Recent comments in /f/Privacy
Wahaha wrote
Reply to United States Postal Service now using it's vast database of package imagery as a customer 'feature' by spc50
So they finally figured out a "use case".
BlackWinnerYoshi wrote
Reply to Reddit removed privacy OptOut settings "to reduce confusion" (Content as comment within for those who don't want to visit reddit) by Rambler
First it was posts disguised as ads, then removing an opt-out for tracking... good thing I'm not on Reddshit any more.
Also, for those that want to read the post/comments without loading bloat, you can use kddit (Tor v3 mirror, I2P mirror).
DcscZx5idox wrote
Reply to comment by spc50 in Latest Brave browser update fixes Tor .onion DNS Leak by Rambler
I agree. Braves tor is not private.
Brave browser have many fingerprint more than Firefox and Tor browser. Other Chromium browser too. (We can check it on fingerprint test site.)
https://blog.torproject.org/browser-fingerprinting-introduction-and-challenges-ahead.
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/
Rambler wrote
Reply to You should think at that.. by V3l
This website is available from more than lokinet (also on Tor, I2P, Yggdrasil and the clearnet) but you do make a good point.
Reduce the amount of places you use the same username.
When Voat shutdown and people were flocking to new sites and saying, "Hey, I'm thisguy over here too!" I was facepalming. I was thinking that, for those people, that's the perfect time to start fresh with a new web ID on whatever platform they went to. For many: Nope.
spc50 wrote
Reply to You should think at that.. by V3l
Toxicant wrote
Reply to comment by Rambler in RIP Internet Privacy. In effort to combat "disinformation", your digital finger print may be tagged to every image you create or share in the near future. by Rambler
i have a on again off again relation with Mint.
Rambler OP wrote
Reply to comment by Wahaha in Reddit removed privacy OptOut settings "to reduce confusion" (Content as comment within for those who don't want to visit reddit) by Rambler
You won't see them, unless the "disguised as a post" type ads.
old.reddit.com for desktop use and "RIF is fun" (previous 'reddit is fun', but reddit cried over the use of their name) app for mobile. Only way to view that site nowadays.
AWiggerInTime wrote
Reply to RIP Internet Privacy. In effort to combat "disinformation", your digital finger print may be tagged to every image you create or share in the near future. by Rambler
I can't wait to go to prison for a fukken meme.
Next up:
With our users in mind, Soybook has disabled uploading untagged media files (known also as raw files) to prevent misinformation and harassment. Exceptions are allowed through our customer service reps, who are happy to take your call any time of the day!
I'm so fucking sick of this shit. At this rate any danknet will be illegal in 3 years and encryption will be only allowed through a proprietary HTTP extension that (serverside) will be licensed strictly to enterprises.
Morpheus wake me up plz, the dream world sucks even more
spc50 wrote
Reply to comment by Wahaha in Reddit removed privacy OptOut settings "to reduce confusion" (Content as comment within for those who don't want to visit reddit) by Rambler
Likely, no.
This is why everyone needs to get a network level gateway/router/firewall solution and push blocking regardless of device connected to the LAN.
Policies and good intended laws at this point aren't going to save people from the vileness of the silly-con valley, data collectors, organized crime and hundreds of organizations collecting data to be used against you in the future. No you won't need to be a law breaker either. What they treat the convicted to always trickles down to the general public.
Remember when crypto export controls where about terrorism? Now we have normal people daily behind crypto on everything they do. Now the enemy is DARPA involved in the child trafficking and potential of. Companies like Palantir mirroring content on popular public sites like Craigslist - in cooperation with DARPA (funding).
Ads too started about just selling a product. Now the product is this long tail tracking and profiling. Give you something for 'free' to trick you onto their slave plantation. You are the product and being bought and sold and abused like a street walker. You just don't know it yet.
Wahaha wrote
Reply to comment by spc50 in Reddit removed privacy OptOut settings "to reduce confusion" (Content as comment within for those who don't want to visit reddit) by Rambler
Is this going to do anything for folks that have adblockers up anyway?
spc50 wrote
Reply to Reddit removed privacy OptOut settings "to reduce confusion" (Content as comment within for those who don't want to visit reddit) by Rambler
Summary:
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We will no longer support the option to opt out of personalization of ads based on your Reddit activity.
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If you are logged out of reddit and cruising the site, no longer can you customize ad crap preferences.
Just another big fat company pushing ads hard and ugly.
Erect your ad blockers folks. Trust none of them.
Rambler OP wrote
Reply to Reddit removed privacy OptOut settings "to reduce confusion" (Content as comment within for those who don't want to visit reddit) by Rambler
I'll save you a click:
Hey there redditors,
As Reddit has grown, so has the complexity of the preferences we provide to meet the varied needs of our users. Our current User Settings, which allow you to change your preferences at any time, have been long overdue for some TLC. This week, we’re cleaning up and simplifying some user preferences to help users better understand how their data is being used and to be able to opt-out of settings more easily.
What’s changing:
Simplifying Personalization Preferences: Our personalization preferences have been pretty confusing. There are six personalization options, three of which deal with personalization of ads, two of which confusingly both deal with personalization of ads based on partner data. These two settings (“Personalize ads based on information from our partners” and “Personalize ads based on your activity with our partners”) will be combined into one setting: “Personalize ads based on your activity and information from our partners.” We will no longer support the option to opt out of personalization of ads based on your Reddit activity.
Removing Outbound Click Preference: While there are safety and operational purposes for tracking outbound clicks, we leverage only aggregated data and have never personalized Reddit content based on this data, so we’re removing this setting to reduce confusion.
Removing Logged Out Personalization Settings: All User Settings are tied to a user account. Previously, we had ads personalization settings available for logged out users. We’ll be removing these settings to reduce confusion.
Reddit’s commitment to user privacy isn’t changing. For users who want to have a non-personalized version of Reddit, they can always continue to use Reddit without logging in. We also launched Anonymous Browsing Mode on our iOS and Android app last year to support private browsing from our native app experience. You can find more info on Reddit's Personalization Preferences here.
spc50 wrote (edited )
Amazing how aggressive Brave is at spinning PR. Anything to protect your advertising revenue and shitcoin. How much $$$$ is enough for your people? Atypical Silicon Valley greed that 80% of the flyover zone of the US is tired of.
That ghacks post happened and already had their devs and known Brave workers commenting.
Too bad Brave isn't as aggressive about security, exposing customers, risk mitigation, etc. Took a month to patch this. Untold number of people, sites, etc. exposed. You should be liable for that as well as the leak. All created because of your ad shit. See dev notes.
It's is NOT a feature to bundle a half a$$ed lousy implementation of Tor browser functionality. Then claim it isn't a replacement. Then claim it isn't suitable for absolute anonymity. At best the feature is a novelty for lazy end users and to capture more usage data for those too unaware to use a site like Tor2Web. I sure wish the Tor developers would speak up about what Brave did and continues to do.
If anyone should know better, it is Yan Zhu, Brave's head of security. How many people has Yan knew where security mattered and subsequent unearthing of them resulted in death and long detention?
Yan, this isn't a game friend. Brave you people aren't. You are inept, short sighted and dangerous to people exercising free speech and free thought in oppressive environments. That includes in the ever problematic United States, China, etc.
Solution, remove Tor functionality from your browser. How many people need to be detained, how many imprisoned, how many dare I say killed due to your negligent leaking?
smartypants wrote (edited )
Brave Browser Was Exposing Addresses in Tor Mode for Months: https://www.coindesk.com/brave-browser-leak-exposed-user-domain-info-months
What about .Zil?
I PREDICT IT HAS AN EXACT SIMILAR and just as scary leak out to DNS of addresses that use .zil secure private psuedo-TLD!
.zil leaks to DNS of ISP?
Blockchain Domain Names, No Renewal Fees, Ever. your name record on a Zilliqa BLOCKCHAIN revocable only by you, and auto converted to full URL of your preference via a small open source addon to all main browsers, that resolves .zil addresses
https://unstoppabledomains.com/
for example
ramble.zil might map to https://ramble.pw
but this buggy brave browser might accidentally , if broswer extension missing or turned off, REVEAL TO FEDS that you tied to go to "ramble.zil" because the same fuctards sending onion urls to DNS leaking your actions to feds, will now also send any clicked links that go to a.zil address to try and resolve a .zil at your ISPs DNS
For SHAME!
Feb 8 2021 : How to resolve .zil domain names : https://medium.com/unstoppabledomains/how-to-resolve-zil-domain-names-f43da8fe37a9
Sites for privacy will all soon offer an alternative url using a .zil to redirect to CURRENT preferred net address... even if a raw IP and port on a anti-DDOS service site.
.zil is the future of free speech and unstoppable domains, and i bet brave bug merely hard compares the word ".onion" and will now leak ".zil", just like the bug a few days ago.
fucktard coding.
PD. Also rambler :
read that last tutorial link and actually create a record you control for for "ramble.zil" before the ADL or SPLC subverts you and makes one first.
cjoidiod wrote
Reply to comment by Wahaha in Linux devices have a unique identifier called machine-id. Here is how to change it. by Rambler
https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/machine-id.5.html
/etc/machine-id is used to decide whether a boot is the first one. ...
RoboGoat2000 wrote
Reply to Firefox 86 Introduces Total Cookie Protection by Rambler
This should have been implemented decades ago. Creating the solution is not difficult in the slightest, and cookies have been a known privacy concern for a long time.
spc50 wrote
Same garbage approach really as Google took when transferring itself to Alphabet then calling various chunks of it's cash cows different companies.
This is all to stave off anti trust issues and pretend like different operating units.
Facebook however doesn't get this game at all.
It buys brands, folds them in, then shares data with the motherships and does tracking all over the place.
You destroy Facebook's tracking and eliminate their advertising to you, all they have left is any tracking collected in very sneaky ways.
Time has come for everyone to have a proper gateway router at the doorway to your internet connection. Full Linux feature set. The day of nulling and blackholing whole AS Numbers has come.
spc50 wrote
That's a 2018 incident filed, with 2019 on that article.
Question is were all these things fixed since then.
div1337 wrote
div1337 wrote
Reply to comment by smartypants in Why are normies like that? by Wahaha
So explain something like this? https://cntechpost.com/2020/11/18/security-vulnerabilities-in-apple-m1-chip-devices-iphone-12-pro/
encryption does not equal security
spc50 wrote
Reply to comment by Wahaha in RIP Internet Privacy. In effort to combat "disinformation", your digital finger print may be tagged to every image you create or share in the near future. by Rambler
Javascript creation is decent competition. If Planned Parenthood were holding an adult termination program I'd select both of them.
spc50 wrote
Reply to Linux devices have a unique identifier called machine-id. Here is how to change it. by Rambler
It's terrible that this data exists. Well intentioned pathway to hell these IDs are.
It's incomprehensible that anything has or can get access to such values. Such should be lock boxed and only root accessible. Definitely nothing a browser or other shi!tware should be able to retrieve. Yet they can and do. Speaks for the need of standardized JAILS for all programs in any computing environment.
This is a good reference to give distro hoppers a fair chance and reduce search and research fatigue for SystemD-less distros: https://www.slant.co/topics/18348/~linux-distros-that-don-t-use-systemd
Rambler OP wrote
Reply to comment by RAMBLE1 in Linux devices have a unique identifier called machine-id. Here is how to change it. by Rambler
Awesome, I'll add that to the blog post. Thanks for sharing.
RAMBLE1 wrote (edited )
Reply to Linux devices have a unique identifier called machine-id. Here is how to change it. by Rambler
Thanks for sharing. Another good reason to not run systemd !
Im running mxlinux with sysv init.
->cat /etc/machine-id
cat: /etc/machine-id: No such file or directory
😊
smartypants wrote (edited )
Reply to Phone faraday bags. Anyone use one? What do you use and how/when do you use it? by Rambler
I used one for a few years, but you need to go into airplane mode and not forget, or your battery drains VERY FAST from it searching for antennaes. You also need to turn off wifi (various bands) and turn off bluetooth (2.45GHz band) or your faraday mesh will eat up your battery.
MOS Equipment "Mission Darkness" MDFB-S-NW 4 ounce model from Amazon is "good enough" , but does not block microphones, and costs only 23 dollars :
23 dollars :
https://www.ama<<REMOVE THIS>>zon.com/Mission-Darkness-Non-Window-Faraday-Phones/dp/B01A7MACL2/
You also need to roll it into a little acoustic BALLISTICS foam if you do not have a portable piezo (non digital) white nose generator adjacent to a iphone.
iphones have 4 (yes 4) hidden microphones in them, four. four fucking hidden mics one is siri dedicated, two are system stereo human voice isolating to cleverly earse background noise, the 4th is a secret nsa/apple mystery mic.
countless ultrasonic and sonic sound proof foam sheets exist to wrap your phone in if it is on your body or glove box :
http://www.ballistic-online.com/
https://www.spartech.com/products/custom-sheet-rollstock/flexible-sheet/soundx-flexible-acoustic-barrier
I use neither of those brands but they would work.
I use far more expensive stuff meant for usage for mil-spec.
AIRPLANE MODE fake on iPhone in spy OS from apple : iOS 11.1 from apple SECRETLY TURNS ON WIFI AND USES WIFI when in AIRPLANE MODE!
Refer to this alarmed post :
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8146282
Apple engineers stated in that apple.com post that the antennae are all periodically enabled ON PURPOSE against your will, when you try to turn off antennas using Airplane mode.
so on iphone/android you need to manually turn off bluetooth and also manually turn off wifi and third ... manually turn off cell antennaes. they love to spy.
Fun fact I proved : airplane mode does not create a true OS state unless in airplane mode for over 60 seconds, but that is not the link I shared above.
ALL PHONES SPY ON YOUR NEARBY VOICE CONVERSATIONS (FBI interested people)
all phones , android and apple, convert voice to text and then send a buffer of last 2 hours of whispered text in vacinity of phone upstream as text once airplane mode is flipped off and cell back up. ALL PHONES do this and is easy to prove using ampmeters attached to battery packs. They do not do this at all if battery level drops to 21 to 22% though. They only seem to do it guaranteed if phone being jostled and walking or driving around prior to lying still. humans conversing (a exotic live cable tv news channel also works for testing). prerecorded might be whitelisted (technically blacklisted). the big arbitron radio markets and big tv channels might be also be ignore by cell devices , but NOT possible if in airplane mode and then the battery drain is astouding to watch using older android and older iphones. 25% of battery drained PER HOUR if converting your spied on conversations to text for later upload.
NOISE GENERATORS!
you can avoid acoustic foam if merely trying to make white noise one inch from your resting phone :
If at home, and phone connected to cell or wifi for incoming calls, you can add a random noise ANALOG circuit full spectrum white nose generator and you can modify circuits to cut off ultrasonic above 28Khz to not make your cat/hamster/dog hate entering your kitchens.
hundreds of designs, avoid digital storage 8 dollar loops from amazon. demand 100% analog style, no DAC from prerecorded loops.
http://www.discovercircuits.com/N/noisegen.htm
hundreds of designs to stop spooks from listening to people in your kitchen if your LG dishwasher mic, your LG washing machine mic not nearby, or your microphone internet refrigerator not connected to wifi password of you or neighbors house, (they use zigbee path to your AC power meter though for NSA level taps). Your tvs all have mics and use your roku or firesticks to hop ride onto internet.
If you have alexa or siri in your house , you are just a fucktard and can ignore this entire post