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by yason 10 days ago
Owning your device (instead of the manufacturer, a set of unlisted governments, big software corporations, etc.) means no scanning.
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It also means no banking app will work
Banks are probably the most Orwellian surveillance apparatus of all. Almost every time I read an arrest warrant there is a whole section where banking records are used to damn someone. The equivalent level of banking privacy to graphene is roughly walking in to the teller to withdraw a few thousand cash once a month and then paying literally everything with that (or an anonymized crypto).