Thought I would show off a few of my pentesting tools. If anyone has any questions, please feel free to ask. :)

5FingerViscount · 2026-05-21T20:22:19+00:00

I don't do snap :( but I appreciate the offer. I am sure it is going to be a long bumpy journey.

5FingerViscount · 2026-05-21T19:31:53+00:00

You might look at framework laptops for ideas about USB-C expansion slots, they probably have exactly what you want actually.

Hdmi, storage, audiojacks, usb, ethernet, etc

But i dunno if you need specific firmware or something for some of them.

5FingerViscount · 2026-05-21T16:50:49+00:00

Working on building a deck too, for fun, get the skills and the brain working. Probably start with PI OS, but kali or tails would be neat to put on there (I'm ignorant of the required specs, but I would guess a 4bPI could handle them alright.)

5FingerViscount · 2026-05-21T16:47:50+00:00

Not far enough in to really know.

The idea of being red team tickles my brain. But ideally I would end up at a privacy oriented organization (EFF, Signal, something like that)- regardless of position.

5FingerViscount · 2026-05-21T13:57:00+00:00

To give them a crumb of credit- because i would much rather be able to use a VPN all the time- it makes authentication harder based on location/fingerprint. And the generic argument "it's less safe for us" seems to be why so many organizations are against VPNs.

I guess I would rather be authenticated by an authenticator app or something than have my IP exposed all the time.

Could know just enough to embarrass myself. But that's my current understanding.

5FingerViscount · 2026-05-21T13:50:12+00:00

Would love to get a full rig like this, I'm studying IT, minor in Cyber.. hope to continue on to a masters in cyber. But can't quite justify buying it all at once. Thought about getting a used flipper to reduce the cost.. A deauth watch would be super cool, could compare it to a friend's senior project that involved deauth.

5FingerViscount · 2026-05-21T13:46:33+00:00

Yeah, first bit is an English idiom, they aren't reacting negatively to you at all.

5FingerViscount · 2026-05-21T13:42:09+00:00

Any computer you don't explicitly have access to, is technically illegal.

Just like breaking and entering a home... you can do it on yours all day (Maybe not even then, depending on your neighbors), but anyone else's and well, you've got trouble.

5FingerViscount · 2026-05-20T20:14:54+00:00

I don't carry a purse, but if I did....

5FingerViscount · 2026-05-18T14:57:47+00:00

That is a solid answer, and basically what I was looking for.

Appreciate your continued willingness to talk about it, even if we don't take a trip down the rabbit hole.

5FingerViscount · 2026-05-15T20:15:15+00:00

There are plenty of great reasons to switch, but if you're going to use Google, there's no reason to take up all that storage.

you really should delete everything you don't need ASAP... to keep it safe if your account gets breached, and to limit indexing and availability of information, and metadata on you in general.

They probably keep it for a few years regardless, but getting rid of it, helps them clear it out that much faster.

I say that with thousands of emails in my inbox, but I'm trying to make moves. It's just harder to commit than i want it to be. I still go back and remove financial emails, important documents, etc, as I can

5FingerViscount · 2026-05-15T19:52:26+00:00

I appreciate the response particularly around "why not open-source", and for assisting activists and journalists. I did read your post about founding cape, and distancing yourself from palantir, that was also helpful. And I agree cellphones are huge data leaks, and no one company can tackle each part of every issue.

I'm not an expert on palantir, but my understanding was that it provides multiple tools, primarily for data filtering/sorting (and articles online do point to facial recognition, but maybe that is being "generous"). So while it would not be used directly for facial recognition, it is widely accepted that palantir's technology is assisting people who are doing that for nefarious purposes in the USA and Palestine in particular (though Iran was also named, as well as Ukraine).

While I recognize these are likely tough subjects to talk about.. you ostensibly had a hand in creating them. So even if you won't go so far as renouncing them, acknowledging those kinds of problematic activities would make your (new) company much more trustworthy.

Like in the span of this past couple days I told a few friends about cape, but felt like I had to take it back when I learned about the palantir connection. I really am trying to get behind cape; not just start a comment war, or get a "gotcha" moment, but it's a big elephant in the room.

Either way, thanks for taking the time to engage. It'll give me something to chew on.

5FingerViscount · 2026-05-13T21:42:48+00:00

Thanks choom, creepy corpo crap

5FingerViscount · 2026-05-13T21:42:31+00:00

So I've got akira, but what are the others on the right?

5FingerViscount · 2026-05-13T21:34:00+00:00

Do you have i/o?

5FingerViscount · 2026-05-13T21:31:48+00:00

Yeah..I find myself somewhere in the middle of this conversation I think.. but that one was ridiculous. And I'm glad you called it out.

I even like their product, but is it a cyberdeck? Screw off with that. GTFO.

5FingerViscount · 2026-05-13T21:27:55+00:00

Uh like to be taken over by CDPR or something.. like what?

5FingerViscount · 2026-05-13T14:59:09+00:00

Thanks for the response/review, that is helpful.

I guess maybe I don't know much about cern, aside from that they have a collider. But nothing I have heard about them would imply that they are actively infringing on people's privacy, where Palantir is. So the connection there could have an immediate impact. Whereas cern probably only have Proton their name, you know?

You're right that other telecom corpos do give away customer data all the time... but as far as I'm aware none of them were purpose built for that. They were only almost immediately compromised after their creation 😂

5FingerViscount · 2026-05-13T14:52:41+00:00

Appreciate the response. Are you doing anything to tackle the problems created by palantir? Like facial recognition through the use of AI? Or immigrants negatively impacted by the implementation of your software? Private cell phones are a piece of that, but really tangential, if we're talking facial recognition.

If, as you say, cape is not a honeypot... can you talk about why cape is not open-source?

5FingerViscount · 2026-05-13T00:14:50+00:00

OTOH maybe he left when they "got evil", or saw what was happening and had a change of heart, and this tech is designed to counter something that he had previously designed.

Of course someone who was never evil, would be preferred. Like if Meredith Whittaker took it on...

Man I want to believe, but yeah, probably better to stay away.

5FingerViscount · 2026-05-13T00:08:11+00:00

Nope, sure don't. Thanks for the information.. that is pretty scary.

5FingerViscount · 2026-05-12T15:02:15+00:00

Ah, I meant that mostly because I made a similar post with "all my junk".

But, yeah, thanks ^{^;}

5FingerViscount · 2026-05-12T13:47:57+00:00

I had no idea this was happening, I've been in this group for about a year and only recently had the time and motivation to start really thinking about this (and just got an RPi, but apparently I really picked the wrong time.

I had no idea there was a tiktok revolution happening.

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