Prism has broken AES-256???

It is more likely that Prism can use android exploits to read data before it is encrypted by the client

Fairly sure my good Eastern Europeans don’t give a fuck about what France and Germany think and will pirate and TOR and I2P their merry life away (or so I’d like to think - you tell me)

Yeah let’s have them block github. I kind of want to see a federated git hosting platform integrated with the fediverse

I’m wondering, what are EU politicians doing dirty jobs using?

Well I get that they are stupid, but unless it’s their fetish to catch 14 year olds trying to spread rubbish propaganda, I doubt they’re going to get much. Any reporter, activist and consumer knows that anything they put on these apps goes straight to the NSA’s and MI6’s AI algorithms at the very least, and now they’re going to go to the rest of Europe.

Yes, we should be protesting against this. Does Europe have an equivalents of the EFF to fight for such rights?

My point being, what are they going to achieve with this? Ask WhatsApp to pass over their encryption keys?

It should be pretty obvious that you shouldn’t be sharing sensitive stuff on chat apps controlled by the NSA. Use element with encryption or something, maybe Briar etc. What are they going to do if you insist on using apps which use asymmetric client-side encryption, break TOR? Force you to use symmetric encryption and give the government your decryption keys?

I don’t see how they are going to spy on sensitive details of Europeans with this. They might as well ban phones completely if they want to limit communication.

Proton and Mullvad leading the way

Check out the dolpin-trained LLMs, he did one for Mistral and one for Phi-2. Uncensored and OSS

Even OpenAI can’t do that lol

The short answer is to have a VPS, make that a VPN server, and then use NAT to route traffic through to the interfaces you need

Use headscale, I have no idea how people are OK with tailscale when they keep your keys and essentially have access to your network

They do not protect one’s privacy if someone is motivated enough, i.e. nation states, or if OP’s VPN company sells their information. You can be reasonably assured that Mullvad and IVPN aren’t exactly doing that. In terms of obfuscating one’s IP, if that’s a step towards one’s privacy from big tech, then yes good VPNs definitely protect one’s privacy

A VPN and the other stuff you mentioned will deal with it

Link to tech blog please

Except that forums are exactly the best place to talk about (at least in theory) better OPSEC practices. Crowd-sourced knowledge is fairly good in technical spheres, even if they try to influence it

The problem with a threat model is that higher threat models are plainly dismissed by the community. For example, if your threat model is to escape the NSA, it doesn’t matter if you’re using a burner over TAILS to post this message, you will be dismissed.

The problem is not the tech, it’s the community that doesn’t want to engage

I have thought of it, but it doesn’t seem as portable to me as just rclone. I don’t like installing Cryptomator either.

Is there no way to encrypt the metadata of files using GPG? And how do people pad their files to prevent fingerprinting? Surely I’m not the first person to be asking about this? I haven’t had much luck searching online

I wouldn’t be able to do incremental backups in such a case

I see. I’m using Cryptomator, but I was recently linked to rclone’s in-built encryption, which is probably what I’ll use next. Thanks

Thanks, this is great!

I’m using rclone, do you recommend I run borg on top of it to encrypt said files? And does borg explicitly do what I’m trying to achieve? I’m going to take a look at the documentation, thanks

I also have media and other binary blobs which I’d like to archive in an encrypted fashion, will GPG suffice? ChatGPT mentioned OpenSSL for this but I’m not sure where that’s taking me.

Can you point to where such a capability is mentioned in the documentation? I’m using rclone right now

And how exactly do they think they’re going to break PGP and TOR without running an NSA-style racket?

UBlock origin advanced mode blocking most JS + NoScript blocking functions of certain JS functions. Easy

Can’t he post over I2P/Freenet?

Thanks for that, I’ll keep the user in mind

Thanks

Thanks

It’s more like I’d like to not link those purchases to my identity

I didn’t know that. Thanks for bringing up this point.

TBH my threat model was to keep the bigger companies from knowing where I live. I.e. if I shop from Amazon and I enter their site at home, they can make an estimate based on my profile, my browser and my IP, amongst other things. Then, it wouldn’t matter if I ordered to an Amazon locker since they know where I live anyway.

Assuming I maintained a sanitized account and only accessed it from various locations using public WiFi, what could I do to prevent Amazon from knowing the locality I’m in, especially if it’s too big to get to a locker? Likely a P.O box but even government agencies are known to sell data to brokers. AFAIK there’s no way to pay anonymously for UPS or something, which means my identity is being tracked again.

This is a great idea, thanks

There is no freedom in the US lol

I don’t think you can book hotel rooms without identification anymore, in the US

That’s the first time I’ve heard of it! Could you give me an example?

Other than Amazon?

Thanks. Do you use mail redirection and locker services?

Thanks

What do you do for stuff that can’t be shipped to the lockers?