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This is a great article. What I’m about to say is a bit controversial and cannot be implemented by majority, or even a large minority. Maybe a subset of HN tha
by stalkersyndrome 5y ago
This is a great article.
What I’m about to say is a bit controversial and cannot be implemented by majority, or even a large minority. Maybe a subset of HN that isn’t already in this mindset:
Treat all devices as adversarial as you possibly can within some sensical reason. Use Tor, for example, but expect that everything you do is being logged and that sometime in the future if a vulnerability, exploit, whatever is discovered that can trace these logs back to you, that you know what you’re in for. Apply this to whatever else you feel like could have a negative impact on you.
Obviously this is now coming to light because of Apple but this has been an issue long before.
To put it into more morbid terms: assume that the government thinks you’re storing CP and they’re going through your trash, and behave accordingly.
- soco 5y agoDoes this leave anything possible?
- inanutshellus 5y agoKitten videos. That's about it.
- ghoward 5y agoAnd then someone will come along and claim that kitten videos are animal abuse. I wish I was being sarcastic.
- SixDouble5321 5y agoPrivacy and security.
- markenqualitaet 5y agoY tho? Your advice reads like a recipe for a bad time. Mitigation is required, if you actually do have something to hide. Freedom however is endangered, if you personally mitigate this or not. I think for most people the best course of action would be to speak out against this, boycott the companies or get politically active, educate others about the threat to all of us. And evading hostile tech's reach is really not a practical every day thing. I mean look at the shitshow of browser fingerprinting. Behaving vastly different than most will leave a trace of its own, even if it's just the absence of common information. The best personal protection is being part of a healthy, democracy valuing collective not okay with this surveillance. And if you are about to explode the next big story, I would probably advice migrating somewhere hostile to the country you are about to piss off. It's not like they turn on your fridge because you bought LSD for you and your boyfriend; I mean generally buying drugs happens in public Telegram groups these days... Politicians love spending money on surveillance tech, but not law enforcement people. Nothing is gonna happen, if you don't mess with powerful people's egos. The real damage of these trends is the self censorship and permanent premptive self-surveillance you automatically do in the face of it. Like treating every device as hostile! You are killing off the mental freedom more and more, creativity, possibilities. No one is going all to prison, but no one isn't in prison a little bit.
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- SixDouble5321 5y agoI think the main difference between you and OP, is your optimism and OP's cynicism are opposite.
- masterof0 5y agoI like Tor, but is just too slow. I use wireguard/proxies instead, a subpar alternative security wise but with better performance.
- SixDouble5321 5y agoI think it's good advice to assume your device is doing things against your best interests, especially when running software from MS, Google, etc. There are a few easy things you can do like use e2e encryption wherever possible and trust as few things (devices, companies, apps) as you can get away with. TOR has dubious value given the effort put in by various actors to de-anonymize its traffic.
- frickinLasers 5y agoThat username is so perfect.