Unless there's a super hacker or NSA agent in the class that can figure out your password in real time.. You should be fine doing that.

Fair point. But GPS signal from a submarine is almost impossible considering GPS needs LOS.

LTE has a range about 10miles and 5G is also LOS. So its brings it down to unlikely that an Apple watch could connect to cellular.

Considering this is underwater and radio waves attenuate very quickly in the water, this is very unlikely to produce any valuable tracking as a majority of the packets would get dropped if any make it to the cellular tower at all.

Only real way someone could track this submarine via cellular would be if they used a cell site simulator and downgraded the signal to 2g, which would be possible with Chinese cellular providers.. But this would require already knowing where the submarine is and/or having stingrays all over the ocean.

They send BT signal to any apple device and the device uses their GPS/data to forward the location to the find my network.

I use all of them, at once, with searx.

Brother.. apple couldn't find my airtag when it was dropped somewhere in my yard.. How would apple find a submarine 5 miles below sea level in a faradayed submarine?

Tails isn't really designed for daily driving. I'd go for a user friendly distro like Ubuntu if you an on switching from windows.

It is possible to make windows a little more private if you didn't want to switch. Here's a pretty good guide in modifying the the iso before installing: https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/create-custom-windows-11-install-disk

Modifying window does help users gain more control and privacy, but windows is proprietary so a person can only do so much. Be careful on what you remove if you GI this route, windows relies on weird apps to function.

Another note, I wouldn't be afraid of torrenting. The inky person that would care that your getting free movies and such is your ISP, and you can just flip on a VPN to clear their radar.

Since its for school you'll want it to be reliable and to work 100% of the time. I'd just get a big brand and not connect it to the internet if you don't want your data collected.

Other than that you can try to block the telemetry at the DNS level by VPN to your home with a pihole instance or using a private DNS.

If you really don't wanna use apple or google OS, then best bet is to buy the tablet for the hardware and try to flash a different OS. But then you'll risk it not working very well or having app compatibility issues.

Maybe find good audio quality on YouTube and download via newpipe?

I also use vimusic on fdroid for as a YT-Music frontend with premium features, but haven't figures out his to download in the app yet

Checking the router is probably the only way to see if someone is active on your network.

Can anybody hack your computer? No. Most people only know how to run scripts that are known and patched in most operating systems.

There are skilled people who may be able to create an exploit or find a vulnerability in your computer, but they will mostly target businesses or people they know will be worth it to hack, so most likely they won't bother you.

Generally if your on your own WiFi, having a WPA-2+ personal password is enough, but the more paranoid may have an IDS/IPS on their home network.

If your out and about, I'd personally use a VPN. I don't like public ones and like to recommend setting one up on your home WiFi instead.

If you think you've been hacked.. change your passwords and run virus scans. If you still don't feel safe, backup your data and reinstall your operating system.

This is straight from their privacy policy:

We do not sell your personal information in a way that most people would think of as a sale. However, we do participate in online targeted advertising and use analytics which allows tech companies, in exchange for our use of their services, to use user information collected from our App to improve their own products and to improve the services they provide to others. Under some laws, this is considered our "sale" of your user data to third parties. You can opt-out of this as provided in the “How to Submit a Request” section below.

E2ee doesn't have to be 2 devices. It can be for any amount of endpoints as long as they have the key to decrypt the data.

For example my nextcloud instance has e2ee for my phone, computer, and tablet.

Have you posted a suggestion on github? I feel like this was a proof on concept during development and maybe it was forgotten about further along the life cycle.

That doesn't make any sense.. If the URLs are server side that means there is no e2ee at any time because the server has to know when to shown the preview..

If that's true disabling preview generation doesn't really matter because the vulnerability would be elsewhere

I never used matrix, but do clients own the keys or are they stored on the server?

Yea, it does seem weird.. But money doesn't lie. Its very easy to search online how Mozilla has enough money to lay for all their weird projects.

They even cost cut their nonprofit products like Firefox and Thunderbird so they have more money to burn on other hobbies.

They're like a giant corporate MLM where users are encouraged to sell "privacy" to their friends and the profits syphon up to Mozilla where they cash out to google.

I personally think is disingenuous to recommend something to casual users who are used to solving problems with money.

But the issue here is it is usually Firefox advertising themselves to customers so that they can have a subset of those customers actually use google.

They market themselves as a "download and be private" which interests the casual user who hears about how invasive Facebook and google is online and is looking for a nontechnical fix. This small subset of users on Firefox are what funds Mozilla to use googles money to fund their hobbies.

Yes, people should educate themselves, but I personally think it's unethical for Mozilla to fund for-profit businesses that they control by exploiting this small, uninformed subset of their userbase and it makes it hard for me to trust them based on how they justify their means to an end.

And no, fuck brave, I'm for educating people on how the internet works and to educate themselves if they want privacy or security instead of trusting massive corporations.

Its more so the principle. Many people that download Firefox are doing so to escape google, and if they are not born as cyber security experts they may download Firefox and continue with no real improvement to their privacy.

Secondly, the main thing you should look for is where a company gets its funding. If Mozilla gets almost 100% of its funding through google.. How much do you really expect them to push back against the data collection of their userbase?

I rank Mozilla with the likes of ExpressVPN, NordVPN, etc. They preach privacy and security against surveillance.. But its just theatre to make money in specific demographics.

Coming from a company the preaches about privacy and rates privacy respecting businesses, while collecting telemetry and accepting 500M/ year to from google to promote their search engine... I'll take this as the puff up piece that is is.

I created an account while in the store with an email of fuckyou@thisisstupid.com and a basic password and surprisingly didn't have to verify the email. Then turned on a VPN to my house.

I plan on just creating a new account every time I go in just to fill up their database with nonsense.