The FBI tracking your browsing history without a warrant might be the beginning
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Re: The FBI tracking your browsing history without a warrant might be the beginning
#2This disrespect to our privacy has been going on for a while now, but it good to see that people still care about it and are trying to inform us. Hopefully our privacy respecting products outside the jurisdiction of USA will not bend over to the FBI.
Re: The FBI tracking your browsing history without a warrant might be the beginning
#3Awesome, now its official...you just plugin and you are doomed...
Re: The FBI tracking your browsing history without a warrant might be the beginning
#4Obfuscation tech (out-of-country) based proxy/vpn along with tor is a must.
Re: The FBI tracking your browsing history without a warrant might be the beginning
#5looks like governments really enjoy stripping us of our liberties once our attention is directed somewhere else - be it terrorist attacks or global pandemics. we shouldn't lose sight of what's important to us or else the people in power will take it away!
Re: The FBI tracking your browsing history without a warrant might be the beginning
#6Awesome, now its official...you just plugin and you are doomed...
Yeahhhh!!!! DOOM!!!!! Im gonna sing the doom song now, doom Dooom doom doom doom DOOM! Do Do Doom, Do do doom doom DOOOOOOMMM!!! DO DO DO DOOOM!!!!! THE END!
Re: The FBI tracking your browsing history without a warrant might be the beginning
#7Will this give them permissiom to sift through data collected over the years (as I understand it isn't a mere extension of PATRIOT?). After this and EARN IT, I guess banning VPNs and requiring app/device backdoors legally is next?
Can you guys believe this, it's like somene turned the tables ,this stuff normally happens after a legitimate gov. is overthrown by the CIA. They do this to hold on to power.
My opinion: hen they require using real name/ID online, it's game over, it becomes metastatic. I wish fellow Americans knew to be scared of war and social collapse. This is what America's enemies want.
Re: The FBI tracking your browsing history without a warrant might be the beginning
#8Firefox (or OSs) should add a feature that randomly makes requests to a bunch of unrelated websites just to mess up their data collection and render it useless. This can only work if it's widely deployed.
Re: The FBI tracking your browsing history without a warrant might be the beginning
#9Here is what I do myself to avoid surveillance culture, in case anyone find it useful.
1. I always use local apps rather than webservices if possible. I use only free software, built from source, to be sure there's no tracker in it (I would love to find a way to whitelist which apps can access the network, but I haven't found a way for that yet). There's almost always a way to perform a task locally.
2. I have a copy of wikipedia, using kiwix (through kiwix-serve). My default search engine is my local wikipedia's one. It's insane the amount of answers you can get to common questions simply with a local copy of wikipedia
3. I always install documentation for the libraries I download. I have `go doc` running locally, always install ruby gems with ri and rdoc, set the gentoo's `doc` use flag to have C libraries documentation locally. Most of the time, there's just no need to go to the web for API documentation.
4. I made myself a rss client similar to rss2mail that will fetch rss feeds and mail items to me. When sending a mail, the rss client makes a http request to the full article url and add it to the mail as attachment. Then I read my content in mutt, having lynx dumping the html content as plain text (through `lynx -dump`). So I read all the content offline, and nobody can tell what I read. I have my own smtp server so that I disclose the least information possible.
5. when I have to use the web, this is first through a text browser through tor (I use a modified version of elinks, but I guess lynx would do just as well). This makes sure I only download the html page I want to look at, while running the least possible tracking stuff.
6. when it's not enough, I have a chromium build, in which I have disabled javascript and images by default. I use chromium rather than firefox because it allows me to load extensions from sources. I have such extensions to enable javascript and images if needed, but this is the ultimate recourse.
7. I use my own local dns resolver. I don't know why people don't do that more, it's actually really simple. bind9 resolver works out of the box, you just install bind9, change /etc/resolv.conf to point to 127.0.0.1, and that's it.
8. if I post online (like now), I make a different account every time I post, using always a different email address. This allows to prevent profiling from public posts.
9. and of course, I'm actively researching everything related to the p2p web, like dat, ssb and cabal.
So basically, I took the red pill.
Re: The FBI tracking your browsing history without a warrant might be the beginning
#10So the US, with its Constitution protecting the people from its Government, is allowing this whilst also considering Edward Snowden a traitor?
It seems something has shifted 180 degrees since WW2, and the US Government has quietly won the game where the goal was to shit on the entirety of the history upon which it was built whilst, at precisely the same time, pointing to the Constitution as the reason why "America is Great!"
You're fucked. At least China isn't pretending to be free.
If this is how law enforcement agencies are allowed to operate, how can you expect citizens to respect any rule of law? The precedents are evaporating.
The West is dead, we're halfway through the transition to the next stage, which just means history will repeat itself - but will be recorded in higher definition so that maybe we'll learn it more thoroughly next time around.