But won’t someone think of the officer safety if Canada doesn’t have a legal encryption backdoor!

I think this goes for most connected card. None of them specialize in security and software.

Digital security is not a crime.

Android could also use hardened malloc that’s existed for years. But they don’t for reasons.

This is a ringing endorsement to use GrapheneOS when we’re in the middle of a sovereignty struggle with the country that makes both Android and iOS, and is using private AI models to find vulnerabilities and hack at scale.

Run your own VPN on a hosted VPS located at a major hub like NYC

You get the privacy and the blazing speeds and no need for any pinky-promise that logs are not being sold nor subpoenaed

Down side ofc is paying for the VPS

I just close the tab and move on.

This, every time. Unless I need it, it's probably just a time waster, anyway. If I'm so unwelcome that I can't use a VPN, then they don't really need my web traffic that badly.

Where are you located?

You should know that WWIII is kind of underway now and underwater sea cables are being damaged in multiple locations, so inter continental lag increases are expected, VPN or not.

E: I noticed it’s easier to downvote than to do a quick search.

https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/two-undersea-cables-reportedly-damaged-off-the-coast-of-perth-following-suspicious-vessel-activity-company-ceo-says-faults-happened-straight-after-each-other-and-in-close-proximity

https://www.telecomreviewasia.com/news/industry-news/30159-vietnams-four-subsea-cable-faults-disrupt-30-of-international-capacity/

Privacy takes work unfortunately. I don't have too hard of a time. Takes me a few seconds to switch servers if something is blocked, not a few minutes. I take more pleasure in staying private than I do in getting things that much faster.

As hosts continue to shift the burden of exploit protection onto the visitor, the automatic blocking of VPN exit nodes has exploded and for that reason, VPNs are increasingly often unwelcome. Each person will have to choose at which point an increase in their privacy is less valuable to them than what they get in a visit to a site that attempts to erode that.

There are a couple sites that I turn my VPN off for(like my bank) but for every other, when I see the "You've been blocked" error page, I just close the tab and move on.

Daily reminder that this very likely just adds a database line "deleted for privacy laws: Yes" into their database. Still probably worth doing for possible legal ramifications in the future, but right now likely does almost nothing for a lot of data brokers.

For e-ink devices I really like XTEINK X4 Classic (X4 V2) Pocket eReader

This anvil.

If an app is required, hit it with a hammer until an app is no longer required.

Privacy tools and privacy guides already do this. Privacy hardware like this is something I haven't seen before though

Cellular Service:

• Phreeli https://www.phreeli.com/
• Cape https://www.cape.co/

ARM-based hardware, perhaps? I use a RPi 5 as my desktop.

We have Microsoft 365 on macOS, but it doesn't include Publisher. I assume you wouldn't have that problem running it through Wine since you're running the Windows version. But the discrepancy in versions got me to seek a more local (macOS) solution. I landed on iWork, but I also have LibreOffice and feel like that's just the right answer for most people, if its Office R/W is as good as iWork's, where I have had no complaints/issues. (I've heard that it is, and I don't doubt that, I just haven't tested it.)

(It hasn't really been called iWork in a while but people know that's Apple's Office suite. Writer, Numbers, and Keynote are the official names.)

(Microsoft 365 is shit now, they nearly doubled the price and dumped a bunch of AI in it. iWork did the same, except it was free, and is still free, but the AI shit requires a subscription. I was able to get it out of the toolbars in Writer, but not Numbers, and didn't try in Keynote. This led me to install LibreOffice because of their "no AI" pledge. Though, I also use Ellipsus online, which is more like Google Docs but privacy-focused and also anti-AI.)

For e-readers, the Diptyx EReader looks promising. I haven't gotten it yet but it's gonna ve my Christmas present to myself

Maybe it would also be good to include software options into this?

Like browsers (librewolf, hardend firefox, etc.)

Browsers on mobile

Search engines (ddg, kagi, ...)

email providers (proton, tuta, ...)

Vpns (proton, ivpn, airvpn, ...)

Messanger (signal, ...)

Or things like FreeTube to reduce telemetry and ads from youtube

And alternatives such as lemmy for reddit, mastodon for twitter

It will bloat this post quite a bit, and they are more easily accessable to find, but it's nice to gather all the materials needed in one place maybe?

Security Cameras: Any camera with ONVIF support. Install Frigate on Linux and block the cameras' mac address at the router. You could even go crazy and put the cameras on their own vlan. This is perfect security with even the dodgiest Chinese camera.

Projectors are not the same as TV. Most have barely functioning wifi, if at all. I don't know any with a microphone and if they did they'd be unusable over the fan noise.

Indeed. But still it makes costs of shady business higher. And you can't be sure how high will the fine be, and if there will be assorted physical measures like a mass recall.

Ding ding ding. You're 100% right that the people saying this aren't socially competent.

Either they can't socialize normally, or they are using this as a smoke screen to justify being pervy. Or both. Probably both.

Thanks the post is updated

Saying "I'm taking precautions against you" is borderline accusatory. If this was the true reason no socially competent person would say this.

That is true and it's nice to see the EU show its teeth a bit more. But ultimately it'll be a fine that doesn't even cover the taxes these companies evade

If they are honestly using it as a defense to false accusations, they SHOULD be ok with being loud and proud about it.