Comment on Details leaked of "GOST" program used to profile the social media posts of US visa applicants

• RangerAndTheCat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Please contact your representatives local and national representatives I know it seems like screaming into the void, but it’s the best thing I think everyone can do rather quickly especially with the help of the eff and aclu.

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• saturnus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah I mean I basically just try to convince people I know IRL and vote against anyone I can who supports/voted for this stuff. Definitely sucks but do what you can.

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• NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If the federales are after you, there isn't much you can do to stop them from eventually figuring out who the fuck you are and getting access to your shit. However, stuff like this you can combat but people don't usually like the answer. Do what's right for you and your situation. That being said...

  Delete all your IRL social media accounts, all of them. Make up a username that isn't associated with anything IRL, make sure you set up all your accounts with a random 20 digit password or passphrase that is difficult to crack, upgrade your security settings on your browser to automatically disable the loading of javascript and other media elements that are used to track you, don't use google switch to duckduckgo, don't use winddows switch to linux and finally, make sure all of your personal data is backed up in cold storage on a USB or drive that has a manual switch to turn on and off when you need to access it. I also encrypt all my drives with a 32 bit encryption.

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  • lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Are you missing a couple of zeros on that encryption?..

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  • justgohomealready@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s all good, but then in this same situation agents would find nothing about you at all and “thumbs down” you because you are obviously hiding something.

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