#nostr hi everyone I’m new here. Any suggestions for some good profile to follow? #Privacy #freespeech #bitcoin

For #android users, make sure your #keyboard app (how you type text) is #FOSS or atleast #open-source. It is crucial for #privacy.

anysoftveyboard - need some configuration

florisboard - fairly simple and straightforward

tiny keyboard - lightweight

thumbkey - crazy squarish keyboard.

8vim keyboard - even crazier

simple keyboard - simple

simple keyboard (simplemobile suite -> fossify appsuite fork is better) also simple

unexpected keyboard

hacker keyboard adjustable

openboard - straightforward

you can install all of these transparant open-source keyboards using #F-Droid (or neo-store(alternative F-Droid client)), an open-source alternative for google play.

🤣 yeah middle east spy software provides great privacy!

Pro/Con of Privacy Routers

The router you get from your ISP is designed to spy on you. It knows which devices are sending which traffic and what guests are connecting to it. If you don’t use a VPN every second, then when you take the VPN down, you’re vulnerable to hackers first hacking the router, to then install malware on your devices (phones/laptop). For example Wikileaks shows the CIA loves to do this. Ok, so how do you get a “private” router?

A privacy router is just regular hardware with a new operating system. But not all hardware supports flashing a new operating system. So either check the manufacturer’s website, or just ask their support “what routers let me flash my own firmware?”. Then just like a stock Android phone being “DeGoogled”, you flash on a new operating system.

The following list goes over SOME of the more popular open source router operating systems. It’s not complicated, they are grouped into “home router” or “firewall”. The firewall is faster and more secure, but costs a little more and is harder to setup.

DD-WRT

Type: Home Router w/ WiFi

Pro: This OS can be flashed on many home routers including Netgear and Asus. It’s fine for just routing traffic and it has WiFi. Support on forums is great, they are nice and friendly. A VPN can be put on it but…

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Con: These home routers are much slower for VPNs to be put directly on the router. Also the DD-WRT website is volunteer run, so it often will be dated for your model. You’ll have to post on their forum asking for the new version.

Solutions: Use WireGuard instead of OpenVPN on home routers. If the 2-minute logging of WireGuard concerns you, then a home router isn’t for you and get a firewall.

OpenWRT

Type: Home or Travel Router w/ WiFi

Pro: This is similar to DD-WRT, but also has a Tor option. OpenWRT also can be flashed on travel routers (Glinet routers or Rasberry Pi).

Con: For VPNs, it’s a more complex setup than DD-WRT, and not worth it in my opinion unless you are doing a travel router or Tor. Only do Tor if you have fast internet to begin with, otherwise it’s unbearable. Support on OpenWRT forums sucks, these guys are rude.

PfSense

Type: Firewall WITHOUT WiFi

Pro: Enterprise Grade Firewalls have a higher level security than home routers and the ability to handle better hardware for VPN speed. Netgear runs this and they spend a lot of development. Firewalls are much better than home routers with their features and barely more expensive now. The costs for firewall hardware have come down significantly and are now in the $200 or under range! Support on pfSense forums is average.

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Con: The free open source version is being phased out for a paid version. 2nd con is that pfSense takes more time to setup and learn than the others on the list. Remember, hardware firewalls don’t have WiFi. So you’ll need to do:

pfSense → DD-WRT or OpenWRT for WiFi.

OPNsense

Type: Firewall WITHOUT WiFi

Pro: This is a fork of pfSense, but more consistent with the open source/freedom aspect. This is my current recommendation as pfSense slowly shifts to a paid model . All the same pro as pfSense.

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Con: Firewalls still mean you’re doing more learning than home routers. OPNsense redid the GUI from pfSense, so if you’re coming from pfSense then they created pointless learning work for similar features. Development wise, Less money is spent on OPNsense than pfSense.

Conclusion

If you want help with configuring or flashing your router, then reach out to us. Don’t accidentally brick or ruin your router. Save yourself hours of headache and hassle, and get the advanced configurations you need for VPNs/Tor, advanced security, and anonymity.

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RSS is great, shame many sites don’t use it anymore.

Need some router and firewall hardware recommendations for OpenWRT or OPNsense? Currently have a TP-Link router w/ no firewall and need wish to upgrade.

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#privacy

#opsec

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I've saved $30 per month by de-googling. Going to start donating monthly to open source projects instead. I was thinking EFF, Tor project, Open Sats and Linux Mint. Any other projects I should consider?

#opensource

#FOSS

#tor #i2p #hyphanet #freenet #gemini #smallweb #lokinet #fractalide ...?

Hey does anyone know of any projects to decentralize and decorporatize internet access? I want to see more private, unregulated internet access in case the government forces IDs and indormation transparency on everything we do. Idk how to be safe from that. I'm still a little bit of a noob when it comes to online privacy and I have a suspicion that no VPN is gonna circumvent government seizing ownership of the traditional Internet infrastructure, since it is already mostly owned by a few corporations and regulated at the city level too.

I want to see something like internet over CB radio mesh networks with unbreakable encryption or some other apocalypse-proof shit like that, that can use nostr.

Anyone know any projects like that or can give me some tips? I wanna be independent from any corporation, especially state capitalists. #privacy #decentralization

Nostr, wen good content?

#Magic Earth isn't not #opensource or even publicly available code. Furthermore, they stated that they won't or can't reveal the code.

Perhaps you meant #OrganicMaps which is fully open source and available on #Fdroid...?

There's also #Vollaphone, #FXtec and other devices that support #UbuntuTouch.

Pro/Con of DeGoogled Phone operating systems

Graphene

Pro: Good optional sandbox for Google push. And advanced security features such as:

1) Hardened to resist memory attacks

2) Better sandboxing (access policies)

3) Enhanced verified boot

4) Attestation tool to diagnose Pegasus malware

5) Browser reducing “just in time” JavaScript

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Con: Only Google manufactured hardware, which is the most likely to have hardware backdoors. Titan-M security chip is closed source and therefore untrusted to protect me from Google/Government

Calyx

Pro: Similar DeGoogled experience to Graphene, but supports a wide group of phone manufacturers outside the 5 eyes including Fairphone, OnePlus, Vivo, Xiaomi, ZTE, and Huawei. LOL, Do you trust Google or the Chinese? Calyx also has a great built in Firewall app to cut off apps from the internet

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Con: While Calyx is better for avoiding Google’s unknown hardware backdoors, it doesn't have Graphene's advanced security against known targeted attacks. Additionally, if you need Google push notifications, then it uses MicroG instead of Graphene's sandbox, which isn't as good at isolating Google from the core system data.

Lineage

Pro: Works on an even larger variety of hardware, so you got a lot of choice. Lineage is also great for fake android virtual machines on your desktop PC. You can easily spin up a VM with this and use spyware apps. While as Graphene won't allow this under current builds, and Calyx requires "annoying to use" Android developer kits to do it.

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Con: Can't lock the bootloader. Controversial security issues.

Pinephone (Linux phone)

Pro: It's good to see alternatives to Android. Hardware "brains" are open source.

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Con: Low amount of apps because it's not using Android's ecosystem. Not as good performance as Android. Lacks Android's good security model, and it still uses closed source hardware to communicate: WiFi and LTE modem (they had to)

Purism's Librem 5

Scam. They won't ship it, don't buy it.

Summary,

Graphene - Extra Security, IF you trust Google's hardware

Calyx - Good for non-Google hardware & app firewall

Lineage - Great for VMs

Pinephone - Boycott Google

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What is the best way to access nostr on desktop? Is there linux client for it?