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Q&A: How to REALLY Secure Your Password Manager
🕑 Added 2024-12-20 03:10:42 +0000 UTCQ&A206: Proper password manager protection, privacy-friendly VR headsets, thoughts on phones that come pre-installed with Custom OS's, who should airgap devices, and how to install Mac apps without the App Store.
Welcome to the Surveillance Report Q&A - featuring Techlore & The New Oil answering your questions about privacy and security.
Video Version: https://youtu.be/E3MyWFWEays
00:00 Introduction
00:30 Password Manager Protection
05:34 Privacy-Respecting VR Headset Options
11:27 Airgapped Devices for the Masses
14:06 App Store Apps Without the App Store
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Comments
Khalid Duel
Do you know of any easy way to purchase crypto currency without KYC other than Bisq?
David Johnson
Probably not a question full of holiday cheer, but here it goes: In reference to the well-known joke, in the current legal forest, how much of the gain of privacy (not security) do you think is attainable by outrunning the bear of surveillance-capitalism/targeted-advertising, versus only by outrunning the normie hikers? On the one hand, everyone can stop uploading their entire life to Facebook if they choose to. On the other hand, if everyone in the US implemented all of Michael B.'s suggestions overnight, it would likely immediately trigger a recession and massive unemployment in the tech sector, given how much of it all is funded by targeted advertising in the final analysis (a lot of it probably indirectly by funding coders' leisure, allowing them to work on other projects). Granted, it is an extreme thought experiment, but extremes help paint a clearer picture. In other words, given how much of the digital economy is harnessed to the bear of surveillance capitalism, that bear is likely to grow more and more ferocious should it realise that its fill of data-meat is stagnating, not to mention declining. For instance, services may become only usable with a mobile app with a draconian set of permissions or require identity verification with invasive facial recognition services like id.me. In other words, it seems that many privacy-enhancing technologies are only economically sustainable so long as their use remains confined to the lower techies and upper normies, but if they were to gain adoption by the lower normies — the majority of the population — billions of dollars would be deployed by the tech industry to defeat them. Given that, how many of the current privacy enhancing technologies do you think depend on having the hindmost for the devil to take?
