Paranoid glowy thoughts
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delete all photos of your guns from Google Photos. If your cloud provider has search by keyword, search for guns. Delete your friend's guns too. Google and other large media companies have already agreed to sharing this info with various "law enforcement" government bodies.
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if you're not using a VPN you're retarded. bUT iM noT poSTINg Im jUSt luRKIng. Well if you ever do decide to organize, you bet your ass your friend's odds of getting vanned jumped up because of your idiocy. Connect to a non-US VPN without logs, ideally someone not based in Hong Kong. The Chinese VPNs are cheaper for a reason. Use TorrentFreaks privacy guides they do every year, and do further research outside TF. Don't use 'private internet access'.
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Apple's refusal to participate with FBI warrants has NOTHING to do with their relationship with the NSA. Their FBI relationship is a smokescreen, they're members of PRISM. Do not keep photographs of your guns, ammo, memes about igloos on your fucking iCloud.
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VPN connections don't make you anonymous at all if you're signed into your fucking email, holy shit. If you are behind a VPN and open your gmail, your internet activity is linked to it. Don't google stupid shit while YouRE behIND a VPn. Use a separate browser in private mode for sketchy shit, ideally one not connected to your Apple/Google account. Private tabs in the same browser are not sufficient. When you open the initial Chrome window as "John Doe on IP x.x.x.x" then open incognito, you still have the same IP address. It can trivially be linked back. Use a separate damn browser, or launch the browser incognito with "firefox --incognito" launch parameter, or similar.
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Close the fucking browsers before you disconnect from VPN, close your Discord/gamechat/twitch/onlyfans-cam in your taskbar before you disconnect from a VPN, jesus. AJAX calls made by your browsers might not finish until your browser closes, which will fire back unencrypted if you don't close the fucking browser first.
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ideally if you need to do some sketchy googling, get on a good VPN out of country, and use Tor Browser on top of your VPN. Make sure you kill your other browsers when running this so your VPN connection can't be linked to a Google account. If you're really paranoid, use Tails OS, a live Linux USB disk that boots from a flashdrive to avoid OS leftovers and spyware kept in Windows.
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Windows/MacOS are closed source and you should assume everything you do on it is monitored. Remember, PRISM allows router hardware manufacturers to have their firmware backdoored, you don't think they're in your laptop? If you're googling actually illegal shit and want to keep it quiet, use tails
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if you do keep a paper copy of your guns serial numbers for theft/insurance reasons, make sure it's on paper and offsite, or encrypted.
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if for whatever reason you're stopped or questioned during a "peaceful protest" press the power button a few times on your phone. It's usually enough to force fingerprint scanning to be disabled. Ideally turn the phone off if things are going sideways.
I gave up. I only had burner phones for years. I need to be connected for work.
This shit has been going on since Carnivore software in the 90's. One can triangulate burner phones as well. There really is no privacy left. Unless you can own a pre-1970s car, grow your own food, order nothing online, pay for cash for everything. Shit even getting gas you are on camera.... We are fucked. I put random dick picks on cloud just for the hell of it. My cock should live on forever.
Look I'm more stupider than you, let's get that over with off the bat. Also feels free to downvote to the left. But, educate me on how fucked I'd be or am for posting some boog memes and kill all pedos shit? I get it if I'm screwing around with guns that arnt exactly legal but being (currently) 100% legal, what the concern with ATF or FBI sniffing my stuff?
You're not wrong. The people watching all this shit all already know who we are, our addresses and, perhaps a rough idea of our capabilities.
Posting memes about a need for a government reset and to kill pedophiles is perfectly legal so long as it is opinion. Don't post plans, direct incitements or any addresses, names, or real life info for anyone. Never, ever directly threaten with personal violence anything. Don't say any shit you can't utterly qualify as opinion and humor. Don't post evidence of criminal activity or intent. That should be fucking obvious.
Anyone researching me knows I'm fucking boring. I'm a gun nut mental health professional that needs an outlet to rant about guns, also an utter hatred of gun control and communism, both of which are anathema to freedom, and I love to cook.
I've always wondered if some ATF agent somewhere read my recipes and laughed and got a good idea for dinner.
Fuck gun control and rapists, Uncle Scruffy
Yo... can I get those recipes tho
There are guys posting “I want to kill x high ranking political official...in minecraft” on /pol/ and you never hear about any of them getting v&. You’re probably fine.
Theyre also probably 13
or glowies
Even if you're following good VPN etiquette isn't it still wildly unsafe?
yes but the perfect is the enemy of the good. Privacy is not a binary yes/no. It's a graduated scale. Yes, the government can still get your information if they want it. But why make it easier for them?
Don't use bio-metric security for anything. That means fingerprints. That means FaceID. You are literally walking around with your password permanently attached to your body, for all to see. It's easy AF to spoof your fingerprint, and it's only somewhat more complicated to spoof your face ID.
What about for apps? I dont want to constantly be typing in my banking credentials to look at my account, shit is tiring
apps are different in that you have to get into the phone first. So if your lockscreen is pin/pattern only, I don't see why that'd be a big deal. They can't use the app-fingerprint to do anything in regards to unlocking the phone. You just ideally don't want fingerprint for your phone's lockscreen.
Prolly Harry Potter and Star Wars stuff
imagine thinking you can have privacy in 2020.
perfect is the enemy of the good. We don't have privacy, but that doesn't mean we have to be a complete idiots about it.
If you have Android, there's a setting to "show lockdown" that'll give you the option to force password for unlock from the screen that comes up from a long press on the power button.
Or better yet, don't use a fingerprint. Prints are physical evidence and can be forced by a court. They can't force you to give out a PIN regardless of how much they threaten you.
Everything is basically spyware these days, only safe way I can think is getting a dedicated device and only using mcdonald's wifi 3 states over (and don't bring your phone aka tracking device with you) and never linking to anything you use on your personal devices Privacy isn't real anymore unless some knowledgeable /g/entooman can convince me otherwise
1 always use a VPN minimum to at least hide your browsing from your ISP.
tor is good. the only people that can crack it is the NSA, if they can
remove google play store and services from your phone. 1,000,000% spyware. also reduces non functional use of phone.
VPN running on your home firewall is the way to go. Most home routers that aren't pieces of shit can be upgraded with DD-WRT or Tomato firmware to enable this.
VPN app on your machine is just too prone to user error. It's really just a matter of when do you slip up.
Also mind your DNS. Even a VPN poorly configured can still allow DNS leaks.
i just dont give a fuck anymore i have nothing to hide at this point
Google has millions of sensors (android phones) correlating wifi locations (they have uniquely identifiable MACs) to GPS info. So if you use a burner android phone, make sure it's off in whatever identifiable-geofence makes you happy. Not doing so makes it not a burner. You can guarantee they can tie any real accounts you have to your burner accounts if they coexist near networks.
Whenever I go off to do hood stuff I leave my phone at home, streaming episodes of Mad Men
privacytools.io
I only use smoke signals and carrier pigeons to communicate with the bois.
What's up with PIA?
they got bought out by a company that sells your data.
Fuck reddit, but these are good synopses, one from an actual PIA employee:
https://old.reddit.com/r/PrivateInternetAccess/comments/dz2w53 /our_merger_with_kape_technologies_addressing_your/
the other on datahorder https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/e05hn3/psa_pia_privateinternetaccess_has_been_bought_by/
What if I'm not a hipster faggot and never used Google cloud or iShit?
Tails isn't even mentioned yet it's the very best way to help you stay anonymous.
I did mention tails, twice. You know what else is hipster? Acting smug about something you didn't even fucking read