Please write me a dummies guide to staying out of gizmo. I have a VPN, but that's it rn.

  • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
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    3 years ago

    "Secure" communication like Tor is arguably riskier than just a good old VPN or incognito mode and flushing your browser and always logging out. It's a Honeypot for "criminals", and the Feds/NSA have always had backdoors into a large part of "secure" tech (that's why Huawei beating them on 5G makes them so pissed, they're losing their edge)

    And if you do have advanced techniques that you're more confident aren't compromised, please do not share them on public forums like this.

    • boboblaw [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      It’s a Honeypot for “criminals”

      Please let us know when everyone using Tor gets rounded up by the cops. I want to ask one of them if they wish they'd just used incognito mode and deleted their browser history.

        • boboblaw [he/him, they/them]
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          3 years ago

          Sure, there's no guarantee that anything will preserve your anonymity, especially if you're targeted by a state actor. But you shouldn't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. At least make the feds work for it.