Q&A: What Social Media Do We Use?
Added 2025-03-20 02:59:41 +0000 UTCQ&A218: What social media apps are currently using the most? Questions about virtual machines and fingerprinting, as well as our recommendations for Android operating systems.
Welcome to the Surveillance Report Q&A - featuring Techlore & The New Oil answering your questions about privacy and security.
Video Version: https://youtu.be/A14lDB2io9c
(00:00) Introduction
(00:39) Most-Used Social Media
(01:52) Privacy-Focused Education Apps
(05:19) Instant, Private Crypto
(07:08) Qubes Usability Barriers
(11:17) Self-hosted OIDC
(12:17) Reliable News
(17:25) The Future of Peer-to-Peer
(19:38) Fingerprinting Strategies
(23:54) Our VM Strategies
(26:22) The Ubiquity of Fingerprinting
(27:49) Preferred Virtualization Software
(29:36) ROM Recommendations
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Comments
A series of narrow questions about your Linux preferences: Do you prefer Debian-based or RedHat-based Linux distros and for what privacy and/or security reasons? Do you actively use (i.e. customise the settings of) AppArmor and/or SELinux on your devices, and which do you prefer? What are your preferences between Gnome, KDE, and XFCE, both from personal taste and privacy/security perspectives? What do you think is the closest thing to a disposable VM outside of Qubes, in terms of usability and rapidity of spawning+booting? How do you ensure security of secrets' storage on your Linux systems that are not stored in a password manager, but are managed by native utilities such as Gnome Keyring or KDE Wallet that other applications can integrate with. Do you rely on default configurations, or do you harden them further? Also, a specific question related to a recent story about a Disney employee having his password manager account hijacked: How do you defend against the risk of having an infostealer keylog the entry of your PM's master password and then exfiltrate the PM's database in order to open it elsewhere and extract passwords it contains, and how do the major password managers (Bitwarden, Keepass, Proton Pass, 1Password) compare in their ability to resist this mode of attack?
David Johnson
2025-03-20 10:24:17 +0000 UTC
