WindAqueduct

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[–] WindAqueduct@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Very well. Since privacy is irrelevant, give me your full name and address. I promise I won't report you to ICE.

If you think you can organize a resistance to fascism while being surveilled 24/7, be my guest. The only thing you're doing by being a stupid doomer is discouraging people from taking proactive steps towards better privacy. Surveillance is what kills our freedom of speech, assembly, and petition.

It's funny how much people deny that privacy is the foundation of freedom when every tyrant knows it. That's why they set up surveillance systems.

[–] WindAqueduct@lemmy.ml 0 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

No, the state can't just do that. They could do it to any one person, but not to everyone. Consider this hypothetical: the state wants to kill 100 people. If everyone is outside, this job becomes easy. If everyone is in their homes, this job becomes harder. Why? Because breaking down doors, moving equipment, etc. costs money. And government agencies don't have all the money in the world! They can't:

  1. Go after every single person who uses cash
  2. Go after everyone who uses a vpn
  3. Go after everyone who uses encrypted messaging
  4. Go after everyone who attends a protest and who wears a mask and puts their phone in a faraday bag.

Privacy works best in a larger group. Telling people privacy is dead actually hurts you more than telling people that there are indeed effective steps you can take to protect yourself.

[–] WindAqueduct@lemmy.ml 4 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

Encryption requires no respect from the State

[–] WindAqueduct@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

Keeping your google account can be helpful if you want to follow this strategy:

  1. Register on Signal using your phone number
  2. Port your phone number to google voice ($20 transfer fee but free after that; additionally while its privacy sucks, google is great for security)
  3. Change the settings so that every caller is sent to voice mail
  4. Use mysudo and cloaked for VoIP numbers
  5. Set up Signal on a new device (ideally a grapheneos pixel)
  6. Use a calyx institute hotspot for data or buy a sim card with cash
[–] WindAqueduct@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Socialists need to learn to stop being dogmatic. If a Marxist-Leninist revolution is our most viable solution, democratic socialists et al should back it. If democratic socialism is more likely to succeed, Marxist-Leninists should back it.

[–] WindAqueduct@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Your number one step is privacy. Privacy is the foundation of freedom; it "protects the right to be left alone".

If you're a beginner, Naomi Brockwell's videos have very good tips. If you're not a beginner, read Michael Bazzell's book Extreme Privacy. Read it in full and decide the level of privacy you want (you likely will not need every single one of his tips).

[–] WindAqueduct@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, don't use Telegram. Chats aren't end to end encrypted by default, you have to specifically request a secret conversation. It's also not possible to encrypt group chats on telegram. Matrix, signal, session, simplex, and many others are much better.

[–] WindAqueduct@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is to be expected as Russia needs true security guarantees to end the war.

[–] WindAqueduct@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

Use an SLNT bag

[–] WindAqueduct@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Just when will my human rights, which are grounded in the constitution, stop being put aside by bullshit rulings ad absurdum

Also, this is why you should use a privacy screen.

[–] WindAqueduct@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 days ago

This is already the case.

You can opt out of TSA facial recognition and CBP facial recognition

[–] WindAqueduct@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The part of the patriot act giving the cia etc warrantless phone search powers on Americans expired and wasn't renewed. It's why the CIA and NSA fight really hard every time Congress renews the part that allows them to surveil foreign/international phone calls.

Additionally, governments want security and privacy too. The navy invented TOR, for example.

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by WindAqueduct@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
 

Please read Section 201(3)-(4) of the Real ID Act:

(3) OFFICIAL PURPOSE- The term 'official purpose' includes but is not limited to accessing Federal facilities, boarding federally regulated commercial aircraft, entering nuclear power plants, and any other purposes that the Secretary shall determine.

(4) SECRETARY- The term 'Secretary' means the Secretary of Homeland Security.

Source: https://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/real-id-act-text.pdf

In other words, the Secretary of Homeland Security has unilateral authority to expand the uses of real IDs. In their 2008 rule, DHS even doubled down:

"DHS does not agree that it must seek the approval of Congress as a prerequisite to changing the definition in the future (except of course to remove one of the three statutorily-mandated official purposes) as § 201(3) of the Act gives discretion to the Secretary of Homeland Security to determine other purposes."

Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2008/01/29/08-140/minimum-standards-for-drivers-licenses-and-identification-cards-acceptable-by-federal-agencies-for

That could include voting, accessing medical care, etc. Do you trust Kristi Noem with this power? Do you trust every future secretary with this power?

If not, I urge you to not get a real id or real id driver's license if you don't have one, or turn in your real id for a state id or state driver's license if you do have one, and instead get a passport. The DHS cannot enforce anything if the majority of Americans refuse to get real ids. Let us not just bow down to a national id that invades our privacy and could be used to control us.

 

This video explains how your medical data is shared without your consent.

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