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extra stout
Feb 24, 2005

ISILDUR's ERR
The unfortunate answer is privacy does not exist anymore and you cannot possibly obtain the amount of privacy that used to exist, ever no matter what you do

Look up the humming bird drones some guy was making on the cheap trying to get a military contract 20 years ago, now look up what anybody with $500 can buy off Amazon, now go ahead and imagine how light and small and quiet you could combine all modern technologies if you were part of a 600 billion dollar military.

Nobody likes the answer: You move to a poor country and build a cabin and never use the internet again, and even then you accept that your neighbors will eventually be given cell phones at or below cost, and if they don't have 100 megapixel cameras in those models yet, they will in a few years. You're still going to show up on satellite. Drones have thermal cameras now.

The mild approach: You get a VPN so your ISP loses a huge log of data they're currently selling to anyone who is buying. You accept that the most popular applications and websites cannot be used without them keeping a copy of everything you've ever done with/on them. But spend a few minutes looking up the PRISM software under Bush, Peter Thiel's Palantir software currently (the manual for police has been legally published due to a FOIA request) and realize that the entire California state police can look up everybody you ever chatted with and every IP you've ever been assigned and there is no box for them to even input what crime they suspect you of committing, because they don't have to. This all applies to cell phones too, which cannot be properly encrypted since most their data (texts, calls, GPS) is transmitted over towers and satellites and won't be encrypted.

So your burner phone travels to your home with you, and is charged there, and is the same distance away from your neighbors phones and your router as your main phone. It pings for the nearest tower just about every second of the day it's got a battery in it. The software that stores and monitors these logs can tell who you are from typing patterns, sleeping patterns, shared contacts anyway.

Do you feel better knowing 3 governments and 30 corporations have your data instead of 27 and 1,000? Then find a VPN for 50 bucks a year. Switch to a phone with a removable battery and accept that people will find you rude or weird when you don't reply to them in an hour. Somewhere your unlisted social credit score will go down or be flagged, but it won't really change any aspects of your life unless you're an active criminal.

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