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by benevol 9y ago
I actually don't even want to compare numbers or countries directly. I just want to remind that consumption in Western countries exceeds available resources by far. We're bankrupting the planet, it's the wrong path and it sim
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by benevol 9y ago
The main issue is this: We need to reduce consumption overall! It is well known that Americans consume far more natural resources and live much less sustainably than people from any other large country of the world. “A child born in the
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by benevol 9y ago
The claim that you have privacy when you buy an Apple product is still a lie. If you buy tech from one of the US big corps, you simply have no more privacy. That is a simple fact.
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by benevol 9y ago
> At Apple, we believe privacy is a fundamental human right. It is established knowledge that Apple has been for a very long time (and remains) a partner of the NSA's PRISM mass surveillance program.
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Why Germany’s happy, successful: Its values are the opposite of Silicon Valley’s(qz.com)
48 points by benevol 9y ago|43 comments
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by benevol 9y ago
Put very simply: It's a corrupt system. And it's been know for a long time, so the only thing that's new is that some people are becoming aware of the degree of corruption.
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NSA Targeted 106,000 Foreigners in Spy Program Up for Renewal(bloomberg.com)
1 points by benevol 9y ago|0 comments
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by benevol 9y ago
It's really "funny" how quickly this post got flagged down on HN. Some VCs, tech people, etc. who make money from immigrants are going into panic mode.
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by benevol 9y ago
> The US largely surveils citizens of other countries for terror threats and espionage. You're kidding, of course.
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by benevol 9y ago
> Surveillance is the norm in China. And in the US. And in Europe. And in Russia. And...
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Gnome partners with Purism on Librem 5 Linux-based privacy-focused smartphone(betanews.com)
3 points by benevol 9y ago|0 comments
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by benevol 9y ago
Capitalism at work - a handful of ultra-rich guys winning even more ground over common folks again.
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by benevol 9y ago
> smoking gun evidence that some kind of line was crossed I'm amused every second of my life that seemingly all of the US' "opponents" keep using US software which also mainly remains closed-source, while everybody kn
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Zero-Day Used in the Wild to Distribute FINSPY(fireeye.com)
7 points by benevol 9y ago|0 comments
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by benevol 9y ago
After Ubuntu dropping out (officially, at least), your best bet is probably LineageOS: https://lineageos.org
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by benevol 9y ago
Apple is a partner of the NSA's PRISM program. We know that since Snowden, if you remember those revelations.
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by benevol 9y ago
Don't be fooled, it's desperate PR. Our current phones have all we need. Nobody cares about any new over-engineered and over-priced iphone anymore, we've got bigger issues at hand now.
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by benevol 9y ago
If WW III is really going to happen, then the process has already started and is currently underway.
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SnowHaze – a powerful private browser developed to truly protect your data(snowhaze.com)
1 points by benevol 9y ago|0 comments
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by benevol 9y ago
Which is cool in itself. What is deeply regrettable is the fact that they ended up selling to Facebook and thereby contributing to Facebook's aggressive and relentless mass surveillance system.
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by benevol 9y ago
Unfortunately, currently not all about Telegram is open-source: https://telegram.org/faq#q-why-not-open-source-everything
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by benevol 9y ago
Not OP, but: Check out Signal and Telegram for example.
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by benevol 9y ago
> Then I went through my profile and replaced all fields with empty or no fake data. Facebook/WhatsApp is a gold mine for the NSA and the CIA (as well as others). I would be surprised if they ever deleted any data when you "upd
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Woman Banned from US After Border Agent Finds Proof of Drug Use on Phone(vice.com)
61 points by benevol 9y ago|68 comments
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by benevol 9y ago
On one side, I'm happy to see that people slowly start to understand the situation. On the other side, I'm kind of shocked it took so long. The way these companies were going to take control over us was so obvious about 15 years a
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by benevol 9y ago
And don't forget to protect yourself against browser and device fingerprint tracking.
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US firm reveals gun-toting drone that can fire in mid-air(bbc.com)
1 points by benevol 9y ago|0 comments
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by benevol 9y ago
It makes one wonder why anyone who has cyber dirt on their hands would step foot on US ground, after the Snowden/NSA revelations which made it clear to everybody on this planet that the NSA is literally everywhere.
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NHS cyber-security hero Marcus Hutchins arrested in US(bbc.com)
7 points by benevol 9y ago|1 comments
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by benevol 9y ago
If you remember the Snowden revelations, then you also remember that the NSA had been using their power for other then "legal" purposes, such as for economic espionage, and for a long time already.

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