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Feeling Paranoid? Come and share your thoughts!
Hey guys!
Let's do a sharing of the minds.
Tell me how you would secure yourself from external surveillance?
Assume your adversary is capable of one trillion guesses of your password per second. Assume your adversary will perform a wiretap on all your networks.
Assume you have one week to gather resources and perform everything you need. After a week, your adversary has complete control. They know your identity and everything about you, except what you do on the net. You'd like to keep it that way.
I want to hear everything. From TAILS and TOR to anti-physical surveillance tactics such as playing music between windows.
Thanks!
Tagging in @William as he seems to always have some interesting information on this topic
PS: I'm so getting red-flagged for this :-(
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are you planning to join isis or what >.>
service tinfoild start
@0xdragon have you been smoking something new? the stuff that starts you melow then really paranoid ?
I bet hez smoking server meth :P
Assuming the above-stated parameters are true, then you're truly and utterly fucked. However, the above-stated parameters are impossible, so I know for absolute certainty that well tested technologies and a decent password are sufficient to keep me safe.
Whonix is great
OvBSD is greater
Win 3.1 on an offline workstation where you feed it floppy disks
Passive or active? (I.e., can the adversary modify data on the wire?). In the latter case you are hosed more than in the former case, but you're still hosed either way.
Game over, all it takes is a single 0-day and it's not like those are rare - there's a whole legal industry around them and lettered agencies are the primary allowed customers. So you're looking at frequent hardware changes, no web browsers etc.
nope he is smoking computer security training meth lol
hey this is the mindset they teach you in computer security to always watch your back and make sure no one gets into your networks, servers, etc.
you know always thinking what if and how can I secure my network more and furthermore close any vulnerabilities etc.
I download Wikipedia, take a laptop and move to Western Sahara.
if you have something to hide no matter how much security installed there is always that annoying voice to belittle it. anything on the net is vulnerable ... isolation / encryption / 2 way authentications helps bring sleep.
In fact they ARE (well at least their brothers in law from the GCHQ):
https://theintercept.com/2015/09/25/gchq-radio-porn-spies-track-web-users-online-identities/
German article: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Von-Webradio-zu-Pornoseiten-Weltgroesste-Ueberwachungsmaschine-der-Briten-2826716.html
The religious believe that governments are good, and everything is just fine is remarkable!
Sorry for not having a solution. Killing them all is pointless as long as the majority of people doesn't support that, and you don't have a detailed masterplan for the time after the "global cleanup".
I think that if they are doing it, you can't stop it, so try to live the life and forget about that
I would seek out Tom Cruise and Liam Neeson. But I agree with netomx, try to live on and not think about it. I like the idea of off grid living out in the woods, not to hide from big government, I just don't get along well with most people.
Well worth a read in the current climate: https://cryptome.org/ukpk-alt.htm
Budget?
Not much you can do about it. You can protect a bit yourself from advertising tracking using a few browser plugins. But global surveillance is a fact you can't do much against as long as you connect to the internets, from my limited understanding.
Be an as good citizen as you can. You'll be fine.
Now, where's the fun in that?
If you don't find the fun in that, you probably need to learn again what fun really means
Australian Data Retention Laws. ;-)
Oh, and I watched citizenfour, if you're wondering why I opened this thread! And a Batchelor in Computer Security.
So you only want to avoid automated/mass surveillance? That is very difficult because the other people you are in contact with still use gmail, upload their contacts to fb/whatsapp servers, etc. .
If it's just the ISP data retention then use a VPN or Tor. It's like the Australian government made a law that reads "pay $10-100 a year to a company outside Australia to keep your privacy".
Literally.
mmhmmm not figuratively
yum update isis
yum remove usapower
yum remove 0xdragon
yum install BarrackObama.
What is this @0xdragon maybe this could be a little stress that cause you.
You are a dangerous citizen. I don't want to read what's going on in your crazy mind anymore.
/ignore 0xdragon
I am more dangerous than him, I help people avoid surveillance every day, but it is proving difficult, the main issue is between the chair and the keyboard.
Besides the technical things, you must have dual identities at least. This means you do something on the plain internet and another over Freenet/Tor, separate VMs with encrypted disks for each, if you have to keep some data, or something like Tails, if not.
I mean, Mr. Anderson by Day and Neo, by night, kind of thing. Have everything destroy itself if you do enter a certain password at the screensaver or the disk wiped if do the same thing at boot, have the OS log you out regularly, say, every 10 minutes, have your OS run in RAM, and other measures to protect against raids and gun to the head things. If you will die anyway, why risk the lives of the people that trusted you.
Since they already know who are you, the main identity must be real and use your real IP, you will do the regular things on the internet, listen to music, watch movies, shop, do banking, play games, etc. It will not be possible to mask an encrypted connection, really, if they can control the other end (every other end you have access to) but it will not be easy to decrypt it. You should use cascading encryption, at least 3 ways from different projects and with different approaches, so, one 0day will not expose you.
There are ways, nothing is completely safe, if the state is after you, they wont go to such lengths except if they want to find out whom you are in contact with to do them the same they do to you (disappearance, torture, death), otherwise they will finish you off by some "accident". They kill prominent opposition figures, in Russia, for example, North Korea does not even need proof, suspicion you are thinking illegally is enough. There are many people in the world, especially in china, governments afford to kill many before the country starts going to hell, we need to reduce populations and democracy will have a bigger role to play in the world, the wars they plan will help but not enough, we still need education, it cannot be avoided if we want to be free. As long as propaganda and FUD keep working they won there is no chance to fight other than blend in the crowd.
People do not stop and think why the TV man wants them to hate someone (a minority a nation, a religion whatever) they go with the blind hatred, not thinking who will lose in the war, as long as they think they can drop some bombs and their religion will triumph with no other cost, they will. The more enemies they will make this way, the more "danger" and the more powers to the TV and the government against them they will grant.