption of your data is cracked. Could take years but if it is data someone really wants, one day it can be decrypten.

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        Hence, if the data is not on someone else’s computer in the first place, it is not a matter of time.

  • HiramFromTheChi@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    Added this article to idcaboutprivacy.

    The project is open source and only requires basic Markdown knowledge to contribute.

    If you have any other privacy-related articles (especially those that talk about consequences), it’d be great for you to contribute.

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      This has quite a lot of links already. I feel like it would be very useful to make some sort of “Wiki” about this.

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        Thanks. All links have been just me so far, but I do think the project has some real value and would benefit from contributions.

        What kind of wiki did you have in mind? What would it do?

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          It could serve both as an explanation of concepts and references to the sources, just like Wikipedia. Ex: it could have pages about Kindle, about Chrome etc. detailing the privacy problems, the timeline of news about them and so on…

          Sure it would be a lot of work to have a lot of information, but if it’s something other people can help contribute it could actually grow as a knowledge repository on this subject.

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    I would tell them to use syncthing for moving their files around, but apple ecosystem is apparently too locked down for good software.

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      Yeah, iOS/iPadOS isn’t great for that, so far as I can tell. I spent am unreasonable amount of time the other day trying to work out how to get the Obsidian vault on my iPad to sync with the vault in my SyncThing folder. Still not entirely happy with my setup. In fairness though, I’m running SyncThing on three computers, and two of them are Macs. So its solid on there.

      But other than that, SyncThing isn’t a great replacement for iCloud Drive because you can’t choose what you download. So if I have 200gb in my ST folder I can’t sync it with my 128gb phone.

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        But other than that, SyncThing isn’t a great replacement for iCloud Drive because you can’t choose what you download. So if I have 200gb in my ST folder I can’t sync it with my 128gb phone.

        did you try to use syncthing’s filters?

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      I’m all for hating on corporations but did you even read the article? This is completely on the UK government. Not apples fault and I’d much rather they stop offering the service to UK customers (which they did) over putting a backdoor in