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Chinese state surveillance and state censorship is terrible. But - US', and int'l corporations' mass surveillance, and censorship, is way up there in the "degre
by einpoklum 7y ago
Chinese state surveillance and state censorship is terrible. But - US', and int'l corporations' mass surveillance, and censorship, is way up there in the "degree of evil".
Please encourage your tech-savvy friends to use safer applications, like Signal for messaging - not WhatsApp; and FOSS alternatives to Zoom, e.g.:
https://fosspost.org/alternative-software/end-users/zoom-alternatives https://fosspost.org/alternative-software/end-users/zoom-alt...
no less importantly - try to ween them off of GMail, Yahoo Mail, Outlook365 or Apple mail.
- intopieces 7y agoWhat's the problem with Apple mail?
- cosmojg 7y agoNot OP, but my guess is they don't like it because it's opaque and the developer's incentives are drifting with Apple's move to services. Oh, and they probably don't like the fact that Apple still actively collaborates with the NSA. Open source software makes it easy to sidestep these kinds of issues.
- einpoklum 7y agoNo problem if you're already have: Cc: spy_on_me@nsa.gov on all your emails. Actually, that's not good enough, since your correspondents need to have that too; plus, Apple probably monitors your interactions with the webmail interface too and that can be scrutinized to learn more about you.
- intopieces 7y agoMy threat model doesn't consider state-level actors. I presume that they'll get me one way or another. It's the advertisers I'm worried about, and Apple doesn't use this data for ads.