The Open source community is literally the best fucking example of Anarchist principles working amazingly in action. I personally feel like every leftist should at least try to learn and use Linux for example. Its free, its honestly easy, its way more secure and most importantly its NOT DISTRIBUTED BY A MONOPOLY.
honest to god, i feel like its one of the most easily achievable ways to decommodify essential parts of our lives and its kinda sad it never comes up.
edit: Please fuck off cryptoidiots, we dont need dumbfuck scammers here
So I have been thinking of migrating back to Linux and I want a distro with privacy, no bloatware and an OS I can play around with. I am a developer. I am considering Pop OS. Must contain APT.
Long time moderator and community builder of various security, privacy, and open source communities here.
Occasionally I see a new suggestion, concern, or suspicion be batted down like a mosquito in an elevator with a stupefied OP left to choose between an emotional or a paranoid reaction.
If this feels like you, here’s the rub.
Society functions because it progresses slowly. Innovation, while innovative as it may be, requires vetting off the backs of the risk takers. For communities whose confidence in the status quo is cemented, proposing anything new is akin to gambling with whatever it is that community stands to lose. It’s not because your software is a virus and you’re malicious — it’s because no one has vetted it yet and it doesn’t yet stand apart from all that is malicious. You’ll need to do the uphill work of testing, auditing, documenting, and convincing for however many years is necessary. If you don’t have the stomach for that, be prepared for quick dismissal.
As for news of something undocumented, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. While it technically might be possible that your neighbor is taking x-rays of you through your walls to pleasure themselves to, the ratio of words-to-hard-evidence in your claim will decide the fate of your discussion. It is not gaslighting to suggest that the voices you hear talking about what websites you visited yesterday might be a mental health condition, it’s just a matter of scientific probability. This is why paranoia posts aren’t supported in most subreddits — they end up going exactly where you’d assume: nowhere.
As for companies and services that are always spying on you, why are others seemingly defending them despite your outrage? Try putting together a story of the worst case scenario and running it through. A restaurant has your credit card number, an ex has your phone number, a marketing company has a cookie in your browser. What are the worst case plausible outcomes for each of these? Annoyance? Negative feelings? Someone in Arizona knowing you like to shop for herbal supplements? Does that affect your health, opportunities, happiness, or livelihood at all?
Privacy is a great thing to maintain agency of, but like all agency, the point is not to disable it but to restrict based on understood criteria.
The first step is understanding that criteria, and that can be done by applying the opsec thought process.
I wrote a simple github hosted site at https://opsec101.org to help this
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I recently launched a small side project called Fugu. Fugu is an alternative to Google Analytics (and other product analytics tools like Mixpanel and Amplitude) that can be used to better understand how users use your web or mobile app, without invading their privacy.
I came up with the idea because I was looking for a privacy-friendly product analytics tool but couldn't find a good one. Posthog comes closest, but they don't default to privacy and I think their feature set and UX is too complicated.
Fugu focuses on simplicity, and doesn't collect any PII. Furthermore, it doesn't track unique users, not even in an anonymous way. Therefore, there is no way to tie different events to a specific user. Of course, this also means that you can't use Fugu to do things like cohort and retention analyses. Fugu's philosophy is that the benefits of cohort and retention analyses don't outweigh their privacy drawbacks, and that for most uses cases you can gain enough insight into user behavior without tracking unique users.
Features
With Fugu, you can currently track events and custom properties. You can then analyze your events by aggregating them by day, week, month or year. Furthermore, you can break down event properties to their values to get a more detailed look.
There are a lot of features on my roadmap (some of them you can see on the website), but the next big feauture will be conversion funnels.
Fugu is bootstrapped and self-funded, and I will never get outside funding. I charge $9/month. You can try it for free without the need for a credit card in test mode. Events tracked in test mode will be deleted after 14 days. The self-hosted version is and will always be free.
Privacy Policy
You can read the complete privacy policy here. But in short, your data is saved on a DigitalOcean server that's located in Frankfurt, Germany. Your data is deleted forever when you delete your account. I never share data with any third parties or use it in any other way.
You can learn more about Fugu here and also sign up for an account. Here's the open-source code on GitHub.
I'm looking forward to your feedback and questions.
PS: Me posting about Fugu has been approved by the mods.
I was just wondering if I were to link my oculus quest headset (when using oculess and turning privacy options on) am I still safe from facebook, like can they still go beyond with the privacy thing, like knowing what I am playing, what I am doing who I am talking with ect. I know I sound weird and like a privacy freak but that is just who I am unfortunately
From what i heard the privacy community doesn't like antivirus software. I personally find privacy and security important; if you're data is hacked it will be sold too etc. That's why i dare to ask how one balances out both things on android and win10.
On my pc i use win10, but i plan to eliminate the bad stuff with simplewall, windows ameliorated or something else, which is the reason why i don't know, if using windows security is wise. It's good, but it is surely awful for privacy.
F-Secure has not only overall the best security, but is also outside the 14 eyes.
ClamAV is open source, but supposedly has an low detection rate (if you find serious reviews please share i can't find any)
My very controversial option would be kaspersky. They are good at detection, but Jewgeni Kasperski said 2013 they even work with USA authorities to capture "cybercriminals". If somebody finds evidence they share our data with them (nowadays), than it will be of course off the table.
What are you're thoughts?
As the title says. A goal of mine is to better track personal expenses this year.
I use QuickBooks online for my business, and I know how evil Intuit is as a company (look up how they make it harder to file taxes…) … so I’d prefer not to give them any more money.
I’d love something of the same idea, where I can classify/tag transactions and build reports over time.
Is there anything out there (that I’ll gladly pay for!) that isn’t a privacy nightmare, that can consume my banks monthly output, and help me do this on the desktop?
I’m in the USA, if that helps.
Thank you!
MetaMask collects the following:
User activity
For example: network monitoring, clicks, mouse position, scroll or keystroke logging
Should that not be concerning? I finally wanted to endeavor into web3.0 but not like this.
What are your thoughts?
Edit: There are 3 AutoModerator responses and one removed response in this threat. All zero helpful. The closest thing is a request to contact support. But I would rather have a public discussion.
My users don't have admin rights. Every profile has to have each piece of software ok'd with admin rights. So if a user has a macbook with Skype for Business installed, they need the camera and mic ok'd in Security and Privacy before those will work. They can't just ok those for themselves under their own profile. Unless I'm logging in on their profile and signing into Skype for Business with some account, I can't ok those permissions ahead of time. There was a piece of screenshot software that was the same. The user got the software they wanted but then we have to return and ok the security privacy settings for that for screen recording. It's a nuisance. If there was a mac in a conference room, unless a common account is used, that would be a royal pain for ok'ing every single profile for that stuff. Is there any way around that?
I'm an original fiction writer, and privacy and security against leaks and hacks are a concern to me. What writing software will suit my needs best regarding privacy and security? I'm now using Linux (as it has been suggested to my needs), and need a software that can run on this OS.
Price and learning curve is not a problem. I just need something that works well for a writer
- is reliable against crashes
- is reliable against corrupted files
- well developed inbuilt-correction software
- works offline (no need for account)
- and most importantly (hence posting in this subreddit), privacy and cyber-security orientated - this is the most prioritized feature
Hi, so my firm decided to give everyone a calendly subscription so we can book group calls and such. However, I have my main work calendar integrated but don't necessarily feel comfortable linking my personal calendar to it. Now, I keep my work calendar (All GCals btw) searchable so other co-workers can see my upcoming meetings or when I'm already booked a system I had in place prior to this integration.
Now, I want to also block off the times on my personal calendar from calendly, but I don't want to integrate it. I also tried adding the one calendar to my work calendar, but calendly didn't seem to pick the events up transitively (which makes sense). So, what I'm asking is, is there some software or tool, that can create duplicate events that take up the same time blocks from my personal account to my work account, but with or without necessarily adding in all the details, preferably the latter. E.g, my personal calendar has 12pm lunch with friend from college, but so-called software would just duplicate/sync that timeblock/event in my work calendar but fill it up with dummy details such as "personal time", or even something as generic as "Calendar Event"
