OP had a stroke

Flipphones are just less feature, same spying.

Stalk their social media accounts to prove a point.

What’s more important to you, your survival, or allowing the world to live without cancer?

_/s

Its probably in a government database somewhere, it’s only inaccessible to you.

Reminds me of this joke (with a modern digital-era spin):

The son is accused of drug trafficking

The father: “I can’t access the cloud drive account on [Site Name]”

The son: “If you ever remember the password and get in, delete the account. That’s where my (drug trade) ledger is”

Overnight, the FBI filed subpoena to the cloud company requesting a copy of any files on any of [the father]'s accounts. Within days, the company compiled and send the info to the FBI.

[The son]'s defence attorney got a copy of the files due to the discovery process, and passed it on to the father.

The father: “Son, I don’t know how, but your lawyer just sent me an email this afternoon with all the family photos”

(Original Thread: https://sh.itjust.works/post/37145912/18347741)

Lmfao, I had this showerthought not too long ago: https://sh.itjust.works/post/37145912

😁

You could continue using Lemmy.

To maintain anonymity:

Create a new account over Tor or No-Log VPN, never log in using a Real IP address, never share personal identifiable information, and never share your username (or instance name) with anyone IRL.

When using any public forum, you cannot resonably expect privacy, but anonymity is what you should be looking for.

1. If you used Tor or a Reputable No-Log VPN, just check the “delete all posts and comments” and delete your account. You should be safe.

2. If not, then ask your instance admin to delete logs of your IP and then delete your account along with all posts and comments. If they follow through, you should be safe.

3. If you don’t use Tor or VPN, and your admin refuses, or lies to you about deleting the IP, then you have no recourse but to go to settings, check the box, and delete your account, and hope your adversaries don’t gain the cooperation of your instance admin (e.g. Legal Orders to obtain information).

Edit: The info isn’t gonna be completely gone, but if you didn’t post any personal identifiable information, it’s just a random stranger’s post on the internet, not attributed to you.

Telegraph with One Time Pad

No, I mean the context is, when you buy a phone from Best Buy, the sales person uses deceptive language to frame it as if your phone will not function unless you purchase a plan by asking “Would you like to activate your phone right now”, implying its locked and can’t even be used for Google Voice/VOIP calls, and as a multi-function tool (GPS, Camera, Notes, E-Reader, Audio Recorder, etc…).

Deceptive Corporatist language.

Correct. But SIM =/= Phone

You have heard of the concept of using your phone as a Wifi-Only Device, right?

Perhaps it isn’t exactly a new term, but I hate that term regardless. A smartphone can do many things without a cellular connection, a cell plan is not an “activation” but a feature upgrade.

Not sure if this fits this comm, but I hate that the act of buying a phone plan and inseting a sim card is now referred to as “activation”.

“Activation” is the iPhone forced internet-setup thing, not the fact that you use wifi-only instead of cellular. 🤦‍♂️

In America at least, “law enforcement” (Police, Ice, CBP) aren’t allowed to force you to enter your password

Might wanna rethink that. If you aren’t a citizen, they could just threaten to send you to el salvador if you refuse to unlock (and maybe still do it after you complied). Even judges are getting arrested by the gestapo, I don’t feel safe even as a citizen. These are not normal times, I wouldn’t put so much faith on the rule of law.

“Yay, they finally allows access to my machine that I bought and paid for… 🫠”

a few minutes later…

“Wait what now? They added WHAT? 😱 (“Copilot” AI 🤮)”

Eventually, they’re gonna make changing the OS illegal and burn in windows into the hardware. Welcome to the world of tomorrow! 🙃

Yea idk what tools to use so I’m just manually copying the “source” tab of the wikis so that the actual links get copied and not just the fancy hyperlink display text.

Like… its not all on one page, its multiple separate pages, so I have to go to each category to copy it, kinda annoying… 😓

Lol yea that’s definitely getting demonitized. Somebody please download/archive it.

I usually don’t.

Unless its a food delivery, then I just try to find a white male name, to avoid racial profiling/harassment.

I dont think that really do much in terms of privacy, the merchant is gonna know who you are. And sometimes they will reject an order if the name used in the order doesn’t match the name of the card holder.

Any card/bank transaction, anything that gets sent to your address, that’s not really something you can have privacy over. Unless you use cash payments and use someone else’s address. Its very difficult to hide financial activity.

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