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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  • Gina@lemmy.wtf
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    Throw away mobile phone and just use an air gapped machine. Your productivity will tank but then you’ll eventually add local databases of the shit you actually need on your air gapped machine and your productivity will triple.

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        1 day ago

        Well shit, I shouldn’t be the first to tell you that if you’re serious about your privacy then get off of windows.

        Also if the CIA is targeting with you with air gap malware, then you fucked all the way up. Pedophiles are saying “damn, fuck that guy”

    • utopiah@lemmy.ml
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      Your productivity will tank

      Will it though? It’s not like paying with cash or even a credit/debit card takes radically longer than paying with a phone. It’s not like reading a book vs mindlessly scrolling Reddit or Lemmy makes productivity drop.

      We get used to instantaneous tasks and convenience but in fine it’s like speeding up while driving from work to home, it’s not really the seconds or even minutes daily that count, it’s where you are going.

      So… a “dumb” phone will probably for most not make productivity “tank” IMHO.

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        20 hours ago

        Yes, your productivity is going to tank. No way you’ll be prepared for a full air gapped machine on day 1.

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          19 hours ago

          Again I’m not comparing a perfectly setup productivity machine online versus an offline one, I’m comparing an entertainment machine also used for work vs an offline one.

          FWIW I did do offline holidays and yes, I was missing a lot, yet arguably it didn’t make me less productive. Now I travel with kiwix with StackOverflow and Wikipedia .zim files and each time I believe, maybe naively, that I’m more productive, so indeed iteration helps but my point was more against distractions.

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          1 day ago

          What does that have to do with a phone?

          Edit: FWIW you can say no (ideally explaining why, even providing an alternative while doing so, e.g. NextCloud with CollaboraOffice, for email… well you can clarify in a footer that this email thread is not private and suggest creating Tuta or ProtonMail account, even if one time use) to people who use Google Docs and GMail. You can also have a one time use account.