Techlore and Mental Outlaw

You can use arpwatch. It reports new mac addresses on a given network interface.

Here’s my setup. I have a raspberry pi running pihole and unbound. I set that raspberry pi as my primary dns on my router. Now in order to use the internet all devices will make dns queries over wifi (you can use a wired pi as well) to the pi which means it will also see all devices using your wifi and notify you when a new one shows up or if an ip changes mac addresses.

Keep in mind these notifications use smtp (email) and you most likely need a mail server to receive them.

I have a matrix server on my network that has postmoogle (email bridge) that can receive the emails from arpwatch and send them to me as a matrix message

Yeah it’s more for privacy. Still you can just have it always on and it really wont cause many issues except for sites that block vpns.

Marketing mostly. The vpn makes an encrypted tunnel that you’re traffic goes thru. If using https and vpn there are 2 layers of encryption. It’s not false advertising bc an extra layer doesn’t hurt. Now if your sending password over http it would help but you shouldnt be using a site that sends passwords over plaintext. I would say vpn is mostly to either hide your ip from websites or to hide internet activity from your isp

Well im just saying thats what https is for but there’s nothing wrong with extra security

Yeah but it’s on a public wifi

Why is the vpn necessary when you have https to the bank? Just to hide you’re ip from the bank?

I’d like to know what it sends if you disable play services

Proton/orbot

I don’t think monero is a scam. It’s barely listed on any exchanges cuz it’s been banned for it’s privacy tech and the team behind it is really dedicated to one thing: privacy, they even helped fixed tor network