Seems like sound advice to me. On the other hand, it is hard to imagine that we can bring about change in the real world if we remain in total anonymity all the time, isn't it? Any ideas on how to protect ourselves and fight the totalitarians at the same time?
May be way outdated, but TOR and FBI in Internet searches turn up more hits than I feel comfortable with.
Brave is based on Chrome, which is why you see bits of it in there. Some of the stuff built in to Brave is helpful and automatically does what you suggest re: trackers, ads, etc. May be worth a reconsider?
Other things that may be more difficult: ditching Intel chips and MS Windows OS. Both of which I still have to do...
eg: - (may be an overly melodramatic article - ymmv):
NB: this was from 2013, and accidentally discovered. Who tf knows what's in there now...
Consider you cannot stop MS Windows from updating their OS on your machine, plus "In a statement, Microsoft said: "When we upgrade or update products we aren't absolved from the need to comply with existing or future lawful demands." The company reiterated its argument that it provides customer data "only in response to government demands and we only ever comply with orders for requests about specific accounts or identifiers".
Regarding the TOR routers being TPTB honeypots or hacked is a concern if you are really trying to evade law enforcement which could be considered illegal and not something I am advocating, of course. All I am putting out there is that Antifas and other political adversaries are to be given the runaround wherever possible. TOR may route directly through Freeland's offices in Ottawa, no big deal, because by the time that they see the circuit connection my frens' boxen have made, it will have been software VPN'd over a hardware VPN that makes that one encrypted request circuit look like thousands and thousands of encrypted channels with blinking off-and-on exit points. Finding the source becomes an NP-hard problem to solve. And, let's be clear: If you are using any modern chipset, you are harboring a CPU ID. It doesn't take very much to interrogate your box to know that a CPU is the source of any particular communication. You can't avoid this fact, so be very legal. If your communications device is something you hold in your hand, you are 100% screwed, there is no hope. They don't need to go looking to find you, you are sending out a homing beacon in the 24.25 GHz to 52.6 GHz range. :|
Seems like sound advice to me. On the other hand, it is hard to imagine that we can bring about change in the real world if we remain in total anonymity all the time, isn't it? Any ideas on how to protect ourselves and fight the totalitarians at the same time?
Say No to NordVPN: https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/21/nordvpn-confirms-it-was-hacked/ (better fleshing out here: https://www.bestvpn.co/nordvpn-hacked/)
Ok so it was 2 years ago, but uh... No.
May be way outdated, but TOR and FBI in Internet searches turn up more hits than I feel comfortable with.
Brave is based on Chrome, which is why you see bits of it in there. Some of the stuff built in to Brave is helpful and automatically does what you suggest re: trackers, ads, etc. May be worth a reconsider?
Other things that may be more difficult: ditching Intel chips and MS Windows OS. Both of which I still have to do...
eg: - (may be an overly melodramatic article - ymmv):
NB: this was from 2013, and accidentally discovered. Who tf knows what's in there now...
https://popularresistance.org/new-intel-based-pcs-permanently-hackable/
and
Consider you cannot stop MS Windows from updating their OS on your machine, plus "In a statement, Microsoft said: "When we upgrade or update products we aren't absolved from the need to comply with existing or future lawful demands." The company reiterated its argument that it provides customer data "only in response to government demands and we only ever comply with orders for requests about specific accounts or identifiers".
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data
Regarding the TOR routers being TPTB honeypots or hacked is a concern if you are really trying to evade law enforcement which could be considered illegal and not something I am advocating, of course. All I am putting out there is that Antifas and other political adversaries are to be given the runaround wherever possible. TOR may route directly through Freeland's offices in Ottawa, no big deal, because by the time that they see the circuit connection my frens' boxen have made, it will have been software VPN'd over a hardware VPN that makes that one encrypted request circuit look like thousands and thousands of encrypted channels with blinking off-and-on exit points. Finding the source becomes an NP-hard problem to solve. And, let's be clear: If you are using any modern chipset, you are harboring a CPU ID. It doesn't take very much to interrogate your box to know that a CPU is the source of any particular communication. You can't avoid this fact, so be very legal. If your communications device is something you hold in your hand, you are 100% screwed, there is no hope. They don't need to go looking to find you, you are sending out a homing beacon in the 24.25 GHz to 52.6 GHz range. :|