#infose

Let’s be honest, privacy in the digital age is becoming scarce and the (older) hobbyists and enthusiasts in the privacy community have slowly begun to shun the majority of internet users for their lack of awareness. This isn’t something to be upset about or get into long, tiresome arguments about—it’s to be excepted after they’ve been made fun of and called conspiracy theorists or schizophrenic for years. However the privacy community has also exploded in a sense after many of the average users suddenly get a jolt and become initiated into the realm of privacy. The only downside of any of this is the consolidation or seizure of power that’s taking place within the privacy community as more and more people see a potential for profit. You’ve individuals and groups with the power and/or the money to create not only websites but literal advertisement campaigns, proclaiming themselves as something that people need, like an automated app or one-button-solution that’s meant to clear as much of your information off the internet or act like a PR company for the average man. The truth is, many of these services can and have been done, free of charge by hand through simple trial-and-error methodology or through simply learning compartmentalization and how to apply to the internet. The majority of these so called privacy merchants are demanding information that can be used to expose an individual and/or are simply outright selling this information for an extra buck. This means there’s now another reason to worry about your information getting leaked or dropped in a database dump. This is why we need more guides on the internet. Not just the Paranoid’s Bible and how we teach you to prevent being doxed. Not just the EFF or some other organization. We need the community to grow, and in order to do that, we need to make guides. How-to videos and more podcasts---flood the internet with information that will attract the average user and the uninitiated. Just because it has been done before doesn’t mean it can’t be approved upon or made into a different form or format and shared with the internet at large. There are those who’re better at communicating with the elderly or some other generation than us. There are those who know multiple languages and can translate things into those languages in order to share it with those who aren’t familiar with English, Spanish or Chinese. Don’t fall for the line of there being too much information about privacy or how we don’t need to make more guides or how the format of a guide is wrong… we need people to take and consume this information about privacy and security and use it to make their own guides to share with everyone. Not make a 10 minute post and share a tiny, miniscule amount of information and then keep the good, juicy parts behind a paywall or a pay-to-use service. We need the information set free for all to see. So, even if you are only focused on privacy and league of legends or Xbox one or whatever it may be, write a guide and teach others. Push it onto the internet and share it with as many people as possible. Don’t be bullied into silence or start purging and deleting blogs or sites because someone tried to pull a DMCA troll or copyright lawsuit over a dang word or phrase. We can’t alienate ourselves or shun those that are uninitiated. We need to start expanding and in order to do that, we need more people. These people can’t be expected to go through the hardships we went through in order to learn things or how to remove things---they can be given guides. Research, discuss, share and then write out your own guide in your own way and publish it online. Get as many people as you can to share or do the same thing. If the information is out there, people will find it and it‘s abundant then there’ll be no excuse why they don’t know anything concerning INFOSEC or PERSEC or OPSEC. Get out, help the uninitiated and share as much information about privacy as you can.

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