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The US already does that :D

One clarification: carrier towers can still find a phone; GPS is passive; your phone locates itself in relation to the GPS satellites.

Most phones are also broadcasting WiFi MAC IDs and Bluetooth MACs, plus hardware and capability strings over Bluetooth. And then any apps you’ve got loaded may also be calling home with your location unless you have that disabled and rotate your ad ID regularly.

[edit] also worth pointing out that even if you turn a smartphone “off” it still pings the local cell towers with its IMEI regularly. Surprised me the first time I witnessed that.

Exactly; email is digital post cards and always has been.

Of course, that means I can encrypt a message and use someone else’s email account to send it :)

I have a LinkedIn account. It has the list of recent jobs I’ve held and my education.

That’s my social media presence.

Things like Lemmy are my secondary presence that I keep anonymous.

It’s never been an issue during my background checks. But then, if anyone ever dared to ask me about my lack of presence, I’d give them a level stare and tell them that I practice what I preach.

What type of weather are you running in? In my area it gets just below freezing in the winter, and I run with a full length compression shirt, then a technical running tee, then a fleece jacket. Works in wind, rain and snow between around 12c and -4c. Leggings and head/face covering are also often needed.

Biggest thing for me is really socks and runners; socks are wicking insulated running socks with an ankle, shoes have GoreTex uppers to keep my feet warm and dry.

Something to also take into consideration is how hard you’re pushing/sweating.

Merino wool will definitely work as a mid layer, but you’ll likely overheat pretty quickly, and it’s hard to get the sweat out.

I keep all my traffic encrypted, use my own DNS, and run a VPN so that anytime I’m away from my place, my traffic is tunnelled through my home setup, which includes a piHole.

If I need more than that to obscure the traffic source, it goes through TOR.

I also run a few public web services off the same IP, so the traffic coming out of my address has plausible deniability.

Plus, I use tracker and ad blockers in all my browsers/devices, of course, as well as block JavaScript by default.

Generally, it’s best to go by capability, not by policy.

Any company has to do what the government of its country says. This goes both for the VPN company, AND any exit node country. So you have to always assume that whatever country your exit node is in has full access to the data exiting the VPN there.

Then there’s the technology being used, the expertise with which it is configured, and finally the policies in place for handling and storing your PII.

Mullvad has a strong record on all accounts, even as far as just giving a year’s notice that it will stop supporting OpenVPN.

AirVPN has virtually no track record, fewer details on hardware, configuration, expertise and PII handling, and it’s in the EU, so has to comply with EU laws as well as Italian laws.

Being in the EU means it has to comply with the GDPR, which does have its benefits. But it also means an EU member state could put a gag order on your account and be monitoring all your data without you ever knowing.

So it all comes down to who you want your data to be private from and why.

Personally, I avoid all public VPN services as much as possible, and assume that the only thing they’re really doing is tricking the next service in the hop as to what country I’m connecting from.

“Perfect teeth” to me look an awful lot like bad dentures.

Give me a nude tooth any day.

It won’t be gone. How else will they make good on their threat of shutting down media companies that say things they don’t like?

So… immutable fork of Ubuntu 21?

Indeed. This is giving me distinctly Boeing vibes.

Because iCloud was a smashing success for Apple when they used this technique?

At least iOS and macOS don’t keep on asking you after you say no like Windows does though. At least not until you change something in your iCloud configuration.

While you’re at it, I use Privacy Insights which lets you track what every app on your phone is doing and where it’s talking to.

And I’d like to know why Apple Books keeps accessing my contacts.

I don’t think you understand Lemmy or moderation.

If your instance bans you, it’s because you did something to breach their terms. Sign up for a new instance and read the terms. And then read the terms of any instance whose communities you subscribe to, and when in that community, follow THOSE terms AND your home instance’s terms.

Even Reddit doesn’t ban people for the words they use. Subreddits sometimes do.

What any community bans you for is how you behave. Context and actions over time matter.

Don’t know much about it, but it appears to be an Android front end for ClamAV.

Unless there’s a team adding ClamAV signatures for APKs, it’s not going to be all that useful to actually protect an Android environment.

[edit] ah; looks like it’s bootstrapping itself somewhat with ESET APK signatures.

I wouldn’t use it in its current state, but it shows some promise. I’d wait for the proposed feature list to get consumed a bit and for someone reputable to audit it.

Marx also wasn’t Marxist; that distinction belonged to Engels & co.

That bit of history is generally where the misuse of the term entered the western world.

The issued fatwa was an interpretation of law that concluded his assassination was legal and even expected punishment under the law. But the phrase then came to be used in the west when Islamic religious law prompted anyone to take an illegal/extremist action in the west.

It would be like a southern baptist pastor calling for a lynching or the electric chair on moral grounds.

Depends on the pseudonym. I know someone who did their PhD in data privacy; they used their real last name but used their initials instead of first and middle name on publications. Then in everyday life they went by their middle name. Worked for them….

Of course, I generated a PGP keypair back in 1993, stuck it on the MIT keyserver, and it’s there to this day… with a throwaway email address that no longer belongs to me and hopefully no longer exists. The good news for me is that younger me was thoughtful enough to use a pseudonym and non-identifying address, so while I’ve still got the private key around somewhere, it won’t be obvious to someone who steals the email address who that keypair belongs to… and only I have the private key.

I also recall thinking the default algorithm and key length weren’t future proof so spent a good 12 hours generating something stronger, which I believe is still secure today.

PGP = Pretty Good Privacy. It’s both a company and the original product released by Phil Zimmerman that has since been mostly replaced by Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG).

These products create paired secret keys using the ciphers of your choice. You make the public key available to the public and keep the private key for yourself.

Then, you can either sign or encrypt some content with your private key, and anyone with your public key can validate that it was you who signed or encrypted the file.

You can also use someone else’s public key to encrypt a file, and then only the holder of the paired private key can decrypt it. And they can use your public key to validate that it was you who encrypted it.

Email addresses are optional, but can be embedded in the keypair. This means that someone else can verify that that address is linked with the identity of that keyholder, which assists in getting encrypted content to the right recipient, validates any signed/encrypted email sent from that address, and provides a memorable link to the public key’s owner.