https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls

https://adaway.org/

Great summary! Thanks for this! If I were to make the switch to GOS - which I am considering, Samsung user ATM, I’d never travel abroad - especially to and from the US - with my daily GOS driver. I’d travel with a backup phone that contains nothing. A new SIM card and some random chat app for communication with my loved ones. This is for plausible deniability (if I indeed were involved in anti government activism etc) and to avoid all the fuss. Not unlocking my phone gets me into trouble. Wiping my phone gets me into trouble. In that case, I just leave my daily driver at home.

Would be great if it was possible to protectively encrypt the phone from an on-state, as it were in BFU. Through a shell command or an app or something…

Wait until you write code that is self-hosting!

Noice.🦊

Definitely! But speaking of pen-testing, there are some “funny” stories about pen-testers getting temporarily apprehended and questioned by security or the authorities when communication between their employer and their client wasn’t done properly. I wonder if the IT Crowd at my agency would notice if I did an unsanctioned, unauthorized port scan from my office desktop…

https://nmap.org/book/legal-issues.html

Yep, true story. Besides from the particulars in the GDPR that affects EU citizens, I think there is a more generalized disclaimer in the nmap manual about doing certain scans.

It’s late and I need to sleep so I’ll just paste some links for now, but you are talking about such a wide variety of issues that’s it kind of hard to give a short, succinct answer.

Some privacy tips that I follow, by Naomi Brockwell: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt3zZ-N423gXV-0pdxnRn-nw0WzVKh4NY

Same, but by Rob Braxman: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKqVMfkpsufHUWAwU9nnkHnhSRH1TBgF3

In my country, simply scanning for hosts/IP addresses could get you implicated, since IP addresses are under certain circumstances regarded as PII according to the GDPR. So… stay safe xD

I would recommend formulating your threat model before doing anything else. There is a lot of materials on the topic on the world wide web, but for starters, ask yourself and answer the question, what information about yourself would you like to keep secret and why.

Again, before anything else, subscribe to an email alias service - maybe there are free ones out there too, I don’t know. This way, you don’t have to share your real email address and you can turn off or even delete that attack vector at anytime.*

Finally, regarding Bandcamp, I have never uses it myself so my understanding of your situation is poor to say the least, but are not able to simply save the links in a text file? Again, I’m not trying to play down the situation, I just don’t understand it.

*This is basically what I do with almost all my services that need registration: I give them an email alias, a randomly generated cyberpunk name and create a 30 characters long password with a password manager. The only services where this doesn’t anonymize you are those that require your payment information, which is often tied to your real identity. Had I been living in the US, I would have used those anonymous prepaid debit cards that work like email aliases, but for your debit or credit cards.

LOL AdAway blocked liberux.net wtf😂 but thanks! The specs are surprisingly good too! :O

Right, then I’ll just stay on my current build, being careful not to flash an OS update 😈

But in all seriousness, couldn’t one manage without OS updates - relying on only proper cyber hygiene and opsec - until a more viable solution comes up? 🤔

Thanks! I’m doing this on Linux, which I failed to mention in the post. I terminated the program with ctrl + c, but it was still interesting to me how such a short, seemingly uncomplicated snippet could tax my Ryzen 7 5800 X3D so much that the fans needed to increase their speed. Couldn’t a malicious actor theoretically disrupt a target machine by having an unnoticeably insignificant program loop in the background, taxing the CPU to it’s usable limits? This is off topic of course, but still interesting.

Thank you so much! :D Yeah, I noticed there were no remainders. I’ll try with float and see what I can come up with.

Thanks! Really important to have fun with it too! :)

This is amazing(ly curious)! I put in a letter, the program went into an infinite loop and my chassi fans sped up like crazy.

Checking it out now. Thanks!

Thanks! I really appreciate the more advanced steps too! Now I have something to do next weekend! :D