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Also wanted to mention Tails, but there was no space left for it :p

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[–] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I mean we have burner phones. Why not burner laptops?

[–] rentar42@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I know at least one FAANG company that had (has? don't know) a policy of not using any hardware that was ever used in travel to China. If you had to go there on a business trip, you got a loaner laptop (and got your account severely restricted) and when you got back they wiped and discarded the laptop.

[–] MahatmaGandhalf@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago

Tech, military, politics, banking, a lot of industry and business sectors treat China like that. That cuntry is a fucking black hole for anything regarding security, privacy or fucking freedom. You have to take precautions like that. If you don't you're an idiot.

[–] Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because it wouldn't really help anything if you still use the same internet connection.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

That's why I always buy a plane ticket to another country before I browse. You think I'm using a VPN? That's cute.

[–] johnyrocket@feddit.ch 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cause environment. Multiple the waste of burner phones (which are also terrible if you only use them for a few calls) also the burner laptop wouldn't cost much less than a shitty Chromebook, possibly the same thing.

[–] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Dude it’s a joke… obviously this isn’t economical or environmental sound. I’m just tired of wading into these kind of debates every time I comment on a fucking meme post.

[–] regalia@literature.cafe 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

To be fair, I also didn't consider it to be a joke. I didn't read any hint at sarcasm

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[–] regalia@literature.cafe 26 points 1 year ago

Stolen laptop + tails + stolen car + McDonald's wifi

[–] WtfEvenIsExistence@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reject Computers, Return to Pigeon Carrier [Plus OTP encryption]

[–] Schnitzeltier@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Unwanted encryption is a really big issue with pidgin carrier transportation though

[–] elboyoloco@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm fairly certain Tor is better than a new laptop.

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[–] repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am not quite sure buying a new laptop is better than Tor, unless you have a way to buy the laptops anonymously with cash and not being seen by any cameras. Then you would still need to connect to a different network every time.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can wear those anti-face-detection glasses every time you buy a laptop with cash.

[–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You mean these sick Raving glasses? Hell yeah.

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[–] idotherock@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Pi-Hole is a really thing but I don’t think my tech skills are quite up to scratch. Plus I think the wife would get ratty if it stopped working while I was out.

[–] Fafner@yiffit.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can set one up your network and just point your DNS request at it on a device-by-device basis. So your wife would only use it if she wanted to.

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[–] fernandu00@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you run it bare metal (not in a dockercontainers for example) it's quite easy to set it up on a raspberry pi or other hardware. The wife would even know it's existence if you don't tell her and use a standard config in the blocklists ..give it a try ..you're gonna love it

[–] coffeebiscuit@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ad links from emails won’t work anymore. And the “top results” in Google won’t work.

The wife would complain.

[–] rentar42@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup, the ad results in Google had to be whitelisted to increase the SO-acceptance-factor. But once that's done it's really not much of a hassle at all, but whitelisting is easy if you just check the recently blocked domains.

[–] coffeebiscuit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I eventually installed ad guard to remove the Google ad results (different browser plugins would work too). And indeed white listed some of the favorite shop links.

[–] rentar42@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

That only works when you're willing/allowed/able to configure each users private device. I probably could, but I'd prefer not to.

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[–] irmoz@reddthat.com 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fun tip for anyone in a country with blacklisted torrent sites- TOR browser plows right through it. You can open up TOR and go straight to thepiratebay.org.

[–] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Straight to it...after a 30 second delay. Tor is great. It's just far too slow for general browsing

[–] Username02@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In a cat and mice game the mice will always be the one tot lose. You know who wouldn't lose to a cat? A pack of dogs. Be a pack of dogs. I'm gonna stop here before I said something very illegal bye.

[–] irmoz@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago

Let's kill the capitalists, yes, you're right

[–] ArtificialLink@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tails is basically the bottom one anyways.

Damn straight

[–] cloudless@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

VPN, block cookies, noscript, never sign into any user account.

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can you say more about never signing into a user account? I'm not sure I'm making the connection here.

[–] cloudless@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry I should have mentioned an "online account".

I have read many stories of people getting into trouble because they thought a VPN would protect their identity, and got caught because they signed into their online account which would be easily traceable.

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Oh I got you. That makes sense.

The most illegal thing I do online is make fun of my kids with an account they know so I'm probably good. Though I do hate all the privacy invasion and do reasonable efforts for me to prevent like uBlock and Firefox and so on.

[–] yeather@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With the VPN it stops websites from knowing who you are. They don't have an email, name, or real IP to track.

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Got it, thank you!

[–] regalia@literature.cafe 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You say that from your signed in account

[–] cloudless@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

I am not SpongeBob.

[–] Shazbot@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Needs another layer for VPN chaining after driving 1 hour away to use public WiFi so they never know where you truly are.

[–] SpaceCadet2000@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

... only for you to google: "burger restaurant near "

[–] Risk@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Surely you'd be able to triangulate the VPN connections based on the 1 hour drive.

Better to just become a nomad.

[–] spez@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

is lmgtf really neccessary?

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