I was fiddling with some nixos Raspberry Pi images to try the distro out (along with clan) and noticed on first boot they reach out and connect to a tor relay to setup tor ssh.

It's a pretty neat concept, I think it's cool and maybe a quick way to get connected to a new device.

But the idea of connecting to tor relays at all puts me a little on edge. Feels like it'll potentially draw attention to my IP by either relays gather analytics or my ISP for noticing the traffic at all.

Am I being overly paranoid? Am I just completely ignorant to how tor works? Do you use tor on the regular for legit traffic?

GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone around the world without requiring personal information, identification or an account. GrapheneOS and our services will remain available internationally. If GrapheneOS devices can't be sold in a region due to their regulations, so be it.

Even State Department-funded Human Rights Watch admits that authorities combine legal and illegal methods to obtain convictions: https://text.hrw.org/report/2018/01/09/dark-side/secret-origins-evidence-us-criminal-cases

Combining dragnet surveillance with device hacking is intended in the design of both tools. Hence, State Department-funded Signal dupes you into handing over your identity as part of the population-centric mapping. In custody, your phone will be hacked when it is taken away if it's important.

https://xcancel.com/hannahcrileyy/status/2034273723667161480#m

Not to mention that they locked the unpopular pull request from reactions.

Like, we all know they're listening , but can we provide proof?

My friend was complaining about all the new super surveillance that will be government required in cars after 2027, and I said to him dude you have a stock android, you use every AI slop feature, you use a smart TV on your unsecured network, and uses x every day. They have everything they could possibly need on him. Oh and he posts questionable things to fb daily under his real name.

OQB @bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works

cross-posted from: https://lemmus.org/post/20954019

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Hello,

yes, I use Instagram even though I don’t like it because well all of my friends does and I can’t convince them to use something else. it’s really sad how hard it is to convince people to join open networks specially in fascist country like India where people are just boot lickers of politicians and rich people. but I digress.

I found the other day that google analytics can be easily tricked since it doesn’t verify the input. you can just open network tab and watch for any request going to https://www.google-analytics.com/ and just copy that request as curl command now you can tweak the parameters of the query and it will just accept it. ig, you can say I have 1920x1080 monitor and google will just accept it. it’s an effective way to fill up google analytics with garbage data to the point that it’s harder to separate real data from the garbage data.

now I want to know if there is something similar to poison data of Instagram/Facebook/Meta. I opened network tab on instagram but couldn’t find anything interesting.

any help would be appreciated! :)