potatopotato
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- Comment on Lately, a great many people who used to say they didn't care about privacy because they had nothing to hide must be realizing what a flawed conclusion that was. 6 days ago:
I’ve tried helping some spicy leftist groups and I’m still floored by how little the groups of people care who should absolutely know better. They will talk a big game but when it actually comes to implementation everyone immediately goes all “nothing to hide” like their years of constant guillotine reacts and memes won’t be pulled out in court the second they try to argue entrapment against some bullshit ci/undercover op.
I don’t think many people realize how aggressive a digital search warrant can get if you or someone dumber than you fucks around and finds that main character energy. At the end of the day you gotta absolutely minimize the amount of data that’s retained long term on systems.
- Comment on ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds 1 week ago:
The number of people who don’t understand that AI is just the mathematical average of the internet… If we’re, on average, assholes, AI is gonna be an asshole
- Comment on Gov. Landry signs new drone defense law; first in nation 1 month ago:
Since nobody has mentioned it, all of this is turbo illegal and the federal courts will absolutely nuke this from orbit. State governments do not control airspace, full stop. The courts have been very clear on this. Manned vs unmanned doesn’t matter to the FAA, it’s still one hell of a PP slap from the feds for encroaching on their turf. Additionally, any form of jamming (desense, deauth, noise, location spoofing, fraudulent signals etc) is illegal and regulated by the FCC, and doing it with intent to take down an aircraft means you get strung up by both the FCC and FAA simultaneously. In particular doing literally anything to the GPS band will pose a massive and immediate risk to manned passenger aircraft and the feds aren’t going to look kindly on that.
- Comment on Things at Tesla are worse than they appear 2 months ago:
The market can remain irrational longer that you can remain solvent.
The problem isn’t that you can’t predict when a stock is mispriced, that’s sometimes very easy, it’s predicting when all the other dipshits will come to the same conclusion because ultimately that’s all that matters.
Right now musk still has a personality cult and there are a lot of morons buying the stock like their worldview depends on it. They don’t read the earnings reports, they don’t read unbiased news, they mostly don’t even own the cars, they just think it’s going to the moon because…for lack of a better word, propaganda.
- Comment on Google loses massive antitrust case over its search dominance 3 months ago:
Trump could get the case dropped right now though if he wanted to, right? Or is it too far along at the lower level for that to be an option?
- Comment on Google loses massive antitrust case over its search dominance 3 months ago:
What’s the play here? Why is trump’s DOJ still pursuing anti trust after having all the CEOs at his inauguration? Is he trying to extort concessions out of the tech giants or something?
- Comment on World's fastest Flash memory developed: writes in just 400 picoseconds 3 months ago:
400 for my use case, we’re trying to violate causality
- 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. 4 months ago:
This doesn’t do anything, all these aircraft are already in trusts.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months 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. 4 months 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 4 months 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 months ago:
- Comment on FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’ (read: multi billion contract with Musk) 4 months 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 8 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 9 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.