https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42533685
https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2024/12/3.html
Yet again big tech is found exfiltrating your data (this time supposedly with homomorphic encryption, a method end users cannot verify, and does not guarantee other methods of data exfiltration are not taking place, now or in the future; the HN comments are an important read).
Smart phones are, in the first instance, an intelligence test: are you stupid enough to allow an Orwellian telescreen into your life? Then it becomes a political test: are you willing to tolerate your society succuming to totalitarian surveillance by corporations and authoritarian governments?
If not, then what?
1 month ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42533685
https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2024/12/3.html
When the far right AFD here in germany will get a majority some day (not sure), they've a turnkey tyranny already in place. 路 1 month ago
Encryption is all moot once the first quantum computer comes online in a meaningful way. And you can be sure that whoever does that will keep it quiet for as long as possible. But frankly social media has negated a lot of the secrecy because people will confess their sins in a public forum willingly. Even live stream their crimes as they commit them. 路 1 month ago
It's about you being naked to their power.
And you do it to yourself. You accept it. You pay money for these 'services'. The people you pay money to are actively working against you.
Your calculation? "It won't happen to me," "I have nothing to hide," "I'm innocent." These are the slogans of sheep headed to the slaughter.
2025 is going to be a big year for insecurity. If you want more security in your life, you are going to have to take decisive action. You have to learn how to say "no" and accept the consequences, which will not be small. 路 1 month ago
They need to make sure that before that tweet goes viral, you have already been classified by the risk assessment algorithms as a team player.
And if your wrongthink tweet does go viral, they need ways to neutralize you. Such as, for example, having insight into your personal gallery of photographs and videos, which you unwisely committed to an insecure device. Insecure not only in theory, but actively being made more insecure by a corporation who sells itself as the privacy option in smart phones.
And it's not just about photos, or this particular vector of assault on our privacy. It's everything. All the time. By any means necessary. 路 1 month ago
The answer is, you don't get to have a social life; you don't get access to services, in some "advanced nations" even government services; you are viewed as a questionable, untrustworthy, or suspect person; you are treated as an outlier by risk assessement algorithms; you can't integrate into corporate workflows, and so your unemployability is reduced; you need to have a cover story, like taking care about your 'mental health' with 'digital cleanses', thus depoliticizing the matter.
And to have the right to use the smartphone, it's cloud services, its social media, you have to have the "right opinion". And that's why they need to exfiltrate. 路 1 month ago