potatopotato
@potatopotato@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Elon Musk and Taylor Swift can now hide details of their private jets/// Private aircraft owners can now ask the FAA to keep their registration information out of the public eye. 1 week ago:
This doesn’t do anything, all these aircraft are already in trusts.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It comes down to looking at the chain they can use to link a post to you. You should be able to express yourself fully without fear of retribution.
First and most importantly, get a password manager and use unique passwords for everything, this covers the overwhelmingly likely scenarios. All your online accounts should either be ~14+ character “dl+ruHgGv6-c0$1hh7” style passwords or 4+ random word “correct horse battery staple” style passwords. The password manager should generate them for you.
Make sure your phone has a password and consider using it instead of biometrics (face/, fingerprint unlock). Passwords can’t typically be compelled but they can force you to unlock things with your face/fingerprints. Enable whole disk encryption on any computers that have access to your password manager or accounts. Turn these systems off when you’re away or asleep. Enable automatic reboot on your phone if supported so it will reboot itself if not unlocked after a set amount of time, preferably 12-24 hours max. This sounds dumb but makes it 10x harder to break into if you’re taken into custody due to how phone encryption works.
If you like social media, create accounts that aren’t in your name and have no common links (different email addresses, passwords, user names, etc). Do so over a VPN or Tor, ideally with an exit node outside the country and use email aliases through proton or similar so they’re all different. Never access them from a non-VPNed connection, your IP is logged every time you connect and kept for who-knows how long on the servers. Rotate these accounts so that your opinions and posts aren’t all connected to one identity. If you accidently post something that identifies you (you will make mistakes and should plan for it), that limits the damage to only the posts associated with that account rather than all your activity on that site. Disable history on everything! Google search, Google maps, Google location history, YouTube, your browser, EVERYTHING. Most of the stuff you see in court is just “well their Google history said they searched for XYZ so clearly they’re a terrorist”.
If you’re really enterprising, setup an old computer that’s only for social media and has the VPN enabled full time. Bonus points for using Tails Linux as the operating system but if you keep to the above it’s just an added layer of safety.
Right now the stuff we’re seeing is mostly low hanging fruit, they seem to be targeting people by literally browsing Canary Mission. They’re not employing particularly sophisticated methodology yet. That may change though so the above guards against that, at least somewhat. Your mission isn’t to be able to resist the full attention of the NSA, it’s to be much more difficult than average so they turn their limited resources elsewhere because they have a quota to meet that week.
- Comment on Have I Been Pwned owner, pwned. 1 week ago:
Let this be a lesson that nobody is immune to phishing or opsec lapses. It can happen to anyone, including security pros.
- Comment on Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City 3 weeks ago:
In fairness, I think the possibility that someone might light your car on fire is a stronger incentive to not buy a brand than internet posts making fun of the brand. It also means now they have to beef up security at all of the dealerships. Car sales are surprisingly impulse driven, hence the famous high pressure sales tactics, so it’ll be harder to get people in the door if they’re strip searching everyone and if they can’t have as much inventory on the lot, customers can’t drive home with the options they want so less impulse buying. Also full coverage insurance, required for financing, will get more expensive or even impossible to obtain which possibly means a massively decreased customer pool.
I think a better counter argument is the environmental damage caused by lighting all the cancer boxes on fire.
- Comment on FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’ (read: multi billion contract with Musk) 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’ (read: multi billion contract with Musk) 4 weeks ago:
There’s already a startup trying to get the FCC to give them half of the 915mhz band (meshtastic, smart home stuff, ELRS, ham radio) for a pay to win GPS alternative.
- Comment on Inside Clear’s ambitions to manage your identity beyond the airport 4 months ago:
I rented shit at home depot and had to use fucking clear. They’ve broken containment.
- Comment on Switzerland authorizes removable PV plant on railway track 5 months ago:
Yeah until we literally run out of roofs, fields, parking lots, and fucking ocean space and are contemplating a fucking Dyson sphere I really don’t understand these projects.