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ALWAYS THINK ABOUT RETENTION - leave out what isn't catchy. Rather too little which is thrilling than too much which may just be content that I or we want to be heard.
How can I shorten things?
### In Olden Days, the Internet Was Still "Perfect"
The year was 2013. The Internet was still this amazing place where anything was possible: You could hang out and chat with your friends. You could also debate with strangers from all over the world. Or you could simply go ahead and discover new and quirky websites every day. In the end, you could just be you - without anybody ever spoiling the fun.
There were talks about bad actors, true, but those were dismissed by the large public. It all still had this innocent vibe. I myself was the biggest Google fanboy out there and never questioned all of the trust I put in them; my whole digital life had a home with Google, and nothing was ever going to stop me. Why talk about rain when sunshine clearly is filling the sky?
![image displaying Truman smiling and having the perfect life]({{ site.img_url }}blog/snowden/truman_show_all_good.jpeg)
This all reminds me of the movie "The Truman Show". Truman, the main character, lives a perfect life: Great job, happily married and his best buddy is there for him anywhere, anytime.
But what he does not know yet - is that he is the main character in a massive reality TV show. His entire life is being broadcast to the entire world. He is being exploited and monetized without his knowledge or consent.
This all reminds me of the movie "The Truman Show". Truman, the main character, lives a perfect life: Great job, happily married and his best buddy is there for him anywhere, anytime. But what he does not know yet - is that he is the main character in a massive reality TV show. His entire life is being broadcast to the entire world. He is being exploited and monetized without his knowledge or consent.
All along, Truman always thought he controlling his life. But since his childhood he was pushed towards the goals of the show runners. He was manipulated. Without ever noticing.
### But Something Was Off
![image showing Truman looking up towards a camera, while his suspicions start to manifest]({{ site.img_url }}blog/snowden/truman_show_something_is_not_right.png)
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And then - just like us - Truman has his "Snowden moment". The moment he realizes something is just not right. Something is off. And even though he knew his perfect world was about to crumble, he could no longer look away. He had to face the truth.
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something is just not right
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And then - just like us - Truman had his "Snowden moment". The moment he realizes something is just not right. Something is off. And even though he knew his perfect world was about to crumble, he could no longer look away. He had to face the truth.
### Snowden Revealed How Threatened Our Freedoms Are
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And that is where our story begins. Because of Snowden, along with millions of others, we started seeing and discussing the issues of our modern age. And mass surveillance is a complex problem. Super complex. It is a problem that needs to be tackled on many different fronts; be it legislation, regulation, education or with software.
![image showing little girl in a small car exiting the drive way with sun glasses on - leaving the known behind and being cool about it]({{ site.img_url }}blog/snowden/leaving_work.png)
![image showing little girl in a small car exiting the drive way with sun glasses on - leaving the known behind and being cool about it]({{ site.img_url }}blog/snowden/leaving_work.png){:style="margin: 2rem 0;"}
After lots of thought, three guys from Austria quit their day jobs to fully invest their time into creating privacy solutions for the masses. They founded a company named Safing.
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Many obstacles lied ahead. Financing our research and development phase with no income yet. Hiring our first amazing! employees. Creating company culture. Building team structure. Getting our first "alpha" users. And of course, moving from that spare room into our first office.
![image s howing the three co-founders in the first empty office - big smiles!]({{ site.img_url }}blog/snowden/first_day_in_first_office.jpg){:style="margin: 2rem 0 0 0;"}
![image s howing the three co-founders in the first empty office - big smiles!]({{ site.img_url }}blog/snowden/first_day_in_first_office.jpg)
Man, what a day with big smiles!
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Oh my, what a day with big smiles!
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### With an Amazing Team and "Alpha" Testers, We Reached 1.0
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We are super proud to have made it this far!
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### People WANT Privacy - That Is Clear
### Reception Made It Clear: People WANT Privacy
And do not take our word for it. If anything was made clear through our journey, it is that people WANT privacy, if they can easily get it. Just look at what happened to our [GitHub stars]({{ site.github_url }}/portmaster) when we got to 1.0 - can you spot when it happened?
And do not take our word for it. If anything was made clear through our journey, it is that people WANT privacy, if they can easily get it.
![image s howing the three co-founders in the first empty office - big smiles!]({{ site.img_url }}blog/snowden/star-history-20221125.png){:style="margin: 2rem 0 0 0;"}
Just look at what happened to our [GitHub stars]({{ site.github_url }}/portmaster) when we got to 1.0 - can you spot when it happened?
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Correct - it was not long ago.
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![image s howing the three co-founders in the first empty office - big smiles!]({{ site.img_url }}blog/snowden/star-history-20221125.png)
Even as our software was labeled as "early development" - it managed to get 4k GitHub stars. Thousands of people downloaded and tested early software. They were in search for easy privacy.
The masses do not want their entire lives to be surveilled by default. It is just that they did not have a realistic choice so far. And this is about to change.
Portmaster is not ending with version 1.0. There are still tons of features planned, and we want to continue to make things simpler and simpler. To grandma and beyond!
The masses do not want their entire lives to be surveilled by default. It is just that they did not have a realistic choice so far. And this is about to change. Portmaster is not ending with version 1.0. There are still tons of features planned, and we want to continue to make things simpler and simpler. To grandma and beyond!
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