Writing review of common-threats.en.md

[KaiTebay]

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The best example of this is trusting data to Google who, given their scale, have had few security incidents by employing industry-leading security experts to secure their infrastructure.

Generally, mobile operating systems have better application sandboxing than desktop operating systems: Apps cannot obtain root access, and require permission for access to system resources.

Linux tends to not submit information to system vendors, but it has poor protection against exploits and malicious apps.

Governments often justify mass surveillance programs as necessary means to combat terrorism and prevent crime.

However it is most often used to disproportionately target minorities, political dissidents, and many other groups to create a chilling effect on free speech.

Pervasive ad networks, like those operated by Google and Facebook, span the internet far beyond just the sites they control, tracking your actions along the way.

Censorship on corporate platforms is increasingly common, as platforms like Twitter and Facebook give in to public demand, market pressures, and pressures from government agencies.

the Chinese government requiring companies to adhere to a strict regime of censorship.

For example, you may want to avoid Google Drive, which gives Google access to all of your data.

This pseudonym isn't anonymous because—if monitored for long enough—details about the owner can reveal further information, such as the way they write, their general knowledge about topics of interest, etc.

It is also worth noting that greater anonymity is possible through asynchronous communication: Real-time communication is vulnerable to analysis of typing patterns (i.e. more than a paragraph of text, distributed on a forum, via email, etc.)

References (with further information) would be helpful:

Pluggable transports can help you evade firewalls that block common VPN protocols or Tor, but your circumvention attempts can still be detected by methods like probing ⚠️ or deep packet inspection. ✔️

Employing alt-coin shifting may also help disguise where your currency originated.

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[jonaharagon]

These re-wordings generally LGTM. I think there's a lot of comma over-use in this PR, and I suggested a few other minor changes as well.

[dngray]

I went through this, and I think it's a vast improvement on readability.

[jonaharagon]

I disagree, but this is the same issue as #1836 (comment) I think?

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