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Computers, ever heard of them ?

by Mikushi 8y ago

tehwebguy 8y ago
Parent’s point was probably that the connection used is still traceable
- roblabla 8y ago
  Your phone is always on you. Your computer, less so.
- sandov 8y ago
  Except that: 1) If you do it from home, the govt already knows where you live, or you can use proxies, or Tor, or a VPN. 2) If you don't do it from home, you are practically anonymous if you change your mac address and use someone else's wireless network, which are ubiquitous today in airports, restaurants, etc.
  - caf 8y ago
    Another thing that is ubiquitous today in airports, restaurants etc. is CCTV.
    - greggarious 8y ago
      > Another thing that is ubiquitous today in airports, restaurants etc. is CCTV. Which is not retained indefinitely. If you're not committing a crime, that footage will be gone in 30-90 days.
    - larkeith 8y ago
      It's technically infeasible to locate someone via CCTV unless you have an accurate location already, for precisely this reason - there's a massive surfeit of data to search through, and current facial-recognition software is incapable of the task.
      - caf 8y ago
        Sure, but the case here was "we have the IP address, we want to know who was behind it", which is certainly feasible.
wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Haha never :) For someone so paranoid about privacy as to not even own a "dumb" phone, I was curious what type of computer/internet setup they would be using to work around all the privacy traps such as broswer fingerprinting, traffic analysis, deep OS and hardware exploits, linguistic analysis, etc. etc.
- larkeith 8y ago
  You could probably become effectively impossible to track by getting a Librem laptop (no Intel ME [1], hardware kill-switches), running some variant of Linux, using Tor or a secure VPN, and disabling Javascript (there's probably other ways to reduce fingerprinting, I'm no expert). While it wouldn't erase every hint of your presence, it takes a correlation of data to track someone; disparate trackable info is insufficient. [1] https://puri.sm/posts/purism-librem-laptops-completely-disable-intel-management-engine/ https://puri.sm/posts/purism-librem-laptops-completely-disab...
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Computers, ever heard of them ?

tehwebguy 8y ago

Parent’s point was probably that the connection used is still traceable

roblabla 8y ago
Your phone is always on you. Your computer, less so.
sandov 8y ago
Except that: 1) If you do it from home, the govt already knows where you live, or you can use proxies, or Tor, or a VPN. 2) If you don't do it from home, you are practically anonymous if you change your mac address and use someone else's wireless network, which are ubiquitous today in airports, restaurants, etc.
- caf 8y ago
  Another thing that is ubiquitous today in airports, restaurants etc. is CCTV.
  - greggarious 8y ago
    > Another thing that is ubiquitous today in airports, restaurants etc. is CCTV. Which is not retained indefinitely. If you're not committing a crime, that footage will be gone in 30-90 days.
  - larkeith 8y ago
    It's technically infeasible to locate someone via CCTV unless you have an accurate location already, for precisely this reason - there's a massive surfeit of data to search through, and current facial-recognition software is incapable of the task.
    - caf 8y ago
      Sure, but the case here was "we have the IP address, we want to know who was behind it", which is certainly feasible.

wu-ikkyu 8y ago

Haha never :) For someone so paranoid about privacy as to not even own a "dumb" phone, I was curious what type of computer/internet setup they would be using to work around all the privacy traps such as broswer fingerprinting, traffic analysis, deep OS and hardware exploits, linguistic analysis, etc. etc.

larkeith 8y ago
You could probably become effectively impossible to track by getting a Librem laptop (no Intel ME [1], hardware kill-switches), running some variant of Linux, using Tor or a secure VPN, and disabling Javascript (there's probably other ways to reduce fingerprinting, I'm no expert). While it wouldn't erase every hint of your presence, it takes a correlation of data to track someone; disparate trackable info is insufficient. [1] https://puri.sm/posts/purism-librem-laptops-completely-disable-intel-management-engine/ https://puri.sm/posts/purism-librem-laptops-completely-disab...

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