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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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Here’s an actual good book:
Helen Nissenbaum (2009). Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804772891.
If you’re cooked, then just use a lighter to set the thing you don’t want to be exposed on fire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAJR4SreD7s
I mean this is certainly something somebody wrote, but the content is a joke.
first off, it’s from the 80s, so it might as well be from the 1800s, that’s how much it has to do with our everyday lives. second, it’s rife and overflowing with prepper-adjacent gas and fantasies. the writer’s style is lacking, to be overly generous and the whole thing gives off vibes from the days or alt.* newsgroups. finally, the “advice” in there is laughably naive and sometimes just plain wrong.
so thanks OP, had a few laughs browsing it but this got deleted almost instantly.
Yeah, hiding things is obsolete since physical objects can be encrypted. Duuuyrrrrr
Soldier of Fortune vibes
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Are you some kind of novelty account? Would explain the name
I dont have a brain and find this book insulting because I can’t read. How dare you post something I don’t like! I’m not here to create content or participate in meaningful discussion. I prefer to incite flame over absolutely nothing at all.
The 80s were 40 years ago. The security landscape is so different now, even if it was a perfectly valid book on how to actually hide anything then, it is not accurate at all to the current environment and internet. There may be some physical security things that apply, but even with those there are likely things that now need to be taken into account that did not exist then.
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It is very difficult to have an objective and meaningful conversation with someone who considers their audience to be simpletons and fools right from the gate. Add in condescending references to the masses as ‘normies’ et al or those with conflicting opinions labeled as ‘hypebeasts’.
If we are the enlightened, why don’t we come down from our enlightened pedestals and assist our fellow man in lieu of brow beating them from some assumed level of superiority or high ground? If I were one of the supposed ‘normies’ and you were trying to convince of privacy, security, and anonymity with the tone you arrived here a few days ago with, I’d probably tell you to piss right off. We’re all here to learn and help learn, and take that knowledge and teach others around us how to use their technology in the most safe, secure, and private manner possible.
Condescending attitudes and tones don’t do much to further the cause.
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It’s not really the book that is the issue
In the 80s the cops could just kill anyone they wanted and blame a serial killer. Now they do it on bodycam and nobody cares. Things change.
that’s a… mature, measured, and well thought-out reply. good job!
Well the simple ideas in the beginning seem plausible but afterwards it’s basically dig a hole, hide the thing, put a house (or tree) on top of it. It’s indeed hidden but you also can’t access it any more.
Someone hasn’t seen John Wick
It all depends on your security model.
If you want to stuff some cash, you probably want that easily accessible.
If you want to hide something you’ll need in a few years, you’ll probably stuff it under a pile of junk.
If you want to make your family heirlooms safe until you reveal their location on your deathbed, planting a tree or building a house on top of them is a valid ultra-long-term option.
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This site immediately got flagged by uBlock Origin’s malicious sites filter, do you have an Anna’s Archive link or an ISBN I can use to look this book up?
No problems here, URLvoid and Webbkoll don’t show any security issue, Limewire is a legit site. For sure a false positive of one of the uBO filters
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I should point out that even though Limewire used to be a “legit” business, the current interation is little more than crypto grifters using a nostalgic brand to prop up their tokens, and they’ve already been doing shady shit like taking over snapdrop.net (previously local network file sharing) with little to no warning to the end users. They’re in many blocklists for a reason, y’know.
For more information, please check out the “Name reuse by unrelated companies” section of their Wikipedia page.
Just use soulseek, limewire is blocked for a reason
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Limewire has had a history of uploaders using it for malware distribution (hence why it’s probably included in the filter).
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https://annas-archive.org/search?index=&page=1&sort=&display=&q=How+to+hide+anything+michael+connor
Also available on LibGen when this link goes down. Thank you for bringing this to our attention 🫡
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