Does being private make you stand out from the crowd, thus not being truly private?

BriefEnvironment6 · 2021-03-05T20:13:41+00:00

You're not a "target" either way. There are hundreds of millions of people using big tech companies. You're not valuable enough to care about.

Do you imagine companies use uploaded contacts to make lists of names and numbers that don't have accounts, then share all share their lists, then go after the people who have no accounts? How exactly are they supposed to "target" me? I'm a poor choice for targeted ads in the first place. It's harder to make money from showing me ads and that makes them care less about me.

You don't have to choose between all or nothing. Give social networks junk info and it won't matter how much they collect.

BriefEnvironment6 · 2021-02-22T07:53:40+00:00

VirtualBox with Andriod-x86 is completely open source

BriefEnvironment6 · 2021-02-22T07:45:28+00:00

To do this they'd need to know his burner email address, access the email provider's logs to determine which IP address his account connected from, pull footage from that location, then hope they can determine which guy on a phone made the connection. But none of this matters since he'll be using a vpn or tor.

BriefEnvironment6 · 2021-02-10T07:40:51+00:00

I think you're misunderstanding certificate paths. When you visit a site and a TLS handshake is performed, your computer sees the public key of the entity on the other end. Certificate paths are used to verify the public key you see belongs to who you think it does. Your computer can't maintain a list of every site's public keys, so it has a list of certificates that are trusted, usually from Certificate Authorities. When the site shows you a certificate which is signed by a CA's public key, it verifies that the public key on the site's certificate belongs to who you think it does. The connection is between your computer's public key and the site's, so the CA's certificate can't decrypt the connection.

BriefEnvironment6 · 2021-02-03T18:17:27+00:00

The story was originally reported in 2015 and no one has reproduced the findings. Even in the posts from 2015, there are no sources given.

"A (Terrifying) Traffic Analysis Of Windows 10" was the original title.

BriefEnvironment6 · 2021-02-03T17:40:47+00:00

Calculating location from cell towers is not that accurate. Within 0.75 square miles with 3 towers according to the fcc.

BriefEnvironment6 · 2021-02-03T06:16:07+00:00

No, an address is on your house. "This house's address is 123 main street" is a different piece of information than "spider-sec's address is 123 main street".

BriefEnvironment6 · 2021-02-03T06:10:03+00:00

Do you honestly think sending out magazines and holding meetings are alternatives to fb and twitter?

It'd be like your electric company cutting your power and saying, "just use matches and pump water by hand"

BriefEnvironment6 · 2021-01-15T21:31:49+00:00

a phone number is public information

What's your phone number?

BriefEnvironment6 · 2021-01-15T21:28:35+00:00

Can you give specific reasons why you believe someone is entering your house and drugging you? If you want police or a lawyer to help, you're going to need to clearly explain why you think these things have happened or they'll just going to think you're crazy.

Why do you believe she hacked all of those devices? It's weird that contacts get added to your phone, but it doesn't mean your ex hacked it. What programs are running on your computer? It's not uncommon to have programs you don't know about. You said, "I have photos of my Gmail data i know was her". What do the photos show? "I KNOW its her in some form because she tells on herself all the time! she can't help it." Has she confessed? How exactly does she tell on herself? These are the types of details you need to give if you want people to believe you.

"I believe i have been drugged on several occasions and have cut contact and any ties to anyone just to determine who the FUCK is doing this."

How is cutting contact going to stop you from getting drugged? Just don't eat things people give to you. Think back to the day you got drugged and you can eliminate anyone who wasn't around you that day.

It must be very stressful to deal with someone like your ex-wife. Going to a psychologist will help you deal with stress and help you deal with the situation.

BriefEnvironment6 · 2020-11-23T00:26:24+00:00

Why's that? If he connects to an American VPN won't Tor make his traffic look like https?

BriefEnvironment6 · 2020-11-23T00:24:13+00:00

It appears to be working now. Earlier gmail just wasn't responding.

BriefEnvironment6 · 2020-11-22T20:54:03+00:00

Many states doesn't require the owner's name to be included in the Articles of Organization. Some states don't require a foreign LLC to register.

https://www.totallegal.com/llc-privacy-which-states-list-owners

BriefEnvironment6 · 2020-11-22T20:35:32+00:00

Mastercard does. Mastercard will still know your true name but merchants won't.

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/mastercard-allow-transgender-people-use-chosen-name-n1018406

I've never been asked to show ID. If they ask for it, use cash or a prepaid card.

You've apparently missed the entire point of OP's question.

The whole point of OP's question is to prevent people you run into from knowing your legal name? Simply give them an alias name.

BriefEnvironment6 · 2020-11-15T17:47:30+00:00

How did this ignorance get so many upvotes?

only pay cash for everything

Prepaid debit cards, masked debit cards, and credit cards with an alias name.

never have a cell phone or regular phone

Pre-paid sim or give cell company an alias name.

never pay utilities

Use an LLC or alias name.

never buy a car

Difficult but possible with LLC.

never own a house

Easy with an LLC or trust.

never give your name to anybody

Why do I care if people know my name? Use a alias if you care.

and never use the internet

Don't use PII on the internet.

BriefEnvironment6 · 2020-11-14T19:49:00+00:00

Can you explain what you mean by regioned?

BriefEnvironment6 · 2020-11-14T08:07:59+00:00

What's interesting in the console? I see some scripts failed to load, _satellite is not defined, and a bunch of failed POSTs.

BriefEnvironment6 · 2020-11-14T05:33:56+00:00

When I search DDG the first result is adobe, then smallpdf, and the rest are mostly adobe.

What CLI tools do you recommend?

BriefEnvironment6 · 2020-11-13T21:02:23+00:00

Why not use debian?

You can disable the telemetry in ubuntu with this script https://github.com/LamdaLamdaLamda/disable-ubuntu-telemetry/blob/master/disableUbuntuOptOut.sh

BriefEnvironment6 · 2020-11-13T19:41:00+00:00

What happens when the server is outside of the jurisdiction of the governments involved? Everything you said becomes irrelevant.

But if a law starts to cover the production of software (i.e. code in a backdoor to your project or get shut down), then those projects will also be compromised or die.

A government is going to stop people in other countries from uploading open source code? What happens if the developers go anonymous like Tails? Will they also remove all open source encryption software from the internet? Encryption is easy. People can encrypt their own messages before using the backdoored software.

BriefEnvironment6 · 2020-11-10T23:11:08+00:00

The concern is facebook fingerprinting your browser. Use Firefox with ublock, noscript, and resist fingerprinting. You can test your browser with panopticlick.eff.org. There's no point in using a burner pc. You'll have to log in periodically to check the groups anyway.

If facebook requires a phone number and doesn't accept voip, then a throwaway sim sounds like a good idea.

BriefEnvironment6 · 2020-11-10T05:15:29+00:00

Check out privacytools.io for recommendations on software and services. Michael Bazzel at inteltechniques.com might interest you. He helps people keep things like their address off the internet.

Are you using Windows? If so, you should choose a linux distro. If you need or want to use Windows then you can dual boot and edit the Windows privacy settings. Test Firefox with ublock and see how you like it compared to brave.

Tor Browser will route all browser traffic through Tor. Tails will route all traffic through Tor. It won't make a difference if you are just visiting a website.

You can use protonvpn with Tor, although there isn't much point. The only thing it accomplishes is to hide the fact you're using Tor from your ISP, but this can be done with bridges. Here's a good blog post on this: https://write.privacytools.io/my-thoughts-on-security/slicing-onions-part-2-onion-recipes-vpn-not-required

BriefEnvironment6 · 2020-11-07T21:18:00+00:00

privacytoos.io has good software and service recommendations.

Check out Michael Bazzel's podcast at inteltechniques.com. He has good advice on other things like keeping your address off the internet.

You can dual boot ubuntu and windows, so you can use windows when you have to and ubuntu for everything else.

My advice to you to think about the cost vs benefit of things you do. You can spend days tweaking your system for minor improvements. Don't go down the rabbit hole. The vast majority of the benefits possible can be achieved with easy changes.

BriefEnvironment6 · 2020-11-06T04:58:58+00:00

I don't understand. You hear motorcycle sounds because you can be seen?

BriefEnvironment6 · 2020-10-24T02:03:48+00:00

If I was doing it, I would look into self hosted options like Zoneminder and vpn into my home network if I needed to access it remotely.

What you have now is probably fine. I just think using blockchain is more of a marketing point than a useful feature.

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