Hi everyone!
I’m very happy to be joining the SteemIt community! This is my #introduceyourself post.
My name is Willem. I am very passionate about privacy, especially online. Privacy is at the heart of us becoming who we are as people and exercising our choices freely. For these and many other reasons, I have been a privacy advocate for years.
I meet a lot of people who are unaware of or confused by the various threats to their online privacy that exist. They might hear about email hacks, government surveillance, and that their ISP might sell their online browsing history. However, I have found nowhere that offers neutral, easy-to-follow advice about these things and how to address them that is aimed at non-technical people.
Through Room101 I hope to setup somewhere that will raise awareness about privacy-related issues and grow into a resevoir of guidance about what people can do. This includes things such as discussing how to pick a good password manager, what to look for in a VPN service before buying, how to check for DNS leaks, which browser add-ons are good for stopping advertisers tracking you, and so on. I also intend to offer news and reviews about privacy- and security-related stuff.
My other passions include all manner of computer-related stuff, promoting science and scepticism and, when time permits, TV comedies and all sorts of music. So on occasion I might chip in about those things too.
I hope to see you around!
W.
P.S. I think this guy has the right idea:
Hello and welcome to Steemit @room101
Welcome and happy steeming !
Welcome to Steemit @room101, like that photo btw!
Welcome! Privacy is the most overlooked right. The one people seem most eager to give up.
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@shayne
Hey Willem, welcome to Steem :-)
Hello willem and welcome to steemit! I think you'll fit in here just nicely :)
Welcome to Steemit @room101! Lots of interesting discussions on privacy happening here, enjoy!
welcome to steemit Willem ...^^
Haha, I love the introductory photo. Welcome to Steemit @room101!
Welcome on board, glad to have you in ur community
good idea, followed
Hello Willem, welcome to Steem! :-)
Nice Introduction and Welcome to Steemit.
The Power has been stealing our will and mind but we must find new ways to change Reality's ownership for all us and how to fight for freedom and create non-competitive societies using decentralization.
In the day we leave in a free society we will no longer need anonymity to have privacy.
I'm not American but I like this quote:
“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
Interesting approach!From that perspective I bet you will find my blog somehow crazy :D I've never cared too much about online privacy. But well, maybe you'll enlighten me some day :)
Welcome to steemit, best of luck for that journey and have fun!
Following you.
Great intro post. I will follow you because I'm very interested in your future posts. Enjoy the ride here.
I'm excited to see it get going and I like the idea behind DIME (the Darknet Internet Mail Environment). I want to see it in practice and how many others join in/become compatible. For me, Ladar Levison is a bit of a hero. And perhaps he also feels very patriotic (he talks a lot about upholding the values of the US Constitution). That's great, but I worry a little about Lavabit remaining in the US and also a little that he seems to be running Lavabit on his own. Let's see what happens. It has potential, for sure.
Also perhaps I should add: Lavabit's whole new focus on hiding metadata from mass surveillance can be achieved in part in other ways. For example, two Protonmail addresses sending emails to each other just have those travelling within the Protonmail servers. They never go out to the big bad world to get intercepted. That, of course, doesn't solve every problem. But it does enable freedom from metadata surveillance for emails for some use cases.