I have something to hide
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EDIT: If the site author is reading this, tip #6 misspells ‘diaspora’ as ‘dispoara’.
A better phrase could have been, "we, as a society, have things to hide from companies and government", but it was too long :)
Edit: and no, I've never seen this particular abbreviation.
Whether it's dick pictures, political views, or associations with questionable NSA targeted groups like UNICEF[1].
I argue that it's our responsibility to hide things to support freedom and democracy.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/05/22/nsa_gchq_...
Sure, as a band-aid to make existing real people feel secure? Hiding things and keeping them hidden is fine. It's just an indicator of how far we as a society still have to go.
Do remember: "it's our responsibility to hide things to support freedom and democracy" is the exact argument used by the government against things like Wikileaks. The exact argument.
I'm not suggesting anyone should be ashamed of sex. I am suggesting that most people want that moment to be private and even those that around them want them to keep it private as well.
The government does not have the right to privacy, we do. And exercising that right is well doing something we have the right to do.
Exercising free speech is good. Don't you think?
I would very much like to live in your utopia, but until then we have to handle the reality:
http://np.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1fv4r6/i_believ...
I would love to know your thoughts on how to deal with our current situation.
I understand that we're in an individualistic society, and that personal concerns are more effective at driving behavior than societal concerns, but as the responses here show that many people equate hiding with guilt we might as well address both :)
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That's what I thought. Everyone has something they don't want others to know.
We have all come to accept that some people are able to know when you walk down the street past their store, if they wish. The bus driving is free to mentally note when you get off and on the bus.
Telling people to wear masks when walking outside because our daily routine is as equally private as our sex lives, just does not equate. At times I feel this line of argument belittles everyone and their opinions in debate.
I'm perfectly okay with others knowing that. Why do you want to shame me for that?
I said details. All you did was give us a summary.
For example, who was the lady? Would she be OK with you sharing this with the world?
There are many reasons to desire privacy other than wanting or needing to hide something. The existence of this site does not invalidate those. But one great technique, when someone holds a rhetorical gun to your head, is to just reach up and pluck out the bullets, reclaiming and sanitizing the opposition argument. "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." "Guess what, I do have things to hide, and that shouldn't get stigmatized."
The argument isn't about hiding things, it's about the right to privacy. The right exists whether you have something to hide or not or whether you like to swim or anything else that irrelevant.
And if you don't "have anything to hide" your right doesn't automagically go away.
Yeah, that's how you make friends. Certainly not into government spying but this is a ridiculous comparison.
Reminds me of those piracy ads that try to convince you not to download music by saying "you wouldn't download a car". It's like pretty different and of course I'd love to download a car.
I'm down for the cause but I don't think talking to people like they're idiots is a good way to rally support.
I disagree. The wording might not be perfect, but the comparison is sound imho.
Potential friends aren't typically total strangers. You are usually at least considered aquaintances at first. And potential friends don't typically go "looking around" your home on the first visit, either. They're usually quite respectful of your privacy from what I have gathered over the years.
They don't just get up and search for a bathroom, they'll ask you where it is.
Really? I always know someone a fair bit before they're welcome in my home. I'd invite some of my co-workers here, people I go to clubs with and the like. There are some local community projects that are effectively run from my home, since that's where we have all our meetings. But even then, the idea of picking a random stranger off the street is a bit... no.
It's absolutely the exact same thing, and you are incorrect, sir/ma'am.
Oh great!
piwik script in source code
Oh great! That really helps to drive the message.
But common, we are not using GoogleAnalytics :)
I block cookies by default, and only allow manually selected sites to set them. Even then, the default for allowed is only until end of browser session.
So unless the cookie was something like "irony=true", it should not have been there. (I didn't bother to look what value it tried to set.)
Really?? Don't tell people things that are patently untrue.
Your home server can be hacked remotely. And if you don't fully trust the hardware and software in your server then it is probably already compromised.
Physically keeping your server in your house, by itself, does nothing to increase your cyber-security. Its like trying not to get sick by avoiding handshakes, but welcoming coughs and sneezes in your face.
"The EFF have released a tool called Panopticlick that creates a lossy hash of your browser. The idea behind the tool is to issue each user with a very unique browser footprint that is used to definitely verify you are the person visiting a page. I stress the importance of definitely because the tool can zoom right in to an individual at the personal level, or a small sample size of users. (More on sample sizes later). Especially concerning about fingerprinting is how accurate it can be. If a useragent is changed, something else will give an identity away like the fonts installed on a machine, the pixel depth of a screen, or the time you visit a page. Flash and JavaScript are typically disabled by users now because they can prove too invasive"
There is the TL;DR on top.
The idea here is if you need privacy right now, use Tails. And then for yor day to day life, here are the steps.
Otherwise thanks for the great site!
Also, I haven't really followed the developments on this story but Ubuntu did effectively spy on you at some point by sending your searches to Amazon, considering this it is a pretty bad choice to recommend it in my opinion.
First time I'm hearing about Disconnect. Is it really all it's hacked up to be? On first glance to me, they have a pretty package but I feel like in practice they are just as furtive as Ghostery is with the promise of blocking all the bad shit.
Nice site too btw. Great presentation for those looking to make a change with their habits.
It seems to hog less resources than AdBlock/etc, but I still find it breaking a lot of things. Maybe I need to tweak the settings, but with that in mind, I don't consider it to be "just working!"
My question, though, is how does this differ from other similar sites such as privacytools.io? How do I reconcile the privacy tools listed there with the ones listed here? Most of them are different.
Ultimately, whose recommendations should I trust?
Just using some of the tools will thwart most 3rd parties and a significant chunk of government techniques to spy on you.
I would trust their recommendations since you see the same applications popping up repeatedly like Tails, Tor, Linux, Diaspora, etc. These are are well known tools in the hacking community and have been used and tested for years.
And thanks for privacytools.io, I wasn't aware of!
We want to spread the word that people should protect themself. Once we manage to convince, people are like "Ok, but what now?" You'll probably answer: "Well, you have to quit facebook, start using linux and have your server at home". And the person will be overwhlmed and just say "it's too complicated."
We try to offer a gamified way: "Here is the first step, and it will take you 5mins of your time!" Then people feel they are on the way to get better at protecting their privacy.
And if you feel we don't recommend the right one, please get in touch, we'd love to collaborate to make it better!
Bugs like Heartbleed demonstrate that massive vulnerabilities can be introduced and persist in well-regarded open-source codebases for long periods of time without detection in spite of theoretical "millions of eyes". Heartbleed was, to the best of our understanding, the result of an honest mistake. What's to say that any significant OSS codebase with thousands of committers doesn't have a substantial number of subtle and less-than-honest "mistakes" of a similar character?
That open source code can be audited by third parties is only relevant if it actually happens, and otherwise you have only a false sense of security.