Comment on Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing user chats
higgsboson@piefed.social 3 days agoThere are no private spaces online,
your privacy is at the whim of whoever owns the servers
Which is it? It logically cant be both. I own at least a dozen servers.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 days ago
There are no private spaces online, because your privacy is only protected by the people who own the servers. Your data isn’t private to them, nor any governments who can compell them.
You cannot trust that any data you put on services, that you’re not completely in control of, is going to remain private.
There are countless examples of services selling your data, hackets getting access to your data or governments compelling a service provider to produce your data on demand.
The exception to that are services where you can enforce your privacy through well implemented encryption.
For exsmple, I don’t need to trust a cloud storage provider that is storing my data because it’s encrypted on my machine using keys that only I control prior to being stored. My privacy doesn’t require me to trust that Google will protect my data from insiders, hackers or hostile governments because they don’t have the ability to produce it. My privacy is protected by the laws of mathematics regardless of how compromised the service provider is.
higgsboson@piefed.social 3 days ago
Yes, I know all that. I spent 25 years in tech, which is why I also know how to run secure services online. Hence my comment above.