Here's how to encrypt your text messages to ensure your information is safe from cybersecurity hackers.
  • karashta@lemm.eeEnglish
    784·
    12 days ago

    Showed this information to my boomer mother who then asked my also tech illiterate step father what he thought.

    “We don’t send sensitive information through texts.”

    The ignorance almost physically hurts… Thinking that only the actual message content is important.

    Or ignoring the pictures we send and the private things I talk about with my mom.

    Do I think that specifically my information would be useful to China? Likely not. But I also have no idea what all is possible with that kind of information in the aggregate.

    At the very least, I assume they will use it to manipulate us even more with disinformation.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      312·
      12 days ago

      Easier, imagine half the strangers you’ve met during the day reading your messages aloud with orcish laughs and judging the pictures.

    • JaddedFauceet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      11 days ago

      But I also have no idea what all is possible with that kind of information in the aggregate

      so does your mom and the general public. This idea and its impact is far too remote to people’s day to day life.

      • “Yes, they can collect all they want, why should I care?”
      • “My data is too insignificant to be meaningful for anyone, LMAO, do you think I am some kind of a CEO?”

      it may help to try coming out with a story or incident that they can relate to. then again most of the time these stories will sound like a conspiracy theory,