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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/nov/19/sweden-drops-j...
If you own an Amazon Alexa, they have your voice print.
If you own an Amazon Ring Security device, they have your face scan.
Now they want your fingerprint and palm print also for "contactless payment". I guess they never heard of Visa Pay Wave, contactless payment method.
The people who willingly agree to hand over their biometrics to Amazon, deserve to loose their privacy. Ignorance is no excuse folks.
Notice in the table regarding sandboxing. Someone is telling porky lies here.
https://www.fosslinux.com/42410/snap-vs-flatpak-vs-appimage-...
"[...] But saying that you don't need or want privacy because you have nothing to hide is to assume that no one should have, or could have, to hide anything -- including their immigration status, unemployment history, financial history, and health records. You're assuming that no one, including yourself, might object to revealing to anyone information about their religious beliefs, political affiliations, and sexual activities, as casually as some choose to reveal their movie and music tastes and reading preferences." Edward Snowden in Permanent Record
I like the idea of a USB dongle that is attached to the person which immediately locks the computer and erases the drive but the problem is that it takes time and law enforcement can just remove the battery to stop the erase (if battery is easily accessible).
Erasing the headers on an encrypted drive seems quick and effective and the way to proceed. But if the technique is to use a USB dongle then we should also be able to modify the source code of Suicide Linux to do the same with the modified default terminal.
If people want to play with their money on BitMex they should be able to instead of using VPN's to disguise themselves and do it illegally.
But apparently you are only permitted to spend your USD in the manner approved by the U.S. Gov and once the US goes to a digital currency, this whole law enforcement will be 1000x easier as every single transaction can be traced and immediately frozen.
Edit: found it
Example. In Mate Desktop. the default terminal is Mate Terminal. Upon installation of Suicide Linux, Mate Terminal could be modified to delete the users home, but provide no warning that it is running. For the user, they could use another terminal program for their daily needs without fear of deleting their home. In the event that their laptop is seized or stolen an attacker may use the default terminal program ie, Mate Terminal which would then upon the issue of any command delete the users home folder
If someone can make this I would install it
Privacy can be had in obfuscating your Bitcoin by sending them using the Lightning Network. You have your own LN Channel and then send them to yourself routing through as many other channels as possible. Bitcoin cleaned.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/how-the-lightning-netwo...
Another way is to use ZCoin. Zcoin uses zero knowledge proofs which burns the minted coin and redeems a new coin. SO I convert my 0.5 Bitcoin to Zcoin, the orginal transaction iin Zcoin is burned and new equivalent Zcoin is minted. No trace.
Monero is good but it is now under attack by Chainalysis to crack it on behalf of the IRS.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/chainalysis-and-texas-firm-wi...
When it comes to anonymity from the solutions available; coinjoins, Monero or Zcoin, personally Zcoin seems the most private way to obfuscate one's blockchain trail.
That is something else.
See my needs, what i want, is a portable encrypted Tails instance. I can do things that minimize my cookies/footprint inside, like using TOR, like using a virtualbox inside, using Matrix extensions etc etc....
But my primary need is an encrypted persistence with Tails and that is something they just don't provide. I can't use it as a day-day driver as I always need to setup everything from scratch.
I might as well just burn a linux distro to a usb and use that in its place.
What would set Tails apart is providing more flexibility.
However....
If people only go to one outlet for their source of news then that mistake is on them. Their choice to select Facebook for example for their primary source of news intelligence, is frankly frighteningly ignorant, especially after countless stories about FB have come out over the years showing how they manipulate their algos.
It's like people only going to CNN for their news. Most people know that news outlets like CNN are biased and report false information sometimes (eg Russian election conspiracy).
A.I isn't the problem in my opinion. The problem is our creeping reliance on A.I to solve our inherent laziness. What I mean is that instead of DYOR on a topic, which may entail actual research from different sources and different points of view and then making up our own mind on the subject, we rely on being bottle fed biased opinions about subjects from questionable sources without the need to think, only to react.
Humanity has a great talent for creating more problems that result in the suffering and misery of people.
Encrypted Persistence Why is there no option to create an encrypted persistence on Tails?
My suggestion is that in the installation option, when you create an instance on another USB, there should be an encrypted persistence option.
I understand that this may not be easy, as creating persistent storage on a USB in linux is not straight forward, but this task can be completely automated by the Tails team and hidden from users.
Another case is listed below:
In Xie’s case, he didn’t have time.
“No one notified me that I was on the blacklist. Then court officials detained me, so I had to pay the fine,” he said. Xie is now off the blacklist.
Lawyer Li Xiaolin was also not given advanced notice that he was blacklisted.
In 2014, Li was sued for defamation and lost. A judge ordered Li to make an apology, which he submitted in writing in April 2015. Ten months later, when he was away on a work trip, he was blocked from buying a return flight home to Beijing. That’s when he found out he was blacklisted.
It took him another three weeks before an official told him why.
“The court said my apology was not sincere. I asked officials how they determined what is sincere.” Li said.
Eventually Li wrote a second apology and the court removed him from the blacklist in 2016. Then last year, he tried to get a credit card.
“The bank denied my application. I figured out that the bank might still have my name blacklisted and I was right,” Li said.
The bank updated its records the next day, but by that point, he had spent almost a year to fully clear his name.
“The social credit system gives a very powerful weapon to officials, in a country with very unbalanced relations between citizens and the government,” she said.
For now, Liu is still on the blacklist, which the Chinese state media refers to as the list of “laolai” or deadbeats.
He is still trying to get off it.
https://www.marketplace.org/2018/02/13/social-credit-score-c...
"It will allow the trustworthy to roam freely under heaven while making it hard for the discredited to take a single step"
As far as i know, even if you have a terrible US credit score, you can still buy a train/plane/bus ticket to travel outside of your city, you can still buy mobile phone contracts, start a business, buy property, send your children to a private school etc etc.
The SCS in China will punish the individual by restricting these things.
Tell that to Liu Hu.
Liu Hu is a journalist in China, writing about censorship and government corruption. Because of his work, Liu has been arrested and fined — and blacklisted. Liu found he was named on a List of Dishonest Persons Subject to Enforcement by the Supreme People's Court as "not qualified" to buy a plane ticket, and banned from travelling some train lines, buying property, or taking out a loan.
"There was no file, no police warrant, no official advance notification. They just cut me off from the things I was once entitled to," he told The Globe and Mail. "What's really scary is there's nothing you can do about it. You can report to no one. You are stuck in the middle of nowhere."
Power and control of the population at large. The SCS willbe the largest spy network and intelligence gathering system outside of the NSA.
Through its massive data collection ability, the CCP will be able to spy on dissidents, minority groups such as the Uighur, protestors of the party regime, political opponents, and any other undesirables the party so chooses.
Anyone can be a target and will be punished by disobeying the party rules both financially (directly through the score) and also physically with imprisonment.
What is the Social Credit Score at its most basic level? Control. It is a computer generated prison built to keep people under control in order to change a once free human being into a slave.
If people aren't that familiar with SCS, this should bring them up to speed. I understand that this SCS is not yet fully active and in varying parts being tested throughout the country, but, at some point it will be ready and go live nationally.
What's really worrying is that the SCS is in some parts, bits and pieces already in Western countries and there is a tendency for this privacy encroachment and surveillance creep to continue in the name of "safety" and "national security".
We should be ever more vigilant and actively oppose this type of draconian nightmare that George Orwell envisioned in 1984 and which is being perfected by the CCP and brother #1 Xi Jinping.
If you want to crypto, if you want privacy don't use Coinbase.
You can always use LocalEthereum to buy ETH anonymously and then transfer to a private wallet
https://decrypt.co/40685/electronic-frontier-foundation-call...
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?cou...
Rice (white), (1kg) 51.41 ₱ 40.00-65.00 Eggs (regular) (12) 87.86 ₱ 60.00-120.00 Chicken Fillets (1kg) 194.91 ₱ 100.00-280.00 Beef Round (1kg) 304.93 ₱ 200.00-450.00 Apples (1kg) 127.25 ₱ 44.09-213.32 Banana (1kg) 73.52 ₱ 40.00-150.00 Oranges (1kg) 118.48 ₱ 40.00-262.60 Tomato (1kg) 64.46 ₱ 30.00-120.00 Potato (1kg) 86.40 ₱ 30.00-150.00 Onion (1kg) 88.76 ₱ 40.00-150.00
As you can clearly see, vegetables and grains cost less than meat.
Your point, that killing and eating stray dogs, rats, cats, etc, because they are freely available, is an absolute extreme fringe case and you negate the fact that these slum inhabitants also earn money and they can buy vegetables and live a more compassionate life if they chose to.
Also I did some research on your claims about slums, in the Payatas slum outside of Manilla city near Quezon, the couple in the below linked article with their 4 children eat food from dumpster diving known as "pagpag" even though they earn up to 1000 pesos per day. It is a choice they make to eat discarded meat. They don't have to, but they choose to.
https://www.businessinsider.in/in-philippine-slums-meat-scav...
You can try to make a point that eating free stray dogs is necessary for impoverished slum dwellers, but the facts seem to contradict your position. Killing is never compassionate.
BTW, I didn't flag your comment, someone else who doesn't like the smell of your BS emotionally charged rant did.
Oh and please disengage for all our sakes Dave.
Why? The soul cannot occupy two points in time, it cannot split itself as we would split ourselves in two.
On the time travel backwards a person would immediately cross a point where their soul already existed, and hence a paradox.
If we assume there is no soul, and a person is just a collection of neurons and electrical activity, then time travel backwards is possible, so is teleportation
If at some time in the future it can be proven that plants feel pain, then it will depend upon their level of pain as they do not have a central nervous system nor brain as animals/insects.
Everyone will have to decide for themselves what course of action to follow, as we do need to consume food in order to survive.
Star Trek replicators would solve all these philosophical quandaries.
Get a grip and don't try to judge my level of compassion or understanding regarding these people. I have been to worse places in India, where there is a large % of the population who are vegetarian and who live in abject poverty.
If people are inclined to, they will eat vegetarian. The cost of meat is more than than rice/beans/lentils/dhal etc.
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It is possible. Of course it's possible. Just depends if that situation were ever to occur, whether people would become passionate about that project