> If a cop is arrested under accusation of dealing drugs on the side, it doesn't suddenly send a chill through the law enforcement community that works to take down drug dealers.
How do you know that it doesn't? White hats are counterintel agents effectively. If a counterintel agent is arrested for doing something that could be deemed as part of his job, why wouldn't it 'send a chill' through the community?
1. IPhone is closed source and any kind of rootkit can be installed by Apple/NSA secret court system. I suggest not using a smartphone if you are serious about security.
2. Good but difficult to anonymize
3. Good
4. Google Chrome is a botnet effectively and users lose their expectation of privacy there. Should switch to Firefox and use Chromium (Not Chrome) as a backup. Ideally Tor browser though.
5. Why? It's great for sharing encrypted files. Certainly if you trust Apple, why not trust Dropbox?
8. Signal transmits metadata that Google/Apple and by extension NSA/FBI/CIA/DEA know about now. Use something else that protects your anonymity and is secure. Something like cryptocat/Pidgin OTR is better.
9. You can use email to send encrypted information.
10. Unnecessary. Good strong password is good enough and you don't have a centralized password storage app. Another benefit is avoiding all the frustration that comes with using it when you are on someone else's computer.
11. Commercial AVs are better than Microsoft's native solution as repeatedly shown on independent tests. If you are tech literate, you're probably fine with the native solution or no solution at all.
12. Good idea. Best not to have a smartphone at all.
13. That's crazy. Just know your email app. Attachments should be read only and if your software is updated, it's very very unlikely you'll be compromised. If the email isn't signed and you are worried, use an alternative app to open common document formats. PDF.js for PDF, Libre Office for documents.
I lived in Soviet Union as well during the collapse. I think there is a lot of propaganda from the west that makes you think it wasn't Gorbachev's fault.
People were happy, had children and believed in their country and made progress in art and science. Then one person who possibly had good intentions "gave everyone freedom". You can't just do that without consequences. It should have been a very gradual transition similar to how it is in China. Instead the country got completely destroyed. Every single thriving industry collapsed and people's savings were worth nothing basically overnight. Police stopped enforcing laws, gangs appeared all over the place, everyone started doing drugs. It was a disaster.
Gorbachev was almost immediately hated throughout the country.
If USSR economy was in free fall, how come GDP per capita was about 2x smaller in Soviet Union compared to USA in 1989 while income distribution was much more even?
I don't disagree with US not having freedom, but I don't think the nordic countries should be up there either.
For example, you can't publish news in Sweden/Finland/Germany that can be interpreted as anti-feminist or has an anti-refugees sentiment.
This soft pressure is hard to quantify because as a journalist you would lose your job and be accused of various things if you attempted to publish something like that.
As someone who has never been to Korea, I don't understand why this chaebol structure is bad.
Korea has one of the best R&D stories worldwide, one of the most innovative places in the world, one of the best life expectancies worldwide, and amazing tech everywhere. All while having few natural resources and having gone through an extremely destructive war relatively recently. Korean middle class is much larger than that of U.S. and lower class much smaller.
Whenever I come across Korean engineers, they're always very knowledgeable and hard working.
Korean manhwa is arguably more innovative than the Japanese counterpart.
So guess my question is: what is not to like?
Even if it were a Monarchy, if the results are pretty good why not just leave it the way it is?
Then there is the fact that the client acts as a browser that fetches information from the web automatically without blocking trackers itself. This is leaking metadata and actual data.
Is anyone so incapable that they would not know how to enable the secure features?
Most people don't care about secret chat. This is for people who care. Granted, they don't have secret chat on Desktop which makes the whole app useless in general unless you only use phones for communication.
I had depression from doing poorly in graduate school.
I felt inadequate and useless. You can call it temporary sadness, but I constantly contemplated suicide and nothing helped.
No matter how much I studied, I still didn't get new concepts as quickly as others and needed to study all the time which sometimes wasn't enough. Once I failed the qualifying exams, I quit and got a software engineering job where I'm doing really well and have plenty of money.
Now I'm really happy and never have such thoughts, so for me it was a matter of fixing a condition where I kept failing.
There are a lot of US movies that go the other way - praising the US military/portraying conflicts in good vs evil way.
Example is Battle Los Angeles (2011) and American Sniper (2015). So such things are in effect "soft propaganda".
In China, to protect themselves against such soft influence, they enact regulations. Letting people watch all US movies without a filter is effectively letting US set the cultural standards and values.
I am not advocating for such a strategy, but since some other countries don't have the technological capability to make engaging soft cultural influence movies, I get where they're coming from.
How do you know that it doesn't? White hats are counterintel agents effectively. If a counterintel agent is arrested for doing something that could be deemed as part of his job, why wouldn't it 'send a chill' through the community?