Privacy – Not

There is no privacy. You may say this does not concern you because you feel safe that you would never be targeted. This is incorrect because at this very moment you are being targeted by unsympathetic people and organizations.

Criminal hackers

Criminals are targeting everyone (which includes you.) They release bots and crawlers on the internet which look for access to anyone or anything. Once in there they look for weaknesses to exploit and information to steal.

Listeners

On the internet anything you send, such as texts or e-mails, is in ‘plaintext’, i.e., is not encrypted. Anyone who wants can listen on the lines, capturing and reading your messages. (Sites using HTTPS attempt to give some protection by encrypting message when in transit between sites.)

Government Agencies

Government agencies, like the NSA, capture all transmitted messages: telephone calls, emails, texts storing it in giant data silos for future use. They can do this because storage has become huge and extremely cheap. While they don’t look at your data today, if you do something in the future, like text someone who is deemed a threat, they can go back to your

Once any of these groups has captured data from you, they have AI programs which scan that data looking for anything that could be used against you from their point of view. Either to gain money or influence over you, or even just to destroy your reputation.

 

You must assume that anything you put on an electronic device will become public knowledge.

Do not talk about anything you wish to keep private about yourself.