Two things:
I've never backed my data up to iCloud. It's an irresistible trove of extremely private user data, and I always knew someone would come for it eventually.
If you REALLY want to deter the government, tell them to impliment back-doored encryption themselves for their own data. All the reasons they can't (or won't) do it are all the same reasons why we won't do it.
Not only are two of my friends parents not going to Florida on vacation, they're selling their condos down there, because they can't keep up with the payments due to the exchange rate... Which has a side effect of crashing the real estate market... Because nobody wants a place in hurricane alley where the home insurance is $1600+USD/month, in addition to condo fees and mortgage payments.
Is it anything like multi-threaded xz -- in that you're trading encoding speed for size?
Some of my best, most useful programs sort data from disparate sources into enormous Hash-Of-Hash structures to produce extremely insightful reports. And I wrote the first version 25 years ago.
The guy who wants to control everything, get the blame for everything that goes wrong.
That's just how it works.
Goose... Geese.
Moose... Meese.
I do my best to check as I'm putting things into my cart, but also double-check at the checkout. I caught a few things that had 'Canada' on the front of the box ("#1 brand in Canada!") that was actually made in the USA. I put it aside at the checkout. Putting it aside at the checkout and demonstrating to others that you won't buy American is encouragement for others to do the same.
Just checking back in to see how you're feeling about the speed-run of America into an authoritarian fascist theocracy.
His history / record shows otherwise.
Like when he promised Twitter an employees a 'buy out' package, then stiffed all of them for upwards of $500M dollars, then won the subsequent court battle, fucking over thousands of people.
It creates a cost for spammers. They have to have an account with a Telco, which isn't free, which in a lot of countries comes with some sort of National ID to register. That's the reason.
Ask yourself... If Putin was President of America and wanted to destroy 200 years of progress, who would he put in charge of the various departments... And then this all makes sense.