The Corporate Media is Deliberately Misleading Everyone About Encryption and Privacy

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2021-03-19 15:13:28 UTC
Modified: 2021-03-20 12:29:43 UTC

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 ⬆

Finland Needs to Dump Microsoft (Microslop) for National Security Reasons and the Same is True for Hundreds of Countries: "I don't see why Ryssäs would want Finns to use microslop products..."
Fight Til the End: This comes to show that persistence pays off
SLAPP Censorship - Part 79 Out of 200: They Will Soon Reach the 100 KG (Kilograms) Milestone; Wheelbarrows, Not Justice (Quantity of Legal Papers Sent to Us): It's about the quality, not quantity (unless your sole aim is to drown out or "flood the zone")
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, May 17, 2026: IRC logs for Sunday, May 17, 2026
Gemini Links 18/05/2026: Poetry, Sauna, and GNU Taler: Links for the day
"The Society of Media Lawyers" (UK) is a Truly Malicious Anti-Media Lobby Which Helps Rich/Abusive Americans and Hostile Countries Attack Actual Media Workers in the UK: They typically source their money from aboard to besiege domestic actors (like honest journalists or independent outlets that document suppressed beats/topics)
Slop Still Waning, Its Momentum is Driven by Companies That Stand to Lose a Lot (or Everything) When the Bubble Pops: When it comes to LLM slop disguised as news, it's just not working out
Gemini Links 17/05/2026: arXiv Brings Down the Hammer, UnderPOWERed, and Slopping With Tcl/Tk: Links for the day
Links 17/05/2026: Amazon Employees Herded Into Slop, Taiwan Sold Down the River by Cheeto: Links for the day
Links 17/05/2026: Society of Media Lawyers (Brett Wilson LLP et al) Lobby for More SLAPPs in the UK, “Courage in Journalism Award” Given in Oppressive Country: Links for the day
Cyber Show UK is Already Available Over Gemini Protocol: This past week the total number of active Gemini capsules hit all-time records several times
The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part XXV - Not Bringing Intelligence to the EPO, Not 'Artificial Intelligence' Either (But Intelligence-Eroding Drugs): The EPO was meant to be about science and law. In practice, however, it's about breaking the law and being stoned.
The Cyber Show on Why Coding is Important and Slop Cannot Change or Replace That: Hand-crafting one's site has plenty of advantages
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, May 16, 2026: IRC logs for Saturday, May 16, 2026
Gemini Links 17/05/2026: Music Theory, Reticulum Git Repos, and Releasing Kiln: Links for the day
Links 16/05/2026: Cuba Plunges Into Darkness (Energy Wasted by Nonsense), Googlebooks as Slop Nonsense (Energy Waste and Time Wasted): Links for the day
Links 16/05/2026: Climate Issues, Free Speech, and Monopolies/Monopsonies: Links for the day
Gemini Links 16/05/2026: Retreat and Devuan Manuals: Links for the day
SLAPP Censorship - Part 78 Out of 200: Slandering Me for Saying the Truth About Graveley and Garrett's Abuse of Processes, Stacking Dockets: These are the sorts of things British taxpayers ought to talk about
"AI" Became a New Name or Placeholder for Debt: Because they will only ever lose money for this thing with "tokens" or "potential"
"Microsoft Goodwill and Intangible Assets" Down Two Years in a Row, According to Microsoft: Microsoft cannot sell these, so what is their real relevance?
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, May 15, 2026: IRC logs for Friday, May 15, 2026
IBM: Shares Down 30%, Mass Layoffs, IBM Says "Goodwill" Grew by 10% to Over a Third of the Company's Total "Worth": According to IBM
Microsoft LinkedIn Layoffs "Very Likely Higher" Than 1,000 People: Microsoft is bleeding

The Corporate Media is Deliberately Misleading Everyone About Encryption and Privacy

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