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by bdangubic 824 days ago
oh boy… your laptop is spying on you 24/7 unless it is in the basement disconnected from the internet. your TV is spying on you unless it is black&white :) you e-reader is spying on you. your non-gsm vehicle may not be spying on you directly but thosands or license plate readers all over the place are…
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exe34 824 days ago
Are you sure? Or do you mean that you don't know how to stop those things?

My kindle WiFi is permanently off. I use a usb cable. It stops it from downloading adverts to p*ss me off.

My projector doesn't have a WiFi chip. It has an hdmi cable to my laptop.

My laptop runs a pared down Linux, the only thing on it that spies on me is Google Chrome. That's a trade-off I'm comfortable with, since I use pihole to block the adverts so I don't have to see them.

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jajko 824 days ago
Do you know what basic OS runs on your network card? Bios? Wifi router? Internet provider's whole infrastructure with built-in advanced deep packet inspection?

It has been mentioned here in the past - in US there comes a guy (some 3-letter agency, probably NSA), installs new black box at ISP, and goes, nobody has a clue what that thingie does, mandated by law. That was before providers decided to just sell data themselves too (scrubbed probably, but not nearly well enough).

I get you have most of the stuff covered, fine for you, but its nowhere near 100%. And literally any phone out there is like swiss cheese all the way down to wifi chip OS from ie Broadcom.

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exe34 824 days ago
What's your threat model? Are you planning to bring down the US empire? If so, why are you using IT at all? Carrier pigeons and one time pads might be the only safe method of communication in that case.
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klibertp 824 days ago
> Carrier pigeons

I wonder if the NSA has a trained falcons corps for that...

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sneak 824 days ago
ISP DPI doesn’t affect me, every packet that leaves my house is wireguard.
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sneak 824 days ago
my e-reader is not connected to a network. neither is my television.

my laptop’s traffic is regularly monitored both on and off device, and i also have root on it. it’s not spying on me- i know because one actually has to check these sorts of things.

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