Interesting article from The Atlantic. What do you all think?
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Personally I think “extreme privacy consultants” are a scam.
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MB included?
I mean.. they do help people who want that kind of assistance with privacy, no?
Yeah, from what I’ve read in his book I’m not sure how much he’s actually helping anyone.
Can you elaborate on this and why you think so?
Doesn’t the info he provide help others learn about privacy and privacy tech at large so people can become more privacy conscious online and with the tech they use? In this case, how is PG then different?
(I’m only asking to understand where you’re coming from to such an opinion/thinking so I can understand your POV better)
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I think there is a very logical interest for wealthy people to want to spend money on good advice for privacy. Not everyone has time to study this all and I unfortunately privacy doesn’t come cheap and easy
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Great article.Easy to read and showed extreme privacy steps in a personalized and fair manner. Also like the quick mention that outside the US the situation is different, this is often forgotten in the privacy sphere.
It’s a long read but I’m making my way through it.
To me this looks like a life of a regular PG-user 
When using Uber, he provides an intersection near his house as his pickup or drop-off point. For food deliveries, he might give a random neighbor’s address and, after the order is accepted, message the driver, “Oops, I typed out the address wrong. Let me know when you’re here, and I’ll run out.”
This, paired with using Firefox Private Windows on your Linux Pop!_OS (an operating system), is crucial for maintaining one’s privacy, so you won’t wake up one day from a message
You’ve been watching porn. Pay us one bitcoin and we won’t tell your mom.
I call this layered security, also known as defense in depth. Even if Private Window fails, no Uber driver or food delivery guy know where exactly you are watching your porn. And if they would follow you somehow, they wouldn’t have any proof that you are the one who watch the porn, thanks to the Private Window layer.
It’s extraordinarily hard, but worth it, if you don’t have any bitcoins and don’t want to break your mom’s heart.
But if the Pentagon with infrared lasers is after you, it’s over, you better tell everything to her yourself.