The Privacy Iceberg

This is original content. AI was not used anywhere except for the bottom right image, simply because I could not find one similar enough to what I needed. This took around 6 hours to make.

Transcription (for the visually impaired)

(I tried my best)

The background is an iceberg with 6 levels, denoting 6 different levels of privacy.

The tip of the iceberg is titled “The Brainwashed” with a quote beside it that says “I have nothing to hide”. The logos depicted in this section are:

The surface section of the iceberg is titled “As seen on TV” with a quote beside it that says “This video is sponsored by…”. The logos depicted in this section are:

An underwater section of the iceberg is titled “The Beginner” with a quote beside it that says “I don’t like hackers and spying”. The logos depicted in this section are:

A lower section of the iceberg is titled “The Privacy Enthusiast” with a quote beside it that says “I have nothing I want to show”. The logos depicted in this section are:

An even lower section of the iceberg is titled “The Privacy Activist” with a quote beside it that says “Privacy is a human right”. The logos depicted in this section are:

The lowest portion of the iceberg is titled “The Ghost”. There is a quote beside it that has been intentionally redacted. The images depicted in this section are:

  • A cancel sign over a mobile phone, symbolizing “no electronics”
  • An illustration of a log cabin, symbolizing “living in a log cabin in the woods”
  • A picture of gold bars, symbolizing “paying only in gold”
  • A picture of a death certificate, symbolizing “faking your own death”
  • An AI generated picture of a person wearing a black hoodie, a baseball cap, a face mask, and reflective sunglasses, symbolizing “hiding ones identity in public”

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  • utopiah@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    On browsers, as you put Chromium then also put Firefox or deMozillaed Firefox e.g. WaterFox.

    I’d put Brave back to the 2nd layer due to relying on Chromium and being heavily marketed while gathering data for its crypto scheme. I’d also put Firefox on the 2nd or 3rd layer.

  • 𝕨𝕒𝕤𝕒𝕓𝕚@feddit.org
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    9 months ago

    I have no clue why telegram is often mentioned when it comes to “privacy focused messaging”. They don’t even have e2e encrypted group chats. Only 1:1 chats may be encrypted as an opt-in. Even WhatsApp is more secure than that, since they use signals encryption.

    Also the “we don’t give out even a byte of data to anyone” statements made by telegram have been thoroughly debunked as lies. When telegrams bottom line is in danger, they have and will give out your data.

  • Matt@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Just tell the normie that you have nothing to say if you have nothing to hide. Also, why there’s no F-Droid?

  • ISOmorph@feddit.org
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    9 months ago

    Can you explain why you would think Steam is so bad? I would argue they’re pretty fair, especially with the option to buy steam cards for cash to not disclose your personal data. Does the client do some unsavory shit?

      • lb_o@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        Yeap, and Brave in the middle. They only pretend they are for privacy, but they are the very opposite.

        • shneancy@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          and then Tor so high up, unless you’re hell bent on leaving 0 traces that thing is a pain to use, can’t have it maximalised, pages load sometimes minutes at a time, no addons, just suffering. nobody sane uses that thing for more than the occasional trip to whatever deep web market is not yet exit scamming

        • dogs0n@sh.itjust.works
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          9 months ago

          Yeah i hate when I see people using Brave, because they have been brainwashed.

          Does anyone remember when they were injecting their own referral links into links for online stores (99% certain they did this pls prove wrong if you know better)? This alone leaves them with 0 trust in my books.

          • const_void@lemmy.ml
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            9 months ago

            Brave is and always has been gross. Never understood how they’ve been so successful at tricking people into installing it.

    • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Probably because people above the waterline don’t know Mozilla exists, and people below have seen how things have been going lately.

      • FriendBesto@lemmy.ml
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        9 months ago

        They do perhaps know, Firefox did have about 27%+ of the market at one point and people outside of the USA are more likely to know about it. Nevertheless, FF is currently about 3.25% of the total browser base. That is still about 160+ - 200+ million users.

      • candyman337@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        Firefox is really bad a portraying what they’re actually doing, and the privacy concerns people have with them have been widely overblown. But on top of that librewolf is a privacy oriented fork not made by Mozilla

        • cardfire@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          9 months ago

          For want of $100 /year Apple developer subscription , the libewolf team can’t sign binaries for Silicon M series Macs.

          I spent an hour and a half trying to get librewolf to work, and just gave up for Waterfox instead.

          On my laptop I run Firefox for some things, Watefox for others, and fall back to Chrome only as absolutely necessary when Gecko can’t get me there.

          • candyman337@lemmy.world
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            9 months ago

            I tried waterfox and it was just too glitchy for me I had many more crashes than Firefox, and their claim to fame was that chrome extensions worked with it but I literally never got a single one working. Session buddy just saves your sessions locally, but that would not work AT ALL on waterfox.

            • cardfire@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              9 months ago

              I didn’t even know that they claim Chrome extensions will work, I simply use the Firefox extensions in Waterfox.

              My browsing style is antiquated, my ADHD will only afford me about eight tabs per browser window and I usually have about four of those going at a time.

              I aggressively kill tabs to save my own mental memory more than the machine’s memory.

            • Prathas@lemmy.zip
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              9 months ago

              What caused it to crash so many times and how long ago did you use it? I’ve been using Waterfox for years and it’s been mostly great. I also never use Chrome extensions; just stick to Firefox add-ons.

  • recklessengagement@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I think this is the first time I’ve seen an iceberg meme with sources and explanations for each item. Fantastic. Your work is appreciated.

    • comfy@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      To be honest, and it wouldn’t work here, but I sometime enjoy the cryptic nature of iceberg memes at the lower ranks. It’s like a scavenger hunt.

  • mycamgirl@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I wouldn’t put Telegram at that level. I would put it in “The Brainwashed.” Its encryption is disabled by default. You need to manually enable it on each chat, and you can’t enable it on group chats. The app gives a false sense of privacy. Telegram flaunts its end-to-end encryption, but it never mentions that it is disabled by default, and it refuses to enable the default. The final result is that people are not using the feature.

    A cryptographer and professor wrote a good piece about Telegram’s encryption, calling it “unusual” and the “non-standard authenticated encryption mode ever invented”: Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?

    • The 8232 Project@lemmy.mlOP
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      9 months ago

      “As seen on TV” does not imply privacy, it just implies a large advertising budget. These are software that market themselves as private (and are sometimes better than nothing at all) but may still be just as bad as software on the tip of the iceberg.

  • nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br
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    9 months ago

    Funny how you need more and more technical knowledge to go deeper into privacy, until the last level, which is basically giving up on technology itself.

    • wolfinthewoods@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      9 months ago

      The last level is living in a cabin in the woods and writing manifestos about industrial society and the ills of technology O_o

  • tisktisk@piefed.socialEnglish
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    9 months ago

    TIL I’m a privacy activist–who can help me get to the ghost mode?
    (Do I even want to get there or is that limited to journalists who have entire states trying to unalive them?)

    • The 8232 Project@lemmy.mlOP
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      9 months ago

      Do I even want to get there

      Only you can answer that.

      or is that limited to journalists who have entire states trying to unalive them?

      Pretty much, but if you want to give up all technology, work for yourself, and fake your death, then more power to you!

      • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Seems like faking your death would cause more privacy problems than it solves. Why not just “stay alive” with a completely innocuous identity? Then adopt some new identity which cannot be traced back to the original?