No, also the browser is the thing that gets breached. It would be like bricking up all your windows so no one could break them and get in your house but only having a screen door in front.
Yes technically the browser alone is a “reduced attack surface”, but it’s reduced by .001%.
Switch to 21h2 ltsc iot.
Everyone, make sure to reply to this person instead of just downvoting their comments.
It’s your responsibility to manage their feelings, not their responsibility to use an instance without downvotes, or even turn off downvotes in their own control panel.
What router?
Point Shodan or grey noise or something at your public ip. Find your public ip by disabling your computers vpn, asking google what your public ip is then comparing that to the address shown at your routers wan interface.
Another person said to just update it. Just update it. But before you do:
Look at freshtomato, openwrt, pfsense etc to see if any of the open firmwares support your hardware. You may like them better.
About the best you can do without opening it up, finding a uart and watching is to put a device you control between it and the isp device.
Have you considered confirmation bias?
It’s rambutan season and you saw an ad for rambutans. You haven’t mentioned that seeing the ad was weird so I gotta assume you see other ads they’re just not related to something that you searched for recently or something you recognize as being related to something you searched for recently.
To go a little further, I used the example of heroin and machine guns in my other reply, but there are lots of countries where people licensed to use these (or technology that’s similar like oxycontin) are allowed or there exist analogs (like bump stocks or binary triggers) that avoid the law.
Heck, in the us any knucklehead can get on the good boy list for heroin or machine guns they just need to pass a bunch of checks and submit to a series of audits and inspections.
The point of banning vpn use would be to keep people from using the technology to skirt identity laws, not to prevent the use of the technology altogether, so it’s likely any ban would take the form of legal wording that looks like “use of computer networking technology to conceal ones identity or aid or abet or perpetrate any crime is unlawful under this section.”
So again, yes they absolutely can do it and no it wouldn’t mean corporations would suddenly have to turn in all their edge devices.
I’m really surprised that on this instance no one has replied with the “laws are threats made by the dominant social economic class” copypasta. Fake ahh anarchists…
Set up some computer with a pair of nics to run pfsense. Get two wireless routers that are supported by openwrt/tomato/whatever. Get a switch that operates at the highest link rate in your network. Plug it all up and configure the two wireless routers to operate their wireless network as either access point&wds or wds, I can’t remember which.
If you have the money to buy a synology of some sort squared away, here’s how to make something better(?) for a fraction of the price:
Buy a used drive shelf. It’s the part in a server rack with all the drives in it. It plugs into a sas card to move data around and into a network switch to be managed. Get one with all the drive sleds present - $2-3 hundred for one that can take about 24 3.5” drives.
Buy some cheap sff pc. These things are everywhere and they have all you need for a little server. Favor cores over threads, 16gb of ram is more than enough but you can easily add more later. anything in the seventh or eighth generation of intel chips or later is fine. ~$30
If your sff pc has a second Ethernet port, that’s cool! It’s okay if it doesn’t, but if you want the option of a management subnet then you can add one in a half height pcie for almost no money.
Another option is a video card to handle decoding media. When you stream some crap to your tv or set top box or whatever, it needs to be decoded. Most of the time those CPUs are tough enough to do the job but for 4 or 8k media using recent encoding schemes, a half height video card is useful. What’s nice here is media decoding is insanely solved as a problem, so a $50 card will be overkill as long as it natively supports your target formats.
Buy a hba card and the wires to connect it to your drive shelf. You want a half height hba with external connectors that are the same or later in spec than your drive shelf. You can get sas wires that are terminated for 80xx on one end and 86xx on the other end. $50-100 for the card, $20 for the wires.
Plug it all up, put in your drives, install whatever dumb software you wanna use and you’re off to the races with the capacity to use 24 disks for 300-450.
The downside:
You have to have somewhere to put it. You’d need somewhere to put your synology too, but a relatively quietly humming shelf of drives that would look more at home in an industrial environment belongs in the closet, not on the same credenza some people like to put their synology.
You’re actually responsible for it. There are fewer guardrails and if you don’t make backups you can just lose data or end up with a broken system. You’re already using a system you’re responsible for though, so this would just be a bigger better version of what you have that doesn’t go into conniptions like rpi type beats does.
Yes they can ban it, you will face repercussions if you violate that ban just like if you violate the ban your country probably has on heroin or machine guns.
You can get around it by using doh and a http proxy configured in your web browser, not at the os level.
They have a tos that lets them collect data. There have been some high profile breaches where users didn’t run firmware updates and got their employers wrecked.
You might have a bigger problem than the rpi4 if you can’t decode an mp3. What’s your system like?
Like and subscribe and SLAM that “press x to doubt” button so we can grow awareness that there’s literally no way this is true in any universe.
If you cant trust the software, make plans to use something else.
Macos is really good. Linux is really good. If you can’t figure out one, try the other.
E: just read this thread on its native instance. Disregard the input of @[email protected], if you want to repudiate their implication that vulnerabilities remediated in security updates aren’t important, just look at cisa and shodan. Also if they’re not French then lol.
Massgrave.dev/windows10_eol
You can use the easy, step-by-step process on this website to change to the version of windows you want, activate it permanently and if you choose 10 iot ltsc 2021 then you get security updates till 2032.
Windscribe is Canadian and offers a bunch of options a-la-carte
Air is Italian and has port forwarding and is on a insane sale right now.
What router?
You can’t! Even if you don’t use the cell phone based connections the car still has its own systems to wirelessly transmit data out.
You could yank the fuses associated with the cellular antennas but they’re attached to other electrical systems you’d want like the radio in every case I’ve experienced.
Also the data will be locally cached and can be collected when serviced or cause strange failures when it fills up the cars storage space. If considerate, smart engineers designed the car, they’d have different actual systems for the ecu, mcu, tcu and what have you but I’ve encountered one electric where it’s all in one.
So that’s scary.
Don’t buy a car made before 2007 and don’t buy an electric unless you know exactly what you’re doing I guess.
Or treat driving like a surveilled activity you partake of in public.
No.
The hardware needed to host even just a full size gpt3 costs tens of thousands of dollars, requires high current or high voltage circuits not usually accessible in residential homes and will actually use multiple thousands of watts of power.
If someone is giving access to such an expensive, power hungry industrial system for free they’re either doing it to learn from the inputs (not private) or don’t have a commercially viable system (not good).
https://files.catbox.moe/80kwmt.jpg
Here’s the screenshot of the support matrix
This is not generally useful.
Including legally questionable techniques like fingerprint and handwriting recognition as things to be worried about and not including the effects your recommended mitigation might have (one fantastic example is the reply about how a signal jammer will make you more suspicious and not less!) makes this seem like more of a post meant to confuse and sow fear as opposed to a post intended to help people make good decisions.
The example that stood out to me most (they almost all made me raise an eyebrow but this one was beyond the pale) is where you suggest mitigating the threat of your anonymity being breached by not carrying Id to styme cops.
When you don’t have id and the cops take you in, assuming you don’t identify yourself on a phone call out which is recorded, your lawyer doesn’t identify you or you don’t just crack under pretrial detention, you will be fingerprinted, photographed and searched against a wide ranging series of databases including id photos made for third party verification and private security camera records.
Which makes it much more likely that fingerprint or handwriting evidence against you can be admissible because at that point you’re “known to law enforcement”, “in their system” and your “handwriting was on file”.
This post falls broadly into the category of white noise at best.
I am once again asking you to go to https://massgrave.dev/windows10_eol and use the instructions to switch your windows install to windows 10 enterprise 21h2 iot ltsc so your computer will receive security updates until the year 2032.
Gaming copilot is a windows 11 feature iirc and the game bar, start menu ads and a bunch of other stuff aren’t present on 21h2 iot ltsc.
Dumb phones aren’t private. When asked how they compare to smartphones the interviewee says that the restriction on having apps might improve a users privacy through their behavior.
Do not turn to dumb phones for privacy unless you’re willing to treat everything you ever say over text or voice as actionable information that will be used by intelligence services.
I cannot stay in that mindset for more than a few minutes and I need significant preparation in order to do so.
Unencrypted voice and text are available to anyone with a satellite dish. Unencrypted voice and text are available to anyone with access to the lawful intercept functionality of the American cellular and internet backbone.
If you need to use a dumb phone to improve your mental health or change your coping mechanisms that’s fine, but recognize that it’s not making you more private.
The zone has become dangerous