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Furthermore, I would like to comment on this:
Honestly, I’m starting to think that this website should be called SecurityGuides, not PrivacyGuides
I reject this notion. Privacy and security are not a binary either/or thing. A thing that we see a lot in the community is that people seem to think that these things are unrelated to one another.
What’s the use in “privacy” if you’re using a system that has known unpatched vulnerabilities, for example? That means that the ways to exploit your system (and therefore potentially compromise your privacy) are publicly available.
Security, in many cases, is a prerequisite for privacy. I will agree with you that something that is secure is not necessarily private, and that is why we carefully consider our recommendations to navigate these nuances, but conversation about this topic also needs to be nuanced instead of a binary privacy/security paradigm.