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its 2017 and yet still the biggest vulnerability of them all is willful ignorance.

People have agendas to fulfill. Can't let the truth get in the way. Haven't found a budget to fit in the truth looks like we will have to do without it for now.

What is the truth?

Well nobody cares about security.

Who knows about the truth?

Mostly everybody

Why doesn't anyone do anything about it?

Trying hard just doesn't cut it anymore as we can see those with influence would rather destroy the entire internet for mass surveillance.

Also don't forget about 2FA

People don't want to know. Or they know and act anyway

You can all feel as hopeless and defeated as you like. When it comes down to it nothing in history came easy. With the Advent of the internet it forced the hands of those in power come up with new ways of making us think they are more powerful or have more power.

And unfortunately​ it works like a charm. A tech revolution would completely undermine the entire worlds markets over night. With the help of HN, it's members and a few months and some serious agenda pushing anything can get done. Problem is you all feel so defeated nobody wants to agree on the same agenda.

Like I said. It works. But we know how now. And with all the brain power on HN it's only a matter of time before they start targeting us. And they already have by passing this and putting that shit head in charge of the FCC.

It wasn't just the CIA guys

2. Of course a company like Apple has some of the most secure practices. What it doesn't give them though is the power to completely ignore zero days and attack white, gray or black hats for disclosure. Plenty of other companies are guilty but not one as big as Apple. I'm all for prosecution when hacks are used to cause damage and or steal company secrets. Beyond that point the closed ecosystems + closed hardware that's built to be hard to repair is a security nightmare waiting to happen. (Oh yea it did. They called it the fappening). They also do everything possible to shut down jailbreaking (Didn't they hire one of them eventually?). And even going further beyond that, they share your info with the government. Under gag order or not it doesn't matter. Yes I know all companies have to in order to operate stateside but the fact is it's not hacker friendly. I also am aware of the fact that the majority of the industry has been working on making this situation better. (Project zero, Netflix just came out with something as well).

3. Yup. I guess I meant in a more practical sense like personally identifiable info. Being completely honest not everybody cares for security, even most of the time they aren't even aware of what it is or how much is actually out there. This point I made will never happen unless somebody is completely devoted to being private and wants to be.

4. I'm actually still working on that. I don't have a 100% sure method yet. I've emailed plenty of them and I got mostly no response but a few did delete some stuff.

Something I haven't tried is to simply get Google to remove the listings from their search. Doesn't sound hard but knowing Google will be next to impossible.

I have thought about using legal action against the data brokers but I haven't looked into it yet. I'm assuming there are cases out there somewhere that were successful that I can find.

Avoid all password managers at all costs. I put it down manually.

I am going be getting a subscription to a non Google email. Not sure which one yet. I think it's called fast mail.

Avoid everything Apple.

Avoid everything social media. I still use them for lurking but every single service has its own email and generated pass.

Avoid posting anything anywhere forever. (As little as I possibly can)

Getting my info and my associates info completely wiped from all data brokers and all links from all search engines purged.

Use a custom ROM and a rootable phone. I'm not a fan of how big Google is. I'm not a fan of how little support they offer for their services (let's be honest it doesn't exist). But at the same time Google really does make great software at the cost of zero actionable support. It works for now. There are open source alternatives in the works to replace the core of Google services I just haven't checked if I can use it as a daily driver just yet (without many bugs).

I use chrome with privacy badger extension by the EFF

Another extension which is called uMatrix (have been using it since Beta, HTTPS-Everywhere). It will break your internet experience if you don't know how to use it. Simply put the only firewall you will ever need. Doesn't use many resources and is extremely straight forward.

I also use the signal app for communication. As much as I possibly can. (It took me a year or two but I've converted over 50+ people into using it)

Stating the obvious. But I haven't gotten a single virus from torrents since the Napster days. You'll get them from software most of the time anyways (crack generators, old software etc...).

https://openstates.org/

https://www.showbuzz.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-five-states...

It's an sms/ MMS end to end app.

I don't care about other providers I want my old gmail back.

Lost access to my old Gmail account recoveries cause it had been over 4 years since the last login. My M$ account recovery is not possible despite opening about 10+ cases with their engineers who fail to respond 100% of the time. And when they did it was automated. So without either recovery available ill just go to type in all the info I have about my old Gmail. Automated response forms with more automated rejections. I've tried it easily 300+ times at this point. Doesn't work.

What do I honestly do in a situation like that? (After 2 years of failed recovery attempts, hunting down google employees on social media and their work or personal emails)

I got one single Google employee to respond to a help thread I posted on the Gmail help forums. He responded with a question that was already answered in the original post. And it took me 6 months to get there.

This is all I use and need

1. https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix - Breaks websites, learn how to use it correctly

2. https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

I would actually probably use that.

I lost access to my original gmail. If anybody took a 10 second overview they would see that I am the original owner but I am forced to sit back while an automated form response + an automated email response + an entire team of engineers + support forums + forum moderators + all the actual info I do still have on the account (which is accurate) and its still not enough to get my account back.

https://www.opendaylight.org/