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Re: Be anonymous

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Post by CRConrad »

alfiedotwtf wrote: post #25

Good article! As an experiment, a few years ago I put my mobile phone number on my blog, and to date I've only received 2 anonmous messages on Signal but no calls besides recruiters. The old adage "No one is thinking about you as much as they are thinking about themselves" is true. While it's good to practice good security hygiene, be mindful of also being practical.

> The old adage "No one is thinking about you as much as they are thinking about themselves" is true.

Or "No one is thinking about you as much as you are".

Re: Be anonymous

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Post by CRConrad »

anonymoushn wrote: post #217
indigodaddy wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can twist your way into thinking any very bad thing or practice isn’t so. We can extend your line of thinking to murder and rape— does that sound acceptable too? No, this guy was much worse and more harmful than the norms of our society and those that propagate those norms.

It is difficult to articulate how much worse Henry Kissinger and Phil Bokovoy are for the world than Alexandre Cazes and Ross Ulbricht.

> Henry Kissinger

Holy shit, that fucker is still alive!

Re: Be anonymous

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Post by soundnote »

hammock wrote: post #44
ronnier wrote: post #37

I don't care about being anon, but I don't want all my info sitting in databases, so I've made done the following and trying to evolve over time and fix gaps that I currently have. This is things I've done... * Use Brave browser with ublock origins and privacy badger * Use pihole + unbound to resolve my own DNS and do not use google * Run wireguard on my home network that I connect to when I'm out and need to use wif…

I believe Brave browser has fallen out of favor but I'm not an expert on why

Many people hate the browser for mistaken reasons (some bugs/other normal behaviors have been exaggerated and the mistaken stories don't die), are suspicious about the crypto in general (fair) or don't like Eich (fair).

Re: Be anonymous

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Post by samfather »

sedatk wrote: post #155

That article is full of terrible advice. Example: > Don't use Gmail -- use ProtonMail "ProtonMail logged IP address of French activist after order by Swiss authorities" https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/06/protonmail-logged-ip-addre...

It also recommends using DuckDuckGo ... the "private" search engine hosted on US Microsoft servers.

Re: Be anonymous

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Post by npteljes »

imnotlost wrote: post #117

Or you can just be a known drug lord, launder billions of USD through a respected international bank, no one goes to jail, small fine, and they're probably still laundering 10 years later and no one cares. No one is anonymous. They're probably all using SMS and corporate email. Sell a little bit of drugs through the silk road and you'll get royally f-ed! Sell all the opioids in the world through a public pharma corp…

Indeed, being powerful (influential) can mitigate some factors. But then you got other factors that the common man doesn't have.

Re: Be anonymous

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Post by npteljes »

ronnier wrote: post #37

I don't care about being anon, but I don't want all my info sitting in databases, so I've made done the following and trying to evolve over time and fix gaps that I currently have. This is things I've done... * Use Brave browser with ublock origins and privacy badger * Use pihole + unbound to resolve my own DNS and do not use google * Run wireguard on my home network that I connect to when I'm out and need to use wif…

Degoogling was fun. I dreaded changing my email address, but it was only a couple of hours of low intensity work, to change the email in the 50+ services I was registered to, including things like utilities. /e/ also works on my phone like a charm. Not suprising though, because I bought that model exactly for that reason. And discovering other online services was also cool, it's how I happened upon ONLYOFFICE, which I use ever since, even on desktop. For some reason, I never even heard about them before.

You know what's a challenge? Finding a good robot vacuum without the cloud connectivity stuff. After all this degoogling I'm not keen on the idea of syncing the plans of my house to whichever cloud service.

Re: Be anonymous

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Post by majormajor »

notsoanonynous wrote: post #169
majormajor wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 3. Pay and get paid in cryptocurrency. Have smart contracts send you the money (think Richard Heart’s Hex origin address, but actually anonymous). My first question about this plan is "what are you getting paid for and how do you advertise your services"? You need to never meet the people paying you in person, and ideally you are selling some purely digital good. So, something like underground illegal programming o…

I thought it was obvious, but I guess not. No, you don’t do work for money. You start an open source project and get many people to run your software. You meanwhile generate as many early rewards as you can (you can even do it under multiple accounts) and when the ecosystem is up and running, you’ll be the mysterious founder, generating millions (or billions) in passive income. Sounds familiar? It should… Simply neve…

Well that's not interesting at all, then. How repeatable do you think that is?

That's one of the problems with trying to stay anonymous, right? The playbook constantly goes out of date.

Re: Be anonymous

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Post by chihuahua »

ethbr0 wrote: post #149
chihuahua wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

99.96333 (repeating of course)

https://www.justice.gov/usao/resources/annual-statistical-re... I get 93.22% for defendants in US District Court in 2019. And 93.16% for 2018. ( Edit: Fixed some math & dates) Edit : Found the referring agency line item. 91.12% for FBI-referred in 2019, 91.34% in 2018. If you're going to quote statistics, don't just pull them out of thin air. The government is required to report this stuff, you know?

It was intended to be a joke. "333 repeating of course" is a reference to Leroy Jenkins.
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