Recent comments in /f/Privacy

BlackWinnerYoshi wrote

Reply to hCaptcha - Stop more bots. Start protecting privacy. by div1337

I don't trust hCraptcha - their main page has a "Try it out" thing, which embeds hCraptcha over Clownflare, which means BCMA will block the main page after the first load. So it's clear to me they support Clownflare in some way.

Actually, the Stop Cloudflare repository said it's all about money. You can see it on hCraptcha main page:

hCaptcha allows websites to make money serving this demand while blocking bots and other forms of abuse.

The "abuse", of course, will be e.g. users who use Tor and they happen to visit a Clownflared website.

Is that the only issue? Well, it also has the issue reCRAPTCHA has - the user is still forced to solve it, the only thing that changes is who gets your data to abuse it.

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takeheart wrote

Reply to US Postal Service accused of monitoring American social media posts under controversial surveillance project by Rambler

As such, the US Postal Inspection Service has federal law enforcement officers, Postal Inspectors, who enforce approximately 200 federal laws to achieve the agency’s mission:

To make more criminals and fill federal concentration camps. Each new federal law to protect will only produce more criminals to lock in federal concentration camps. Why the fuck would postal service do that with that disgusting glorified pose? It's not controversial, it's evil.

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bugmenot wrote

Reply to Invidious / YouTube proxy is back up. Watch YouTube videos ad-free. Create playlists and subscriptions without ever pinging Google. by Rambler

Setting preferences doesn't work on the onion site, apparently because the server always tries to set the cookie domain to its clearnet hostname.

Set-Cookie: PREFS=*snip*; domain=tube.incognet.io; path=/; expires=Thu, 20 Apr 2023 02:30:45 GMT; Secure; HttpOnly

Any chances you could look into this? Thanks in advance!

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liminal OP wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by takeheart in Small, cheap spy satellites mean there’s no hiding place by liminal

Upboat because you are the only one who replies to my posts. I see you have read the article carefully, but I'm pretty sure the part about migrant routes isn't realistic, ICE will find the tech more useful than any NGO, although you probably think ICE is on Soros' payroll.

I see a lot of neutered 'facts' in the middle of overton window

What do you mean? My take is that the use of this form of fingerprinting mechanism is worrying, especially when a huge share of all satellites in orbit is controlled by a manchild.

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takeheart wrote

Reply to Federal government proposes website-blocking system for piracy websites by Rambler

safeguarding individual rights and freedoms in an open internet

So much euphemisms and lies. They don't want any transparency nor accountability on what govts and corpos do, only on those things that can harm the population. Copyright primarily benefits those in power, independent creative individuals hate it http://verisimilitudes.net/2019-11-30

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takeheart wrote (edited )

Reply to Small, cheap spy satellites mean there’s no hiding place by liminal

I see a lot of neutered 'facts' in the middle of overton window, but what's your take on this, why do you think it's worth emphasizing? Are you happy? That fishes will be protected from those evil unlicensed fishermen, so that they can breed happily to be harvested full force exclusively by the licensed? Are you happy that there will be more workplaces for watchers on those stations? And of course there will be even more workplaces for watchers who watches the watchers, more for noble knights protecting poor france and it's poor defense contractors from horrible atrocities of cybertheft, poor peaceful americans can employ more watchers to protect their glorious democratic homeland from those dirty iranian terrorists and their weaponised speedboats. And legitimate mobile-phone towers finally can protect their legitimate monopolies and remove those filthy unlicensed DIY rogue radio anarchists, ascertain their exclusive domains and sell radio spectrum which those nasty radio pirates dared to use for free. Next benevolent philanthropist charities can track routes of migrants more efficiently to help them get into countries that are in desperate need of multiculturalisation. What a great age we are living in!
Are you happy, liminal?
I think with all-seeing eye high in the sky the world is getting brighter, transitioning from scary darkness to all-piercing heavenly light. The world is getting Illuminated.

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liminal OP wrote

Reply to Small, cheap spy satellites mean there’s no hiding place by liminal

Replying to my own thread because I wanted to emphasize the following paragraph, which came to mind after reading the submission about camera sensor fingerprinting (or photo response non-uniformity).

Horizon also plans to compile a library of unique radar-pulse “fingerprints” of the world’s vessels, for the tiny differences in componentry that exist even between examples of the same make and model of equipment mean that signals can often be linked to a specific device. It will thus be able to determine not merely that a vessel of some sort is in a certain place, but which vessel it is, and where else it has been.

Don't know if any user of Ramble has his own vessel, but I guess this form of surveillance based on unique (unspoofable?) differences in componentry will be extended to other fields.

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takeheart wrote

Reply to comment by Yogihni in Reminder: Reddit hates Tor and will lie to you about why you can't login. by Rambler

If I understand you correctly, you suggest that one should create a reddit account

Please don't put such filth in my mouth, I'm against using spynet at all. Reddit actively fights shared accounts and their users http://bugmenot.com/view/reddit.com because it wants to sell your ass to all of it's spynet affiliates. It endorses censorship to make user-made content more appealing for ad companies that will exploit said users. Reddit together with jewkipedia was shilling covais bullshit and censoring truth. So all these old-new-tor-vpn are not solutions, like plastic-silver-gold spoon to eat shit with it. If for some reason you absolutely have to eat shit (your choice), then tor-made account from tor-only is the most hygienic way. Just don't confuse yourself with this fuzz-up strategy: your activity inside walled garden does not deter intellectual rape and tracking, it just produces more activity which attracts further rape victims. Please put your efforts into promoting free environments instead.

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Yogihni wrote

Reply to Reminder: Reddit hates Tor and will lie to you about why you can't login. by Rambler

Thanks; I think the same has been happening to me. It doesn't make sense that my pwd manager or I screw up only when handling a few reddit passwords. Maybe I can get back in to my accounts (also compartmentalizing a few interests that reddit doesn't deserve to correlate and track). The particular accounts I am having trouble with were created and now used on the clearnet with a vpn. I still use uMatrix and hope I can remember/find how to shut down javascript to get logged in again.

It's been awhile, but you reminded me to try switching back to "new" (dog shit) reddit to get logged in over Tor. From memory, it might also help during signup. I agree, reddit is a really shitty hassle to use and maintain some basic privacy. What's the best way for one to track the development of increasing, sustaining traffic and new subs at Ramble (grouped list of all f/subRamble's with traffic stats)?

@takeheart, If I understand you correctly, you suggest that one should create a reddit account using Tor and only ever use the account with Tor for privacy and anonymity. At the other end of the spectrum, any two or more accounts on the clearnet without a vpn can be easily associated together and with the IP. A vpn would protect the IP somewhat, but traffic correlation from the vpn servers can link separate accounts, and the user is often de-anonymized.

Would it be helpful to make a subRamble and share some throwaway reddit accounts with passwords to fuzz-up reddit's data? Sometimes it's nice to have option to make a quick comment, answer, or question that doesn't merit reddit's invasive registration and tracking. We could make a group for Tor accounts and maybe another group for vpn accounts.

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BlackWinnerYoshi wrote

Reply to comment by takeheart in Reminder: Reddit hates Tor and will lie to you about why you can't login. by Rambler

Alternatively, you can use regex and redirect ^(http|https)://(?:www.)reddit.com(.*) to https://teddit.net$2, https://libredd.it$2 (what I use), or https://kddit.kalli.st$2 (what I used) (note that you need the Redirector addon)

None of those actually good reddit frontends support logging in, but since most of reddit is BS, you shouldn't care (and I don't have a reddit account any more either). Although, what do you mean by:

unless you made your account through tor, your manipulations are meaningless

— do you mean that you can log into your reddit account if you made it over Tor, or if that it doesn't matter if you log in over Tor if you created your account over Tor? Probably the first one, but I don't know.

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takeheart wrote

Reply to comment by BlackWinnerYoshi in Facebook phone numbers now searchable in Have I been Pwned by DeusExMachina

There's bound to be some overlap between two, because goolag will include everything the other have, and add more on top of that, since goolag is much better at hostile data harvesting than a single honeypot.
And not shilling jewkipedia either, just look at who's paying them and you'll see where they stand on privacy.
https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/2018-annual-report/donors/

goolag blood money
crapple blood money
malwaresoft blood money

In the end it's all about trust, and corporate cocksuckers deserve none.

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