I'm not trying to make you guys wrap yourself in tinfoil— almost nobody needs to be as paranoid as I am, and even I am tremendously lazy about opsec these days. The key is *awareness*: to simply be cognizant of what kind of records you're generating as you go about your life, so you can make informed, reasoned judgments about how much of it you can leave hanging out, and what parts of it you'd rather pay an effort-tax to shield from appearing in somebody's (or everybody's) database.
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I walked the floor at ISC West (international security conference) last year for shits and gigs. It was fucking terrifying…
The level of sophistication in surveillance software/hardware is so far beyond what people think it’s insane… and as more and more datasets get integrated together, it only gets worse…
And this was just the stuff they publicly showcase to any Jabroni like me who walks the floor…
Don't worry, it's going to get worse.
Well, thank goodness for that…
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Snowden: We are all screwed. Anyways, back to parenting.
Oh well.. 
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Yeah with that attitude
Up until the money dies. Once that happens, who’s going to continue to fund sophisticated surveillance? Governments need citizens and currently there is no need to compete for them. Citizens should have zero fear about their digital footprint. It will change. These things take time. But I agree, currently in clown world under the fiat standard the sky is the limit.
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I tried saying, and repeating 20 years ago to anybody who would listen. The government should be banned from leveraging computers in ANY way to tally, track or process any data about US citizens. Including the IRS, DMV, as the lowest level.
There will never be an exit from this.
Would the government ban itself from this? You can't solve the problems caused by the state through the state.
Theoretically, there is a Congress, which represents the best interests of the citizens who elect them.
Of course, most here know that's a fairytale. Nullified in the early 1900s
I'm not sure people understand how invasive it'll get. I've been working on a graduate engineering degree. All the new research projects have AI integrated into them.
What do we do about this? How do we turn the tides?
Who is paying for this surveillance state ... taxpayers
It is always darkest before the dawn
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Love it. Can point it towards all the normies at work.
But it's not something that can be defeated by technology (alone).
The goal has to be to make the data worthless by removing the use cases for the collection and analysis.
Recent email: "move your FitBit account into your Google account today! All your exercise and health history stored securely."
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Walked the same trade floor pre-COVID and it was disturbing back then.
Absofuckinlutely! It's all about threat models. AFAIK I haven't pissed of my government, that much? Apart from the trips to Russia!!!
I've come to appreciate your sacrifices and am glad you're jurisdictionally an arms length to be a bit lazy
“Thank you” feels entirely insufficient. Nevertheless… thank you 🙏
Yea I can buy Reynolds tinfoil or Deadpool guy's tinfoil but what will keep safe? Wrap my phone in tinfoil? I'm so tracked they will follow me to and from my home and work to the store for the machine or they'll harass and stalk the driver who delivered the package l, etc
I hear ya it's just non stop with them. It's enough level. And every time I attend these meetings I'm always surrounded by cops. And this time it's worse.
Using grapheneOS WiFi only and somehow disable the radio modem would be best.
I really only need to use my phone as a "computer" at home over VPN and tor for amethyst and Bitcoin Lightning.
Hate the experience on desktop for both due to various reasons.
Pixel 8 pro has an amazing camera for sunsets, landscapes, and nature etc. Don't need any connection for that photography either till ireturn home.
I am very happy with my pixel and graphene
Thanks for the advice and for everything you do for the world.
How do you use the camera on Graphene, i the Graphene camera app sucks, no?
looks good, thank you. so you use the Graphene camera app or the original from Google in a container like shelter?
I use both for different controls. Night time and sunset I use the google pixel camera app.
Google Services are sandboxed by default in GrapheneOS.
did not know that, thank you. so i dont need an extra container app?
no. Graphene does all the hard work and setup for you.
fantastic thank you
Also highly granular app permissions. So you can turn off network access for, say, the Google Camera.
Completely agree.
Thanks for your work and service for the free world!
It will be appreciated later or sooner.
Fuck Zuck
Everyone just needs to find something they love that is useful to society and stop playing superheroes.
Wow so far the FBI is still pissed about my status in America and still accusing me of requiring an immigration visa to live in America. Even tho I'm an American born citizens.
I’m choosing to be on NOSTR as my real identity. It is an informed choice. Privacy is a human right as much as air and water, if I choose to be private for some of my life, that is my freedom.
Others choose their own privacy. That is their freedom.
Attempting to stop that freedom should be a crime in all civilised nations.
Thank you for saying this part, I find it to be the most important aspect of privacy.
Hey I wonder if we should have a NOSTR phone off day or two at random. This would be in the spirit of messing with the eve droppers. Thoughts?
I'm thinking it would be great to see their faces when their screens go blank.
And you can get someone else to do it for you, and the "price" for that should be something more expensive than money. Sometimes it's harder to hide people behind "7 proxies" than it is to hide network traffic behind "7 proxies". But it's not impossible.
> https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/good-luck-im-behind-7-proxies
Don't put a sim inside the phone.. for one. Secondly, don't run a googled device. Make sure it's something like GrapheneOS and always in airplane mode so your cellular radio is off at all times. You can use airplane mode and still use wifi or Bluetooth. But make sure you're only connecting then with a VPN.
this is the single biggest threat to my kids generation. everything is a quick click, join, share, accept. They have ZERO clue or worry about what type of footprint or data they leave or how it can be used against them. They are all poisoned for ease of use. Its honestly one of the main reasons I hate Apple products.... dumbs tyem down to the most simple uses and none of them can spare the time to even include cross use platforms. the iPhone users refuse to take any extra steps to include via other apps other kids in IChats or video calls if not just the simple click of FaceTime. its destroying the kids in the U.S.
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