I’m not talking about any forums specifically, I’m asking for forum recommendations. Something that works with Tor. I’ve tried Reddit, Lemmy, and a few other local forums I’m not going to list here. My question is not really about technical issues. I understand and accept that Tor is abused and often banned. I just want help to find someplace that hasn’t banned it.

Thanks, I’ll try that.

It’s weird. I can route my phone through tor and post here from my phone. But hop onto the laptop with tor and nothing but errors. I don’t trust the phone enough to post from there.

I’m just trying to make a text-based post somewhere, anywhere. I don’t really have a preference.

I am concerned about local government. Though what I have to say would be legal in most other places in the world. I really don’t want to post to be tied back to me, I just feel morally compelled to say something even if there’s little to no impact. I just need to try and say it.

It’s called direct action.

There could be something I’m unaware of, but I’ve never had one fail and I’ve had USB sticks work for me for +10 years, go through the washing machine, and other such disasters. I don’t use them exclusively for backups but I do include them in my backup system because they are easy to have “air gapped” and I add such extra steps to everything else they tend to be the most convient way to recover.

I almost did this to myself. I actually set it up this way, but realized my mistake before logging out of anything so I just disabled it and set it up differently.

I have multiple old phones that I’ve taken apart and removed the antennas, cameras, and mics from so they can’t connect to anything even if you wanted to. I store extra copies of my 2FA there, I committed to memory the password to my hard drive and password vaults, setup recovery codes, and printed out the information that was too important to lose. Saved the information in a file and encrypted it to two USB drives with passwords I know I know. And created copies of the password vault in several offline locations. Much better setup with idiot proof redundancy.

There’s a state the required that data brokers sign up onto a list if they wished to sell data from residents of that state. Rhode Island I think. Not sure if the list is publicly accessible or not.

There are uploaders that will first encrypt the files before uploading. However, metadata is still present (folder names and structures, file names, dates, etc…)

With the 2FA apps, the code they use can be exported, encrypted and saved offline say multile company USB sticks. Then if someone breaks or loses a phone the 2FA app can be restored.

Awesome contrast there. Really pops.

I can’t even imagine. If I could get away with it, I’d… I’d… I don’t think I’m allowed to say what I’d do. But it would be not nice.

That depends on how you use the number. If you sign up for services that sell that data, then starting with a private number is irrelevant. If you keep that number on lock, then it wouldn’t be possible for Joe Shmoe like me to track it.

I have personally tracked down people online by just their phone number. OSINT is a super fun challenge. I do recommend you try it.

Also the number at the end of the account name is randomly generated. So it would take a few attempts to get the username you want.

I also did this. Just felt dirty and have no idea if they honor it.

I also read that most of the opt-out services are owned by data-brokers. But that they were using them to try to hurt their competition. So I signed up for all the opt-out services I could find.

I recommend (no affiliation other than as a customer) https://easyoptouts.com/

I do not recommend Kanary (you cannot get to your dashboard without being an active premium member) One Rep (Mozilla just broke off their partnership. Seems extra sketch now as probably a lot of people will be avoiding them and they’ll be looking for extra ways to make a buck)

The others were middle of the road, but no real complaints.

I had an idea later but Optery seems to be removing data even remotely associated to me. So, wrong middle name, or right name wrong state. Their aggressiveness makes me think they are owned by a databroker trying to hurt their competition, so I’d say if you use them, sign up with information similar to your own and hope the actual you gets caught up in their scorched earth tactics.

I have had issues with these portals before. I’ve never gotten s VPN to work to bypass them though and I’ve tried.

However, when I do have issues I can usually log in to the router’s home page (usually 192.186.1.1) and it will bring up the captive portal for me.

I thought they were tide pods. I was so confused.

And my parents still lord over me “how much I owe them” no matter what or how much I do because “You owe us your life”. Well life sucks and my parents aren’t accepting returns.

Facebook internal documents from their current lawsuit discovery process. Facebook call this project ghostbuster:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24520332-merged-fb

https://mashable.com/article/facebook-snapchat-data-project-ghostbusters-mark-zuckerberg

Mental Outlaw briefly outlines how the mitm attack works without alerting the browser of bad certs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkLvpxImRGw&t=30

Your ISP doing a mitm attack would be multi-step and unlikely, but not impossible. The most likely use case would probably be the involvement of the federal government or bad actors who have compromised a CA, which has happened in the past:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan_man-in-the-middle_attack

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/03/23/revoking-trust-in-one-cnnic-intermediate-certificate/

https://security.googleblog.com/2015/09/improved-digital-certificate-security.html?m=1

For a malicious ISP to try to intercept traffic on it’s own, I imagine an attack like this would be used:

https://techgenix.com/understanding-man-in-the-middle-attacks-arp-part4/