Privacy

48955 readers

465 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

Related communities

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 6 years ago

MODERATORS

[Discussion] Which privacy apps / services do you think are most likely US government honeypots? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 23 hours ago by dessalines@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

73 comments fedilink hide all child comments

IE like Crypto AG:

In 2020, it was revealed that the Swiss company, Crypto AG, which provided secure communications services to ~120 governments throughout the 20th century, was secretly ran by the CIA and West German Intelligence. The CIA and later NSA were able to read encrypted communications for many countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Italy, Indonesia, Iraq, Libya, Jordan and South Korea.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] IratePirate@feddit.org 33 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe not a honeypot, but definitely too large for my taste by now: Proton. With Mail, VPN, password manager, file storage, AI and whatnot, it's one ginormous basket to put all of your eggs into, hopping it'll hold.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 12 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

the owner is fine with fascism because fascism makes his product more lucrative

[–] stoicEuropean@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Did he say that? :o

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 6 points 6 hours ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20250318235233/https://www.letemps.ch/articles/sur-les-reseaux-sociaux-l-entreprise-genevoise-proton-accusee-de-soutenir-donald-trump/gifts/ybn6gho5JTnuet2bcoda4jDMR573NaKyC9cKGuFh

not exactly. the more nuanced inspection of what he said was that donald trump's plans to deregulate the tech industry he expected to benefit his company. however, that deregulation is in service of allowing more surveillance capitalism, environmental degredation, and worker mistreatment. the wording i provided is what that ultimately means as an analysis of how and why proton would make more money in that type of environment