It’s just numbers, no punctuation marks, no letters, no math symbols. No entropy really.
For most people that’s not an issue, but some people out there can guess them.
one way to mitigate that problem is simply to not load your mullvad account with more than 1 year of time at any given time. If your mullvad account has like…10 years of time then yeah, lots of people are going to mootch if they figure out which number has that
Or even if they don’t mootch, they could just remove the devices on your account and fuck with you
Mullvad is much friendlier to privacy, but their proxies get blocked by A LOT of stuff, they also have a very small number of proxies. Mullvad collects literally nothing about you, but that’s a double edged sword. not having any way to verify exactly who paid money into which account number means they can’t help you if someone steals your account. I also have it on good authority that mullvad isn’t very reliable at getting past more aggressive censorship firewalls. the one in china for example won’t allow you to use mullvad unless the sim you’re connecting from is a US one.
Proton doesn’t record anything you’re doing with their VPN and they’ve had to prove that many times and their “sentinel” program and the 2FA and double password you can enable make it very hard if not impossible for someone to mootch off your account. I very rarely get blocked by anything when I use proton VPN, if I ever do get blocked I just have to change the proxy I’m on. I don’t even have to change the location most of the time because proton VPN has a huge number of proxies at each location.
Proton also gives you the ability to save recovery phrases and recovery files if you lose your password(s) or your 2FA
ente auth and ageis auth are great for storing your 2FAs and they allow you to back them up to a file if your account with ente fails in some way or if you forget the password to get into your ageis
as for those recovery files and phrases I talked about. save them in text files on a small capacity flash drive that you don’t use for anything else
the post is too much for me to read right now. Every youtuber I like is constantly getting demonetized and/or having their revenue stolen. So I watch with some heavy duty adblocking filters on multiple levels.
And then for let’s plays where each video in a playlist is 40 minutes or more I use alternative front-ends exclusively
what are you talking about?
Okay, so I looked into it. Andy Yen just said that republicans would be more likely to crack down on the censorship that big tech is always doing compared to what the democrats would do.
The Biden administration tried to start the “Board of Misinformation” Yes, that’s right, the same people who lied to start every war in my lifetime were going to arbitrate who is and isn’t telling the truth and possibly even lock people up for saying otherwise.
What’s the word for that again? The word for a government that arrests people for saying things they don’t want them to say?
Why with the downvotes? You’re okay with the government dictating what you can and can’t say? Is that it?
Proton VPN, RethinkDNS are two good things to get.
Or if you can pay, Proton unlimited, which comes with a lot of stuff from proton, and NextDNS
Edit: NextDNS is a separate service that isn’t affiliated with proton in any way. If you want to make logs on your nexDNS account, store them in switzerland only, never the US and never the EU only switzerland…for privacy reasons.
Why two laptops and a windows tablet? One is a beefy gaming laptop, the other is a mediocre laptop that I sometimes take to wifi hotspots. The windows tablet is a different form factor, I don’t really use it much anymore
Two desktops? One for gaming and my daily driver, the other for work.
I’m not telling you what I do for a living.
Things that are in every threat model include, but are not limited to.
Surveillance from your internet provider and advertising companies its partnered with.
Surveillance from advertising companies partnered with websites you go to and online services you use.
People online who might try to doxx you if you say something they don’t like or win too much in a game
The owner of a malicious website getting your IP address from visiting it by accident.
If your internet provider or anyone else gives you the third degree about using a VPN or any other privacy-friendly alternatives to anything, just say all but the first one
oh and be mindful of internet providers using AI to find patterns in the packets you’re sending and receiving
You can encrypt a radio.
Yes, but that requires you and the one(s) you’re communicating with to mod some radios and then to keep those radios secret, which won’t be easy once you start using them, especially in a situation like that where the government would probably be scanning those frequencies for exactly that
Anything controlled by a centralized bank is evil.