1 yr. ago • 95%

Fixed that one meme

Also wanted to mention Tails, but there was no space left for it :p

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I'm fairly certain Tor is better than a new laptop.

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- No shit Sherlock
  
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I mean we have burner phones. Why not burner laptops?

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- I know at least one FAANG company that had (has? don't know) a policy of not using any hardware that was ever used in travel to China. If you had to go there on a business trip, you got a loaner laptop (and got your account severely restricted) and when you got back they wiped and discarded the laptop.
  
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  Tech, military, politics, banking, a lot of industry and business sectors treat China like that. That cuntry is a fucking black hole for anything regarding security, privacy or fucking freedom. You have to take precautions like that. If you don't you're an idiot.
  
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- Because it wouldn't really help anything if you still use the same internet connection.
  
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  That's why I always buy a plane ticket to another country before I browse. You think I'm using a VPN? That's cute.
  
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- Cause environment. Multiple the waste of burner phones (which are also terrible if you only use them for a few calls) also the burner laptop wouldn't cost much less than a shitty Chromebook, possibly the same thing.
  
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Stolen laptop + tails + stolen car + McDonald's wifi

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- Way ahead of you!
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
  
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- Unwanted encryption is a really big issue with pidgeon carrier transportation though
  
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I am not quite sure buying a new laptop is better than Tor, unless you have a way to buy the laptops anonymously with cash and not being seen by any cameras. Then you would still need to connect to a different network every time.

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- You can wear those anti-face-detection glasses every time you buy a laptop with cash.
  
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  You mean these sick Raving glasses? Hell yeah.
  
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Fun tip for anyone in a country with blacklisted torrent sites- TOR browser plows right through it. You can open up TOR and go straight to thepiratebay.org.

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- Straight to it...after a 30 second delay. Tor is great. It's just far too slow for general browsing
  
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In a cat and mice game the mice will always be the one tot lose. You know who wouldn't lose to a cat? A pack of dogs. Be a pack of dogs. I'm gonna stop here before I say something very illegal bye.

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- Let's kill the capitalists, yes, you're right
  
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- Ok, I'm a pack of dogs. Now what?
  
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Needs another layer for VPN chaining after driving 1 hour away to use public WiFi so they never know where you truly are.

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- ... only for you to google: "burger restaurant near "
  
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- Surely you'd be able to triangulate the VPN connections based on the 1 hour drive.
  
  Better to just become a nomad.
  
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Tails is basically the bottom one anyways.

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- Damn straight
  
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- ye
  
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Pi-Hole is a really thing but I don’t think my tech skills are quite up to scratch. Plus I think the wife would get ratty if it stopped working while I was out.

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- If you run it bare metal (not in a dockercontainers for example) it's quite easy to set it up on a raspberry pi or other hardware. The wife would even know it's existence if you don't tell her and use a standard config in the blocklists ..give it a try ..you're gonna love it
  
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  Ad links from emails won’t work anymore. And the “top results” in Google won’t work.
  
  The wife would complain.
  
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- You can set one up your network and just point your DNS request at it on a device-by-device basis. So your wife would only use it if she wanted to.
  
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  Oh cool. That could be a good solution! Thanks!
  
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- Pi-hole is pretty robust and not super hard to set up. You can run pi-hole on relatively cheap hardware, such as a Raspberry Pi 3B. I’m a big fan of Libre Computing’s “le-potato” board for running pi-hole; it’s a cheap raspberry pi clone. You’ll need some basic Linux skills but if you can follow step by step directions you’ll be fine. If you use a raspberry pi or similar hardware you’ll also need a micro SD card reader during the set up process.
  
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  They even have a Linux distro just for running stuff like that on the Pi, it's called Dietpi and it's pretty bulletproof.
  
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  Oh interesting! I’d never heard of le-potato. I’ll check that out, thanks!
  
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VPN, block cookies, noscript, never sign into any user account.

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- Can you say more about never signing into a user account? I'm not sure I'm making the connection here.
  
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  Sorry I should have mentioned an "online account".
  
  I have read many stories of people getting into trouble because they thought a VPN would protect their identity, and got caught because they signed into their online account which would be easily traceable.
  
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  With the VPN it stops websites from knowing who you are. They don't have an email, name, or real IP to track.
  
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- You say that from your signed in account
  
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  I am not SpongeBob.
  
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What's pihole?

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- It's a self hosted DNS that you can easily run on a raspberry pi
  
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- is lmgtf really neccessary?
  
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  I'm not sure I'd want to Google pihole, either. If I didn't know what it was.
  
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Tails needs to be in between the last 2

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