I agree with that, force microsoft to make windows open source.

Shitty security practices, and a lack of good security software is to blame for that

Only if the closed source black box has your information in the first place

They are if they have shitty security practices and never set up good security software

Maybe, but only if windows users continue to not learn how to use their PCs

Just because you know what the buttons do doesn’t mean you know how to use it.

Good, now fine them for throttling people and selling all our other data without our consent

if they’re based in a UK territory it’s only a matter of time before their censorship and surveillance laws either take them down or turn it into spyware.

cool, what country is their headquarters based in?

IVPN - Nearly same as Mullvad.

do they use quantum secure encryption?

If not, that’s like comparing a horse-drawn carriage to a space shuttle.

Proton or Mullvad, whatever works better for you

Yes, but telling you how I do it would be bad opsec.

why do they have to hand it over to whatsapp? Why not hand it over to some cybersecurity researchers instead and then order them to hand over some virus database information to every antivirus company that operates in the US?

Trillions, if you count all the taxpayer money that corpos get for free

Here in the US it’s the employees that get stolen from the most.

I’d be okay with that one too, if only it didn’t have a microphone and camera and connections to google, amazon or apple.

Who the fuck would ever connect their fucking toothbrush to the internet?

That’s almost as stupid as connecting your laundry machines to the internet, or your thermostat, or any other appliance in your house

Everything is hackable,

and digital ID won’t make it any better

digital IDs are still hackable, even if you have total control over your own, it’s still hackable and it gets tracked everywhere you have to show it.

I don’t know who’s paying you and all the others to say that shit, but digital IDs aren’t about keeping anything safe, it’s about controlling the population and locking them out of society when they misbehave. If you make any political statement that rocks the boat you don’t exist anymore. If you become a whistleblower, you don’t have any freedom anymore. If you do anything at all that the oligarchs don’t want you to do, you’re not a person anymore.

Digital IDs are still horrible.