Also wanted to mention Tails, but there was no space left for it :p

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[–] 51 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I'm fairly certain Tor is better than a new laptop.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I know at least one FAANG company that had (has? don't know) a policy of not using any hardware that was ever used in travel to China. If you had to go there on a business trip, you got a loaner laptop (and got your account severely restricted) and when you got back they wiped and discarded the laptop.

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago

    Tech, military, politics, banking, a lot of industry and business sectors treat China like that. That cuntry is a fucking black hole for anything regarding security, privacy or fucking freedom. You have to take precautions like that. If you don't you're an idiot.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Cause environment. Multiple the waste of burner phones (which are also terrible if you only use them for a few calls) also the burner laptop wouldn't cost much less than a shitty Chromebook, possibly the same thing.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago

    Stolen laptop + tails + stolen car + McDonald's wifi

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  • [+] 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I am not quite sure buying a new laptop is better than Tor, unless you have a way to buy the laptops anonymously with cash and not being seen by any cameras. Then you would still need to connect to a different network every time.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Fun tip for anyone in a country with blacklisted torrent sites- TOR browser plows right through it. You can open up TOR and go straight to thepiratebay.org.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Needs another layer for VPN chaining after driving 1 hour away to use public WiFi so they never know where you truly are.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    In a cat and mice game the mice will always be the one tot lose. You know who wouldn't lose to a cat? A pack of dogs. Be a pack of dogs. I'm gonna stop here before I say something very illegal bye.

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    [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Tails is basically the bottom one anyways.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Pi-Hole is a really thing but I don’t think my tech skills are quite up to scratch. Plus I think the wife would get ratty if it stopped working while I was out.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If you run it bare metal (not in a dockercontainers for example) it's quite easy to set it up on a raspberry pi or other hardware. The wife would even know it's existence if you don't tell her and use a standard config in the blocklists ..give it a try ..you're gonna love it

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Ad links from emails won’t work anymore. And the “top results” in Google won’t work.

    The wife would complain.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Pi-hole is pretty robust and not super hard to set up. You can run pi-hole on relatively cheap hardware, such as a Raspberry Pi 3B. I’m a big fan of Libre Computing’s “le-potato” board for running pi-hole; it’s a cheap raspberry pi clone. You’ll need some basic Linux skills but if you can follow step by step directions you’ll be fine. If you use a raspberry pi or similar hardware you’ll also need a micro SD card reader during the set up process.

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    [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    VPN, block cookies, noscript, never sign into any user account.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Can you say more about never signing into a user account? I'm not sure I'm making the connection here.

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