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[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 68 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah, the Fapening II... Merkel is already in the list.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What are the chances of seeing Liz only wearing her truss?

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 day ago

Lettuce pray chances are zero

[–] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 67 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nothing they can backdoor when the data (and encryption) is out of their control, is there?

The law requires things to have a backdoor (or non encryption I guess). So it's either sell in that market, or don't and have security.

[–] peereboominc@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

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

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 21 points 1 day ago

Backdoors: making insecure software on purpose.

[–] hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] balder1993@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] balder1993@programming.dev 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Interesting... I like the idea of referencing, or creating some sort of tagging/category system. I'm not sure about pushing it to limits like a Wikipedia, solely because it'd be so much content to manage.

But hey, that's why I made it open source. With the help of the community, it makes a lot more feasible to create and handle. So never say never on that.

[–] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 12 points 1 day ago

Roight, you got a loicense for them keys bruv?

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

In our defence, Boris Johnson is an idiot cunt.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] Waldschrat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Sushitrain/Synctrain might be what you looking for. It’s a libre and new app for putting syncthing to iOS: https://github.com/pixelspark/sushitrain

[–] DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago

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?