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the more I try to research the topic of computer security on forums, the more I'm realizing that a lot of it reads like intentional government misinfo that people just regurgitate.
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@RustyCrab best computer security is to have a gun and a way to unplug the thing at a moments notice
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@BigTony @RustyCrab I laughed, she laughed, the toaster laughed. I shot the toaster.
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@RustyCrab like what
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@d a few examples that I commonly see:
- you should use your ISP raw because we have one case where a sketchy VPN company was used in court in 30 years of their existence despite 80 cases per day of people getting caught because they didn't
- using a VPN to access tor is dangerous because of <completely incoherent reason>, despite the fact that tor traffic is evident to your ISP and using it a lot will definitely get you flagged
- hosting your own VPN in a data center is more secure than mixing traffic with others despite you basically owning the computer that the traffic is coming from
- don't bother using privacy browsers because there's a hypothetical vulnerability somewhere. You might as well just use chrome on windows
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@thegreatape @RustyCrab @d yeah, that's the thing with OPSEC.
There is doing "illegal" stuff, and then there is doing ILLEGAL stuff.
Are you pirating games, music and movies and shitposting on the internet? A good VPN will cover your ass 99,99% of the time, and you really don't need much more than that. And being slightly non-retarded and not reusing passwords or spilling all your info all over or using your work email as the email for your shitposting account will keep you safe for the shitposting bit, you don't really need that much, media companies and random shitlibs wanting to "cancel" you don't really have the power to strongarm most VPNs into giving away all your information.
Are you spilling government secrets, disclosing military blueprints, selling personal information databases you hacked from Google or planning to assassinate King Charles III? Then yeah, you'll need to step up your OPSEC, and delve into all the autistic stuff.
OPSEC shills think they are elite hackers needing the utmost protection or else the government will move a ton of people and resources just to get them, while the most they are doing is downloading some anime and the most valuable piece of data in their system is their grocery list from last week.
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@thegreatape @d while there's nothing inherently insecure about this, understand that it very much works against your privacy and anonymization. It actually probably makes it a LOT worse because now you have a static ip associated with your identity and a company that may give out your real name to anybody who asks for it.
If you don't mind this that's fine though. I just hate people suggesting to do this when people ask for anonymity advice because it does the polar opposite.
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@RustyCrab @d Honestly the only thing I want to do is pirate mp3's and hide it from my isp, and mess up corporate pixel tracking. The static ip's for all my other devices is a cool bonus. I'm not as into the privacy realm as I used to be. Well that's not entirely true but I pick and choose my battles. IDGAF if my ip is the same really. It's not my actual location which is good enuff for me. Besides that though I'm running dnsmasq on the same thing to block trackers and other stuff in a pi hole fashion and use graphene os. The VPN solution though is one that I haven't fully solved and idfk what to do.
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@RustyCrab @d I slapped wireguard on a $5 digital ocean droplet months ago and set the iptable rules to actually use it as a vpn and haven't looked back since.
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@Suzu @thegreatape @RustyCrab @d idk what the thread is about but own those frauds
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