No.33903 [Last50 Posts]
the corporations watch us all
what are YOU doing to stop intruders from spying on your everyday life?
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No.33921
>>33903
GNU/Linux
Avoiding social media
Avoiding accounts in general
Not being a cuck.
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No.33923
>>33903
-No social media
-I'd switch to linux but my motherboard is so new there's no GNU/Support for it, my PC goes on infinite loop when trying to boot linux (tested on every distro known to me)
-Trying to create my own encryption cipher to encrypt all my shit with and then implement this algorithm with a program I'll make (probably in C#). I've got a general idea of how it works but reversing it to decrypt it is a bit harder than I thought. </rant>
-Never use my real name online (I broke that five minutes ago to make my paypal account so I could get a refund, but other than that never used it)
-Use extentions on browser to ensure you browse https and stuff
-Tor for everything except the chans and torrenting (might run a Tor relay or exit node)
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No.33930
absolutely nothing.
nothing to hide, nothing to fear
:^)
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No.33931
>hiding data from your loving government
What are you OP some sorta criminal? Only wrongdoers fear persecution.
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No.33932
>>33923
>might run a Tor relay or exit node
Isn't that basically inviting child pr0n to pass through your network?
or is all the traffic hidden?
I'm not sure how relay networks operate.
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No.33934
>>33932
It is, but it is also inviting people who need the network for legitimate purposes like escaping censorship. The traffic is encrypted as it passes through your network and would stay that way unless you are trying to tamper with it.
>>33930
>>33931
If you read the OP you can see that this is not gubbmint bread. This is corp bread.
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No.33935
>>33934
is there a difference?
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No.33975
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No.34026
I use a Macbook.
Please don't laugh at me.
Anyway:
>Stick with Safari despite the limited functionality because Firefox seems to be a mess at the moment and Chrome's a botnet
>Have Adguard, ClickForFlash, HTTPS Everywhere plugins
>Disabled Java
>Got rid of my social media accounts except for an Instagram under a burner email I post art to
>All the social media accounts I got rid of were under fake names/burner emails anyway
>Access internet through a VPN with browser set to private whenever possible
Currently using the free version of CyberGhost, because I need to put some brouzouf aside for a paid VPN. Worth the investment or should I just start browsing through TOR? One thing that worries me about paid VPNs is unless I can find one that'll accept Bitcoins through TOR there's going to be a paper/brouzouf trail leading back to my real name and bank account.
Honestly I don't do anything exactly controversial online besides browsing 8chan, but I really resent being surveilled. I don't like the idea of government agencies, advertising companies, etc trading my information and building a profile of me for god knows what purpose.
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No.34027
>>34026
>Firefox seems to be a mess at the moment
Download an old version. 17.0.1 - 27 is functional, just don't update it.
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No.34078
>>34026
>Honestly I don't do anything exactly controversial online besides browsing 8chan
Uuurrrrgh I cringe everytime I use this.
If you're not gonna run Gnu-Linux or BSD or something at least use Torbrowser for the web and Jitsi plus a Jabber account for chatting with friends. Jesus.
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No.34080
I use i2p, Tor, Tomb, Tox, Trisquel, Jabber+OTR, GPG with email, no social networks, almost never use a phone unless it's to call a doctor or something.
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No.34089
>>34026
There are plenty of Firefox forks out there that can work for your needs.
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No.34135
Other than using GNU/Linux, what other simple ways can I increase my privacy without going full tin-foil?
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No.34165
>>34135
> 2015
> still using winblows
try unplugging your computer from the internet
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No.34175
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No.34179
>>34165
You do realize he probably is ALREADY not using windows and thus why he is asking for recos besides that?
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No.38855
>>34078
I'm confuse. Do people really use a proxy to access /cyber/? I don't.
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No.38868
>>34165
Extremism is really depressing, read the post again.
>>38855
lolno
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No.38869
GNU/Linux. Different writing styles for different websites. Throwaway accounts.
Which country provides the best privacy laws for a VPN? I want to get one but they're pointless in USA because everything is wiretapped by default. Is Switzerland good?
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No.38882
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No.38887
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No.38909
>>34078
Tor + OSX/Win is a bit redundant. If you care enough to use Tor, you'll care enough to change systems.
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No.38911
>>33934
if your gonna run your own exit, then best of luck. read the tor site and eff site of exit nodes before the feds take your door down. as for relays and entrances (gateways?) you can't get in trouble as far as i know.
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No.38912
>>34135
host files to block evil/tracking/malicious domains
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No.38915
Bare-essential apps on Android phone only.
No personal information on phone.
Passwords in 1Password or similar encryption.
uBlock/HTTPS Everywhere in Chrome
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No.38916
>>38915
i would say adaway (root), xprivacy (xposed), keepassdroid for password managment (dont want my credentials zapping around the cloud), and for a browser maybe firefox with noscript, even orfox with orbot if you need tor
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No.39178
>>33923
>Trying to create my own encryption cipher
ever heard of Kerckhoff's principle ? probably not
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No.39205
>>38869
It doesn't matter which country they're in, unless you mask your VPN traffic with other means. Otherwise they'll just use timing attacks, like they do with TOR users or man on the side type of interception.
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No.39228
>>33903
Live parallel lives.
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No.39239
no facebook
I use whatsapp though, which is owned by them.. so I am slipping.
No snapchat.
No apps.
Reducing the amount of important email addresses I have and using throwaways.
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No.39350
>>33934
op here. gov/corp are both fine
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No.40334
I use at least six proxies at all times
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No.40342
Im running a scripted fake online persona that interacts unconspicuously on different social media accounts, runs typical searches based on the most popular keywords
Everything else is going heavily encrypted over a backbone in karachi
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No.40343
>>34026
Try Seamonkey, it's like Firefox but without the bullshit. And there're Netscape themes for it.
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No.42229
>>40343
>Netscape themes
sold
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No.42260
>>33903
> doing absolutely nothing of interest to anyone
Seems to have worked so far
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No.42320
File: 1467767931463.png (484.78 KB,1239x1640,1239:1640,paranoid anons tech guide.png)
Hello and welcome…I'm going to make things very clear. lets begin briefly, shall we? the wonderful shills have ensured that mint's been talked about as attempt to entrap exodus newbies running from windows into settling for another false sense of safety, privacy, and security. These excellent shills are pretending to settle for and install freedom-disrespecting, proprietary mint as well as recommending it in every thread to trick people desperate to switch their OS away from windows.
>"hey look guis, look at me pls, oh…well…! I will just use mint because it's my only option… ;^)" It is a cheap and common "lemmings over a cliff" style disinformation tactic used to win over people's helpless, FOOLISH minds, and it works surprisingly well… I presume you are all aware of systemd, Correct? It has been made quite sure that the stupid general public believes it's just another pointless thing whiners complain about needlessly… But in reality, systemd effects all Linux OS users!
isn't that great? systemd is an infectious, insidious, and diseased bloated blob plague of systemically parasitic, hypocritical, self-contradictory, purpose-defeating, pretentious, freedom betraying software that its creators daringly pulled off as an init-system! systemd takes away from it's users the freedom of choice and severely limits the control users have over their own computer. systemd is so restrictive and authoritarian to the point that it more than figuratively rapes your whole Operating System.
>user makes the choice to remove systemd and use a different init-system
>countless packages and programs that existed long before systemd and never required systemd to function are now somehow all tangled in an evil, sticky, and obnoxious web of unnecessary forced artificial false dependencies interconnecting throughout the entire OS
>any attempts to regain control rips out half the OS along with everything useful
>OS is now a dead husk
SysTemD is an STD
quite evil yes? excellently evil…
Finally as the plan comes together, we have micro$oft releasing it's own linux os, as if enough people didn't find them overwhelmingly abhorrent enough, to the point that unfathomably massive groups of people (who didn't participate in any surveys or statistic gathering) became refugees and migrated to other video game consoles and operating systems after only xbox one what a wonderful nightmare that was… and now again at the release of windows 10 "walking dollar sign to parasitize private data off of, I MEAN CUSTOMER who we care 10 quacks about-edition"
http://itsfoss.com/microsoft-announces-linux-os/
http://www.networkworld.com/article/2260199/virtualization/microsoft-stuns-linux-world--submits-source-code-for-kernel.html
http://www.mslinux.org/
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/ubuntu-conspiracy
http://itsfoss.com/canonical-microsoft-buyout/
>We all know that Microsoft has ‘created’ its own Linux
>Microsoft chose Ubuntu for the deployment of its big data Hadoop-on-Azure service, HDInsight.
>Microsoft has also been working with Canonical on LXD, a Linux container project.
which brings me to my final point, my great revelation of the plot against freedom itself.
WINDOWS, MINT, AND SYSTEMD, SJW'S ARE ALL CONNECTED!
How would anyone have ever guessed this ingeniously designed plot!? You are all drooling fools!
I will make it easy for a stupid "person" to understand.
>windows 10 released
>ignorant uninformed people keep using it, even though it steals your wifi and social networking passwords
>smarter yet still a multitude of levels more stupid than I, freedom seeking people attempt to flee this evils grasp and beg for knowledge online to the best of their pathetic ability
>mint and ubuntu shills pop up and fool a percentage of them promising ease of use
>meanwhile other shills scare them away from linux entirely by throwing noobs right into the grinder "installll gentoooo, installlll archhhh, installlllll fedoraaaa, installllll redhattt"
>meanwhile yet again, systemd spreads through linux like a virulent plague, infecting and un-freedoming multiple linux distrobutions, forcing users to run around trying to remove it or find another distro with no systemd.
SystemD is a plot to scare the people away from using major linux distros and move to a very limited set of options or rather ultimatums in which they can be effectively spied upon.
So I Welcome you all… to the NSA/Prism hotel where there is a Mint under every pillow and a pervert voyeur looking through your Windows.
You can check in but you can't check out, so enjoy your stay because you are never getting out! -√¿#΅ςγζτεηη–εггôř΅∞8∞8∞8∞8
you can check out, the ticket is truth. may it set you free, now run!
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No.42321
So I'm going to give you a bunch of really good information because I care alot. If you really want good out of your firefox browser, consider this. don't use firefox. It's just as bad as windows/google. Use a fork, and the addons: noscript, request policy, https everywhere. Don't ever use facebook. Use FOSS Linux OS with no systemd like Devuan because a good browser means nothing if your OS is junk. The best search engine for now is Ixquick.com The best firefox fork with freedom and privacy as its philosophy is GNU Icecat, which actively removes bad "features". (you may need to reenable hardware acceleration if its slow for you ) Don't use download mirrors you don't trust. If you don't like gnu icecat simply try to use almost any fork of firefox and make several changes to about:config as described in the instructions. and don't use ublock, umatrix because they are botnets like disconnect,duckduckgo,ghostery,adblockplus being shilled as an agenda to undermine,destroy,replace actual good addons Specifically: httpseverywhere, requestpolicy, noscript, AdblockEdge.
beware the shills that will attack this
Any thread calling out ublock shilling is immediately swarmed with damage control shills who's only argument is "but why is ublock so bad, but why but why it's good so why is it bad"
I warned you all way before, but now adblock edge is dead. mint's also been recently shilled as attempt to entrap exodus newbies running from windows into settling for another false sense of safety but it has been a major failure for the shills. There was a huge amount of ublock shilling before and immediately after adblock edge was discontinued, praising ublock in its description. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/?src=search
>Reason: Discontinued in favor of Ublock Origin, a general purpose blocker, that not only outperforms Adblock Edge but is also available on other browsers and, of course, without "Acceptable Ads Whitelist". This page will be kept for archival purposes. You can still contact me on GitHub or Bitbucket as Adstomper. http://adstomper.bitbucket.org/
>No sponsored Ads
>KISS Philosophy
>Transparent
I can has bribe?
another addon that has been shilled a huge amount on 8chan is disconnect:
>disconnect
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disconnect/
>About this Add-on Disconnect, named one of the 100 best innovations of the year by
Popular Science
and one of the 20 best Firefox add-ons by
Lifehacker
lets you visualize and block the otherwise invisible websites that track your search and browsing history.
>Our privacy policy, in a sentence: We don't collect your IP address or any other personal info
>except the info you volunteer.
>wall street journal
>CNN
>The new york times
>60 Minutes
>Forbes
https://disconnect.me
http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/22/disconnect-me-raise/
https://gigaom.com/2013/04/15/ex-googler-releases-big-update-to-disconnect-a-data-blocking-tool/
>Launched in 2010 by a
former Google engineer
http://www.itproportal.com/2012/03/24/ex-google-staff-working-to-disconnect-surfers-from-data-tracking/
https://prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linux/#web-browser-addons
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No.42322
Another thing to note is that systemd is four-hundred-twenty-five-THOUSAND lines of code for just an init system. systemd is a plot to windows-ize linux and ruin it for everyone who loves freedom. systemd is being shoved down everyone's throats. systemd is massive for an init system. systemd is bloat. systemd is a Linux kernel coup attempt. Systemd tries to incorporate way too much. Many previously isolated components are all carelessly blobbed together which not only widens the angle of attack but also makes the system as a whole less reliable, because one small error and whole system goes down HARD.
Systemd is being pushed by obviously malicious people. Consider the following: The reason developers have decided to depend on systemd is stated to be that it solves problems with device management, for example. However, several tens of thousands of people have worked for decades without addressing or even mentioning the existence of such a problem. if the problem existed, it would have been mentioned. If the problem existed, people would have worked on it. Mentioning a problem costs literally nothing and would have been effectively mandatory in dev mailing lists and ircs e.g. when discussing a specific implementation, interface, or approach taken or to be taken by a project. The systemd-backing people almost exclusively use emotions-based arguments to support systemd: "The only other option was sysvinit! If you don't like systemd, you're a sysvinit fanatic! The only people who oppose us are the men in the linux community that have a deep hatred for women!"
The project is strongly endorsed by various feminist groups that have nothing to do with technology. The system is headed by a developer reputed for making low-quality software. If literally any other piece of software had the kind of bugs described in the various systemd issue trackers, they wouldn't even be accepted in distro repos, yet systemd has been widely adopted in a matter of months, breaking compatibility and not offering upgrade paths even on the likes of strong server OSs like debian or centos. SELinux - a NSA project - developers are strongly for systemd, nevermind the numerous bugs and undoubtedly numerous security vulnerabilities. Speaking of, there has been NO audit of systemd even though everyone is accepting systemd no matter how security-sensitive the distro is meant to be. It's pretty evident that something is really wrong with systemd's adoption. basically the bastards who want to enslave the world decided that the best way to control opensource is to create their own and promote it until it's the standard even though it shouldn't be.
new people would fall for it and the more knowledgeable are facing a lack of support for their alternatives. The project to create an all-encompassing system that can be easily infiltrated by, at will to provide root access and spy on arbitrary non-backdoored systems is being funded by, and is being promoted by the, global elite across the entire community. It's clear that the adoption of systemd is not normal and there's something hiding behind it. Nobody has ever been specific about what kind of problem systemd solves, nobody has ever even mentioned having a problem before systemd appeared, and suddenly it spreads like wildfire.
systemd's design is flawed intentionally to increase its attack vector and make it vulnerable for outside attackers to break it more easily. There is a reason why systemd is pushed by Red hat, an American company with very close ties to the N$@. Red hat controls Fedora, so Fedora adopted it first, then Red hat enterprise linux and because Red hat funds most of debian, they also caved in. Basically all of the major distros are controlled by Red hat one way or another. Everyone hates Gnome, yet it is still here, why you ask…… it is Red hat. Red Hat wants control of Linux. Anyone who opposes systemd is in the way of them controlling Linux. They will do whatever they can to make sure that Gentoo, Slackware, Void, and Alpine have the worst time possible by not solely supporting systemd. After red hat fully takes control with systemd, there is no need for different distros, because basically they will be all the same but with a different logo.
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No.42323
http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
http://judecnelson.blogspot.mx/2014/09/systemd-biggest-fallacies.html
http://devuan.org/
http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_remove_systemd_from_a_Debian_jessie/sid_installation
http://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=accd9eeb719916da974584b33b1aeced5f3bb346
SJW's role in trying to destroy free open source projects exposed
https://archive.is/dgilk
https://archive.is/deeN1
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2015/10/exposing-true-face-of-sjw.html
also if you are running linux, remove EVERYTHING that says zeitgeist and telnet whether you use synaptic or any other manager. also remove everything that says "remote desktop viewer"
>intel
gathers intel on you
>microsoft windows
can look through your windows
avoid intel like the plague. There's been alot of good news about AMD being bro's in a world of jerks lately. give them support and they will be supported.
The best thing you can do is educate yourself and think critically, systematically, meticulously, obsessively, and autistically. you have to think inside the box, outside the box, inside looking out, outside looking in, stomping on the box, throwing it away, and then questioning if the box ever even existed in the first place. you must be the hand that can bend light so that the eye can see around the corner of plato's cave.
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No.42324
firefox about:config guide
Warning:
following these instructions may severely break your computer and firefox and may ruin your privacy and your entire life.
do any of these things at your own risk.
I am not responsible for anything bad that happens to you.
Some of these things DO mess up your ability to use 8chan and screw up the way the site functions so pick and choose carefully, use saves/different profiles or something.
This may void your warranty.
Ask a professional and the mozilla team before doing anything.
You have been warned.
first open about:config
keep in mind that you will have to go back and check each and every single one of these every time you update your firefox/ firefox fork as the bastards love tricking people and making sure they are un-deleted or un-disabled during the updates. they actively go out of their way to undo the users changes behind their back deep in about:config where they aren't looking.
I also suggest that you install the FEBE addon first, and make backups along the way before changes while constantly checking if the browser will even start. sometimes something will break and the browser will refuse to even start up, crashing as you click on the icon.
so make a FEBE backup, make changes, exit the browser and start it back up. check if everything still functions, then make another backup before making any more changes.
somtimes it just works fine, sometimes you need to reload a backup a few tries until you find out what you were changing that broke everything. some good advice is that if you are completely unsure as to what something does do alot of research before changing it or don't mess with it at all -however, things that look bad might be a good idea to trust instincts on.
also be aware disabling dom storage disables some 8chan features
make sure to ask Fredrick for more 8chan website support for users who
dont use dom storage such as captchas and 8chan settings that work regardless
(don't worry captcha works everywhere still if javascript is off)
to protect against SSLv3 exploit you can use the mozilla addon "SSL version control"
or set security.tls.version.min = 1 in about:config for Mozilla Firefox.
To restore change the value back to the security.tls.version.min = 0. That's it.
In Mozilla Thunderbird you can set it also in about:config, which You can find in: Tools → Options → Advanced → General → Config Editor.
Always use a firefox fork that gets regular good security updates. never use a main distribution. the underdogs are your friends.
Also, I know that this seems like alot but if you just try to get through it all its a big relief when you are done overhauling the whole thing.
I also want everyone to understand that almost all of this garbage and bloat has no excuse to be in the browser in the first place and reveals just how far down the slippery slope internet browsers have gone. The fact that users actually need to un-google and un-facebook and security harden their brownsers in the first place, even change them from what they originally are from vanilla, is unacceptable.
remember to explore "about:permissions" as well.
remember to search in about config: "handlerservice" "scan" "beacon" "healthreport" "profiler" "profile" "health" "service" "avatar" "handler" "diagnostics" "marketplace" "account" "google" "facebook" "microsoft" "social" "sync" "promo" "ringtone" "ajax" "media" "pocket" "browser.send" "peer" "bing" "yahoo" "datareporting" "duckduckgo" "loop" "hello" "geo" "geoip" "tool" "toolkit" "statistic" "monitor" "inspector" "warning" "trace" "host" "remote" "wifi" "scan" "forbid" "experiment" (disable all experiments) "error" "reporting" "report" "crash" "cell" "ping" "errorreporting" "share" "exception" "black-box" "learn" "buzz" "privacy" "private" "support" "screenshot" "uitour" "sync"
"telemetry" "screensharing" "broadcast" "logging" "gecko" "log" "server" "status" "app" "sync" (Disable almost everything in sync) "browser.safebrowsing" as they have huge amount of URL to delete or settings to disable. "URL" and "URI" alone has a huge amount of really stupid pointless and useless urls to delete. (set all "autoupdate" "auto" "update" search results to false for more control)
(unless you want update all your addons one by one, don't delete the urls that update your addons. Don't mess with things that say "" "addon" "extension" "update" "" in the setting or you might not be able to update. you can reverse this by creating another profile and copying the url from about:config and pasting it back in your original profile's about:config where the settings delete url goes and deleting the non-needed profile
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No.42325
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No.42326
my computer is getting attacked with cross scripting attacks as I post this.
browser.search.geoSpecificDefaults FALSE
browser.trackingprotection.updateURL DELETE URL
browser.trackingprotection.gethashURL DELETE URL (yea right, protecting people from tracking by tracking them by having their browser call home to a url?)
privacy.trackingprotection.enabled FALSE
browser.uitour.url DELETE URL
browser.geolocation.warning.infoURL DELETE URL
loop.feedback.baseUrl DELETE URL
loop.feedback.product DELETE URL
loop.contacts.gravatars.promo FALSE
loop.browserSharing.showInfoBar FALSE
loop.CSP DELETE URL
loop.ringtone DELETE URL
loop.server DELETE URL
loop.seenToS DELETE URL
loop.showPartnerLogo FALSE
network.http.pipelining.ssl TRUE
network.http.proxy.pipelining TRUE
media.getusermedia.screensharing.allowed_domains (delete url)
browser.search.order. (delete urls)
browser.search. (check this well)
browser.search.geoip.url (delete url)
media.getusermedia.screensharing.enabled FALSE
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy Right click, select modify, set it to 15
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server set it to 15
network.http.max-connections-per-server set it to 15
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests also set to be 15
network.http.redirection-limit Set to 3
network.dns.disableIPv6 Set to true
network.http.fast-fallback-to-IPv4 Set to false
dom.popup_maximum set to 3
loop.support_url DELETE URL
loop.legal.privacy_url DELETE URL
loop.legal.ToS_url DELETE URL
loop.learnMoreUrl DELETE URL
loop.gettingStarted.url DELETE URL
network.prefetch-next FALSE (disables prefetching)
network.dns.disablePrefetch TRUE (extra layer of telling fox to not prefetch)
(REMEMBER TO USE A FORK OF FIREFOX! main firefox is SJW NAZI BOTNET GOOGLE NOW!)
icecat/palemoon/seamonkey/iceweasel/ are FORKS! don't use google chrome or other junk browsers!
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No.42327
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/38.5.2/
newest icecat version 38.5.2 is now out and has been very nice, fast, and stable for a while now since some older versions!
this may be outdated, and much newer versions may now exist!
disable google geolocation and reporting:
dwhelper.social-share.service.google.enabled FALSE
dwhelper.social-share.service.google_buzz.enabled FALSE
geo.enabled FALSE
geo.wifi.logging.enabled FALSE
geo.wifi.uri (delete the value)
browser.safebrowsing.appRepURL (delete the value)
browser.safebrowsing.debug FALSE
browser.safebrowsing.enabled FALSE
browser.safebrowsing.gethashURL (delete the value)
browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled FALSE
browser.safebrowsing.malware.reportURL (delete the value)
browser.safebrowsing.reportURL (delete the value)
browser.safebrowsing.updateURL (delete the value)
services.sync.prefs.sync.browser.safebrowsing.enabled FALSE
services.sync.prefs.sync.browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled FALSE
(take a break here and read how to fix the internet for everyone)
- install TOR software on EVERY router, complete unfiltered
- force EVERYONE to use PGP, no exceptions
- forbid non open source software in essential parts of using the internet (webbrowser, mail client…)
- build a company which is only there for pen-testing, if something is found, they have to call/mail the website owner and inform him
- build a company which is completly transparent, the only thing they do is build network hardware, everyone has the right to look into their files/production processes to verify there are no backdoors in the hardware
- same for computer manufacturers
- ISPs are forbidden to give "middle traffic speed", but they have to give you a minimum traffic speed for every time
(break is done, keep on going!)
media.peerconnection.enabled FALSE
browser.search.suggest.enabled DISABLE IT
Turn off the new tab page, and makes it about:blank:
browser.newtab.url => about:blank
Turn off file virus-scan after download:
browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone => false
some of these are really optional:
Override the useragent to most common useragent (not needed with UA Switcher):
New > string: general.useragent.override =>
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0
Force installation of non-updated add-ons:
New > boolean: extensions.checkCompatibility.[version #] => false
keyword.URL erase and leave blank
Increase the amount of connections/requests Firefox will make:
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests => 15
network.http.max-connections => 15
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server => 15
Speed up the security delay when installing add-ons:
security.dialog_enable_delay => 500
changing how your browser stores cache, and uses ram instead (but less ram overall) as a result.
browser.cache.disk.capacity 0
browser.cache.memory.enable FALSE
network.http.use-cache FALSE
browser.cache.memory.max_entry_size 0
browser.cache.memory.disk FALSE
browser.cache.disk.capacity 0
browser.cache.disk.enable FALSE
browser.cache.disk.metadata_memory_limit 1 (just in case 0 might mean unlimited)
browser.cache.disk.smart_size.enabled FALSE
browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run FALSE
browser.cache.disk.smart_size.use_old_max FALSE
browser.cache.disk.smart_size_cached_value 0
browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl FALSE
browser.cache.offline.capacity 0
browser.cache.offline.enable FALSE
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No.42328
don't forget to bookmark "about:memory" so that you can click the "minimize memory usage button" it can really help alot.
maybe useful in a tor browser setup, (accidentally clicked bad things never hits your disk):
browser.cache.disk.parent_directory=/tmp/ffcache and put /tmp/ in ram.
(there is no guaranteed way of making this work and often doesn't work for anyone, so its considered broken unless you can figure it out)
dom.storage.default_quota 0 (1kB is ample to track so disabled completely *zero* is better)
dom.storage.enabled FALSE
Disable pings:
browser.send_pings FALSE
browser.send_pings.max_per_link 0
browser.send_pings.require_same_host TRUE (extra layer of protection)
Disable suggestions on searchbar:
browser.search.suggest.enabled FALSE
Disable keywords:
keyword.enabled FALSE
browser.ssl_override_behavior => 2
Disable DNS proxy bypass:
network.proxy.socks_remote_dns TRUE
true would Have the proxy server perform DNS lookups
false would Perform DNS lookups on the client (this is what you don't want)
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.proxy.socks_remote_dns
https://www.browserleaks.com/
https://panopticlick.eff.org/
ooooooooooooooooooooo
also search through these to delete HUGE amounts of links from.
datareporting
browser.contentHandlers
browser.safebrowsing
browser.search
gecko.handlerService
ooooooooooooooooooo
services.sync.prefs.sync.browser.search.update FALSE
services.sync.prefs.sync.browser.search.selectedEngine FALSE
browser.search.update.interval (set to ZERO )
browser.search.searchEnginesURL ERASE URL
(adblock edge filter list links to add into ABE)
http://spam404bl.com/spam404scamlist.txt
https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easyprivacy.txt
https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easyprivacy+easylist.txt
https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easylist.txt
http://pie.estiva.org:1223/data/abl/sw_aio.txt
http://pie.estiva.org:1223/data/abl/nm_easyprivacy.txt
http://pie.estiva.org:1223/data/abl/nm_easylist.txt
http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=adblockplus&mimetype=plaintext
https://www.fanboy.co.nz/r/fanboy-ultimate.txt
https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/malwaredomains_full.txt
https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/fanboy-social.txt
https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/antiadblockfilters.txt
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No.42329
///////////////////////////////////////////////
you could possibly use FEBE to save everything (depending on how you do it to avoid ruining the settings of Tor) and send your extensions to the Tor Browser
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en
datareporting.healthreport.service.firstRun DISABLE IT
datareporting.sessions.current.clean DISABLE IT
toolkit.telemetry.enabled DISABLE IT
browser.search.suggest.enabled DISABLE IT
media.peerconnection.enabled DISABLE IT
geo.enabled DISABLE IT
toolkit.telemetry.infoURL (delete url)
toolkit.telemetry.server (delete url)
network.websocket.enabled FALSE
network.http.sendSecureXSiteReferrer FALSE
services.sync.prefs.sync.privacy.trackingprotection.enabled FALSE
dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled FALSE
services.sync.prefs.sync.browser.safebrowsing.enabled FALSE
services.sync.prefs.sync.browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled FALSE
typing in "safebrowsing" will show many options
media.eme.enabled FALSE
media.gmp-eme-adobe.enabled FALSE
search adobe and disable these, might break flash, but why are you using flash!!!
loop.enabled FALSE
camera.control.face_detection.enabled (VERY CREEPY) FALSE
device.sensors.enabled FALSE
security.tls.unrestricted_rc4_fallback FALSE
security.tls.insecure_fallback_hosts.use_static_list FALSE
pdfjs.disabled TRUE
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No.42330
extensions.blocklist.enabled FALSE
(delete all these links after searching "extensions.blocklist",
or firefox sends data without permission, beware:
its up to you to not install unsafe addons from unsafe places now.)
network.http.speculative-parallel-limit (SET TO ZERO)
disable your live bookmarks and rss feed bookmarks and delete them as well, only use ordinary bookmarks.
browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl (delete the url)
browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone (set the value to ignore)
extensions.getAddons.cache.enabled FALSE
dom.ipc.plugins.flash.subprocess.crashreporter.enabled FALSE
toolkit.crashreporter.infoURL DELETE URL
breakpad.reportURL DELETE URL
toolkit.crashreporter.infoURL DELETE UR
browser.pocket.enabled DISABLE
webgl.disabled TRUE
dom.server-events.enabled FALSE
media.peerconnection.enabled FALSE
media.peerconnection.use_document_iceservers FALSE
media.peerconnection.video.enabled FALSE
media.navigator.enabled FALSE
media.navigator.video.enabled FALSE
media.navigator.permission.disabled TRUE
dwhelper.social-share.service.facebook.enabled FALSE
also search "facebook" and delete all the links unless mentioned in an extensions prefs
facebook will be mentioned if you block facebook in noscript.
social.manifest.facebook ERASE and leave blank
social.remote-install.enabled FALSE
social.whitelist ERASE and leave blank
media.autoplay.enabled FALSE
dom.use_watchdog FALSE
dom.workers.websocket.enabled FALSE
media.audio_data.enabled FALSE
browser.selfsupport.url (delete url)
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
noscript does have a few google things inside of it so
noscript.ABE.wanIp FALSE
noscript.ABE.wanIpCheckURL https://secure.informaction.com/ipecho/ (delete this)
oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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No.42331
also, watch the progress of Devuan.org
(systemd-less debian in the works)
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No.42334
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No.42444
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No.42452
I wonder if some websites are instant redflags. For example, i'm using windows on this computer, because i like games and i don't have the brouzouf for a work-only machine.
If i visit lainchan or google "how to make bombs", would that be an instant redflag? Would i be a potential something somewhere?
After i'm flagged, i wonder what is done to further keep track on what i do or do not do.
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No.42474
>>42452
considering the terms or things that get you on so many different alphabet agencies "lists" (remember that list that the nsa told people about?) "yea if you like puppies, your on this list!" or something like that, I don't know. people were outraged at how many stupid things could get you on lists.
for example, if you like linux, you are an "extremist" for not using privacy and freedom raping windows10 from micronazishitsoft and if you don't like apple.
you can be on the list for basically doing anything that any normal freedom and privacy loving citizen of the USA could ever think to do as "normal" because the global elite cult that tells our government what to do hates freedom and hates privacy.
also the most hilarious thing is that if you are not on any lists, you are put on a "this strange person is not on any lists -list" for being too perfect.
all that being said, the NSA spies on everyone without their consent, or lies about it to make people afraid via the panopticon effect, and yet they did absolutely nothing at all to stop or warn people about the muslim extremist orlando shooting terrorist attack. this means one of two things.
>1. they are useless and can't do shit about anything
>2. they knew and let it happen
I try not to worry and rather hope that one day we may have world peace. I'm so sick of this.
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No.42475
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No.42491
Thought on this running tales and saving/running programs off it; Thinking of buying an external HDD and putting wikipedia on it, informative pdfs etc, Having a cache of information seems like a good idea.
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No.42492
>>42491
Wikipedia is hardly useful per se. I think it'd be much more productive to have books on everything you can imagine might be useful.
That way you'll have meaningful knowledge on the subjects forever, instead of simply an overview. Go on /tech/, i believe they still have a stick with everything related to programming, from eletronics, electricity and mathematics to front end development. It's the valuable useful torren't i've ever downloaded.
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No.42498
>>42492
>I think it'd be much more productive to have books on everything you can imagine might be useful
That's not very portable or cyberpunk
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No.42500
>>42498
But its also a smarter decision in the long run. The best compromise would be ebook versions of actual books for ease of replicating and storage. Having wikipedia articles is the equivalent of having a bunch of Cliff Notes versions of books rather than actually reading them.
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No.42507
>>42498
E-books dummy, things aren't cyberpunk because they look cyberpunk, they are in a specific context.
Having a shitload of books in a flashdrive is useful, specially if you have an e-reader that lasts basically forever.
As i mentioned, gentooman's library for programming, mathematics, network and even electricity is a really great start for that sort of collegion. A lot of them are in PDF though, i don't think it's usable in an e-reader, just cellphones and such.
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No.42508
>>42507
Some e-readers can. I believe even first gen Kindle could.
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No.42509
What do you guys do to protect your smartphones? Is ubuntu phone any good or there aren't enough apps to make it viable as a smartphone?
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No.42516
>>42509
> do you guys do to protect your smartphones? Is ubuntu phone any good or there aren't enough apps to make it viable as a smartphone?
I protect by installing a custom rom on it + remove camera / front camera and microphone.
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No.42520
>>42516
They keep track of your location anyway though, that was proved last year.
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No.42523
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No.42524
>>42520
>>>/cyber/42338
this for sure.
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No.42525
>>42523
whoops, and it doesn't let me delete. 8ch.net is so busted. when will they fix it?
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No.42526
>>42509
>>>/cyber/42339
and this
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No.46078
>>34026
>and Chrome's a botnet
You're using MacOS 10 and Safari.
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No.46538
>>33931
Government is a type of corporation, ya dip.
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No.46545
>>42524
Hadn't seen it from that particular perspective.
But yeah, smartphones are blackbox devices.
For starters, the smartphone was a mistake, and it's a terrible idea to use a smartphone at all. Period.
There is absolutely no need for a smartphone, whoever thinks otherwise is a tool of Da System™.
That said, even normal cell phones are tracking deviced by their very own nature, and you can't be sure that they don't have some sort of backdoor either.
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No.46566
If you have an Intel chip, your PC was compromised out the box. Sorry chummers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Active_Management_Technology
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No.46573
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No.46884
I do the basics: VM's, GNU/Linux, Tor, I2P, ZeroNet, VPN, no google, custom android rom no gapps, etc..
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No.46986
>>38911
you can only get in trouble for exits. Ran a guard for 3 years off a Raspberry Pi, since all Tor traffic has to pass through at least 3 or 5 nodes only the exit node is unencrypted. In the US at least you can't get into trouble for allowing random encrypted traffic on your network (yet)
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No.46987
>>42452
>how to make bombs
yes if you google that you're a moron and deserve to be redflagged
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No.46989
I'm posting in this thread using Tor for starters.
I also ditched Facebook, and mostly keep in touch with friends via Signal.
And cash, glorious cash. I spend it.
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No.46991
Tor, VPN, no SNSs (facebook, google etc), brouzouf purchases, no chat clients, gpg with email, no mobile phone contract, stuff.
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No.47004
>>46991
impressed with that level of privacy, I don't think I could ever get to that level
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No.47006
I just live a very simplified life.
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No.47010
>>47004
It's not as hard as it sounds (even if you aren't a friendless NEET). Facebook is too uncool to use anyways, and google is easily replaced with Startpage with almost no sacrifice to convenience. You get used to paying for everything with cash, and it helps you keep track of your spending. Burner refillable phones are extremely cheap and usually less costly in the long run than contracts.
One of the more effective things you can do is to simply never make accounts for anything you don't need to, and to use new burner emails and usernames for each account you have to make.
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No.47013
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No.47072
>>47010
Did you know that even if you don't have a Facebook account, they're profiling you anyway ? (Same shit with google, tweeter etc…)
See those share/tweet buttons on every webpage ? Consider those as websites. This way, they log your IP/time/localization without having an account.
The only way is to redirect every domains to your machine with your host file.
Guys, it's pointless sometime.
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No.47073
>>47072
Isn't that what umatrix/noscript/request policy is for?
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No.47077
>>47072
>The only way is to redirect every domains to your machine with your host file.
or use tor or proxy
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No.47136
>>33923
That sounds like a bios problem. Check if it boots under legacy or UEFI.
Surprisingly, UEFI seems to work much better than legacy.
Then try it again under either Arch Linux (you don't have to keep arch, though). Arch generally supports everything, so compatibility won't be an issue.
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No.47137
>>47077
That doesn't always work anymore since we use DNS. If you block it through DNS, though, then you won't have issues.
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No.50952
>>39178
Kerckhoffs's principle isn't the same as "don't invent your own ciphers". Of course one shouldn't invent or implement ciphers (but use existing cryptographic libraries like libsodium or something else. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_cryptography_libraries)
Kerckhoffs's principle is general advice for transparency and moreover, advice that the method of encryption shouldn't be secret in itself. That's why encryption algorithms are keyed, similar to how locks are keyed. Lock is secure although everyone knows the principle behind the lock. Kerckhoffs's principle states "don't assume security because nobody's going to drill one lock to see how it works, and find the weakness".
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No.50953
>>50952
To further expand on this point, no one ever said 'Don't create your own encryption', they said 'Don't count on your home brewed encryption.'
If you want to create a cipher, and you really think you've got something special, then release the source for analysis.
If you think you whipped up a cipher on your own in your basement that the letter agencies won't cut like a hot knife through butter, you're almost certainly, laughably, wrong.
That doesn't mean don't do it, just don't use it anywhere.
If you're so paranoid that you honestly think every available encryption alg has a backdoor or is already broken, by all means do a second layer of your own special sauce. Maybe use someone else's reference implementation of one of the slower algs that was never chosen for mass use.
Don't let the fact that a good encryption alg needs to be reviewed by peers stop you from trying your own implementations.
That's how, eventually, we end up with devs who are implementing and auditing new algs. You gotta cut your teeth on something.
Just, for the love of god, know they're toy implementations and treat them as such.
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No.50954
>>50953
I fully agree one should release the source always. However, if one expects a peer review, the road to the top is of the rockiest out there: https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/archives/1998/1015.html#cipherdesign
Related to the Dunning-Kruger effect and over-confidence your reply touched, this top answer is fantastic:
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/18197/why-shouldnt-we-roll-our-own
>That doesn't mean don't do it, just don't use it anywhere.
Fully agree. Always attach a warning sign "WARNING! This is a toy cipher intended for the purpose of learning about cryptography! Do not use it for anything serious!"
With that banner, feel free to play with crypto all you want. No expert or expert novice is going to bother blaming you for snake oil salesmanship.
>Maybe use someone else's reference implementation of one of the slower algs that was never chosen for mass use.
It's harder to verify 3rd party implementation of e.g. Serpent – deemed more secure but slower than AES – is 1) correct b) side-channel free.
Personally I'd only use vetted ciphers. But caveat emptor, there's room for healthy amount of skepticism towards NIST after DUAL_EC_DRBG. https://safecurves.cr.yp.to/ lists NIST's P-curves insecure.
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No.50966
>>34080
can you do this and have irl friends?
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No.50977
>>50966
friends are a threat to your privacy beware
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No.50978
>>50966
No, and he's also on a list for being 'abnormal'.
I use stuff the way you'd normally use stuff, unencrypted email, pics of my wife and kid on facebook, ect … then I have a separate laptop for doing other things.
That way there's no black hole in my social profile, I just don't stick out at all.
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No.51028
>>50978
You can pretend that being a filthy disgusting normalfag somehow is a good thing, because you've just got a really sick cover, but in actuality you're just a filthy disgusting normalfag.
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No.51029
>>51028
> you're just a filthy disgusting normalfag.
What's sad is you pretending you're special. I said there's value in making a conscious decision about what to share, and sharing enough that you don't stick out, but I'm getting the vibe that you're an autist who shares pedo porn and gun picks on Tor, thinking that makes you super cool, and it's everyone else that's wrong. Meanwhile, the letter agencies have had you on a list for years, not because you're special, but because you're socially retarded, and don't know any better.
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No.51032
It's not about leaving NO footprint and vanishing completely.
It's about leaving enough of a (non-compromising) footprint that nobody will raise an eyebrow.
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No.51090
Living two lives looks much more dangerous to governments than living in privacy. Which one sounds like a newsworthy article: "A hermit was found living without social media" or "Man was found living two lives". One of those scares us more because that could be anyone around us. That's what's currently driving the domestic spying programs: The enemy within.
The government can see you making changes, and they will observe the amount of changes you make to your life to determine how much you desire privacy. Take two cases
A: "the guy downloaded Tor browser, he must be a criminal"
B: "the guy downloaded dozens of add-ons and tweaked hundreds of settings in their browser and the add-ons, and actively manages their cookies, headers, VPN etc., he must be a criminal" (some of the good posters in this thread)
In these cases, just using Tor browser does not make you hundred times bigger threat because it's hundred times more effective than all the other measures of case B combined. Had the person set up another Tor-like, global anonymity network themselves, injected proxy clients to devices of thousands of innocent users just to bounce their traffic, that would look (and probably be) hundred times more dangerous than case B, which to government actually looks A LOT more dangerous and dedicated than case A.
Why is Tor browser more secure then? It's because it's the result of more than a decade of work towards anonymity and privacy by privacy activists, hackers and security experts. That effort is not the fault of the users however. They just download the client and be done with it. Perhaps they might tweak the single privacy setting slider prompted by the browser during initial start. Not only is that hundred times more effective, it's hundred times less effort. Again, because it's less effort, it looks less dedicated and so, less dangerous.
Why is it more effective then?
Whenever you browse the internet you assume the server and the ad-displaying backend is trying to deanonymize you. They do this with a massive, never-ending game of "Guess Who" where they tie information about the user across sessions with cookies, and run all sorts of analytics systems about user behavior and compare them to databases about users, sold from business to business (that type of trading is invisible to end users).
If you make yourself anonymous, it means that session is not tieable to any other sessions, even if your AT&T works together with the destination server, and when the network of analytics companies connected to destination server work together. It's not just what information you make available, it's the metadata about how much information you leave. In case B you might have succeeded so well you display totally different data every time you connect. But you also caused the browser to leave about 11 bits of random identifying information, and everyone else has 2..1000 times as much. So they can link your sessions together with reasonable reliability. All it takes is one mistake. You publish something that's identifiable, say your password manager auto-typed the wrong password the company logs, and that random password is leaked from another company's plaintext database along with your first.last@name.com email. All those sessions are now tied to you, and while they won't show you ads based on that, all that analytical data can now be sold to a company that has backroom dealings with the government interested in users with small digital footprint.
With Tor, every browser looks exactly the same as long as you don't go tweaking it. Imagine playing Guess Who where you have 50 identical Tor logos on your side of the board. There is only one question to ask: "Does your person look like a Tor user?" In such situations there is no risk of retrospective deanonymization either. Every action could have done by any of the more than 2 million daily Tor users.
Tor is not enough however: The site tries to deanonymize you by observing what you read from the site, and by what you post to the site (searches, writings). By disabling javascript in Tor browser, you can prevent the web site from dynamically analyzing what you do, where your mouse is etc. Then it's up to the content. Do not post too much information in one go, always reset the Tor browser session between posts and when changing domain. Never click links. Always right click and copy-paste address to hide referrer information from next site. If the link on clipboard has referrer information, delete it manually or try to find the destination with search engine based on e.g. headline next to original link. Alter your writing style when possible. Sometimes even argue with yourself in subsequent replies or call yourself a newfag.
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No.51478
>>51032
>It's about leaving enough of a (non-compromising) footprint that nobody will raise an eyebrow.
That's actually a considerable amount of work compared to the former of just dropping off completely, which is a shame.
Surprised nobody has developed a piece of software that continually floods your network with mundane traffic, like watching all the "Trending" videos on Youtube, and reading the most popular Buzzfeed/Guardian fluff pieces.
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No.51479
>>51478
I will guarantee you the second someone comes up with it the government will just adjust their algorithms. The only place I see this spreading is some site like hackbb but they nuked it and I haven't found a replacement.
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No.51848
>Surprised nobody has developed a piece of software that continually floods your network with mundane traffic, like watching all the "Trending" videos on Youtube, and reading the most popular Buzzfeed/Guardian fluff pieces.
it's been done years ago fellow anon
https://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum/papers/HoweNissTMN.2.8d.pdf
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No.57180
>>33903
A Huge oversight on these boards is that a technical security program isn't good enough to protect your privacy. Because your privacy is being violated constantly offline by every commercial interaction , and even as you walk around retail stores.
Check out The Complete Privacy Security and OSINT show by MB . He details an offline privacy program including privacy.com credit cards, faraday bags, CMRAs, mysudo , blur, 33mail to help remove identifiers from your life and protect your privacy.
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No.57465
>>33903
>what are YOU doing to stop intruders from spying on your everyday life?
1. use internet services as little as possible, eg no social media
2. when i do use internet services, i use ones that (claim) to not store data, eg google -> duckduckgo
3. when i use internet services i obfuscate the data i give them, eg use tor to obfuscate data going to ISP
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No.57501
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
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No.57504
>>57465
You're know Searx exist, right?
https://searx.space/#
Meta-searx such this one, even replace links with official .onion mirrors of sites:
http://searxes.wodferndripvpe6ib4uz4rtngrnzichnirgn7t5x64gxcyroopbhsuqd.onion/
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No.57715
I would argue against what some of you lads have said regarding Social Media. Part of internet security is creating a smoke screen which indicates to any observers a normal pattern of behaviour. Create the most normal looking social media. Craft it so that people only know what you want them to know. It's the same with browsing and proxies.
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No.57961
>>33932
running a relay node is safe. Running an exit node needs a legal team.
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No.58019
>>57961
>https://cypherpunklabs.com/
Cypherpunks Labs will host an exit relay for you for $10 / mo.
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No.58334
Only use open, decentralized protocols for communication, with support for end-to-end encryption. Encrypt your drives. Get a security key. Secure your home network.
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No.58337
Good opsec, while still participating in "normal" life, is more or less impossible. No amount of leenucks or phone ricing will change the cameras on the streets or the smartcard you use to get into your apartment.
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No.58343
>>58337
Can you give me some tips for OPSEC and PERSEC?
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No.58567
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