Private and secure browsing the Robotman way

[Hayley Anachronism]

Honestly, just use Tor and don't torrent or download anything while you're on and IMO you're secure enough. But I already use Ubuntu and encrypt my hard drive, so that's me...

[dale coba]

I have no status or wealth or job to target. My only security lies in my obscurity.

You may be able to protect individual secrets from the NSA with your tech, but I bet you would not bother if you could see your total dossier as it already exists. Use tech to protect yourselves from the spies at work, and potential spies at home, and if a portable device were to get stolen.

Never commit a crime near cameras. Never commit a crime while carrying your cell phone.
Never leave your DNA behind.
Basic crime is getting much harder to get away with, but please,
Don't anyone here lose any sleep over trying to hide from the NSA.

Like De Niro said in Brazil,
"Listen, kid. We're all in it together."
(thrilling zip-line exit, AWAY!)

- Dale Coba

[Hayley Anachronism]

Ah yes, but you get away with far more than you realize because really and truly, a lot of this stuff is truly not worth the NSA or FBI or local law enforcement's time. It's all about how you go about it. I should know. I've run away from home and gotten away with it.

[Miss Pris]

Thank you Robotman. Government security concerns and crime aside, this is lovely (as is the screenshot of your desktop! They're beautiful...)

[Grendizer]

Choice is good. Although I don't know why you'd need to use DuckDuckGo within an encrypted install, unless you are in fact hiding from the federalies. Google and your ISP are the only entities that could discern your IP address in those searches, unless you've got a technocratic adversary (a blackhat hacker), in which case you are probably screwed if you can't accomplish all this on your own. If the worry is in your home, the weak link is your router, not your flashdrive -- or Google/ISP, so internal security in a Linux install at that point is of lesser importance. Get a VPN, and use SSH for remote access.

[dale coba]

And now it has been revealed, almost all encryption is a farce.
Industry let Fascism build a backdoor into everything commercially available.

We need to stop pretending - anything less than political radicalism is an inadequate response.
No individual will have any right to privacy until we ALL DEMAND IT for EVERYONE.

And if you don't VOTE EVERY TIME YOU CAN
you make yourself part of the problem.

- Dale Coba

[Grendizer]

Ah. The ever-popular hook title. The above article is another lesson in lazy journalism. The NSA has not beaten the math. The math is still good. What isn't good is closed-sourced programs none of us should be using anyway, compromised by NSA moles and government pressure, which the article euphemistically calls a "relationship" with industry. The one incidence of possible compromise of an algorithm is associated with a schema that isn't used by anyone and has long since been fixed -- and still not used. And that was only a possible breach. Open source implementations of still-undefeated algorithms, such as TrueCrypt, are secure. If somebody had compromised them, everyone would know. It's inherent to the process. It's foolish to rely on closed-source security software anyway, such as anything from Microsoft or Apple.

But let's be serious. If the powers that be actually know who you are and have targeted you, then this is what happens:



That's why they call it "power."