Anything controlled by a centralized bank is evil.

the ministry of truth in china would be monitoring where those emails are caming and going at minimum.

In developed countries where people don’t get arrested for wrongthink mullvad is great, I’m just saying, be prepared if you plan on going to a place with a censorship firewall

Good to know, but how can you safely request them without giving away that you’re using them?

What method does the request go through? What happens when those proxies get blocked by the censorship firewalls too?

Unless you are willing to do the math, “no entropy really” deserves a [citation needed]

what kind of password has more entropy? one with capital and lowercase letters, numbers, math symbols and puncuation marks?

or the one with only numbers?

Is there really a citation needed for that?

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

it’s just a string of numbers with no password

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

NextDNS and ReThinkDNS might be helpful, mullvad DNS, adguard DNS, also helpful

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

Try to replace Swiss with British and see the reactions. They left the EU.

Did Switzerland crack down on encryption? No? Then what the hell does the UK have to do with what I said?

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?

fuck the EU. if it’s not swiss…it’s the shitz

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.

1. I don’t know how to set one up
2. I already have NextDNS and I can make that work everywhere I go.
3. Having AdGuard for windows on both of my laptops and my 3 desktops and my server and my windows tablet already serves the purpose of Pihole plus a few extra things to block the bullshit in windows that PiHole can’t do as effectively
4. Updating a Pihole periodically involves buying and configuring a whole new piece of hardware, updating to a new version of AdGuard involves running the installer and sometimes restoring from a settings file or two.

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.

I don’t have the ability to run a PiHole of my own. But I have adguard installed on my PC with its DNS protection set to put my DNS requests through Next DNS and I have my DNS settings changed to put traffic through NextDNS on all of my shit

swap proxies I have this problem from time to time with mullvad.

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

scratch telegram off that list, put Session messenger there instead.

Telegram isn’t private, one guy has the master key to the whole thing

wouldn’t a cheap walkie-talkie be more practical in that situation?

That’s not secure or encrypted

yes, a lot of people were using those kinds of apps during the free hong kong protests, they go from device-to-device with no internet in between.

No idea what the app is called, but apps like those exist

time to look up some alternatives.

the new surveillance power we currently have was abused by Bush Jr, Obama (who made it more invasive), Trump, Biden, and now Trump again.

Follow the constitution you fuckers! No more spying without a warrant!

good point. but there’s still malware C&C servers that can only be blocked by blocking the IP range

Things like PiHole, nextDNS and the desktop versions of adguard only block HTTP, FTP and POP and SMTP connections. It doesn’t block connections to advertising companies through other protocols.