Andisearch and Startpage, both use random-proxie search.

Well, until now almost all articles I read in AJ are well contrastable, less biased as much other western media.

I never trust what people say about what they are or what they are going to do, only what they really do. But I think that Mamdani is an advance and better as Rpublican alternatives. Despite this, as Major he is very limited to do anything with a whole country gov, media and corporations against him.

The word National Socialism is misleading, it was invented by Hitler, which has nothing to do with socialistic philosophy, it’s the idea of an society of the elite, the most extreme version of capitalism neo-liberal, feudalism 2.0. If it had something to do with socialism, big corporations and billonairs wouldn’t foment and support it. Trump give the best example of National “Socialist” policy, emulating step for step the policy of Germany in the 1930th, cooking the frog with propaganda and misinformation, until it was and now it is almost to late to change. Even when Mamdani honestly try to change something, he has to defeat first all the media, judges, police forces full in the hand of these nazis, with a huge support of stupid (and armed) MAGA hillbillies, yihaaaa. That he won the ellection as Major are good news, but he’s alone against a country, even with people of the own party against him. Hard times with a little sparkle of light at the end of the tunel.

I remeber an eyeball on a stick, used in some movies for biometric scans.

Naturally, because it isn’t encrypted, not so good for sharing sensible information, that is the only risk. Despite that you see my message in your console, it isn’t possible for me to access through this to your PC, nor that you can access to my data with it, apart of the sended text, which can see anybody with the finger link. But it’s a curiosity and the ancestor of the P2P, nice to prank your friends and for fans of vintage computing, because it’s way older as the internet we know. Apart it’s so old, that it isn’t anymore in the focus of govs and hackers, it’s like sending messages with Morse or with an FAX.

P2P don’t need really an server or selfhosting, content’s are pointing direct to the user devices. The drawback is that your device must be online when the receptor want to retrieve the content. There is nothing which store the content in between. The advantage, more privacy impossible, out of the reach of any third parties, not even the ISP.

There is also something similar, like eg. Croc, which allows even the transfer of any content this way, full encrypted like the others, same as the others is download and use it.

P2P is always the safest form to communicate and share content, as it was since the beginning with the paleolytic finger command from 1971, which still can be used for text transfer (most Linux, Unix like Mac and Windows)

Eg, write in your command line finger zerush@happynetbox.com

See https://happynetbox.com/

There is also Chitchatter, an encrypted P2P communication platform, ephimere, no account, similar Otr

The simple way is an cheer bot without net access and only basic AI. I had one of this for ~100 bucks, which did his work, but I gave it to my sister-in-law, because I was faster sweeping the floor with a broom.

Version alpha

Wrong, they spread less dust as an vacuum cleaner do. because a vacuum cleaner suck in one end and blow on the other. After some uses this thing begin to spread a lot of the dust in the whole air. The little dust spreaded by an broom is only very limited locally.

I use a broom, faster than any of these bots, cheaper, environment friendly and 100% private.

Short answer: Yes

It’s nothing new, steganographic encryption is used as long I remeber, to hide messages into texts, images, videos and even music. There are a lot of tools out there which everyone can use. The advantage is, that an normal encrypted message can cause suspicions, but not so an inocent selfi from the beach, a cat photo, an mp3 of an summerhit, or an “unencrypted” text message, all these can be a container for hidden messages. It can also be used for invisible watermarks for an copy protection, but also for evil uses in autoexecutables malware in images or mp3 files, as seen in the past.

https://stegoshare.sourceforge.net/

https://github.com/Jpinsoft/DeepSound

https://github.com/syvaidya/openstego

https://www.ssuiteoffice.com/software/ssuitepicselsecurity.htm

https://github.com/KuroLabs/stegcloak

https://github.com/fabienpe/MP3Stego

and several more, I listed only the free and OpenSource apps

Well, one thing are TV sats and way other communication and military sats. That you can have hundreds of TV channels for free with an cheap sat reciever and parabolic is certainly nothing new

I wonder, if hackers with scarce means were able to access the communications, how much could the hackers and secret services do that did not warn of this breach?

Because protecting our childrens, I think.

Child abuse, terrorism, national security were always a good alibi for surveillance and control, while pedofiles, terrorists and criminals in the goverment, destroying the national security and basic rights, wishing us to eat cakes.

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

(Fucking paywall article)

Summary

A catastrophic data breach at Discord’s third-party vendor Zendesk has exposed sensitive user information, including ID documents and selfies uploaded for age verification^[1][2]. At least 70,000 people were impacted by the breach, with hackers leaking users’ driver’s licenses, approximate locations, real names, and emails^[2:1].

The hackers are attempting to extort Discord and have already shared leaked selfies of users posing with their IDs in a Telegram group, along with a spreadsheet containing detailed information on a thousand users^[2:2].

This breach validates critics’ concerns about tech companies collecting sensitive identity documents, particularly in light of recent age verification requirements in countries like the UK^[2:3]. As one security expert notes in Gadgeteer, “a password is easy to change, but an ID document is often a nightmare to change, and the ID number anyway stays the same”^[3].

Discord says it is working with affected users and authorities but won’t give in to the hackers’ demands^[2:4].

Yes, iy’s always to use with a grain of salt. As said, it ads a security layer, but can be an privacy hole, despte that mail directions are easier to track as phone numbers, at least in the EU, you can’t be mapped back to an user, this is only possible in crime investigations by the police with an court order. Mail adresses on the other hand are unique identifiers which are way easier th track, except you use an disposable mail or alias. Anyway, eg.in Vivaldi 2FA is safe and apart optional, as also the account itself, only needed when you want to use sync or the use of Vivaldimail, blog and other services it offers. In much other services it’s also only an option.

2FA is an important security layer, if the service, after sending you the activating SMS with the code, delete your number (normal in serious services), it’s also not an privacy problem. In big us corporations on the other hand, it is, eg.Google store tour number and also probably share it, there 2FA is not an option. Instead a number, some services also admit alternatively a second e-mail account to receive the activation code, there, if you have doubt, you can use an disposable mail, so there isn’t any privacy problem.

I prefer an old school security door with key for my home, any electronic doorlock is hackeable, more with online functions. Same as generally “smarthomes” are never private.

Upgrading is always needed in every OS, because with the time are appearing new exploids and other malware which need corresponding paches in the OS, if not these security holes becomes bigger and bigger. There are also new web system which need an update of the OS to not loose compatibilities. These updates anyway are done mostly automaticly- In Windows with an advice that an update is in the queue and it will be installed in the next reboot. Luckyly in last Windows a thing of 3-5 minutes, often less.

Updates are only irrelevant, if you use the OS exclusively local, eg. an old Windows XP in LAN for the intern use in a company with their own soft, an Vintage fan to play some old games in an old PC without internet access, or an automatism in a factory, which also don’t need more than a very basic OS, without any extra features than for what it is made for.

I know, it’s normal that after a good Windows release always follow an crappy one, independent from the bloatware which it always have. W7 good, W8 crap, W10 good, W11 crap…, but at least, for an advanced user possible always to gut all of these trash and even eliminate this crappy Fisher Price UI in W11, which try badly to imitate the UI of an Mac, eliminating, I don’t know why, a lot of setting to customize the UI, needing scripts to do it.

Also because it is the most easy and intuitive to use for everyone. Already with a good default setting, blocking the most problematic trackings, means, it’s install and forget it or at least customize only some specific traffic from an app to be protected.

Well, to anyones preferences. Every defense is valid and has it’s + and -. It’s irrelevant if you use Portmaster, PiHole, pFsense or anything else, important if it works to show the middlefinger to the big brother corporations, what all these do.

Yes, Windows currently is a stable, usefull and good OS, exept that it is by default full of bloatware, spyware, unnecesary telemetries, services “to improve the user experience” which nobody needs…all not easy to gut, but possible. They say that Windows is easy to handle, but only seens so at the first look, to convert it in a good OS it needs an advanced user. In Linux is way easier, there is nothing hidden, but also has his drawbacks. In my new Laptop with W11, the first impression was that it was the worst UI I’ve ever seen, impossible the startmenu and the taskbar, not even customizable in a bad copy of an Mac desktop, apart of all other from the mencioned crap, which I culd strip out, to get rid of the UI, turning it back of the good customizable one from W10, I used a nice FOSS app, Windhawk, something like an userscript manager which permits to do almost everything with the UI. Settings are instantanly, no restart needed. Now I use an snappy fast and reasonable private W11 which use less than 1GB RAM, to my like, with an small Taskbar on the top of the screen, an Startmenu as it should be and some more tweaks.

I don’t use Proton VPN, but Portmaster, which apart is FLOSS, only it’s SPN is paid OpenSource. Well, Portmaster is the best Firewall and traffic monitoring app out there, but depending of which filtering you use, it can be even very brutal, and enough to block some server conections which Proton use. I saw it blocking big corporations, with the result that I can’t even access none of their services, even without VPN. I think that you must see which site is blocked from Proton and except it from the filtering, or pay some bucks and use the SPN, which is anyway better, with it you can use multiple tunnels depending on the sites you want to visit. Or using an proxy extension, like VPNLY or CyberGhost, which are free, without limits, no logs and private. The Portmaster anyway avoid that web pages can sneak any tracking crap in your PC.

PEBCAK, too much Fakebook and the lack of common sense. For the rest of 10% maybe enough an VPN and updated devices.

Well, a backdoor isn’t a problem if it is an client side encryption, with it they may access the cloud data but they will see only this, encrypted data, because not even the ckoud provider can desencrypt these data. If you are investigated, they must visit you in person with an court order to give them the locally stored or memorized encryption password or spend a lot of time and effort to crack the code, almost impossible depending the used encryption systemwith normally 256 bits or more. The backdoor only make sense if the Cloud provider stores an recovery code to restore your data when you lose ore forget your encryption password, which isn’t the case when they want to offer an safe and no knowledge service. In these loosing your encryption password is loosing your data, the price of security.

I remember the need to reload my old Nokia brick sometimes and that it had a better reception strengh than my current smartphone, apart of the bulletproof finish.

I use FreeTube since time with the SMplayer, or using direct the SMplayer, entering the Video URL. SMplayer is a Gem. It works also in Windows in a similar way, described in your great post, not only in Linux, setting SMplayer as extern player in FreeTube and when FreeTube won’t play the Video in the list, clicking on the little square icon at the bottom left of the video thumbnail and it will open in the SMplayer. except few times in Videos with special protections, these can be watched only in YouTube itself, luckily only few.

Yes, not so difficult to spy phone calls and SMS, but it’s way less risky for privacy and security as in Smartphones, full of sensitive data on an OS and tons of apps which logs and spy on you, spreading the information not only to the ISP and govs, but also to private advertising companies and others, which is way worse. Phone lines are way less dangerous for privacy and security as the Internet, log data stored by the ISP are deleted after an max. of three month, data on the internet are forever and can’t be deleted, because they are spreeded everywhere.

At least in my case, I don’t use my Smartphone for other things as for calls, I don’t use any messenger apps nor storing sensitive data on it, desconected GPS and localisation apps. For me smartphones as such are spyware by definition, more if the include AI like they are doing currently.

If you use any adblocker, inbuild or as extension, eg.uBO, AdGuard or Adblock Plus extension and apart eg. Portmaster, or InviZible Pro on Mobile, it’s irrelevant if the page use tracking cookies, because they get blocked.

Yes, embed redirect was a good solution, also using an iFrame script, but this currently works only in few videos, in the most it got the error "watch video in YouTube· It’s almost a daily battle between YouTube, devs of adblockers and scripts and front-end instances, some solutions work for some days and on the next day YouTube begins to nag and block again. What we need is an real alternative of YouTube, but that need time to create something with this hugh amount of contents which nothing else has. Continue the battle against the crap, clickbaits and forced playlist pauses (well, there at least the extension still works for the moment), hoping the best.

Meanwhile Pluto TV, Bandcamp, channels from local public TV, Odysee, Rakuten TV, Internet Radio… etc…for info, music, movies, docus…

They are all valid, but most front ends are broken by Google.

I use often Andisearch where i search the video and where I can watch it in the search result, sandboxed and through random proxy, also using the SMplayer on desktop, entering the video URL- Avoiding also that YT put any crap in my PC with the Portmaster

Cute cat photos are always the answer, or your favorite Reggeton music. The best encrypted message is when it not seems as such.

• https://stegoshare.sourceforge.net/
• https://www.openstego.com/
• https://www.petitcolas.net/steganography/mp3stego/

Never, but the stock Android which include the Google Play isn’t anyway private, irrelevant if you use the Google Play services or not.