The Privacy Iceberg

This is original content. AI was not used anywhere except for the bottom right image, simply because I could not find one similar enough to what I needed. This took around 6 hours to make.

Transcription (for the visually impaired)

(I tried my best)

The background is an iceberg with 6 levels, denoting 6 different levels of privacy.

The tip of the iceberg is titled “The Brainwashed” with a quote beside it that says “I have nothing to hide”. The logos depicted in this section are:

The surface section of the iceberg is titled “As seen on TV” with a quote beside it that says “This video is sponsored by…”. The logos depicted in this section are:

An underwater section of the iceberg is titled “The Beginner” with a quote beside it that says “I don’t like hackers and spying”. The logos depicted in this section are:

A lower section of the iceberg is titled “The Privacy Enthusiast” with a quote beside it that says “I have nothing I want to show”. The logos depicted in this section are:

An even lower section of the iceberg is titled “The Privacy Activist” with a quote beside it that says “Privacy is a human right”. The logos depicted in this section are:

The lowest portion of the iceberg is titled “The Ghost”. There is a quote beside it that has been intentionally redacted. The images depicted in this section are:

  • A cancel sign over a mobile phone, symbolizing “no electronics”
  • An illustration of a log cabin, symbolizing “living in a log cabin in the woods”
  • A picture of gold bars, symbolizing “paying only in gold”
  • A picture of a death certificate, symbolizing “faking your own death”
  • An AI generated picture of a person wearing a black hoodie, a baseball cap, a face mask, and reflective sunglasses, symbolizing “hiding ones identity in public”

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  • nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br
    5·
    3 months ago

    Funny how you need more and more technical knowledge to go deeper into privacy, until the last level, which is basically giving up on technology itself.

  • mmhmm@lemmy.ml
    4·
    3 months ago

    I was at the bike shop a few weeks back and a ghost walked in. He came in wearing a medical mask covered by a bandana, sunglasses, cap. They wore gloves, long sleaved pants and shirt.

    First question from staff, ‘this a robbery?’

    Ghost, ‘no, I just need 27 2.5 tubes, miss.’

    They get the tubes, he agrees. Staff asks if he has an account. Ghost says, “nope, why would I need one?” Staff says they do it for records, insurance claim assist, and discounts. Ghost goes with a John Doe, pays cash and peaces the fuck out.

    Total King, but dude was given up a lot. Half of us were drinking beers enjoying a warm evening in spring. I hope he has had some good rides.

    I can say with confidence thay he was a white male. In his 50s. About 5’10". 140 lbs-ish. If anyone wants to get any tips, good luck!

  • recklessengagement@lemmy.world
    4·
    3 months ago

    I think this is the first time I’ve seen an iceberg meme with sources and explanations for each item. Fantastic. Your work is appreciated.

    • comfy@lemmy.ml
      1·
      3 months ago

      To be honest, and it wouldn’t work here, but I sometime enjoy the cryptic nature of iceberg memes at the lower ranks. It’s like a scavenger hunt.

  • tisktisk@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    TIL I’m a privacy activist–who can help me get to the ghost mode?
    (Do I even want to get there or is that limited to journalists who have entire states trying to unalive them?)

    • The 8232 Project@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      3 months ago

      Do I even want to get there

      Only you can answer that.

      or is that limited to journalists who have entire states trying to unalive them?

      Pretty much, but if you want to give up all technology, work for yourself, and fake your death, then more power to you!

      • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Seems like faking your death would cause more privacy problems than it solves. Why not just “stay alive” with a completely innocuous identity? Then adopt some new identity which cannot be traced back to the original?

        • The 8232 Project@lemmy.mlOP
          1·
          3 months ago

          If you’re alive, you are asked for documents such as property records, taxes, etc. and if you refuse then bad things happen. If you fake your death, no more questions are asked and you can take on fake identities. In essence, faking your death takes your identity out of “the system”

  • ISOmorph@feddit.org
    1·
    3 months ago

    Can you explain why you would think Steam is so bad? I would argue they’re pretty fair, especially with the option to buy steam cards for cash to not disclose your personal data. Does the client do some unsavory shit?

    • lazynooblet@lazysoci.alEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Seeing steam at the top makes me question the list. Likely a hate of DRM rather than privacy

      • lb_o@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 months ago

        Yeap, and Brave in the middle. They only pretend they are for privacy, but they are the very opposite.

        • dogs0n@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          3 months ago

          Yeah i hate when I see people using Brave, because they have been brainwashed.

          Does anyone remember when they were injecting their own referral links into links for online stores (99% certain they did this pls prove wrong if you know better)? This alone leaves them with 0 trust in my books.

          • const_void@lemmy.ml
            3·
            3 months ago

            Brave is and always has been gross. Never understood how they’ve been so successful at tricking people into installing it.

            • SirPea@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              1·
              3 months ago

              OP replied in another comment its because “firefox is not secure” https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/43710170/18564861 :

              […] Chromium-based browsers aren’t all bad, such as Vanadium or Trivalent, so people sometimes feel more comfortable sticking with what seems familiar (coming from Chrome).

              In another reply parents to this one:

              LibreWolf is far from secure, as it is based on Firefox and so comes with the same security issues. If you meant to say privacy and not security, the reason nobody makes high threat model browsers for Windows is because Windows itself is not private and it would be a losing battle.

              So OP is saying it’s not private nor safe? I get what some people are saying of Firefox constantly changing Terms of Services but that’d be in regard to privacy not security and OP tries to argue not being safe which his iceberg also implies in terms of privacy not being good too. Yeah, LibreFox’s ToS isn’t the same as Firefox’s ToS and his counterarguments to Firefox and Firefox-based on replies is Chrome-based browsers exclusive to niche OSes (also OP don’t even try arguing Brave on comments so probably just trying to rage-bait with every opportunity). I’d love OP to argue using the examples he used in the iceberg. So many discourse incosistencies along with the iceberg. Also OP FYI while privacy does not mean secure, lack of privacy could mean security risks in some cases.

      • Nalivai@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 months ago

        Their bottom line is gold, this should tell you everything you need to know about the creator of the meme.

    • 9bananas@feddit.org
      1·
      3 months ago

      afaik the client does collect a bunch if data, most (all, i think? but not a 100% on that) of which is opt-in.

      they do need stuff like IPs for internet related features.

      telemetry wise there’s the steam hardware survey, which is opt-in, and it asks every single time it attempts to collect your systems hardware and OS information. this could technically be identifying information, but since it’s opt-in it’s not a privacy violation and it’s entirely optional. (plus it’s super useful for all involved: users, devs, and steam. it’s kind of a win-win and straight up necessary info for devs to know which hardware they should optimize for)

      they might be putting it at the top because steam has native support for DRM?

      but that’s also weird, because DRM isn’t a privacy violation. it’s a shitty practice, barely does anything, barely works, and keeps breaking or hobbling otherwise perfectly good games, all of which is shitty, but it’s little to do with privacy. and the dev has to specifically opt-in and integrate it as a feature…unless they’re thinking of 3rd party DRM that can be waaay more intrusive, like Vanguard… THAT’S a privacy and security nightmare just waiting to blow up in people’s faces.

      otherwise…i haven’t really heard anything bad about steam privacy wise?

      doesn’t mean that there’s nothing to be concerned about, but i feel like there’d been some news about it if there was…

    • chingadera@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 months ago

      No. And also chrome is somehow at the bottom of this list, I don’t care if it’s chromium or vanadium, it’s still chrome.

  • N3rd@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    22 days ago

    best way to stay private is to just not play the game, sadly everyone whos here more or less got auto registered into this game at the very begining

  • MajesticElevator@lemmy.zipBanned
    0·
    3 months ago

    Sadly, using small niche VPNs that might be more trusted makes you stand out more. It’s pretty unusual to have a Mullvad user on your server

    They don’t rotate IPs as well so a lot of them are blacklisted… and don’t offer port forwarding anymore

    I wish they could change IPs reguarly and add port forwarding back :-( - I would happily pay for their service again

    Because 5€ for their current service is overpriced

  • PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee
    0·
    3 months ago

    I use Keepass but mostly for convenience and I don’t understand why it’s in the 5th category. If I have 50 different accounts with 50 different passwords but they can all be had with one keepass password, how is that different than having 50 different accounts all using the same password?

    • IttihadChe@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      ~ how is that different than having 50 different accounts all using the same password?

      Because the password manager would have to be hacked itself.

      If you just use the same password for everything, any of those 50 sites could be hacked.

    • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
      1·
      3 months ago
      1. With a long enough passphrase, your keepass db is uncrackable by any current tech.
      2. If you have 50 accounts using the same password, if any one of those websites get hacked, they now have access to every other account.