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The Privacy Iceberg (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by Charger8232@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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(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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[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 18 points 2 days ago (5 children)

The problem with mullvad is a lot of its IPs are flagged as bots or denied around the web. Is there a good VPN that will still give access to most of the web?

[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 days ago (13 children)

I’ve never had that issue with Mullvad unless it was for a streaming app.

Sometimes I get detected and it makes me do a cloud flare “I’m not a robot” page.

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[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

On the 5th layer I'd add NitroKey or YubiKey to remind people that in addition to software you can have physical tokens too.

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[–] BigLime@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Where's GOG.com?

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[–] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago (7 children)

I use Keepass but mostly for convenience and I don't understand why it's in the 5th category. If I have 50 different accounts with 50 different passwords but they can all be had with one keepass password, how is that different than having 50 different accounts all using the same password?

[–] LeTak@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

I like your thinking. Here an example why password manager make sense. If you would use the same password at every website and one of the would be for example Facebook, and they would get breached. Your password associated with your username and email , is now know to some hacker group. And in case of Facebook, the password is not hashed , it was stored in plain text. Now they have fun to try different websites with combinations of your name , email and password.

Alternatively a password manager stores for every website a different password, and your only mission is to keep that manager secure with a good , rememberable password.

Also , what I do , is using an email alias service. So I have a different Password and Email for each account. I don’t have to care if something gets breached, I am safe and aware of what information gets stolen.

And for future, we could all use passkeys and FIDO2 to block most phishing attempts.

[–] refutablewife@reddthat.com 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you use an easy password for your password manager, it's trivial to crack with a few word lists and hashcat, just as any other account.

Websites get hacked all the time, and your login details (and PII) ARE available for sale from shady people right now. It's important that, the next time one of the sites you use gets hacked, you don't have to scramble to update all your other logins.

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[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

I feel that I2P is missing somewhere in here too.

https://p.lemmy.world/c/i2p@lemmy.world

[–] DinosaurThussy@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

Talk about high effort content holy shit

Also my toxic trait is that I use stuff from every single tier

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