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The Corporate Media is Deliberately Misleading Everyone About Encryption and Privacy

Door handle

Summary: You never know who's behind that door, or how many Internet-connected cameras and microphones are in there anymore (it's easy to lose count)

Dystopia is here But thou shalt not fear



Encryption is for terrorists WhatsApp is encryption, say the Tor(rorists)ies

Apple fights for privacy To suggest otherwise is heresy

Facebook is "confidential computing" To the NSA they're routing

Guard with machine gun Centralised certificate authorities are trust Until your certificate is revoked and goes bust

Microsoft fights cybercrime It also commits crime, all the time

Security is impossible That you'll ever succeed is improbable

Privacy is an illusion Give up on this delusion

Give us all your data Upload to UberClown™ Beta

Speak your mind to Jeff, whose name is now "Alexa" Google will be your assistant, and collector of metadata

Privacy is a joke when you have nothing to hide Open up your door(bell), Ring will take you for a ride

Nothing to hide; Nothing to say

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