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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.

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(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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[–] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 6 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Wow this blew up. People still not getting the meme portion of this?

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[–] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 8 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

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

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I keep my passwords in an encrypted file instead of a bunch of sticky notes! I'm a privacy activist!

[–] Slaxis@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 15 hours ago

Next step: Faking your own death

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[–] simop_jo@lemm.ee 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Is tuta better than protonmail?

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[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 4 points 17 hours ago

I already made browser suggestions https://lemmy.ml/post/29712598/18453254 but I would also add Ceno https://ceno.network/ in the 5th layer due to its P2P and caching nature.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I don't like hackers and spying

brave

lol. lmao, even.

[–] Charger8232@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 day ago

A beginner will choose what seems private, regardless of whether or not it actually is.

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[–] candyman337@lemmy.world 62 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's genuinely wild that Firefox and LibreWolf are nowhere on these

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was disapponted at that, I spooled up one of those instances a few months back and its federated and is magical. If only I could convince my family to move away from that old group text grumbles in person who cosplays as a sysadmin

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Same. It's so hard to get ppl to switch.

[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Probably because people above the waterline don't know Mozilla exists, and people below have seen how things have been going lately.

[–] candyman337@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (4 children)

Firefox is really bad a portraying what they're actually doing, and the privacy concerns people have with them have been widely overblown. But on top of that librewolf is a privacy oriented fork not made by Mozilla

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[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago

They do perhaps know, Firefox did have about 27%+ of the market at one point and people outside of the USA are more likely to know about it. Nevertheless, FF is currently about 3.25% of the total browser base. That is still about 160+ - 200+ million users.

[–] admin@lemmy.today 9 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

The only thing stopping me from being 'the Activist Group' is that Mullvad requires payment. Sorry, but I'm running a little tight on budget.

At the same time, I can't use Proton VPN for torrenting.

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[–] usuarioimanol@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Is it easy to implement Openwrt?

[–] prex@aussie.zone 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Very easy - as long as your router is on the table of hardware.

[–] usuarioimanol@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Thank you very much, I will investigate this further to see if it is feasible to implement.

[–] sharps9@lemmy.world 56 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

ExpressVPN is an arm of Israeli intelligence and should be on the tip of the iceberg: https://www.reuters.com/technology/expressvpn-employees-complain-about-ex-spys-top-role-company-2021-09-23/

All users should cancel their accounts immediately.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago

A man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017.

Did AI write this?

[–] Charger8232@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 day ago

"As seen on TV" does not imply privacy, it just implies a large advertising budget. These are software that market themselves as private (and are sometimes better than nothing at all) but may still be just as bad as software on the tip of the iceberg.

[–] neuroneiro@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

Was going to say links or it never happened but you provided them! And categorized by level! Excelsior!

Thanks also to the comments giving more information.

So grateful for this platform. For the most part.

[–] DimFisher@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

I m definitely a privacy enthusiast, but I use searx also, the rest I have no clue what they are

[–] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 101 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Funny how you need more and more technical knowledge to go deeper into privacy, until the last level, which is basically giving up on technology itself.

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[–] nuko147@lemm.ee 6 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

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

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)
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[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago

Apple: “Brainwashed”

iMessage: “Beginner”

Well which one is it?

[–] hummy_bee@mander.xyz 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Also, I am out of the loop? What’s up with firefox? I have used it on linux mint for maybe 6 years now with uBlock. Currently trying to use DuckDuckGo as default browser because that Google AI results thing is starting to annoy me.

[–] Philzlaus@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

I'm a big fan of Duckduckgo, since Im using it for a couple of years. The search results have become much better compared to the past.

[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago

It's fine. For legal reasons (particularly in the EU and California) they had to add a Terms of Use fit the browser, and the had to translate a bunch of broad, idealist, simple phrases into legalese so they wouldn't get killed by those governments.

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