Why I stopped using Gmail — and why should you too

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[–]Canbot 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The answer is not to stop using services and become a hermit. That is not a tenable solution for anyone. The solution is to salt our data and teach everyone else to salt thier data.

Definition of salting data: using disinformation mixed with real information in order to make them indistinguishable and render information gathering useless.

Once people become accustomed to salting thier data we can introduce programs to help make it more sophisticated. For example tor enabled browsers that will hide your traffic, search bots that will scramble your searches. Apps that generate fake friends groups, spoof GPS locations, create mock events and digitally mimick your attendance.

The solution to spying is information warfare. It is the only thing that can work.

[–]Jong56 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Good read, private email servers are better but ultimately the responsibility lies with the end user to demand offline methods of 2fa like paper encryption keys for Bitcoin wallets

[–]SoCo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If they force 2fA, they will be dead to me. Yahoo Mail now requires a phone number, so they are dead to me. "You haven't confirmed your backup email in 14 years. Confirm email, add phone number?" ....skip for now, yet again.

2FA does not improve security, unless you are common moron who can't use a proper password.

2FA is only to spy on you and get more information out of you, like your phone number to send text message spam, or other side-channel attacks to identify users, track their usage, uniquely ID usage patterns, etc.

[–]novka 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

lol youre so paranoid go outside or get rid of your internet connection privacy loser

[–]Brewdabier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If I need to tell someone something privet I don't use the computer, postal is the way.