Em Adespoton

Since we’re discussing Windows privacy here…

What I’d really like is something that creates a situation like VeraCrypt plausible deniability, but where the base image gets updated regularly so that the timestamps and temporary file usage also look plausible for a computer used today.

Then instead of running an app like this, you just log out, and when you log in with the wrong password, it presents a plausible if mostly empty userland that overwrites the real encrypted data as new files are written to disk.

Then not every person they want to deport gets deported.

That was simple, wasn’t it?

And in recent years, VPN abuse by malicious actors has gone WAY up. Well, either that or the ability for InfoSec practitioners to trace the threat actor back to the VPN has gone up. Or a combination.

Interested in graduate studies? Consider Canada….

I don’t have these legitimate concerns, and I STILL keep stuff like that as thoughts in my head. The only reason I’d journal my thoughts is if I eventually wanted someone to read them.

I keep my journaling for things I actually do in real life that I want to keep track of.

What is the purpose for writing it down? When you know that answer, then you look for the safest way to accomplish that purpose, which probably isn’t a diary.

Realistically, what the article suggests to me is that I should carry a burner phone when crossing borders and if I need my real phone, turn on lockdown mode and then turn it off and stow it in my luggage with the understanding that it may get confiscated and never returned.

Probably worth reading the article. There are consequences to saying “no” at the border.

That’s the point. Windows 11 cannot be made to be a private OS. So you have to adjust your privacy model instead if you want to use it.

Censorship is when the government blocks otherwise free speech.

Depends on who does it and why.

The US government blocking access to .ca by US citizens? Yeah, that’s censorship.

Your ISP blocking access to .su domains? Nope.

A web server blocking access to .br domains? Again, no.

Er, your instructions don’t kill all the telemetry that makes Win11 so privacy invasive.

Unfortunately, your comments about security are spot-on — there have been a number of improvements in the latest Win11 releases that were never added to Win10.

So while Win10 can be tweaked to be a relatively private OS, you need to update to the latest Win11 for security, or switch to a non-Microsoft OS.

USPS needs to hold an anti-strike - if they stop working in protest, that feeds into the privatization narrative.

But if they deliver flyers to EVERYONE describing what’s happening… that may get a response.

Help them get to Canada?

If that’s not an option and they don’t already have claimant’s status, help them get somewhere off-grid.

If they’ve got claimant’s status already… the government is already keeping tabs on them and will likely hunt them down. Their best bet may be being sent to El Salvador where at least they won’t be tortured and killed (assuming that’s not where they’re from).

Funny thing to me about this is that I’ve been using PGP since 1993. OpenPGP became an RFC standard in 2007.

S/MIME became an RFC standard in 1999. And that’s really the reason it has stuck around. It got an 8 year head start on OpenPGP, despite PGP itself being used in email as far back as 1991.

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Actually, this raises more questions. If ZoomInfo is anything to go by, I’m about 5 different people, none of which accurately map to the real me.

And that’s just me; there’s millions of bots and dogs on the Internet.

How would they know how many Internet users they have no information on?

Wow… hello 1984 indeed.

In a browser? Via DDG works pretty well.

Has anyone created a PWA for YouTube?

Why does this sound so familiar?