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Realistically, what the article suggests to me is that I should carry a burner phone when crossing borders and if I need my real phone, turn on lockdown mode and then turn it off and stow it in my luggage with the understanding that it may get confiscated and never returned.

Probably worth reading the article. There are consequences to saying “no” at the border.

The real impact is on small and medium sized businesses who can’t afford to run their own SOC.

So now they’re forced to hire MSPs and outsource ALL their IT.

*if you have an older Android phone.

Doesn’t even name the algorithm, and somehow spells LZMA wrong, despite just having written it out longhand.

Well, it’s PC Gamer.

[edit] I still can’t figure out if they’re referencing LZW encoding… the L and Z being the same Lempel and Ziv from LZMA, but with Welch having a different solution for the rest of the algorithm due to size constraints.

And I migrated to Organic Maps :)

That’s the point. Windows 11 cannot be made to be a private OS. So you have to adjust your privacy model instead if you want to use it.

Censorship is when the government blocks otherwise free speech.

Depends on who does it and why.

The US government blocking access to .ca by US citizens? Yeah, that’s censorship.

Your ISP blocking access to .su domains? Nope.

A web server blocking access to .br domains? Again, no.

Er, your instructions don’t kill all the telemetry that makes Win11 so privacy invasive.

Unfortunately, your comments about security are spot-on — there have been a number of improvements in the latest Win11 releases that were never added to Win10.

So while Win10 can be tweaked to be a relatively private OS, you need to update to the latest Win11 for security, or switch to a non-Microsoft OS.

Of that list, Zen is the only one really worth considering. And then you have the “but the best one that supports widevine” issue.

Who does ancestry.com get to run their sequencing? Because I have a number of relatives who did that. I don’t think it’s 23andme.

Help them get to Canada?

If that’s not an option and they don’t already have claimant’s status, help them get somewhere off-grid.

If they’ve got claimant’s status already… the government is already keeping tabs on them and will likely hunt them down. Their best bet may be being sent to El Salvador where at least they won’t be tortured and killed (assuming that’s not where they’re from).