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The first sentence of the guide confirms my suspicions > TLDR for the whole guide: “A strange game. The only winning move is not to play”. What I extrapolate
by simonlc 6y ago
The first sentence of the guide confirms my suspicions
> TLDR for the whole guide: “A strange game. The only winning move is not to play”.
What I extrapolate from this comment is that there is no real way to be anonymous online. So what's the point of the guide then?
- 100011_100001 6y agoMaking it much much harder.
- jmcqk6 6y agoBecause people's threat levels are different. There is nothing you can do to escape from the NSA, for example. But there are things you can do to prevent advertisers, or other adversaries from just getting your data. And for most people, that's what they're looking for. I can't imagine I'm very interesting to the NSA, for example. But I'm probably very interesting to a large number of corporations and organizations competing for my attention.
- Slow_Hand 6y agoTo reduce your probability of having your identity compromised. Because, practically speaking, most of us will need to rely on the internet.
- bawolff 6y agoThe first rule of security is that nothing is 100%. There is always someone who can get you if they have sufficient motivation and resources. Security is about taking steps to reduce risk, so that its outside of your adversaries budgets to attack you, and taking mitigating steps so that if you do get attacked the damage is limited. Nothing about this is specific to computers, it applies to all security things, whether that's locking your door or a bank trying to prevent armed roberies.