@dustinb3403 said in Copperhead OS - A Security and Privacy Focused Android OS:

Is Java at all included in this OS? If so you're boned.

Sure, but not as bad as running Google services and getting targeted ads all the time. If you want to be 100% safe, you have to unplug completely.

@dashrender said in US DOJ Continues Its Attack on User Privacy:

@scottalanmiller said in US DOJ Continues Its Attack on User Privacy:

@dashrender said in US DOJ Continues Its Attack on User Privacy:

@scottalanmiller said in US DOJ Continues Its Attack on User Privacy:

@dustinb3403 said in US DOJ Continues Its Attack on User Privacy:

Rosenstein also said

"...People want to secure their houses, but they still need to get in and out. Same issue here."

Not even close, those people are welcome to come and go in their damn house. You on the other hand might get shot in the face if you just walk into someone's house uninvited.

People can still get in and out of their phone. I don't have to give my door key to the DoJ.

Yeah - I'm trying to come up with a physical example to compare to digital security - but I'm coming up blank.

Doors aren't bad. You lock your door, the DoJ is an intruder, the key company does not send copies of your keys to the DoJ.

It's really not good enough. The DOJ can hack your door with lock picks or just bust it down.

I suppose a better example would be a universal garage door opener that only the government is supposed to have, but of course, once the bad guys know about that, they will keep hacking the government until they steal one of those universal door openers. Secure keys for encryption would be the same. The government is as leaky as a cauldron, there's almost no chance they could keep keys like this from the hackers. Then instantly everyone would be vulnerable.

Everyone that uses a mainstream OS or device that operates anywhere in the world that has any operations within the US. Yup

@hobbit666 said in GDPR galore:

Yeah I've been hearing a lot on this GDPR stuff luckily I'm not involved and others in the dept are lol.

But what logs would they need you to collect and store? We don't do this at the moment but if required would like to start looking at solutions. So I'm prepared for the "can you do this and get it installed" lol

Bah. Here in italy they are stressing a lot the access control. And they want centralized lig inspection to check for logins (not necessarily a valid point from a tech perspective but they ask for)

@DustinB3403 No I kept them. As Scott mentioned they work just fine without the app. I just can't get the fine-tuned EQ settings from the app so I have to use the phone settings.

@scottalanmiller said in US Officially Signs Away Internet Privacy Protections:

The US has a relatively uninvolved populace when it comes to politics. Even for the third world it's not very involved.

Some areas of the US have single digit participation rates... that's nearly unheard of in countries outside of authoritarian dictatorships

You say potato...

I've used tor, it's functional, but removes a lot of what most people consider useful from most websites.

@FloridaMan said in Recording Employee Calls at Work in the US:

When I call a company, I often get an automated answer, alerting me to the fact that the call may be recorded, before being transferred to the menu or operator.

If an employee calls me, I'm not notified that the call may be recorded. Should the first thing the employee tells me is that the call might be recorded?

If the call might actually be recorded, heck yeah. There might be cases where they do not need to do that, but it is very unlikely that that employee could know when those cases might come up because it is the physical location of the other party, not the number that they call or where they are based or what their activity is, that matters legally. They could easily be violating federal, state or even international laws.

Wow... Just wow.

When do the though trucks rollout?

@Ambarishrh said in EFF PrivacyBadger:

I use the combination of both, and works really well. Plus https://unchecky.com/

exactly what I use as well. PrivacyBadger will break some sites but you can turn it off selectively.

Here's a quick version.

https://www.variantweb.net/blog/creating-a-gpg-key-on-fedora-22/

Security via obfuscation. I like it!

Yup, monarchies are surprisingly decent.

If it was purely an issue of "on by default" I think it would be one thing. But because it is often, it appears, enforced as unavoidable private company data collection pushed through school policy then it becomes a much bigger issue. That means that government, albeit local government, is basically selling the right to student monitoring to a private entity that has promised not to collect that very data targeted at students contractually.

The issue when schools require Chromebooks be used in a certain way means that the students are not given the option not to be monitored. "By default" is one thing and potentially problematic on its own. But if schools are requiring that students submit to being tracked by a private company without oversight that's a much, much bigger issue.

It is a chain reaction: school is a requirement, parents and students are not given a choice about the tools that they use, tools are enabled to track students, no opt out.... students are simply required to be tracked. It's not a "direct" situation, it's big brother via a chain of circumstances and rules that result in the same thing. A serious situation needing attention for sure. Thankfully it looks like the EFF is on the case.

@scottalanmiller said:

@IRJ said:

@Breffni-Potter said:

@IRJ said:

Good thing the NSA has stopped dozens of terrorist attacks...oh wait they haven't stopped a single one.

Can you prove that they have not? 🙂

If the NSA ever stopped anything they would be gloating about it to justify their exsistence. As discussed before, even if they saved 50 lives a year it still isn't worth the invasion of privacy. More people die from hornets and wasps every year.

I wonder how many people die every year commuting to work at the NSA, of stress caused by the NSA, actually killed by the NSA, due to trying to hide from the NSA, etc.

More than the NSA has saved, that's for sure.