• shimdidly@lemmy.worldOP
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    8 months ago

    Agree. Full-doomer isn’t for everyone. We can reduce our attack surface, but there’s no silver bullets. Just using a good adblocker increases privacy quite a bit, and quite frankly makes browsing the web bearable.

    internet ISPs were decrypting traffic

    I always thought it was a little sus that the NSA designed a lot of of the ciphers we use today.

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      8 months ago

      The ciphers are chosen in a competition and then turned into a standard. If you think that the NSA is after your ass there are many ciphers that are not standard and there are ones from non-NATO countries you could use