Online Security

Ped&GSD said:
You really need a combination of both van and tor
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A van? I am just going to asume it is a typoed "vpn" :p

I am not sure which thread model a Tor + VPN combo beats. The VPN operator knows who you are (specially if you paid them with traceable money). By using Tor, you ensure the VPN does not know what you are doing, but the same thing could be said if you didn't use a VPN with Tor. This does not make them much different than a regular ISP that places you behind a neighbourhood NAT, which nowadays is most of them.
 
A VPN is the best investment you'll ever make, not just for this site, but also for torrenting movies (normal movies, not dog movies). You can stream the movie collection via Plex or Jellyfin. Can cost as little as $5 a month which is significantly cheaper than any streaming service and once you have a big collection you are your own streaming service. And then also you get to watch ppl take horse and dog dick without fear of the right wing idiots out there deciding we're the next trans panic target.
 
foalmaker said:
A van? I am just going to asume it is a typoed "vpn" :p

I am not sure which thread model a Tor + VPN combo beats. The VPN operator knows who you are (specially if you paid them with traceable money). By using Tor, you ensure the VPN does not know what you are doing, but the same thing could be said if you didn't use a VPN with Tor. This does not make them much different than a regular ISP that places you behind a neighbourhood NAT, which nowadays is most of them.
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Yes, I meant VPN, the silly autocorrect make more work than it saves.
Did you watch the video link?
 
Oldman said:
Links removed. They looked sketchy as fuck and also advertising. Don't do it again.
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Advertising? Where? they where from YouTube and another from exactly the same but with brave browser. Do you know about Brave browser? It blocks ads from YouTube, I only watch YouTube with it. I can't stand intrusive ads.
But ok.... are links not allowed then?.
I mean the fact that we are in the dark web I assume we are all using antivirus that block dodgy links anyway.
Sorry for the inconvenience. I don't post dodgy links. I'm not interested in such.
I found easier to just post the link of the video where the answer for the question asked can be found instead of having to write it myself.
 
Ped&GSD said:
Advertising? Where? they where from YouTube and another from exactly the same but with brave browser. Do you know about Brave browser? It blocks ads from YouTube, I only watch YouTube with it. I can't stand intrusive ads.
But ok.... are links not allowed then?.
I mean the fact that we are in the dark web I assume we are all using antivirus that block dodgy links anyway.
Sorry for the inconvenience. I don't post dodgy links. I'm not interested in such.
I found easier to just post the link of the video where the answer for the question asked can be found instead of having to write it myself.
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The link did not have a .com it was .be and YouTube wasn't even spelled out completely. That could be a foreign version of YouTube or another language, or just a shorthand tracking link, in the end it doesn't matter, it's kind of suspect to begin with. Secondly the forum loaded preview image of said link immediately started with ”sale bla blah 30% off blah blah". So that ticked the second box of no advertising. Finally, 99 percent of YouTube links are tracked to show which website someone clicked from. Why do you think the vast majority of YouTube links get the content deleted? Because they came from our porn site and therefore it is considered porn and flagged for review and or deletion. The last one is more of an FYI. If you don't want videos deleted from YouTube then don't post tracking links to our website.
 
I understand and agree about the youtube links being tracked, yes, it was silly of me. I guess I'm still a Newby and sharing links here is not the same as sharing links in something like Facebook. I learned my mistake.
About the thing of adds I have just tried posting myself a link to another account on WhatsApp and I have just learned that if I share before the adds are done playing I just share adds and not the video intended. I also checked the links for the proper videos and they do contain youtu.be, but they do work well and are legitimate,
I guess it's the way it is as .com would be the homescreen or dashboard and not a particular video.

Anyway you are completely right. I will refrain from posting links as I don't want to compromise this page or the community that use it.

My apologies 😕
 
Ped&GSD said:
I understand and agree about the youtube links being tracked, yes, it was silly of me. I guess I'm still a Newby and sharing links here is not the same as sharing links in something like Facebook. I learned my mistake.
About the thing of adds I have just tried posting myself a link to another account on WhatsApp and I have just learned that if I share before the adds are done playing I just share adds and not the video intended. I also checked the links for the proper videos and they do contain youtu.be, but they do work well and are legitimate,
I guess it's the way it is as .com would be the homescreen or dashboard and not a particular video.

Anyway you are completely right. I will refrain from posting links as I don't want to compromise this page or the community that use it.

My apologies 😕
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Ah. That would explain the ad text. Anywho, best to share those via PM to those who ask.

Those .be are most likely shorthand tracking links. If you cut and paste the entire link in the top of the browser instead of clicking the share button, that usually is the .com without the tracking. That, however, is not available in the phone app.

You are also not in trouble, otherwise you would have gotten a warning point.
 
Years ago this thread only started as a small info gathering but now it has turned into a wealth of information for everyone to use I am happy to be apart of this thread's growth I've learned from others and they learned from me keep up the good work everyone.
 
I had a scare at one point where someone had hacked into my computer, leaked all of my DMs, and called all of my friends claiming they knew all of my kinks. Luckily, they didn't know anything that my friends didn't, but I cannot imagine what would happen if someone managed to expose my more "taboo" kinks. I have security measures like Tails OS and protonmail in place now, but I still don't know who did it or why.
 
usually, when someone gets hacked it is someone who has met you or chatted with you at some point. glad you are taking precautions now using Linux distros is best since they are safer and better also add security measures as well.
 
Beyonder2099 said:
usually, when someone gets hacked it is someone who has met you or chatted with you at some point. glad you are taking precautions now using Linux distros is best since they are safer and better also add security measures as well.
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Linux is indeed probably the best thing besides cutting the ethernet (in my opinion). Also, strangely enough, when the person who I believe hacked me called me and my friends, none of us recognized their voice. However, one of my boyfriend's former friends was the one to send him my 50,000 DMs, but we still have no idea who sent them to him or why he sent them to my boyfriend.
 
Frosted797 said:
Linux is indeed probably the best thing besides cutting the ethernet (in my opinion). Also, strangely enough, when the person who I believe hacked me called me and my friends, none of us recognized their voice. However, one of my boyfriend's former friends was the one to send him my 50,000 DMs, but we still have no idea who sent them to him or why he sent them to my boyfriend.
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Yup definitely sounds like someone trying to cause a stir in your life but for someone to have your # they must have either gotten it from the dark web or someone close to you that's usually how it starts be careful and switch to Linux and study opsec heavily cause things are evil out here in this world.
 
This thread is really informative. Glad to see the tech gang has visited here. I use a free VPN atm and always use it when I acces this site and really the time in general.

My PC is very old though and I don't have enough space on the drive to update my OS anymore. Does this pose any risk to me here?
 
Lawnchair Pilot said:
This thread is really informative. Glad to see the tech gang has visited here. I use a free VPN atm and always use it when I acces this site and really the time in general.

My PC is very old though and I don't have enough space on the drive to update my OS anymore. Does this pose any risk to me here?
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What OS do you use? An OS like MacOS that isn't ancient, and even a somewhat old Linux distro probably don't need any updating, for the most part. If you aren't updating an OS like Windows, that could be problematic, depending on how old the version is.
 
Lawnchair Pilot said:
My PC is very old though and I don't have enough space on the drive to update my OS anymore. Does this pose any risk to me here?
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Yes. It poses a risk from many different points. Update frequently fix security issues.

Considering you do not have space for update I guess windows. As on linux you would have other means of doing this. Such as backing up your home folder and installing a new distro from scratch.
But a windows machine with a 32GB EMMC is going to be landfill waste pretty much immediately.

Replace that trash with a xfce or lxde based linux distro asap. :D
 
pes said:
Yes. It poses a risk from many different points. Update frequently fix security issues.

Considering you do not have space for update I guess windows. As on linux you would have other means of doing this. Such as backing up your home folder and installing a new distro from scratch.
But a windows machine with a 32GB EMMC is going to be landfill waste pretty much immediately.

Replace that trash with a xfce or lxde based linux distro asap. :D
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Definitely plan to ditch this thing soon for something much more powerful (and with more space). Definitely doing Linux instead of Windows as well and if I ever need Windows for something gaming wise there's always virtual machines.
 
I read this topic and I am really suprised no one mentioned Privacy Guides (dot) org.

A lil history - there was a website PrivacyTools that recommended some tools for privacy and some knowledge-base information, but the owner disappered and didn't take care of it anymore. So the PrivacyTools community created PrivacyGuides. The website recommends software and tools that are privacy-friendly, zero-knowledge, open-source etc. Unlike other websites, the recommendations are based on discussions on forums and github about every single tool. It must met very strict criteria to be in the list and it's checked regulary if it's still keeps the privacy-policy, is still open-source and still updated. Sometimes tools might be de-listed if situation changes. For example Skiff email was de-listed after being bought be Notion.

I could also recommend Michael Bezzel, his podcast (no longer active, thou) blog and his book Extreme Privacy. It's an OSINT expert and he even was an advisor for the TV show Mr. Robot. But be careful - OSINT is a very deep tin-foil hat rabbit hole. Once you go to this parh, there is no way back.
 
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Lawnchair Pilot said:
My PC is very old though and I don't have enough space on the drive to update my OS anymore. Does this pose any risk to me here?
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Operating Systems that are left unmaintained for long are a bit dangerous. Usually, researchers discover and publish exploits against systems, with the hope that people will upgrade their machine immediately. If you don't upgrade in a timely manner, you may find yourself running an OS full of vulnerabilities for which the Internet is full of instructions to exploit.

In practice, you can make do upgrading only your Internet facing software (say, your web browser, email client and the like) and antimalware software. Those are the things more likely to interact with malicious sites, files and content directly.

I don't know if I have already recommended it, but I find Tails Linux good security-in-a-can solution for normal people. The idea is you instal Tails to a pen-drive. You can use it to boot your computer into Tails instead of your regular Operating System. Within Tails, you may browse the web, chat etc. and no fingerprint will be left on your main OS. Another advantage of Tails is that traffic is pushed into an anonymization multiproxy network by default (Tor). When you turn your computer off, all trace of your activities gets deleted and you may boot your regular OS as usual as if nothing had happened.
 
Why Discord is the poorest choice for illegal chat:
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PSA: Don’t Send this Photo on Discord!

There is an ILLEGAL photo that is floating around that if you send it on Discord, YOU WILL GET BANNED. Doesn't matter if it's in DMs or in a Discord server.T...
www.youtube.com www.youtube.com

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erphy said:
Discord records and keeps everything you post. You can see for yourself by filling out a data subject request with them. They will return a packet of data showing your entire chat history etc. I would not trust discord for anything but playing video games and innocent chat.
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It does not run through TOR either.
 
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