so i am right and you are wrong. linux from SCRATCH you are a joke.

i took it as dumb worthless feedback, that’s why I tried to tell you how you can make it constructive on your next try if you actually know anything.

so how much mitigations? I’ve heard 0. do you know? 1 mitigation? 2?

If you think its wrong then show it. Show where I can get the source code and build instructions to build my own debian image.

I clearly said if i’m not sure about something. I takes time to do research if you can do better than go ahead and show us what you know. If you think something I said is wrong then please make a constructive reply and tell us all how it really is.

And QubesOS isnt based on linux kernel. It uses Xen. Linux is used in the Qubes aka VMs.

OP is wrong about firmware. linux-firmware package is not about mitigating firmware vulnerabilities. It’s just blobs for things like nvidia and other stuff. I don’t know if Linux has firmware vulnerability mitigation but if it doesn’t then QubesOS is much better because it does prevent a lot of the vulnerabilities by disabling hyperthreading.

they also make extreme examples of anyone threatening to “blow it up”, show the public all the corruption and give freedom to the people. Edward Snowden is an example. Also recently Roman Storm the Tornado Cash dev. These extreme attacks from the government are meant to cause fear so no one dares to do anything like that again.

i forgot about that reason. That’s true I think some people have that as their motive. They are probably thinking that it’s best to not let the beginners know that vpn doesn’t do much on its own or that brave doesn’t actually stop all tracking and won’t necessarily give you a non-unique fingerprint etc. They want to make it look easy to get privacy because if they make it look hard that these simple beginner steps aren’t enough then they won’t even get started and give up.

I think it’s a wrong mindset to have. I don’t think those types of people who give up if they realize privacy isn’t a one click solution are the target audience for privacy. We want the people who can actually spend some time to learn and put in some effort because if they can’t do that then they probably don’t care that much about privacy to begin with.

But its just my opinion not a fact.

I think it’s personal for techlore regarding grapheneos because a few people in the gos community helped him in a way he felt was rude. Then techlore started making lots of bad videos about gos and then maybe he out of cope had to try see some light in google because he alienated himself from gos community. That’s just my guess.

You are right but I think most people would in hindsight say they wished the did more to protect their computer when shit happens. It’s like a camera, you can buy a cheap camera meant to be used for a vacation then thrown away and it’s not worth much but the pictures you have taken are worth a lot as in semantic value, memories you want to keep.

In someones computer they have their entire digital life. Work, personal life, social life, all kinds of data, pictures, banking, investments, crypto, etc. All that is priceless. That’s why ransomware viruses are so effective, people will pay and do anything to get their data back and they all wished they had just done some simple backups and from then on they will probably spend effort on security.

yeah the elites who run the world have limitless money for the lobbying. I don’t think it’s possible to win this war on their turf under their rigged rules. Revolution is the only way but I don’t think that’s a realistic possibility neither. They have so many ways to divide and conquer.

problem is getting everyone to do revolution at the same time. That’s one of the purposes of mass surveillance, they can detect the early beginnings of organization and send them to prison before it grows into a big snowball.

You have to negotiate.

They: Do you have whatsapp?

You: No i hate that app but we can use Rehnijobuboba, heard of that?

They: No and there’s no way I’m installing something I can’t even speak.

You: Ok, you dont want to install that and I don’t want whatsapp, lets meet halfway and use Signal together!

They: Fine.

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If they don’t want to use private communication then just leave it. If you want privacy you have to get used to having a less social life, at least online. That’s the key really, if you want a social life, you have to start going offline, out into the real world and meet people. Get to know your neighborhood a bit or join some outdoor activity or club or something. I know it’s weird at first about going outside because we’re all basement computer nerds but you will find freedom without all the online surveillance when you leave your home.

JK, because next challenge is to convince everyone you meet that they should leave their phones are home and if you thought getting people to use Signal is hard you have no idea because that’s just step 1.

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Problem is first party tracking. Blocking is just against third parties. For first party tracking you are just going to have to use tor browser.

I learned about Cloudflare mitm quickly because when you use Tor browser you will see how many websites use cloudflare because you can’t access all those sites. So I did a little research about this problem about cloudflare and found out how serious and huge problem it is.

That doesnt delete your data. Now they have right to keep it forever for their “legitimate” reasons to protect them from a user who break their ToS. All you accomplish is give up the little rights you have.

Corporations could actually do this anyway because there are so many vague rules in ToS and they can bend them however they want and without any user knowing you could all be flagged as a malicious users just so they have “legitimate” reason to do lots of nasty things with your data such as sharing them with networks who work together to prevent “malicious” users and “russian troll farms” etc. The whole system is rigged and just an illusion of protections for consumers/people.

It’s normal but people don’t like it. Just ask the people you know if they are ok with all the mass surveillance, they don’t like it. But it’s just too difficult for them to do anything about it. They don’t like this “small beginner steps” approach to privacy. They want complete privacy without effort or nothing at all and they don’t want to pay for it. It’s laughable and sad but that’s my experience talking about privacy with people. But the point here i guess is that mass surveillance has been forced on us all. They create a new wonderful technology with lots of use case but then they also add in some mass surveillance on it as well as a bonus.

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privacy is about making effort to protect it. With your logic you should just use google chrome browser and be signed in to google because it makes an easier experience. Then install alexa in your home and make it a smart home, it also makes life easier.

whonix docs is very good to learn about this stuff

Do you think it’s better to use a VPN if you aren’t using TOR Browser?

You can copy the part of the url watch?v=4sfIBRTcRpU and use it in the frontend you prefer.

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Why not is the question and that comes down to guessing. Sheep do what they are told so don’t need to guess much there. Those who are not sheep have to go through a long journey to gradually keep increasing their privacy and unlearn the sheep habits we’ve been conditioned to have.

The end goal is to throw away your phone because you can do everything on your computer instead including buying a phone number, using voip and take and make calls. Phones are unnecessary spy devices used by sheep.

You can buy for cents phone numbers online for one time verification purpose or even rent the number for long term if you need. It’s better to use these anonymous cheap throwaway numbers if you want privacy instead of your real phone number for everything.

NSA is infamous for illegal and unconstitutional mass surveillance.

They are very cheap, only $1 for 10 aliases and then then $0.1/month for any additional aliases. But can’t pay with monero.

Can I open an account with TOR browser and pay with monero without having to give any info like a secondary email or phone number?

I dont think it matters if an email service is a honeypot because if you want E2EE communication then use Signal, not email. And if you are sending emails to other email providers then there’s probably not E2EE and it’s unecessary to be a honeypot because the metadata can be collected anyway very easily. Almost all data passes through Google/Microsoft/Amazon/Cloudflare.

what kind of risks are there with buying a second hand phone? I don’t know so much about how phones work. But for example with a laptop they could in theory implant all kinds of hidden spyware and backdoors in the firmware and it would be impossible to find it and remove it. The only protection against that is that we believe it’s so unlikely someone random would do that. So that is just an example what I’m talking about when I ask about what the risks would be when buying a second hand phone?