Incomprehensibility is a feature The complexity of cryptocurrencies, blockchain, NFT’s, is a wonderful way to confuse people. When people are confused by technology, they look for service providers to reduce that cognitive load and do the work for them for a “small fee”. Fortunately, there is someone to take your money, the crypto exchanges. Read this excerpt from Coindesk.com, and ask yourself what it means.…
Regular Juice
Here’s the rest of the Juice on data malfeasance. Essentially, data gathering is a business model that approximately 100% of commercial software developers, social media, and network service providers have adopted. 2022.10.12. Amazon smart home products, Ring doorbell, Alexa smart speaker/assistant, etc, allow Amazon to create a detailed psychological profile of all aspects of your life. They know when you go to the bathroom. They…
Apple Juice
Apple advertises extensively that they protect your privacy. Quite a few people seem to believe it. Draw your own conclusions. 2022.11.14 Lawsuit accuses Apple of violating the California Invasion of Privacy Act. The problem was spotted by independent researchers, who found that the Apple App Store sends the company exhaustive information about nearly everything a user does in the app, despite the privacy setting “disable…
Device Privacy
True Level 3 Privacy on your mobile device requires the use of a custom ROM. Stock Android is an excellent starting point, however, LinageOS and GrapheneOS have done a great job for a well thought out set of features, low hardware requirements, and great looks. Apple phones running with Zenfoil would be a good step to stop the data bleeding out to your network provider,…
Security
Zenfoil protects your data in several ways. Your data is stored in the Zenfoil hardware datacentres located on in Ottawa. The datacentres are situated on separate subnetworks of Bell Canada and are placed in separate geographic locations for redundancy and maximum reliability. Data is backed up live, every hour, from the primary datacentre to the backup datacentre in anticipation of any contingency. In addition, your…
What is DNS?
DNS lookups reveal a complete picture of who you are. Everything you do and everything you search on passes through the DNS system. All apps you connect to, all websites you go to, all activity on your device, is revealed by your cleartext DNS traffic. See Demo. This is the MOST valuable information about you and your business. DNS lookups are done in cleartext so…
What is Privacy?
The easiest way to understand privacy on the Internet is to consider if you are logged in or not. Not Logged In If you are just browsing around, reading news, without logging in you are leaking personal information to every service provider in your communications chain. When you agreed to the Terms of Service of your communications provider (Bell Canada, Rogers, Telus, etc) you waived…