GM☕️

Been really cleaning up a lot of online data cleansing and it’s been a lot of work.

Really making this month all about improving my privacy… but it feels pointless at times.

My biggest discoveries…

☠️ Most popular mobile Bitcoin wallets run Google Services Framework and Firebase in the background… TERRIBLE for privacy. (Bitcoin has a privacy problem)

☠️ Many popular Nostr platforms also run with GSF and Firebase.

☠️ iOS is pretty awful when it comes to data privacy despite it trying for end to end encryption… and MacOS has spyware built-in to its native software apps as such as Finder (thanks Little Snitch).

☠️ The industry standard apps that we need to use for our clients are essentially data honeypots…

☠️ All of our industry and the project management systems use are all Google based.

☠️ Even though I run GrapheneOS and an air gapped laptop, use chat systems like SimpleX… my friends and family don’t and refuse too.

So while I’m doing what I can to improve and harden my own personal data, my industry and personal relationships couldn’t care less.

Being private makes you the odd one out… ironic.

Obtaining privacy is definitely challenging in a world that doesn’t seem to really care or value it.

The struggle continues...