Encrypt all the things!

Just had a demo how 'evil twin' can pretend to be another WiFi service and fool your device into thinking you are logging on to a known service, then nick all your data.
(This demo was by BBC click at lmnh )
Wasn't surprised...

Skype alternatives?

Jolly Butchers

The US government produces porn and Facebook too yeah?

That's right. They pump crack into the ghettos, so they can do castings.
They also own majority shares in DFS and the World Of Leather. How do you think they can afford those permanent sale prices? Where do you think all the black sofas come from?!

"WikiLeaks brought to light a new form of whistle-blowing, using powerful cryptographic code to hide leakers’ identities while they spill the private data of government agencies and corporations. But that technology has been evolving for decades in the hands of hackers and radical activists, from the libertarian enclaves of Northern California to Berlin to the Balkans. And the secret-killing machine continues to evolve beyond WikiLeaks, as a movement of hacktivists aims to obliterate the world’s institutional secrecy.
This is the story of the code and characters–idealists, anarchists, extremists–who are transforming the next generation’s notion of what activism can be.
With unrivaled access to such major players as Julian Assange, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and WikiLeaks’s shadowy engineer known as the Architect, (never before interviewed) reporter Andy Greenberg unveils the world of politically motivated hackers–who they are and how they operate."

http://www.thismachinekillssecrets.com/

just found this:
http://learn.adafruit.com/onion-pi/overview

and like it. now, having trouble figuring if this can be combined/configured to play nice with my openVPN service of choice https://blog.ipredator.se/

any thoughts from the professionally enlightened?

openVPN on that little gadget here:
http://n0where.net/openvpn-raspberry-pi/

ooh that Onion Pi looks ace!

Looks good.

I'd wonder at what bandwidth was possible, but it'd definitely work.

digging, i found bandwith for openVPN on the RPI to be alleged around 8 mbit/s
https://forums.openvpn.net/topic12007.html

Yeah, standard low throughput CPU and North Bridge.

It's adequate, and for the price not shabby. But it is possible to get only 10% loss of bandwidth even up to 1GB interfaces using OpenVPN on a proper computer.

If you wanted more bandwidth I guess a BeagleBoard or Pandaboard would also be viable, as they're also ARM-based; How hard would it be to make a single-purpose Android build to act as a USB-tethered wifi dongle?

New way to search without being tracked using a Google search engine called Diconnect

*disconnect not Diconnect

Why not just use https://duckduckgo.com ?

Anonymous, encrypted, uses multiple back-ends. Access over Tor+VPN and your searches are fully private and untrackable.

How could you trust a search tool like Disconnect when it has ex-Google and ex-NSA engineers making it? Just choose DDG instead.

thing is, I want all the good stuff google give (gmail/office) without the tracking.

I'm screwed, I know.

You are screwed.

But you could do what I do and split your browsing and activity across several browsers on all devices.

I use Chrome (desktop and laptop) against a Google Accounts address that has all advertising disabled at the domain level.

And for everything non-Google, I use Firefox in private browsing mode or Dolphin in private browsing mode. Over a VPN, and more frequently than not with Tor too.

I separate the part of the internet which involves Google into a Google bubble, and everything else I do via other channels with temporary cookies and tracking ability.

In terms of Google tracking, if you're not logged in to google and you're accessing via a VPN so your IP address is obscured then is there anything that google can track to link you with those searches?

Usually I try not to scare people: https://panopticlick.eff.org/

But if you don't have their cookies, and your IP is random or gibberish... then you're pretty much good to go.

Oh, and closed devices like the iPad actually help against the panopticon, as it's impossible for you to customise and extend the OS or browser and the resulting homogenisation across millions of devices (iPads) means that you cannot be told apart from everyone else.

You become one of many identical sheep, from a data perspective.

In terms of Google tracking, if you're not logged in to google and you're accessing via a VPN so your IP address is obscured then is there anything that google can track to link you with those searches?

http://www.stateofdigital.com/google-cookieless-tracking-technology/

There is a real dilemma in all of this.

Web-sites need to have a form of tracking to make things work. Simple things like login sessions which form the foundation of nearly every web site you ever visit.

But at the same time, any tracking mechanism that exists can be subverted to track you in general. Usually for advertising reasons.

There is no solution to getting rid of tracking that doesn't break the internet, and leaving any tracking means that it will be exploited by advertisers.

Knowing all of that, I bucket things in different browsers and incognito/private sessions depending on what I'm accessing.

http://www.google.com/patents/US20080172495

I don't get all the foil hat gibberish in this thread. After all

Yeah, yeah and if you've got nothing to hide...

Well, since the US are willing to steal corporate secrets purely for profit (as opposed to their bullshit war on terror terms) then I do have something to hide.

Why make it easy for google to steal my personal or company secrets?

With browser tracking, you can tell when people are expecting, their sexual orientation, their health. That's gonna mess with insurance in teh futurez.

I know, I just wanted an excuse to put the image up.