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beardog
6y ago
Go to a public area and visibly record people. Particularly while talking to them. You will annoy a lot of people and some will act with hostility (especially if you don't frame it as some sort of interview). People don't like it
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beardog
6y ago
It basically doesn't, I found a few years ago that it also makes your browser more fingerprintable (though in recent time browsers are getting more resistant to this) https://chaoswebs.net/blog/tracking-ipfs-users
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beardog
6y ago
Further, the difference between this and how Duckduckgo uses Bing is that DDG does a proper proxy without forwarding your IP or any info about you.
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beardog
6y ago
I believe you have to enable the list to block this in the settings
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beardog
6y ago
Neat approach! This extension is proprietary (according to license on Firefox Addons site). I Don't Care About Cookies and UBlock Origin are open source. Given that such an addon requires access to all sites, I have to trust a random f
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beardog
6y ago
Though you won't get stream isolation this way https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Stream_Isolation
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beardog
6y ago
Indeed it is. https://inteltechniques.com has a podcast on OSINT/privacy run by a guy who performs this service to make people disappear as best as possible (within realm of the law). His clients are mainly celebs, execs an
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Camera Obscura
(en.wikipedia.org)
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6y ago
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Network Effect
(en.wikipedia.org)
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beardog
7y ago
I discovered this same thing in 2017. My bugcrowd report was shot down as dupe https://www.chaoswebs.net/blog/tls-key-reuse-on-popular-rout...
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beardog
7y ago
I discovered this same thing in 2017. My bugcrowd report was shot down as dupe https://www.chaoswebs.net/blog/tls-key-reuse-on-popular-rout...
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beardog
7y ago
Ecosia is nice, but I find their privacy claims to be a little misleading. They forward searches to Bing alongside your IP address and are not in control of what Bing stores. DDG uses Bing as well, but does not send your IP there. "For
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beardog
7y ago
I am seeing this on Google Chrome on my phone, but not on firefox on my desktop (both incognito and not)
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beardog
7y ago
It blows my mind that people still use the "lie detector" (polygraph) for anything.
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beardog
7y ago
I didn't say it would legally disqualify you, just that it would prevent you from doing jury duty properly.
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beardog
7y ago
and now neither you nor anyone else who reads this comment are able to properly serve on the jury
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beardog
7y ago
Between the old footage (minus the basic color), music, and narration this feels like it could be a scene from the twilight zone or a doctor who episode
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beardog
7y ago
On the flip side, more certificate authorities (who, remember, also have the ability to delegate intermediate authorities) also means more attack surface, because except in the case of key pinning (which is rare to my knowledge) any malicio
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beardog
7y ago
That helps a lot, but metadata is very useful and is equally or perhaps harder to hide.
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beardog
7y ago
Although technically available to anyone, Google has an "advanced protection program" for highly targeted accounts. It has the follow (may have missed some) effects on your account: * locked to 2fa with security keys * limiting th
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beardog
7y ago
This problem is being partly addressed with Privacy Pass. The addon lets you bypass recaptcha including cloudflare recaptcha minus one initial solve per session. Of course this doesn't account for all blocks and of course some maliciou
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beardog
7y ago
Try rebuilding your Tor circuit when this happens. https://tb-manual.torproject.org/managing-identities/
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7y ago
Probably won't last long. General criminals, misbehaving kids and anarchist-types will be inclined mess with it. Plus since its autonomous i'm pretty skeptical about its ability to avoid natural world dangers, even if it is set to
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Twtxt: Decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers
(twtxt.readthedocs.io)
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7y ago
For those who are not terribly in 'the know' about onion services, I can think of a few reasons why the CIA would benefit from operating a public onion site: * Onions are more secure as they do not rely on x509/certificate au
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beardog
7y ago
To my knowledge it never had to run as root. On Linux you just give it permission to bind to low ports: https://stackoverflow.com/a/414258
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8y ago
If I could edit my comment I would replace "common in parts" with "found in some areas". I used the phrase "common in parts" because it has been found in multiple cities[1] (in fairness, early 2010s), however I
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beardog
8y ago
Such as using Gutter Oil (not limited to delivery), a practice where cooking oil is retrieved/derived from random unsafe sources such as sewers, a practice thought to be common in parts of China: https://en.wikipedia.org
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8y ago
Remember when someone created a joke kanye cryptocurrency and then his lawyers threatened to sue? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coinye
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Your Speakers Could Be Turned into Eavesdropping Microphones (2016)
(nakedsecurity.sophos.com)
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