Ai is becoming the most invasive surveillance tool ever, it’s explicitly bypassing all encrypted communications, sandboxing, and privacy implementations so that it has “the right context.” It is literally reading passwords off your screen. For a little bit of convenience, we are losing literally every major barrier we have built for privacy and security in one swing.

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The issue isn’t the AI’s capabilities, it’s the people who implement the software that defaults to these settings being shipped. All collection and use of personal data should be opt in, not opt out.
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₿ujuX 5 months ago
Mr. Snowden did warn us. Many just chose to ignore and forget.
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CptKook 5 months ago
War of attrition. Don’t let them win. Pace yourself, it’s a marathon
The real threat is you giving it access. Every app, every permission, every convenience adds another door. AI doesn’t break your privacy, it exploits the doors you leave open.
I need to inform you, that your plain English messages that you read in Signal aren’t encrypted while you are reading them. Ai watches your screen while you use it, it doesn’t need to decrypt anything.
I don’t think it’s AIs fault. AI is just piggybacking on the precedents created by the internet. It’s just how things are nowadays unfortunately.
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Mephi 5 months ago
Also, how do you think your keyboard's predictive text works? It knows everything you type.
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Russo 5 months ago
The solution is already here, the ones who really want privacy dont use closed source software like iOS. Want to be sovereign? Dont cry and use what you already know that solves it! GrapheneOS gixes this!
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Russo 5 months ago
The solution is already here, the ones who really want privacy dont use closed source software like iOS. Want to be sovereign? Dont cry and use what you already know that solves it! GrapheneOS fixes this! #nostr #grownostr #privacy
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Ai is becoming the most invasive surveillance tool ever, it’s explicitly bypassing all encrypted communications, sandboxing, and privacy implementations so that it has “the right context.” It is literally reading passwords off your screen. For a little bit of convenience, we are losing literally every major barrier we have built for privacy and security in one swing.
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but what A.I. are you talking about ? What app, on which platform, capture screens (including Signal) and send it over to their cloud?
You should have seen Microsoft’s implementation, they beat Apple by almost a year. In barely a few days people were finding their typed passwords in plain text in the massive context database for the Ai in the OS. And they couldn’t even turn it off at first
Then your previous statement doesn’t make any sense, imo. It doesn’t decrypt anything and because you read it on your device doesn’t suggest that it wasn’t an encrypted communication. So yes, it was encrypted, but also yes, the Ai gets around it by reading it at the same time you do.
Unfortunately they are actually LATE to this party. Microsoft did this way worse almost a year ago and their Ai integration is this same thing. Google is doing this aggressively as well. Many just don’t realize that this is how all their great “Ai features” are being provided. They are letting the Ai literally read and catalog everything on their device at all times.
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CptKook 5 months ago
I didn’t watch the video. I would never seriously use encrypted comms on a ai capable device
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Baerson 5 months ago
Wanna make a call? Gotta give access. Wanna send a text? Gotta give access. Wanna take a photo? Gotta give access. What's your point again?
AI on desktop and mobile is the biggest threat to privacy we have faced. Once your privacy goes, you have no freedom. Actions everyone - all Apple, Microsoft, Android users - can take: - Switch to @GrapheneOS for mobile ( - Run linux on your laptops and desktop (I recommend Debian - just search for "how to install Debian from USB"). It runs on pretty much every computer, even the ones you think are too old to use. View quoted note →
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Michaelmas 5 months ago
I’m wondering if we should do the iOS updates at this point???
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the axiom 5 months ago
it's like saying you're bullish on free healthcare, just not ran by the government with taxpayers money
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cavemanf16 5 months ago
OR… just keep rocking such an old iPhone that such an option doesn’t exist on your POS. That’s what I do, and then I don’t have to watch obnoxious weak-cleavage-influencers tell me what to do.
I'm now GrapheneOS + Linux + converting all documents to Libreoffice. Just need to ditch the iPad, iMac, the Mrs Macbook, iPhone + another iPad 😡 I refuse to accept this even if it cost thousands. Apple's shares will plummet.
I doubt most will care. I've been a GNU/Linux user for about 16 years. I've been flashing software to Android phones (back when they were ROMs) since the early days. One thing I've learned is that life in that realm is much better if you just accept that most people won't care, which means most software will be chronically underfunded and imperfect. But, things are so much better than they used to be. I run Fedora and Graphene on all devices in my house and it's been mostly smooth for years now.