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Originally Posted by muttiah
It’s not that people don’t care about privacy. it is that they are not aware of the mass of privacy violations that are happening to them every day and also I have very little tools to combat it. Not using a modern cell phone, using a Linux PC with a hardened browser and vpn , no proprietary software, no social networks, pay with cash. Do you think a normal person should be required to do all this in order to get back basic privacy?
Avoiding cell phones and not storing stuff in the cloud or social networks will get you a long way there. It’s much harder for governments to snoop the physical hard drive in your home than scanning the already installed backdoors in iCloud/Google etc etc
Sure but lets not kid ourselves.
A lot of people are ready to give up privacy for security .
How many time I hear them saying
« I got nothing to hide so it’s ok governments, police and w.e can check and monitor my phone , computer , internet , cameras every where , monetary transactions , etc . ».
It’s scary time imo .
Not realizing government and politics do change and when you end up with undesired drastic government and politics ( regardless if it’s extremely left or right ) with that much power , you can’t do nothing after to get rid of it because you already gave to them all the tools necessary and rights over your privacy and liberty , to fack you over .