Apple has a falwless securty record on contents of your iPhone.

They enhance that part every year, annoying FBI. Read all the court battles in the news of FBI vs Apple regarding getting into iPhones and getting into iCloud

In fact , they even now in 2021 suddenly map EVERY attempt to have google "safe browsing" go through a single apple proxy that uses a second layer of obfuscation and hash on that to make no ones browsing ever trackable by Google.

you are probably right :apple now has spy circuits built into their chips for audio to text, and circuits to do face identification built into chip, and this month apple big sur OS on m1 macs is VERY HARD to run older unsigned code and very very hard to turn off "SIP" elements to modify kernel files, or even use a debugger, and if you do turn off SIP, you must perform an action from the spy software inside the m1 mac that makes machine never load the new iOS compatibility engine code.

apple iCloud might be safe from FBI, but soon Apple china will maybe own all of you.

I never once typed a single word discussing "tor" network.

tor is NOT the tor browser, fool.

Do you know a single thing about crypto?

You are saying that Tor is an honeypot for the most various 3-letter agencies around the world while Apple has unhackable cloud technologies... Sure thing man, you are believable as hell!

if a program is Free... then YOU are the Product

please stop saying that fucking quote inappropriately. fuck brave, but at least is open source goddamnit. fuck brave for being a crypto and privacy scam.

Don't like the way WhatsApp, Fakebook, Twitter, etc. are screwing you? Stop bending over! Send Will Cathcart, Zucky Zoidberg, and Lil Jackie Dorsey the FU....find alternatives! Otherwise quit yer whining, keep your poohole greased, and take it like a prison bitch.

Zucky Zoidberg likely uses that much cash as toilet paper over the course of a year...but I guess Italy has to keep up appearances, and make it look like they are doing something to rein in Fakebook.

If you are using Self-Destructing Cookies (or similar addon) in conjunction with BleachBit, the agreement is worthless, since all or most cookies you agreed to host are wiped away in the end.

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/08/13/tor-and-anonymous-browsing-just-how-safe-is-it/

https://securethoughts.com/vulnerable-use-tor/

https://www.wired.com/2015/11/tor-says-feds-paid-carnegie-mellon-1m-to-help-unmask-users/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18911010

https://yashalevine.com/articles/tor-spooks

Probably because they are just too busy servicing their 5,938 faux friendsies on Fakebook, 8,938 fellow twits on Twitter, making Reddit safe for commiekind, playing stoopid video games, bragging about how privacy is dead, and ranting about how the only people who want privacy is them with something to hide.....to actually become informed on this (or pretty much any other topic).

They much prefer to careen through their pathetic little lives, running on what Gurdjieff called 'autopilot', and either regurgitating the thoughts and opinions of others...or basing their thoughts and opinions on feelings, childish assumptions, idealistic fallacies, etc. Anything to embrace intellectual sloth, or avoid original thought.

Apple has a terrible track record on these things.

Apple is great at marketing and make people trust them, then baam, exploit after exploit for taking over iPhone.

^^^ This guy privacies.

I actually don't think you need to put a lot of effort in order to make Flash usable in a browser. Just get Adobe Flash 32.0.0.363 from Internet Archive (clear net only) and Basilisk Browser (clear net only). Sure, Adobe made Flash dead since 12 January 2021, Mozilla will fully kill Flash after 7 September 2021, Google made Flash dead since 19 January 2021, Microsoft released a Flash-killing update on 18 February 2021, Apple was the earliest to kill Flash on 16 September 2020, so using Flash has been made more difficult, but it's still not impossible!

And actually, if you know how Microsoft earns money, then I guess it's fine?

Flash died at the beginning of 2021. Unless you put lots of effort in, it won't work in any browser anymore.

I trust Microsoft more than I trust DDG, which is why I have no problem using Bing directly. And the reason I trust Microsoft is because I understand how they make money. I don't use Bing, I use searx. But I'd use Bing over DDG.

TL;DR: yes, ungoogled-chromium was a pain to create, but IDK why would you use Bing/Yahoo directly instead of using DuckDuckGo as a middleman.

Ah, creating ungoogled-chromium. It was a pain, and while Eloston (I guess that's their name?) is a nice and skilled guy, the Chromium codebase is massive, so I feel like this might not be long until ungoogled-chromium dies, and that's sad because I won't really have any good web browser choices:

• GNU IceCat - it's freetardist, so no Flash Player, and there's the annoying LibreJS add-on. Also, it still suffers from Firefox's BS, like the bad UI, slow speed, barely any configuration, depreciated XUL add-ons, etc.
• Pale Moon - has an add-on blocklist, enables WebAssembly by default, has spyware by default, etc.
• Otter Browser - uses QtWebEngine, which is controlled by Goolag, and it doesn't support add-ons

I think the only good browser is Web Browser, but, well, it turns out the compiling process for Windoze (which I might be still forced to use) has been removed, so that's a problem.

Also, why would you use Bing directly instead of through a proxy like DuckDuckGo? (I mean, it could fit into the definition of a proxy server - a server that is a middleman between the user and the other server) Or Yahoo, for that matter, since both are used when searching with DuckDuckGo? In this case, I would rather proxy than to directly give data to some big corpo, but okay.

i personally dont trust apple enough to think they'd continue to do this in a competent fashion. apple has the worst track record with security than any other tech company.

The effort was creating ungoogled-chromium. I'm on a semi-private searx instance that works well, mostly.

I guess I'd rather use Bing than DDG. At least Microsoft doesn't earn money by selling my information, as far as I know.

TL;DR: it takes little effort to use ungoogled-chromium, searX has average results, DDG might be hiding something.

I don't think you need to put any effort to use ungoogled-chromium - it's literally just a drop-in replacement for Goolag Hrom and Chromium.

Actually, never mind, you do need to put a bit of additional effort if you want to install more add-ons than you had before when transfering your user data from Hrom to ungoogled-chromium. But it's not a lot, really: https://github.com/NeverDecaf/chromium-web-store

And about searX having good results... no, I don't think so. I think searX results are average because

1. search engines block searX instances,
2. even if they're not blocked, the results are weak, even when you choose big providers/violators such as Google, Bing, Yahoo,
3. even if the results are not weak, they are mixed in weird ways, such as a full page with only one search engine.

I think the third problem is especially serious because searX has (or at least used to have) a bug where the results don't go beyond the first page. Of course, it depends on the instance you use, settings, and time of usage, but still.

And yeah, we might not know everything about DDG, but unless it turns out DuckDuckGo has been bought by Macroshaft (or some other big corpo), I'll continue using it. And if that thing happens, I'll just privately host a searX instance because both Mojeek and Wiby.me suck, unfortunately.

I'd scour the offers out there for cheap dedicated servers (if your budget allows the luxury). There are a number of companies offering ARM platform which will work just fine for most uses. Some of those can be had for $10-20 a month. Downside is you aren't going to do lots of nested virtualization on those. Maybe Docker.

I'd find cheapest ARM offerings and use them for single task sort of chores.

There is older generation gear piled up all over and it can be cheap rental. Straight Intel and AMD gear. Can slice and dice your server up real good and do everything.

Like here (no clue about their general reliability or private customer tolerance): https://billing.dacentec.com/hostbill/index.php?/cart/dedicated-servers/

There dedicated servers start at $20 a month.

Other companies out there like OVH which host a lot of sketch on their big fat network, but may be a sign up issue.

Fappening did NOT BREAK apples 100% perfect cloud cryptography, it brute guessed famous peoples phones via their phone numbers to start, plus a dictionary attack.

Not even APPLE EMPLOYEES or ENGINEERS can ever ever EVER see your private photos stored in Apple's Cloud for iOS, without a password.

This was proven in federal court cases by FBI.

The reason is simple a password, or access to cypto hardware key on Phone are needed.

The Fappening of Apple was because the REMOTE login to Apple icloud allowed thousands of guesses per second per IP, instead of one guess per second, and all the so-called hacked people had 5 digit or 5 letter or less passwords and a simple dictionary attack was used.

The Fappening can happen again, but not a risk from apple engineers, it requires a person to store entire phone backup as a giant dmg on icloud (like before) and request a full restore to a new ios device or virtual device (like before in first Fappening)... but also still a PASSWORD or access to original hardware, but now the password is barely once per second with a cuttoff per day of XXX guesses.

Apple iCloud is the most secure cloud in the History of Technology!

That said, I do not nor ever have used Apples iCloud and rip iCloud out forcefully out of laptops to prevent accidental app usage. If you open a word processor document, and paste a bitcoin wallet password momentarily in a open text window WITHOUT SAVING, the 2021 macs will shadow copy it in case power goes out, to a fucking goddamned evil iCloud unless you rip out this so-called MOSSAD feature.

Apple iCloud has never been hacked and is 256 bit unhackable and always has been. 128 bit for most other nations of Apple iCloud... no comment for Chinese Apple iCloud.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

The Fappening be like

forget cloud, forget VPS. Always rent a discrete private little server on a rack, with a dedicated IP, with all of machine for your use, and test to make sure you are not "virtualized" and being lied to using low level tools.

this just happened this week with OpenVZ template for Debian 10 - and from the official source allegedly - meaning many providers were backdoored).

TRUE! shocking and true !

Vulnerability in Plesk SolusVM Debian 10 template - "debianuser" backdoor/default user:
https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/169685/vulnerability-in-solusvm-debian-10-template-debianuser-backdoor-default-user

From that :

Please check your servers for a debianuser user. If so, you're probably best off wiping the whole thing and restoring from backups.

Thousands of VPNs now hacked by the NSA paying a engineer cash to make a "mistake" in Plesk SolusVM Debian 10

Other hacks harder to find than that though. That was comically easy to explain away as a mistake.

Apples' subverted SSL source code is far more evil nation-state sabotage of code by the NSA paying apple engineer to delete a couple key lines of source code.

Some say I am suspicious.

nah, you are properly woke. Good reply.

The spying I am discussing is

• the bluetooth probe of nearby devices deep in firmware
• the Wifi antennae name probe of nearby wifi devices deep in firmware
• the Assisted-GPS (A-GPS) of your location within 15 feet, to locate video cameras the next day.
• the microphone transcribing speech to text legally without court order and streaming text of all people whispering near your phone
• the remote spy query of all urls you might have used that phone for, and list of cookies , but only a fool uses a burner phone for anything except feeding it money (required to go online on alcatel to do this and other burners)

A burner phone should always be used for one single purpose , for one or two sites maximum. One being google mail setup, not google mail use.
If feeling adventurous... you might use the voicemail feature of your burner phone to reveal your phone number to your colocation host of your server, after all, you already gave them the google email tied to that burner anyways. use different burner for domain registrations. use different email too.

google requires a SMS every 90 days from suspicious people.

Some say I am suspicious.

"... SMS, or if waiting for new funds to appear on burner phone... KEEP IT OFF!!! Turning it on too long starts a mammoth remote series of Google Android complete firmware/OS/baseband updates to downgrade your phone/spydevice. NEVER USE the burner except to keep gmail alive..."

They still make flip phones.

I get the Android convenience of phone + browser to check the email address.

That Droid should ideally have some sort of firewall / blocking app installed. To regulate its chit chatting with the world.