kornhole

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by kornhole 3y ago
It does hide your home IP address if you are on your home WIFI. That works for web traffic and sites you visit if you don't leave other fingerprints. Of course that is only one of the location indicators.
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by kornhole 3y ago
It would be hilarious and sad if some spooks focused on me or my wife and wasted hours on traffic analysis just to figure out we are average law abiding people of zero interest.
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by kornhole 3y ago
Yes if you are dependent on Google or Google integrated apps, simply deactivating it on a standard OS may not be a fit option for you. Graphene has built shims to make most apps work, but you might have a problem with another OS. I deleted
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by kornhole 3y ago
Yes that was my caveat about the proprietary baseband modem that we cannot totally control. If I was in a different threat model category, I would use a phone with physical switch to the baseband. Those devices like Pinephone and Librem tha
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by kornhole 3y ago
Right. I forgot to mention that when I leave my home, I turn off WIFI and bluetooth. I turn it on only when at home or on a friends home network.
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by kornhole 3y ago
I simply don't like people following me around wherever I go and keeping a record of it. I am pretty boring in that way and most others. Rotating SIM cards and devices does not create privacy, but it does create confusion on network ma
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by kornhole 3y ago
The point is to keep my SIM and phone anonymous. As explained in the article, if they can see where your phone sleeps at night, they can figure out who is associated to the SIM card and the IMSI sent.
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by kornhole 3y ago
Yes. I only turn on cellular away from home and when needed. I don't need to be always connected.
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by kornhole 3y ago
This is what I have done for years: Cellular is always off anywhere near my house. I only turn on cellular when needed. I use Graphene which allows WIFI to be used without cellular for my VOIP calls on voip.ms or jmp.chat. I have been using
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by kornhole 3y ago
You are talking about targeted surveillance rather than mass surveillance. That is not the purpose of this guide and similar others. There are advanced guides for people in that threat model.
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by kornhole 3y ago
Here is where it kind of comes full circle on mass surveillance. If you do not have those data points, you cannot filter on them. Even if someone was once sloppy on real ID social media platforms, old data is less useful.
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by kornhole 3y ago
Within a few minutes I can deactivate Google Play Services on an Android phone using ADB. The universal android debloater available on Github makes it easier. The better solution is a custom OS forked from Android, but what is possible depe
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by kornhole 3y ago
The logic that anybody we can't see should be a suspect would then target our grandmas with landline phones who buy their groceries with cash or live in nursing homes. It would be a colossal waste of resources and detract focus. The me
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by kornhole 3y ago
This centralization of banking is necessary to facilitate implementation of CBDC. Please continue using your regional banks. Our freedom depends on it.
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by kornhole 3y ago
This is technically easy to fix on any Android or Linux phone. Willingness by people to make the changes is the challenge.
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by kornhole 3y ago
We should push for laws and resist new acts that curtail our rights of privacy and free expression, but that is not a solution. We are generally on our own in making our choices of technology to use. If you go on using proprietary services
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by kornhole 3y ago
This site and many guides like it are intended to help people avoid mass surveillance rather than targeted surveillance. Confounding the two threat models seems intended to confuse and exasperate people.
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by kornhole 3y ago
Ohwellian: When you know you are living in a dystopia but couldn't be bothered to change anything.
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by kornhole 3y ago
It is about freedom and choice. If you don't want that or are unable, there are plenty of platforms that make the choices for you.
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by kornhole 3y ago
Run Yunohost on any SBC or old laptop you have laying around. That is what I do.
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by kornhole 3y ago
Activity pub federation is much easier than email. Most of the ISP's block email ports on our home connections which requires us to setup mail relays just for the email verification of account setups. Then you have to do all kinds of w
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by kornhole 3y ago
Running your own instance is not difficult. I recommend installing Yunohost.org on a $5/month VPS or some hardware you have laying around such as a single board computer. Installing apps from the Yunohost catalog is like installing fro
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by kornhole 3y ago
So many people are saying that picking an instance is just too difficult. Let's just create a random picker like a Roulette wheel of all open instances for those people. Moving instances later is easy.
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by kornhole 4y ago
Yes they provide the service of flashing GrapheneOS onto a Pixel for people who are not confident enough to do it themselves. I think they kick back some of the revenue to the GrapheneOS project. It is a needed service for people who want t
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by kornhole 4y ago
Do not invest too much in any browser. This will make it easy to hop when they go to shit. Avoid using anything sticky such as password saving, bookmarks, and synchronization. Instead use other tools you control for that. We have so many br
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by kornhole 4y ago
Can we mitigate these kinds of attacks by using a data only SIM card? If I use some kind of VOIP service for OTA calls and SMS, the calls would be off the baseband.
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by kornhole 4y ago
I never believed the original assumption in stories. I am skeptical of what I read. Random murders are very rare. He was running a crypto company. Crypto space has plenty of shady things and people.
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by kornhole 4y ago
That would be nearly impossible to implement and enforce with many thousands of instances.
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by kornhole 4y ago
I believe the new licensing of Windows 11 is similar to what you suggest. The so called free edition is adware, whereas the paid license has less. MS made big investments in Xandr and OpenAI. With all the rich data they can glean from their
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by kornhole 4y ago
This is a real ID system for everybody. Because how these companies such as Meta have trackers in most commercial web pages, it will mean more definite attribution of site visitors. The silver lining is this could encourage more people to u

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