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they also make extreme examples of anyone threatening to "blow it up", show the public all the corruption and give freedom to the people. Edward Snowden is an example. Also recently Roman Storm the Tornado Cash dev. These extreme attacks from the government are meant to cause fear so no one dares to do anything like that again.
i forgot about that reason. That's true I think some people have that as their motive. They are probably thinking that it's best to not let the beginners know that vpn doesn't do much on its own or that brave doesn't actually stop all tracking and won't necessarily give you a non-unique fingerprint etc. They want to make it look easy to get privacy because if they make it look hard that these simple beginner steps aren't enough then they won't even get started and give up.
I think it's a wrong mindset to have. I don't think those types of people who give up if they realize privacy isn't a one click solution are the target audience for privacy. We want the people who can actually spend some time to learn and put in some effort because if they can't do that then they probably don't care that much about privacy to begin with.
But its just my opinion not a fact.
I think it's personal for techlore regarding grapheneos because a few people in the gos community helped him in a way he felt was rude. Then techlore started making lots of bad videos about gos and then maybe he out of cope had to try see some light in google because he alienated himself from gos community. That's just my guess.
You are right but I think most people would in hindsight say they wished the did more to protect their computer when shit happens. It's like a camera, you can buy a cheap camera meant to be used for a vacation then thrown away and it's not worth much but the pictures you have taken are worth a lot as in semantic value, memories you want to keep.
In someones computer they have their entire digital life. Work, personal life, social life, all kinds of data, pictures, banking, investments, crypto, etc. All that is priceless. That's why ransomware viruses are so effective, people will pay and do anything to get their data back and they all wished they had just done some simple backups and from then on they will probably spend effort on security.
yeah the elites who run the world have limitless money for the lobbying. I don't think it's possible to win this war on their turf under their rigged rules. Revolution is the only way but I don't think that's a realistic possibility neither. They have so many ways to divide and conquer.
problem is getting everyone to do revolution at the same time. That's one of the purposes of mass surveillance, they can detect the early beginnings of organization and send them to prison before it grows into a big snowball.
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You have to negotiate.
They: Do you have whatsapp?
You: No i hate that app but we can use Rehnijobuboba, heard of that?
They: No and there's no way I'm installing something I can't even speak.
You: Ok, you dont want to install that and I don't want whatsapp, lets meet halfway and use Signal together!
They: Fine.