A quick post on computer security and privacy.

First, I am not an expert by a very long stretch. Im simply posting what I find, that seems to lead in the right direction and may be of interest to some of our readers.

With things like M103, which is inevitably going to become a criminal code bill, and even if it doesn’t the Canadian Human Rights courts alone are sufficiently anti-truth and totalitarian that one should be thinking in terms of information security if you have any love of truth and genuine information at all.

The first thing, is phones.

So far the most practical thing I have found is this:

The Blackberry DTEK60.

It appears to be a secure build of Android with what might be a good enough camera, but without the sketchiness of some of the dedicated secure phones.

By Sketchy I mean proprietary builds that could vanish overnight leaving you insecure or with no updates possible or both. This seems to be a pure android phone with no bloat and all the apps you normally can get but set up to leak less.

Having said that you still need to know how to secure it. Using a VPN, Not getting ludicrously un-private apps like Uber and so on.

A good source to learn about these issues for people who are not overly technical, are these guys:

The Complete Security and Privacy Podcast:

These are easy to listen to and have a nice dialectic feel and speaking at an experiential level rather than blasting you with jargon.

As it appears that President Trump is going to sign an Obama bill which will set your 4th amendment rights back to the Soviet era, its good to know how to keep your browsing history and other online activities safe from your internet service provider. After all, you pay for the service and its none of their damn business what you do with it, much as when you buy a car its none of the dealership’s business where you go.

This article deals with some methods for doing so. I suggest using at least two.

Hopefully those versed in these matters can offer more explicit advice.

This is a good site to keep an eye on.

 

 

About Eeyore

Canadian artist and counter-jihad and freedom of speech activist as well as devout Schrödinger's catholic

3 Replies to “A quick post on computer security and privacy.”

  1. If they want to know bad enough,they have the means to do so,especially if you are on their radar.In this highly technical age where comms is advancing all the time and subject to intense interest and monitoring by those with the resources and power,privacy is a mirage.They will always be several steps ahead of the private citizen.
    The RCMP recently stayed a large number of Mafia related charges because they didn’t want to compromise their technical knowhow utilizing “Stingray” to gather cell phone comms.What else hasn’t come to light?

  2. VPN is NOT good enough!

    To keep your identity secret you need to use tails (https://tails.boum.org/install/index.en.html) Tails are what journalists use when working in countries where their work can get them killed or tortured.

    Simple rules when using Yails to keep your internet activities secret:
    1) Create a new identity, email, social media, ect.
    2) Never ever log into an account you did not create using Tails.
    3) Think of your activities, break your usual patterns.

    This will keep you safe, keep in mind that you are up against governments here, this is not like downloading movies or stuff, this is serious!

    In Europe people are getting jailed for watching ‘fake news’ and for speaking against the moslem invasion and NWO.

    Take care out there.