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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Or at the very least; turn your phone entirely off (shutdown) whenever you expect or encounter police contact.

    Biometrics only work when the device is already running. Mobile devices are in their most locked down/secure state when ‘at rest’, ie shutdown.

    In android; there is also a ‘lockdown’ mode you can quickly activate from the power off screen, that disables Biometrics until next unlock with a pin/pattern, but doesn’t fully shutdown so you can still quickly access things like the camera. This has to be explicitly enabled in settings first and will not offer much protection from various lockscreen bypass software available to law enforcement.







  • Your ISP could snitch on you for tons of ‘illegal’ traffic, but they don’t because that would require deep packet inspection on an absurd amount of traffic and they gain nothing for it. Instead they pass on notices when they receive them from third parties, and take enforcement actions (like cutting off their service to you) only when they’re directed to. They want your money after all.

    Torrenting for example; only gets flagged when copyright holders join torrent trackers, then send letters to ISPs that control the IPs found in those groups. That’s not the ISP hunting you down, they’re just passing on a legal notice they’ve been given and thus are obligated to pass it to you.

    From and ISPs perspective; a VPN connection doesn’t look any different than any other TLS connection, ie https. There’s nothing for them to snitch because a) they can’t tell the difference without significant investment to capture and perform deep analysis on traffic at an absurd scale and b) they have no desire to even look and then snitch on customers, that just costs them paying customers.

    The ONLY reason this can be enforced at all, is because comercial VPN companies want to advertise and sell their services to customers; so lawmakers can directly view and monitor those services.

    Lawmakers have no way of even knowing about, let alone inspecting an individuals private VPN that’s either running from private systems or from a foreign VPS.


    All that’s not even touching things like SSH tunneling - in a sense, creating a VPN from an SSH connection; one of the most ubiquitous protocols for controlling server infrastructure around the globe. Even if traffic was inspected to find SSH connections, you CAN’T block this or you disrupt IT infrastructure at such an alarming scale there’d be riots.








  • I genuinely do not understand how america hasn’t decended into civil war already.

    Everyday I tell my family I’m unbelievably grateful that we don’t live In America (🇨🇦), because I would have used my right to bear arms long ago and gotten myself killed with a total lack of support by my neighbours. I’ve spent the last two weeks thinking about different ways I could douse these fuckers in gasoline to burn them alive; or ways I could trap my property to inflict maximum damage to invaders.

    I don’t even live there and I’m absolutely outraged over what America is experiencing/doing to itself.

    I just don’t understand. How can you watch your friends, family, and neighbours being executed in the streets only to buy a whistle and yell at them a bit. I get that you’re afraid; but at this point your desire to survive should overcome that fear… Yes, there’s the threat of Marshal law, but it’s being imposed on you whether they officially announce it or not. There are federal agents patrolling your streets arresting EVERYONE that’s not visibly white AND carrying papers, including 3yo children, and shipping them out of state faster than the courts can issue injunctions (even when moving as fast as possible with emergency hearings).

    YOU ARE ALREADY UNDER MARSHAL LAW. You’re being kidnapped and summarily executed. This will not end until you fight it off.

    I don’t expect this to be a popular opinion; but I had to get it off my chest. Perhaps this should have been in the OffMyChest comm… I’m just so fucking angry and have no real outlet for it. There’s not much I can do from across the border; and I’m sure as hell not visiting anytime soon.