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Privacy, Security, and Crypto in light of the Surveillance State | |
| archaisch Offer Upgrade  User ID: 23450448  Panama10/11/2013 10:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| archaisch (OP) User ID: 45315130  United States10/12/2013 10:13 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Along with using tools and services to help increase the level of privacy and anonymity while on the internet, its also critical that you change your habits to make this effective. Separate (sandbox) what you do online with these tools and do not use services that can track you or associate with your identity like using Google services, social media like Facebook, Twitter, etc. If you choose to use these services, use them with another browser, or ideally, another computer and never mix using the same browser/tool set for both activities. Also seriously considering disabling the maximum amount of browser plugins possible to minimize the attack vector exploits have against you. Flash, Java, and JavaScript all should be disabled as possible, obviously usability of some websites will degrade because of this. |
| archaisch (OP) User ID: 47744171  France10/13/2013 09:24 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Another important strategy is the concept of "Air Gaps", which is basically separating and isolating a computer or network from the Internet. [link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)] This greatly increases the security of the isolated computer(s) and are typically only vulnerable to attacks from removable media like flash drives (i.e. stuxnet). You can further improve security by only transferring data between the air gap and Internet connected machines through optical media that is not RW. Bruce Schneier, a cryptography expert, who has been discussing the technical implications of the leaked documents from Edward Snowden, has a good article on Air Gaps. Here is the article: [link to www.schneier.com (secure)] Just don't use Microsoft Windows on any of the machines you are planning to try to keep secure (duh). Last Edited by archaisch on 10/13/2013 09:25 AM |
| archaisch (OP) User ID: 47970566 United States10/16/2013 08:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | One Wifi Mesh network showing a lot of promise is called Project Byzantium [link to project-byzantium.org] From their about page: ---- The goal of Project Byzantium is to develop a communication system by which users can connect to each other and share information in the absence of convenient access to the Internet. This is done by setting up an ad-hoc wireless mesh network that offers services which replace popular websites often used for this purpose, such as Twitter and IRC. These services and web apps were selected because they are the ones most often used by activists around the world to find one another, exchange information, post media, and organize. They were also selected because they stand the best chance of being easy to use by our intended userbase, which are people using mobile devices like smartphones, MP3 players, and tablet PCs. Unlike most mesh implementations, a Byzantium Mesh requires no specialized equipment that may not be easy to get during an emergency, just an x86 computer with at least one 802.11 a/b/g/n wireless interface. It will run on just about any x86 computer, including later generation Macbooks. ---- I recommend you download an ISO and start checking it out. Could come in very handy if you have some other people in your area or community wanting to share information in a free but "off grid" manner. |
| archaisch (OP) User ID: 47872365  Sweden04/26/2014 05:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | AirChat - Free Communications For Everyone [link to github.com (secure)] [link to vimeo.com (secure)] ------- Why Airchat? Because we strongly believe communications should be free, Free as much as the air itself and all the waves should be. Free for everyone everywhere, free for those oppressed, free for the poor, free for the dissident, free for those living out of the boundaries of the infrastructure created for those who were lucky enough to have more than others. And free...well... because sometimes the non-free infrastructure itself fails. -------- |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 57372437 United States04/26/2014 05:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| archaisch (OP) User ID: 47872365 Sweden04/26/2014 06:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to opencryptoaudit.org (secure)] The results? iSEC, the company contracted to review the bootloader and Windows kernel driver for any backdoor or related security issue, concluded (PDF) that TrueCrypt has: “no evidence of backdoors or otherwise intentionally malicious code in the assessed areas.” While the team did find some minor vulnerabilities in the code itself, iSEC labeled them as appearing to be “unintentional, introduced as the result of bugs rather than malice.” [link to arstechnica.com] [link to istruecryptauditedyet.com] |
| archaisch (OP) User ID: 55064924 Sweden05/10/2014 09:25 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 300k servers still vulnerable to Heartbleed one month later [link to blog.erratasec.com] |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 25244488  United Kingdom05/10/2014 09:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | In light of neural monitoring it becomes imperative to protect passwords. A cheap, yet effective method, is to randonly generate a password of over 40 characters and never look at any portion of beyond the first few characters. If you don't know the password, neither does anything reading your brain patterns. |
| Apocalypse Troll Trollicus Apocalyptus User ID: 25348503 United States05/10/2014 09:37 AM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | iSEC - Isn't that an NSA subsidiary? Best thread of the day. Airgaps are not as effective as you think: [link to news.firedoglake.com] The only air gap that can reliably work is on a battery powered device within an actively grounded Faraday cage. Did you know that people can determine the data on your computer just by recording and decoding the sounds your cpu makes as it is processing data? [link to www.zmescience.com] So, add multiple multi-freq white noise generators to your cage... Last Edited by Apocalypse Troll on 05/10/2014 09:40 AM  "Honor the Texas flag; I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible." [link to www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us] |
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