They are waiting for a new jurisprudence that has decided how police are expected to respond to information from the panopticon.

If the new decisions end up painting a picture where it’s okay to be shown hearsay by the panopticon then as long as there’s a sound investigation and solid evidence they’ll be able to keep using these systems, now with codified policies.

If it comes down that cops aren’t supposed to look at the panopticon then they will just sell them off to people who can (the prison system) and cover up everything they did as best as is possible.

It lowkey literally is. They make these stretchy pull over balaclava things as athletic wear that you can pull up over your face.

You can always cover your face in public. Islam is the light.

Just cover your face in public

E: Islam is the light

Everything works fine. Stop worrying.

If you want to be 100% sure (and this is smart in general in all of life!), open a bank account and get a credit card tied to it for payments. Go to taobao or AliExpress or something where Alipay or WeChat are used and try them out with your new financial details.

It doesn’t matter what credit card you get because credit cards are an incredibly not private method of paying for stuff and merchants, processors and everyone else are strongly incentivized to collect and sell user transaction data.

This is going to sound counterintuitive, but don’t get a vpn to bypass the firewall if you don’t have a non-espionage reason to do so. The reason I say that is you’re pitting yourself against a nations cybersecurity people and there’s a good chance they’re smarter than you. It would be better to be able to say “I saw on reddit that I could use this vpn to access this forum for a game I play” and then show the cops all your cringey posts and your hundreds of hours of playtime than to say “I wasn’t doing anything!” or “I just value my privacy!”.

You can’t turn back the clock. Meaningful changes require a different social relationship between people and production.

If it’s simply putting your money where your mouth is then that’s perfectly good.

If you’re worried about being in the crosshairs of that intelligence apparatus it would be good to limit what information stays outside the encrypted vault of whatever password manager you choose no matter where the service is based or servers are located.

The mullvad port forwarding takedown is a great example of legal denial of service if you’re wondering to what extent these different agencies collaborate across oceans and borders.

Oh I wouldn’t self host that, all I was trying to do was examine what business or compliance reason you might have for wanting to stay out of servers in us jurisdiction or not use a service that might be subject to us laws.

Do you mean the us government or just into us jurisdiction?

I’m pretty sure that even with a service based in another European nation whose servers are in that nation you couldn’t rely on either…

Reads like a communist hiding their power level or a liberal searching for a take on the enclosures actively happening this very moment that isn’t the fascist/libertarian one (“it’s different because it’s happening to me!”).

That won’t work.

The best you can do is clear your cache and history every time you close the browser and use some kind of containerized system like the Firefox plugin.

What you’re asking about is fundamentally not how the web is designed.

E: and of course close the browser when you’re done looking at the website.

After you eventually settle on bitwarden, rotate all passwords and uninstall or clear out the contents of other password managers. From your replies in this thread it seems like you’ve used many different managers.

I wasn’t able to reproduce what you described about apple ai and signal.

The foss-ness of an operating system or application doesn’t matter for the purposes of encrypted messaging, what matters is if the user has the application and operating system configured appropriately and understands how to not give up secrets.

Use bitwarden, go to Settings -> account security -> unlock with pin and turn it on. If it’s already on, toggle it off then on. You will be prompted to set your pin. Dont forget your master password.

It’s cool that you got downvoted for answering this question. You can take em out of reddit but you can’t take reddit out of them.

The thing that stops google (or proton for that matter) is that you don’t give them the keys.

Email isn’t and can’t be made private without something like pgp.

A company that handles pgp for you can be legally compelled to give up the keys.

Windows sandbox like everyone else is saying is a great answer, but bear in mind if you’re sufficiently paranoid or security conscious that many, many exploits exist to escape VMs and sandboxes. Esxi and cell phones pretty much made that happen.

Keeping a cheap old computer to run weird bullshit on isn’t a terrible choice if you’re truly worried about it.

Are you sure the animations it’s giving you are ai? Android recently got the thing where the phone actually takes a short movie and picks a frame, processes it and hands it to you as the “picture”.

If you care about your country’s laws why would you purchase a service subject to kyc laws in order to break your country’s laws in order to be on public trackers?

Just use a paid vpn with port forwarding like air or something and get on a private tracker for games. It’s easy, all it takes is consistency and organization. The sooner you start, the sooner you can finish.

E: it may not be clear what I’m saying. Kyc is short for know your customer. Places that offer services or process payments are subject to kyc laws that make it a requirement that the processor or service provider have records of who they’re handling the money of or selling services to. It’s relatively easy to purchase a vpn while bypassing kyc but buying a vps (virtual private server, the type of service that a seedbox is) using a chain of tools and payment handlers that bypass kyc is much harder.

When you say that the seedbox provider you’re considering will forward requests or delete your account it’s kyc laws that create the terrain that forces that set of behaviors.

If you’re worried about your country’s anti piracy laws coming down on you for using public trackers then using a seedbox service that’s legally required to be able to be tracked to you (because they have to know their customer) isn’t a way to bypass that.

You’re gonna have to learn to bind your client to an interface no matter what, but getting off public trackers is a great way to avoid legal problems.