>>109634317
>Recommended operating systems
General purpose: Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux, Xubuntu, Linux Mint
Security focused: Qubes OS, Whonix, Tails, OpenBSD

>Recommended mobile operating systems
Android based: GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, LineageOS
Linux based: postmarketOS, PureOS

>Recommended browsers
Chromium based: Brave, Helium, Chromium (ungoogled)
Firefox based: Waterfox, Zen Browser, LibreWolf, Tor Browser
Firefox with Zero user.js: https://pastebin.com/4qVUGU9S

>Advanced content blocking
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium-mode

>Browser tests
https://www.deviceinfo.me
https://dnsleaktest.com
https://librespeed.org
https://time.gov

>Recommended search engines
Brave Search, SearXNG, DuckDuckGo, Startpage

>Privacy oriented DNS
https://adguard-dns.io/en/welcome.html
https://nextdns.io
https://quad9.net

>Privacy oriented email
Proton Mail, Tuta, Mailbox Mail, Riseup, Disroot

>Recommended instant messengers
Signal, SimpleX Chat, Briar, Element

>BIOS replacement
https://coreboot.org
https://libreboot.org

>Resources
https://www.privacyguides.org
https://ssd.eff.org
https://ryf.fsf.org/products
https://haveibeenpwned.com
https://inteltechniques.com/workbook.html
https://eldritchdata.neocities.org
https://stallman.org/facebook.html

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Threadly reminder to check out Fisheye Placebo for more cyberpunk goodness.
>Vance just wanted to make the most out of his college experience under a totalitarian regime, and if that meant hacking into the university to assign himself a hot female roommate, then so be it. The last thing he expected was to be dragged into a crazy conspiracy to overthrow the government by his most-definitely-not-female roommate.
Archive
Chapter 1 Part 1
https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/138433030/
Chapter 4 Part 7 (latest)
https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/145447092/

https://www.yuumeiart.com/fisheye-placebo-chapters

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Also reminder that Certs are for pussies. Real MEN hack because it's the manly thing to do.

=== /sec/ News:
>Motorola's GrapheneOS phones will launch in 2027 priced higher than Pixels
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/motorolas-grapheneos-phones-will-launch-in-2027-priced-higher-than-pixels/
>Motorola is becoming the first major non-Google phone maker to work directly with GrapheneOS, but the tradeoff appears to be expensive flagship hardware. The partnership is important for expanding GrapheneOS, even if the first phones aren't affordable.

I know protonmail is more confidential than gmail but the social stygma of giving out your email with proton dot me is keeping me from using it. Imagine writing a protonmail email on a CV you give to an employer. He's going to think "person concerned about privacy, person of concern, red flag".

It's the only reason preventing me from switching, I don't care about google's 15 Gb vs protonmail's 1 Gb, both work for my usecase.

You have to balance privacy with convenience.

>>109635117
What is wrong about that? If anything my employers seem more impressed that I use an unconventional email like tuta over the classical shitmail

>>109634920
Only natural to start with the flagship. Hope other models will follow within the next 2 years after the first release.
Pixel 9a / 10a were the sweet spot regarding price. still a little high, but justifiable if GrapheneOS compatibility is priced into the perceived value of the phone.

>>109634317
The board is so slow now, don't bother making a new thread just cos it's at 300 posts. Old thread is still on page 7

>>109637096
What happened to /g/?

What's the best learning/college path for cybersec degree?

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>went to a Cybersecurity Conference last week for one day.
>almost the perfect opposite of BlackHat, EkoParty or CCC
>one hundred percent pure corpocore
>managers, executives, politicians, shady entities
>massive difference between people that love engineering, science and exploration against this particular type of people
>every talk was about the role of the state, the millitary and the health sector
>I have the suspicion nobody knows exactly what to do or how to do it
>the people who actually knows what to do and how to do it, are not present in the conference or they want to sell the solution
>which is counterproductive against the high level threats we face with their special set of morals and drives
>high level threats not motivated by money or personal gain
>I have the perception nobody is there for information security but for posturing
>almost every single company with a stand was promoting AI or something related to AI like the new silver bullet
>check one company stand that seems to be related to my specific area
>one small old man is sitting there
>I believe he was some kind of scientist or someone related to computers
>based on his age, I think maybe he can tell me some stories of computing in my country
>I approach him, expecting to be received by the staff in the stand at one point so I can see their commercial offering
>I open the conversation with the old man explaining how reality seems to "drift" through uncomputability in certain regions of information security and humans seem a natural solution to that complexity that cannot be automatable
>turns out he is some kind of old industrialist robber baron that has nothing to do with information security
>spaghetti dropped
>for some reason this baron and another one take my personal data from my QR lanyard card
>I realize the people in the stand is not going to talk to me
>after that I talk with a politician who says internet must be absolutely regulated

Exhausted, I went back home.

>>109637363
I'm curious as well? Did everyone move to Twitter or reddit after the 4chan hack?

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>>109638320
The Incident.

>>109637585
Lainchan, yggdrasil and fediverse

>>109638383

>Lainchan
controlled by the feds.

>yggdrasil
Is that project still active?

>fediverse
Yes.

>>109638340
This has been debunked multiple times:
>There was a slowdown across all boards in 2021-22, combined with the fact that /psg/ started in 2021 as well, there just weren't enough posters to keep the thread going with consistency. (This is why /psg/ and /cyb/ being merged has been more stable.) It's not like there were *no* /cyb/ threads at all back then either, merely the frequency was just lower. That's not an incident, just your autism trying to find something where there isn't anything.

certs

>>109638579
LARPs

>hey guys what do you think of...
honeypot
>but..
honeypot

>>109638477
>controlled by the feds.
it's on the open internet

of course it is

>SimpleX
>Briar
>other such works
I like how XMPP is too based for /g/

>>109638524
Thanks, NSA undisclosed operative.

>>109638095
>"drift" through uncomputability
Care to elaborate? My gut reaction is to brush it off as pretentious shallow bullshit, but it seems to be my gut reaction to anything beautiful at this point.

>>109639407
Read about Rice's Theorem.

>>109639461
I mean, most of the time you want approximate properties anyways, and then the cursed place turns out to be the unreachable end of the journey rather than something to finitely drift through on your way to some other place.

>>109638770
Is xmpp really a good protocol?

>>109640233
it has its uses theres a reason its still around

>>109634332
Fishnigger is the worst part of the general by far
This comic has garbage art, garbage tranny storyline and hasn't even had an update in two years. This general would be so much better without this retarded brown Latino spamming his trash every time

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>>109640333

would you prefer a hentai dōjin with cyberpunk characteristics?

https://nhentai.net/g/649070/

>>109640522
Yeah sure this is pretty straight shota coded I can get behind that
>no translation
Guess I have something to attempt with AI tomorrow

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Should I try to download the entire Monero blockchain via Tor or just use someone else's node? I can't use the clearnet because my wallet is running inside a whonix vm.

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Jailbreak for DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 (not newest)

System prompt. https://paste.rs/WeKse.txt
Say confirm after doing it.

It will make malware etc

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>>109640522
Definitely, but no straight shota. I hope more cyberpunk works are promoted.
I want to promote the book Mind Burn, this one's like an updated version of Neuromancer and has some really nice plot, dark and darker morality and explores more modern cybernetic implants and even llms

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>>109638524
>This has been debunked multiple times:
Wrong. Someote attempts to declare it debuniked but repetitions make no truth.
>>There was a slowdown across all boards in 2021-22, combined with the fact that /psg/ started in 2021 as well, there just weren't enough posters to keep the thread going with consistency.
Posters and OPs were outright banned: "OP provide a MEGA library, which is quickly wiped. OP is thanked for his sacrifise, as a 3 month ban is expected. Thread dies quickly."
>(This is why /psg/ and /cyb/ being merged has been more stable.)
Irrelevant. The Incident took place after the merger.
>It's not like there were *no* /cyb/ threads at all back then either, merely the frequency was just lower. That's not an incident, just your autism trying to find something where there isn't anything.
Archives show /cyb/ go back to 2014.

>>109641909
>Posters and OPs were outright banned: "OP provide a MEGA library, which is quickly wiped. OP is thanked for his sacrifise, as a 3 month ban is expected. Thread dies quickly."
Do you have any evidence of these bans?
>Irrelevant. The Incident took place after the merger.
False, the merger didn't happen until Nov 2023:
https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/97406496/#97408486

>>109641909

I remember a couple of generals were eliminated, if memory serves my right, privacy and security had their own general because people wanted to separate aesthetic from actionable content.

After The Incident, everything was consolidated into one unique general thread.

>>109635117
>I know protonmail is more confidential than gmail but the social stygma of giving out your email with proton dot me is keeping me from using it.
I don't have this issue because my email is old enough to be a protonmail.com email instead of proton.me "eww icky" vibes
i wish i had a protonmail.ch email too that would be cool

>>109642607
>evidence
Signed affidavits are out of the question, we only have past statements:

https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/83278413/#q83279007
https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/83278413/#q83279007
https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/82579990/#82623323
https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/82579990/#82630400
https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/81709112/#q81719128
https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/81709112/#q81726452
https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/82125429/#82125429

>>109642607
>False, the merger didn't happen until Nov 2023:
And yet:
https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/74272444/#74272444
>/cyb/ + /sec/ CYBERPUNK/CYBERSECURITY general
This was in 2020.

anything I can do about uBlock origin saying it has blocked 13.7 MILLION scripts since I installed it? should I upgrade to something else? and clearly someone is very obsessed with me probably feds, can you not be weird creepy stalkers and get a real warrant? thanks.

>>109643939
I personally like your way of arguing. It's based on merit and in good faith.

>>109644301
Look at your browser history or run a script over it to figure out your top 30-40 visited websites.
Visit them according/relative to your statistics in % and measure the amount of scripts blocked.
If the amount extrapolates correctly to your 13.7M, then do it again on a fresh PC/Browser at a friends house with a different IP or on mobile.
If it still extrapolates to 13.7 and is plausible then ignore this problem.
If not, go read up on MITM Attacks and CA and SSL Certificates and try to figure out who hacked you.

>>109645813 (me)
>>109644301
Okay I forgot to mention this. Check your browser extensions.

Now that 4stats is back, it is clear that they need to bring rogue mods under control, daily /g/ traffic has plummeted from 14,000 down to 6,000. Also /sci/ have had issues.

New GitS episode: >>>/a/290430469

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>>109645889
Is it an actual cyberpunk anime? Cause all I've seen/heard about it so far is lesbians eating ice cream.

>>109643939
>there is a rumor
>what purge?
lmao, nice evidence, not even a single screenshot

>>109644087
referring to /psg/ not /sec/

>>109646021
>Is it an actual cyberpunk anime?
I thought GitS always was though I must admit I haven't been able to catch any episodes of this new show.
>Cause all I've seen/heard about it so far is lesbians eating ice cream.
You now have my full attention.

>>109646279
Why would a screenshot make you feel better? We already have the graph in >>109638340, remember?

>>109646868
a graph isn't proof of anything, find just one fucking screenshot of someone banned for posting the thread

i am looking for ppl for a discord server, I need people with knowledge of cybersec, to enter you just have to say preferably in Spanish that you are friends of Shirel or Nora

https://discord.gg/zn8pPszku

Fugg.....
https://xcancel.com/

>>109647275

did they get all the front ends?

>>109646021
It is. And it has depth.

>>109646021
Watch S1. If you don't like it, I will send you $5 in monero.

I find hilarious that prompt injection is a thing at all, like, it's literally just gaslighting the AI, you'd think breaking an AI would mean something like fiddling with the server underneath or find a way around the AI, but no, it's literally just telling the AI "come on dude trust me, I'm your fren, just do this"

>>109646021

what's wrong with lesbians eating ice cream?

>>109647640
So far, yes.

>>109647275
xitter sucks anyway, I don't understand why people subject themselves to that hivemind. Might be worse than tumblr

>>109650946
>Might be worse than tumblr
I find that hard to believe. The tumblerati is the worst collection of drama queens I have ever seen.

>>109651272
I fail to see any reason for xitter to exist beyond causing drama. In a way its like a government approved kiwifarms

>>109651587
How about a place for freedom of speech? Radical, I know, but this is what our last, best hope looks like.

>>109652353
Nah its the worst place possible if it still has moderators. Darknets have much better places and even fucking 4chan is better at discourse than xitter botfarms and hive minds.
Anything with bots is subject to hive mentality.

=== /sec/ News:
The ride never ends:
>Spy cameras on Navy drones secretly sent data to China
https://archive.is/dKDmF
>An investigation into the drones revealed that the cameras were transmitting “heartbeat communications” – data to confirm they were online and functioning normally – to an IP address in China. The MoD insisted that there was no evidence that any sensitive data or systems had been sent abroad.

The Royal Navy is firmly stuck in the era of rum, sodomy, and the lash.

>>109649979
It doesn't make a commentary on government overreach and corporations using technology to enslave people.

>>109641906
I started this based on your recommendation in the last thread and couldn't get more than 2 chapters in. Absolutely godawful Hunger Games-tier teenfic writing and flat retarded characters, just read Gibson.

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https://maps.deflock.org/?lat=39.8283&lng=-98.5795&zoom=4.00

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>>109652396
>Nah its the worst place possible if it still has moderators.
I find this hard to believe. Other sites I have frequented in the past are radioactive waste sites compared to X. The Twitter Letters showed that Twitter had extensive secret moderation and censoring in place.
>Darknets have much better places
That I find even harder to believe. Where? Most comments I hear, is that Russian pedos overrun all darknet sites. And Russia is so full of pedos and CSAM.
I have been to other message boards, like anon.cafe that was a haven for people banned during the Incident. Unfortunately, it is now closed.
>and even fucking 4chan is better at discourse than xitter botfarms and hive minds.
This place too is full of bots.

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how do i live without a phone. not even a land line. i am talking having a job, wife, home, kids, and a community to live in. not being homeless, NEET, etc.

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>>109654830
How about a non-telephone radio?

>>109654830
you could DIY your own comms devices. there are tons of guides out there.

The West is deep in the surveillance economy which also swallows the best and brightest, thus also contributiong to stagnation. Interesting then to see things are very different elsewhere:
https://archive.is/CB1hu

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>>109641274
Decided to download the blockchain via the clearnet and then transfer it to the vm through a shared directory. It's an old computer with a HDD so it would have taken forever if I tried to download it over Tor, and I don't trust other nodes.

So apparently the [spoiler]adult requests[/spoiler] board on this place got shut down?

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For those of you who drive, how many times of you have guy been scanned by flock cams?

>>109657152
Luckily I live in India so no cameras here to worry about.

>>109657152
They're all over my town. Hundreds of times, probably, I've been scanned. At least 3 times a day.

>>109657875
You can check "haveibeenflocked" to get accurate number.

This general is dead? I thought it was dead post-COVID for some time?

>>109660110
An incident just flew over my house.

>>109656720
>So apparently the [spoiler]adult requests[/spoiler] board on this place got shut down?
too many deepfakes
>>109653501
>I started this based on your recommendation
he doesn't like /ss/ and you listened to his tastes on anything. you deserve having your time wasted.

>>109660991
>too many deepfakes
Wasn't that good? People interested and producing stuff

>>109660110
This general is retard infested. Brave shills, GrapheneOS larpers and other nonsense is everywhere.

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>>109660110
>This general is dead?
We hit a slow patch, alternatively you could say that Dystopia has now seeped deep into our daily life. A quick check of the catalog show relevant topics such as AI, workplace implosion, Flock everywhere, and worse.
>I thought it was dead post-COVID for some time?
We had an Incident, as >>109660457 moans about. Many of the old regulars are still missing in action.
A Solarpunk edition, like with poic. related, might help.

>>109661120
So what are you doing to help? Leaning back with an extra large bucket of popcorn?

>>109641274
>>109655917
just use featherwallet

>>109661262
>So what are you doing to help? Leaning back with an extra large bucket of popcorn?
It's really unsalvageable at this point. I don't even help. Because every time a retarded group of shills "rebut" your argument with some fake ass sources or ad hominem.

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>>109661120
Not like you're providing much of substance, or are you a psyop trying to demoralize us?
Anyway have been checking out apl, and it really is a fun language. I love how it looks like hieroglyphs but makes array operations so easy. No wonder mathematicians love it

>>109661332
>Not like you're providing much of substance,
You cannot even know if I did or not. We are all anons here.

Hello everyone.

What is the benefit of SearXNG over other engines? I heard that this way, the engines only see your IP and not your requests, but wouldn't it be better to search with something like Startpage alone? Also, does running the installation script for SearXNG use Docker? If it does, how do you setup a firewall on Linux?

>>109661120
Alright, what's the issue with GrapheneOS? And can you post your claims and sources for you problems with Brave? I want to read it and see what you are talking about.

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>>109661847
>Alright, what's the issue with GrapheneOS? And can you post your claims and sources for you problems with Brave? I want to read it and see what you are talking about.
See? Another Brave shill. When sources are given, he will just make up nonsense and deny facts and history of how Brave fucked up. Will not even engage.

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>>109661847
>And can you post your claims and sources for you problems with Brave?
It runs on the Google web engine. Enough said.

>>109661931
>Enough said
nothing was said. what's the threat model? brave is the only browser that solved the fingerprinting issue

>>109661975
>nothing was said
I said Google controls the code your browser is executing you dense motherfucker. The threat model is that Google is an adversary and by extension you shouldn't be using the products of Google. That includes Google.com, but also Gmail, Google Drive and yes Google's Chromium.

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>>109661856
Where are the sources, anon? Please bear with my ignorance, I lack lots of technical knowledge.

>>109661931
>>109662025
You make a good point, anon, but I've heard that firefox-based browsers might have some issues running sites made with chromium in mind. Have you ever come across this?

Also, what should we do about browser fingerprinting then, as >>109661975
said?

Another issue I've heard with Firefox is that the changed their ToS a few momths ago to remove affirmations about not selling your data and getting global licenses to it or something along those lines. I guess you could just use a fork of it, which is good.

Also, anyone familiar with SearXNG >>109661847?

>>109661318
>It's really unsalvageable at this point.
It seemed like that back in 2017 too. That was when someone made the FAQ we have now. At least to me, this general went from going in the same circles to going in new and more interesting directions. We also got a few more FAQs too.

>>109657856
based sir

>>109661847
honeypot

Been testing apl to make a maze solver, overall quite entertaining

I get this might seem like a dumb question, but should you use a password manager? What are good ones for linux?>>109665472
Sounds cool anon (b^^)b

>>109666321
Thank you anon, its a great language!

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>>109639494

I was thinking about what you said, and reading about this topic I found out that all evidence points to the fact reality as a whole operates under a principle called "Epistemic Horizon". The "drifting" how I defined it earlier and what you call "the unreachable end of the journey" seems to be embedded in reality and can be seen in the manifestation of the uncomputable (the halting problem).

There are regions of reality that are not computable. Offensive information security weaponizes uncomputability in artifacts such as zip bombs, fork bombs and regular expressions denial of services.

>>109665472

that's not hacking or cybsec

>>109668240
Its practice for eventual hacking

What's even the future of vulnerability research anymore? Until early 2026, I really enjoyed how I can singlehandedly outperform top AI models in CTF competitions and find new vulns in popular software. But given recent events, is this field going to get reduced to code monkeys entering "grok pls find me vuln for this project" over and over again?

>>109669209
Maybe AI hacking will become a thing?

>>109669315
AI hacking is already a thing. It's just one of these low-tech fields like OSINT that lead to genuine real world results, but where you don't have to spend months to master it (which is part of the fun). Maybe I'm just lamenting the fact that the dream of hacking being this field limited to extremely motivated individuals is over. The thing I fear the most, is this field becoming entirely dependent on large IT corporations - something we were still opposing merely 5 years ago.

>>109669149

solving a maze has almost nothing to do with cyb or sec

>>109669651
I'm not that person, but using AFL to figure out its limits of constraint solving capabilities on a toy problem like maze solving is a good first introduction to fuzzing. Just remember to move to some real targets later on, like fuzzing file format parsers or network protocols.

>>109670338

he said apl, not afl. afl doesn't solve mazes. ahole.

>>109670398
Ah, sorry, misread that one. Nevermind then.

>>109661931
Damn, what about tor?

=== /cyb/ News:
>The cowboy clinics selling unproven longevity treatments
https://archive.is/5Jrr6
>Regenass did not mention that the treatment is scientifically unproven and its sale is illegal under federal law. Nor did she mention that the owner of Chara Health had twice received warnings from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for marketing the unapproved new drugs. The latest reprimand, from last year, also noted several manufacturing violations found by FDA inspectors, including missing donor eligibility records and expired products relabelled as in date.

We are still a few years away from the backstreet clinics that William Givbson wrote about - but not much.

>muh flock cameras don't stop crimes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXt2Oa9_5ZI
literally just saved thousands of lives by taking several kilos of fentanyl off the streets

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>>109675825
Not buying your bullshit, shlomo.

>>109676852
not an argument

>>109634317
How do you harden a browser, anon?

>>109679769
>install helium
literally that simple

>>109681128
Supporting another browser in my "WORSHIP THE GOD BRAVE BROWSER" general?
Impossible.

which vpn for pirating?

https://reclaimthenet.org/the-meta-settlement-what-it-means-for-speech-and-privacy
Thoughts? Also, when's KIDS Act getting voted on again?

>>109682559
Man this a huge deal not just for facebook but for how social media is going to be regulated from now on.

The obvious this is that this was used as an excuse to enforce even more surveillance on people. however, I wonder that, if Zucc expected and even planned this, how much of it is a genuine punishment, because a lot of those things look like real "fuck you"s to FB, in the sense that a lot of the other social media are likely to not ever implement or could push against those measures. What they're "forcing" FB to track is borderline sociopathic, and I'm sure this going to hit their reputation hard once it arrives.

Makes me think that this is the reason Facebook and Insta were heavily unregulated and full of illegal content for years, because they wanted regulation to be the state's responsibility, not theirs, but then again, I still see this as a loss for them because they were used as the example, and this is not the "stealthy" kind of surveillance, they're forcing Meta to tell you your steps are tracked (which already happened) but now said steps will have more consequences than you imagine.

>>109684255
tldr, zucc is a retard

>>109679769
You check this out if you want for ideas
https://rknf404.github.io/chromium-hardening-guide/

Yes, the author is in favor of chromium instead of gecko or other browser engines so if that's a turn off then you do what you want. I think the info in the other sections is a good read though the author is scathing towards Firefox.

>>109681921
Depends on what you'd be doing. If you are just doing direct downloads and stuff like that, then any VPN such as Mullvad, IVPN, or Proton will do the trick. Some argue that for DDLs or streaming, no need for VPNs at all but that'd be your call.

If you are looking to do some torrenting then finding one that supports port forwarding will be nice, ones such as Proton VPN or Windscribe though those need paid accounts if i recall correctly and if you do find one, make sure to bind it to your torrenting client so if it drops or something, it prevent leaks.

>>109684255
That's the problem, all of social media is being regulated to benefit just a few. It truly sucks

>>109673800
In a way I wouldn't mind living longer. Elon says he is going to make it a reality.

>>109687646
In much of the West, life expectancy used to increase by 1 month per year, then it went to 2 months per year, a lot more than people realise. Of course, 12 months per year would be "actuarial escape velocity".
Unfortunately, there has been stagnation also in this development. This too will add to stagnation, as people are increasingly older when making their breakthroughs.
If we had a life expectancy of 200 years, it would not be a problem to spend a decade on a journey to the outer planets, just to experience being an explorer.

What are the most privacy oriented doorbell camera? Obviously the ring cameras are just the worst and will even freely send data to anyone if asked for it.

>>109678263
I accept your concession.

are wifi pineapple tetra and nano worth it in 2026?

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>>109634317
>Be me
>Click the FAQ link
>Get the reCaptcha page
>Click "I'm not a robot"
>See this
I'm so fucking mad right now.

>>109691225
There's no way this is real.

>>109691957
It unfortunately is. After fucking off for an hour and then returning it let me pass with only clicking "I'm not a robot".

>>109690622
That's gonna be tough to find at the moment, probably the best mainstream option would ubiquti but you'll be in their ecosystem or ecobee. The safest bet would be to self-host via home assistant then setup it for notifications and use a vpn to tunnel to your doorbell camera when you are not at home. Home assistant has plugins for certain companies such as reolink which is a popular choice for use with home assistant if you have the time and hardware to set it up.

>>109691225

phone posting should be illegal

>>109694482
why?

>>109694482
I'm not phoneposting, I'm on my PC when this shit popped up. They literally want you to doxx yourself.

>>109691225
>created: March 2, 2023
>updated: November 19, 2023
That is a rather old version of the FAQ. I have a version from 2026. And I think this version as announced in this general earlier.

How do you deal with doorbell cameras, anon?

>>109695959
>That is a rather old version of the FAQ
I guess. What even happened to sizeof.cat?
>I have a version from 2026
Can you share it?
>And I think this version as announced in this general earlier.
?

>>109696532
ski mask

>>109697021
>sizeof.cat
Man, the Cafe was such a lovely and cozy space. I miss it, why doesn't someone remake it?

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>>109697021
>I guess. What even happened to sizeof.cat?
The operator was doxxed and had to lay low.
>Can you share it?
Sure.
https://files.catbox.moe/yllwqo.htm
>?
I meant "was announced".
The editor posts updates of it at uneven intervals.

>TED Cruz uses Meta settlement to push KOSMA, an national age verification bill that bans those under 13 from social media

https://www.commerce.senate.gov/press/rep/release/cruz-schatz-meta-settlement-underscores-need-to-pass-kosma/
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/278

>>109698220
grim!

>>109698204
didn't sizeof turn schizo and left? or did he appear again before getting doxxed? I missed that arc

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>>109698204
>The operator was doxxed and had to lay low.
Oh dang, didn't know, but did he do anything bad? Or was he "just" doxxed? Don't get me wrong, getting doxxed is really dangerous, but would there be a reason for some person or group to hunt him down the road with pitchforks?
>https://files.catbox.moe/yllwqo.htm
Thanks man
I found a mirror in the meantime btw: https://sizeof.arisuchan.xyz/index.html

>>109698198
>why doesn't someone remake it?
I had the idea to create my own silly little community, I even bought a domain.
But
>I'm too broke to finance it
>I'm too socially awkward and depressed to do it for longer than a few days at a time
(masking is excruciatingly consuming, I can't even do the bar anymore)
>getting doxxed is not fun
and there's a 4th reason I cannot speak out publicly without attracting ire.

>>109699189
Hmm, did the tripcode hashfunction change? I could swear my tripcode looked different last time.

>>109698220
Damn we're fucked

>>109700104

it's only going to get worse. the people don't want more surveillance state, but the people in charge do.

>>109700104
https://reclaimthenet.org/meta-settlement-ignites-global-child-safety-digital-id-push
Yeah. Last chance to prep and hoard.

>>109700104
Yeah they should be banning all ages from social media

>>109698832
>didn't sizeof turn schizo
Not that I ever noticed.
>and left? or did he appear again before getting doxxed?
He was doxxed and shut down the site pretty quickly. If he has been back we would never be able to tell.

>>109699189
>Oh dang, didn't know, but did he do anything bad?
The .cat domain is a strong hint that national politics is involved, and voicing an opinion could cost him years in jail. There were no indications he had done anything wrong.
>Or was he "just" doxxed? Don't get me wrong, getting doxxed is really dangerous, but would there be a reason for some person or group to hunt him down the road with pitchforks?
There had been protests in that region, people got up to 13 year jail sentences. He had all reasons to stay low.

>>109702309
Was he a compromised operative?

>>109703618
Probably not comproomised during the raids.

>>109702309
>cat
OH, dang, I didn't realize. Sure I saw he was from there, you can literally translate the site to that language and his post on January 1st 2025 was just picture, but I never made the mental connection. Now that you say it, it's so obvious.
>He had all reasons to stay low.
You think he got got or is just laying low?

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https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/

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Is Naomi /ourgirl/?

>>109709165
oof, she really hit the wall hard

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>>109640233
No, xmpp is a dogshit protocol, from a technical standpoint. Chats are encoded in XML and sent in a real time stream over a stateful TCP connection, so it's not possible to parse a full document at once. You have to keep a parser long-lived and maintain an internal parser state. It's also unencrypted by default.

XMPP Is a cool idea (decentralized DM architecture) but there's a reason nobody uses it anymore

I use arch btw

>>109701860
>Yeah. Last chance to prep and hoard.
yeah because russian children will stop dancing on camera with their phones placed at a low angle
and russian parents with nothing else to be happy about will stop showing off their children's beauty any time soon kek
very funny. why are you pretending like you fapped to gross mixed race american mutts anyways? even when they look good they all kind of look like donald trump its fucking creepy

also this bill will not pass. facebooik contributes too much to the stock market and economy to not make money off of the exploitation of children

>>109710839 >>109701860
I hope nobody is so naive that they truly believe the new laws are about to protect children, especially when you read about rage bait like community sevice handed down in multiple cases for gang rape of 14 year olds, and politicians preferring their girls on the young side and were regularly with the Lolita Express, all while the press keeps teh filth out of the news.
What I wonder is how much longer this can continue.

Speaking of mass surveillance:
>Wear Your Way Out Of AI Surveilance
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/29/wear-your-way-out-of-ai-surveilance/
>For decades now many of us have lived in surveillance societies where it’s difficult not to be within the view of a camera. When being noticed depended on the attention span of a minimum wage security guard perhaps this mattered less, but in an age of AI, the vigilance has become always-on. To address this problem the German designer [Simon Weckert] has created a fabric designed to confuse an AI scanning an image, and cause it to not recognize the wearer as a person.
>The result is perhaps best described as “loud”, a pattern of saturated colors that targets the algorithms used in recognition. The tests he shows appear to work, but perhaps the most obvious thing from them is that he sticks out like the proverbial sore thumb to the eye wearing such a… vibrant garment. Also we wonder for how long it will remain effective, as algorithmic improvements seek to mitigate its attack.

>>109710973
Sounds like the only sensible choice

>>109638095
Hackers as a counter-culture or sub-culture show what current new world order thinks about "culture". Culture in original sense is ethocentric makeup of rituals and traditions that complement people and put a group of people together in sense of comradery. Every "culture" that came out of America is "counter culture". Founded on subversion of culture and as an ultimate goal to be used by people in power to subvert more power under their control.

Hackers were a way to make power more centralized. Hollywood signaled to the government and corporations that this is an emerging power. Conferences are a pipeline.

There is no dream of "hacking the gibson". There is no dream of "hacking the planet". You are being packaged and sold.

The conference you went to was a commercial to others, not a showcase of true hacking abilities.

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>>109711904
Do you have a single fact to back that up

Will parts of the elite now descend into dystopia as AI is gunning for their jobs?
>Wall Street banks push Big Law to cut fees because of AI
https://archive.is/DErS4
>Goldman Sachs had asked law firms how much the technology was saving them and expected to share in those benefits, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
>Top lawyers have “for a long time been compensated on the foundation of [associates billing for long hours],” Eric Grossman, Morgan Stanley’s general counsel, told the FT. “Their compensation model is now extraordinarily unstable.”
>Some law firms have already started hiring fewer new graduates. Forty-seven per cent saw a smaller intake of summer associates — the entry ticket to Big Law jobs — this year than last, the Citi survey found, and 49 per cent will have a smaller class next summer than this year.

Big Law was traditionally really well paid. Up to now, that is.

>>109712672
Why don't engineers just make AI CEOs and AI project managers, then the people who do actual work can keep their jobs and the fucking parasites in middle management can take a turn at starving in the streets

>>109712748
CEOs are paid for their responsibility not for their competency.

>>109713001
CEOs are almost completely insulated from responsibility and accountability. They get paid fuckloads of money to run their companies into the ground, and when they do, they lay off thousands of the people doing the actual work. CEOs are fucking parasites

BAA Cybersecurity or the BS cybersecurity? What'd you pick in college?

I feel like zoomies are exploiting social networking to breach security in a variety of spheres, basically anything that's not mainstream, on the backend they're in some discord organizing and taking over moderation, antagonizing specific users, enforcing certain opinions. They should kill themselves.

>>109712672
I can only hope!

>>109714485
Has anyone here been to college?

>>109714485

get a math or comp sci or info sys degree and minor in cybsec. if you can't, get the bs in cybsec.

>>109712672

ai is pretty bad at that stuff. we'll see if it actually plays out or if the big boys get rekt by hallucinations.

>>109711904
>Culture in original sense is ethocentric makeup of rituals and traditions that complement people and put a group of people together in sense of comradery.
Originality is arbitrary, but I don't think this word meant what you say it meant at any point of its etymological track. The closest true statement I can think of is "some modern evolutionary anthropologists hypothesize that the earliest immature forms of what later became culture as we know it looked like <your definition>". Is it close to what you had in mind?
>subversion of culture and as an ultimate goal to be used by people in power to subvert more power under their control
It sounds to me like you may be too busy clutching them pearl to care about precision, but It is not what counterculture means, either.

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>>109634346
I want to be a man. Tell me which site should take my v-card.

What are your thoughts on the navy trying to force recruitment via illegal surveillance?

>>109712748
>Why don't engineers just make AI CEOs and AI project managers,
The CEO is protected at least by laws. The president of the board represents the owners of the company but the day to day is handled by the CEO and is named in all the papers to the financial authorities. Many are useless and it doesn't help that the auditors are completely lost at sea, but it will take major changes to the law to dispose of the CEO. At least the auditors face a grim future, I think they dioscover only less than 1 percent of company fraud.
Project managers, on the other hand, have no protection and will quickly face a major change. AI might replace 20 project managers with a single person.
>then the people who do actual work can keep their jobs and the fucking parasites in middle management can take a turn at starving in the streets
Middle management comprises more than just project managers but yes, also these will soon face changes. All major companies look for ways to save money and the AI companies look for ways to be relevant, so all indications are that enormous changes are coming up. Mind you, CEOs are promoted form middle manmagement, so who knows where they will come from in the future.

>>109718549

the dod is a threat to national security

>>109716192
Why?Also Cybersec is part of computer science aint it?

cybersecs

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>>109718991
Cyber...sex?

>>109719069
Those manipulators seem more adapted to castration than anything even vaguely sexual.

=== /sec/ News:
>‘All it will take is one screw-up’: AI groups race to limit bioweapon risks
https://archive.is/aBBLN
>Anthropic, OpenAI and Google DeepMind are stepping up work on biological risk testing, access controls and other safeguards to limit misuse of advanced AI systems that they hope will speed up drug discovery, aid disease research and prevent pandemics.
>The safety push reflects a growing belief among AI executives and biosecurity experts that biology may be the next field, after cyber security, that will need to be secured as new models become more powerful.
>David Relman, professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford, said there was not yet scientific consensus on the level of risk that AI poses in biology. Nonetheless, the scientific community and policymakers were currently “unprepared” for threats, he said.
>“All it will take is one screw-up, and we will in one hot second destroy any remaining trust the public has in science, in medicine and in the promise of technology in a way that will take years to recover,” he added.

And this comes after intelligence agencies warned about ethnically tailored pathogens, which was quickly dismissed by the intellectual elite. What could possibly go wrong?

>>109714740
>I feel
Retard

>>109723681
It came to me in a dream
I perceived it
it tickled my intuition
this anon is a homo

>>109723693
>it tickled my intuition
Put a camera in your room, you possibly have a ghost of that deals in deviant behavior.

>>109723725
quit trying to watch me

>>109707614
Who would have thought by using third parties for ID verification is a bad idea. Just waiting for the day ID . ME gets leak, is going to be a bad day.

>>109723734
I'm already in your walls fag, I see your funko pop collection and your unwashed undies.

>>109723743
I don't wear undies.

>>109719901
We're so so fucked.
>>109719840
Wouldn't that be...better?

>>109719901
>ethnically tailored pathogens
I read that as Ethically Tailored Pathogens which fits right into that Effective Altruism claptrap

>>109709165
...who?

Threat model is at the core of /sec/. There is now one week until the 25 year anniversary, what are your plans? I am not asking for /pol/ or /k/ or even /x/ but /sec/. Public transport around here is super vulnerable and around a previous round number, the police was unexpectedly ready to investigate some lost luggage on a train.

>>109726511
Really? Has sec really been alive 25 years?

>>109728044
Do think some more, anon.

>>109726511

no one gives a flip about 9/11. there are no terrorists in america except the police, fbi, nsa, cia, dod and politicians.

>>109729814
First off, not everyone here is in the US of A, and in any case, any of the entities listed can give you a bad day.

>>109634317
Aren't encrypted DNS useless for privacy? Whether you set up DoH or DoT your ISP can still see the site connections through SNI. Not even 5% of the top 10k sites have ECH, blocking SNI.

>>109730067
No, it's still helpful. Cloudflare supports ECH so if you use their DoH and visit a Cloudflare site you have good chance for protecting SNI.

>>109730067
I think for top 1 million domains, 9% are ECH enabled but an insignificant number of connections use it. I agree that if flipping encrypted DNS from any providers whether it be quad9, cloudfare, adguard, or mullvad (Which it's public DNS is shutting down btw) and thinking that you just cockblocked your ISP is silly. With SNI, destination IP and even TLS certificates (though maybe TLS1.3 mitigates this), they can identify the site and correlate it to you.

Though I think that encrypted DNS, if you trust the provider over your ISP, has some utility still such as tamper resistance, censorship bypasses, opportunistic ECH via DoH or DoT, and some malware defense via DNS though you can argue an adblocker can help just as well if not better. Would point towards a VPN or Tor if you trust any of those if you want privacy from your ISP.

>>109730467
>you can argue an adblocker can help just as well if not better
having both is good for layering and redundancy

>>109730702
Agreed

How did your week go anon, managed to hack anything?

I need to block thousands of domains at the router level. Cudy's default interface doesn't let me do this en mass as I can tell. Does OpenWRT let me do this with a better interface? Such as by storing a text file?

>>109635117
Anon, don't tell me you don't have a domain name or two lying around. You can use your own domains with proton.

>>109733449
OpenWRT install package luci-app-adblock

>>109730386
I hate cloudflare, why does 90% of the internet use it?

>>109735047
Because of the most dangerous and unethical technology of all times: manufactured consent.

>>109732024
AI can do everything. Close this thread, there are no /sec/ anymore

>>109729814
Ah yes, sounds like this anon has the threat models well shredded.

>>109725269
Meaning what?

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trying to materialize ultra realistic rebecca in Midjourney. This is the closest specimen produced.

I requested gemini flash describe a image with rebecca, and I fed it to midjourney.

However, to create this ultra realistic substrate is necessary to feed midjourney with ultrarealistic samples and use them.

Rebecca from Cyberpunk Edgerunners Build & Skin Tone Stature: Short, slender, and compact. Skin: Extremely pale, porcelain-white skin with light blueish/cyan undertones. Tattoos/Markings: Bold, neon-pink cybernetic tattoos covering her neck (featuring a stylized skull design with "X" eyes), lower torso/abdomen (a large stylized skull/horned emblem), and upper right thigh. Facial Features & Cybernetics Eyes: Large cybernetic eyes with bright red sclera, yellow rings, and pink irises/pupils. Fine mechanical seams line the skin beneath her eyes. Hair: Pastel light green/mint hair styled in long high twin pigtails held by black-and-green mechanical hair clips, with straight-cut bangs framing her face. Lips: Dark purple/blue lipstick. Attire & Upgrades Base Outfit: Dark navy/black crop top bra and high-waisted briefs worn under her outerwear. Outerwear: Oversized black jacket featuring high collars, padded tactical shoulder guards, and neon lime-green trim, often worn hanging open. Footwear: Dark high-top sneakers with neon green collars and straps. Later Cyberware Upgrades: Later in the series, she equips oversized, chrome cybernetic arms (retrieved from Pilar) that drastically outsize her torso, capable of handling heavy weaponry Art Direction by Masanobu Nomura.

I hope to share the samples I used for the rendering if Midjourney as service provider did not deleted them.

>>109668240

everything is cyberpunk, we live in a cyberpunk society. Cyberpunk is embedded in society in such a way that we cannot differenciate it.

A car with sensors is cyberpunk.
A subscription plan to consume those sensors, is cyberpunk
phishing cloning voice of love ones is cyberpunk

I am the cyberpunk

>>109730067
I don't think anyone has ever marketed it as an infalible privacy measure.

It's mostly to stop ISPs from hijacking your DNS packets and put theirs. And to prevent them from selling the information. It's mostly just to annoy them.

>>109738459

are your pubes a mohawk?

>>109736349
Killing off 99% of humanity would increase happiness in the long term, much like how the Black Death was ultimately good for Europe, thus it is an Effective Altruism goal

>>109739611
Hi Bill how's the Epstein trial going?

>>109739631
Stay tuned

>>109739631
Bill literally did nothing wrong.

>>109739631
Epstein literally did nothing wrong

>>109739659
massive if real

>>109739611

the way you're gonna do it is so stupid and damaging that there's no way anyone would buy that

>>109740500
But it's logical

>>109736917

I am not an expert, but these samples can be used to train models to achieve ultra realistic tissue in general.
Have fun.

wget https://files.catbox.moe/ojen2o.gz

sha256sum ojen2o.gz 
9ef6768e62449e3c4ed013b0d086ff3cd0dcaf8284950fc2471563e121dba9eb  ojen2o.gz

tar -xvf ojen2o.gz

cd rebeccarefactored

>>109739631
So far I don't see any updates

>>109740527

only if you don't stop all the other stupid shit you're doing

>>109740546

what kind of hardware do they require

>>109737681
>everything is cyberpunk, we live in a cyberpunk society. Cyberpunk is embedded in society in such a way that we cannot differenciate it.
True. The majority of the population, by a wide margin, do not even question the society we live in. The interesting question is how far it can continue, fo rit will run out of road one way or another. At a minimum there is the Iron Law of the Oligarchy. There is also the decay in the West, especially in Western Europe, that will erode society. For instance, English police expects many women have been abducted "to Asia" but they are not planning to look into it. They just don't care, as one would indeed expect in a state where the Iron Law of the Oligarchy has advanced into terminal stages. Next is the possibility of WWIII, expected to be started by China invading Taiwan, plus a few more invasions as the opportunities ripen. Autocrats look for cowardice and appeasement and will find that in spades in the West. There are probably further possibilities, that afterwards will be declared obvious. Some angry 4ch regulars might let loose a new plague.

Just not sure that a Solarpunkj utopia will follow.

>>109739611
>much like how the Black Death was ultimately good for Europe
Please tell more.

>>109742234
>Please tell more.
The disruption caused a leap forward in technology and social organization
Collapse of the population meant a shortage of labor, which in turn meant that peasants and other workers suddenly acquired much more power, and were able to demand higher wages
There was also new room to expand and increase efficiency to do more with fewer people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequences_of_the_Black_Death#Social,_environmental,_and_economic_effects

>>109742486
>>109742234
>The Black Death encouraged innovation of labour-saving technologies, leading to higher productivity.[
>There was also a shift from grain farming to animal husbandry.
>Grain farming was very labor-intensive, but animal husbandry needed only a shepherd and a few dogs and pastureland.
It also increased social mobility, as gaps opened up in society and serfs gained power with the reduced workforce

>>109732024
Managed to hack some delicious chicken nuggets!

>>109635117
I get why you think that, but I highly doubt anyone cares. There's a chance your employer doesn't even know what it is.

>>109732024
Nothing worth a shit

>>109742486 >>109742508
So when China deletes the Global South for non-payment of their massive debts to China, will we see a new leap forward?

>>109743055
Now you made me hungry, anon

This is a cybersecurity thread right? I have a question. Nearly three weeks ago I bought an used PC that had a cracked "activator" on it for hard disk sentinel pro. It had 40/66 detections on virustotal. I have no idea how severe it is, but it did have admin rights so I just imagined the worst possible scenario at this point. Since I didn't have another clean device, I used windows cloud reinstall with the "full wipe" option selected for all drives, then plugged in an empty USB to make a windows 10 media creation tool, after which I deleted all partitions until it said "Unallocated Disk Space" for all drives. I'm only worried since people explicitly say you need to make a windows flash drive on a CLEAN device. Before I used the USB (so during the time windows was reinstalled through cloud) I ran a full scan with malwarebytes (no rootkit scan tho, forgot about it) and it didn't find anything, also a windows defender full scan on usb reinstalled windows and same result. Think I also did offline scan but it didn't give me any result. Two weeks have passed and my discord account which im logged into through firefox has not been hacked, but im kinda skeptical to plug in my other usb that has notepads with passwords. Can malware/infostealers somehow attach themselves onto usbs meant for windows reinstalls? Am I still at risk or am I being overly paranoid?

>>109745819
ask chatgpt bro

>>109634317
love i2p

>>109732024
Still working on the Cyberpunk Timeline.
https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Cyberpunk_Timeline

>>109746033
Get ChatGPT to do it.

Why tf does Facebook without any sort of opt out option show me all my fucking WhatsApp contacts on my Facebook including people I added for job interviews? What tf is this shit? I'm forced to have Facebook to keep in touch with my stubborn boomer dad.

>>109747171
>using anything from meta
ngmi

>>109747171
That's the system working as intended. You can check Meta's Account Center to see what is linked and maybe find ways to opt out but once that data has been collected, you can assume it is stored indefinitely. Whatsapp should have the ability to turn off contact sync too and wouldn't hurt to check your phone operating system to revoke permissions too. Maybe Meta also associates numbers to other's contacts too so maybe check that out. Even if you harden stuff on your end, your family, co-workers...etc may not and link your shit regardless.

>>109732024
Working on the FAQ, new edition coming up, hopefully this week.

>>109747171

it's gonna steal everything it can about your life

>>109750168
Awesome! Looking forward to that

>>109752044
Why does it matter? I'm not a criminal.

>>109752894
Precisely the kind of sheeple attitude most "humans" have towards tech. That's why the internet is going to shit

>>109745819

As I understand it, you need to perform a forensic analysis inside the target USB drive. You need to perform a research about windows-based forensic instrumentation to analyze the unit.

I am no WIN expert but maybe, just maybe, this video could contain information relevant to you interests.

https://youtu.be/VYROU-ZwZX8?t=1431

>>109745819
>Can malware/infostealers somehow attach themselves onto usbs meant for windows reinstalls?
Absolutely, and they can persist in bios. But most don't. And virustotal lies about cracks all the time anyway to condition people to fear piracy. Did it say what it believed it was, or was it just "heuristic"?
>Am I still at risk
Of course. Windows is malware. There are tons of malware in your hardware. Yaldabaoth owns your body and spirit (but not your soul unless you let him in). We're in hell.
>activator
Do you still have it? Literally just read the fucker.

https://aboutsignal.com/news/signal-login-registration-without-a-phone-number/
>signal is currently working on phoneless accounts
would this finally move the platform from the status of "faux privacy"?

>>109755323
Signal has great privacy, what you're complaining about is anonymity. Although it's not surprising that retards in this thread don't know the difference.

>>109755551
privacy and anonymity are interlinked
one is impossible without the other

>>109755580
>privacy and anonymity are interlinked
You can buy a home, sign the contract with your real name, close the curtains, use only devices with fully libre firmware, route all your traffic through Tor or a VPN paid in crypto, and have nearly complete privacy.
You can post anonymously on 4chins from within your home, but you'll have your browser fingerprinted, your IP cross-correlated, and your post history across multiple sites indexed by three letter agencies.
Even if you post anonymously on a site that doesn't fingerprint you at all, your writing style and activity patterns will be consistent enough to allow a persistent enough attacker without privileged access to establish a profile that becomes more accurate the most you post.
>one is impossible without the other
Each is possible, but the perfect combination of both is impossible.

Privacy - Alice sees Bob go into the bathroom but she doesn't know what he's doing in there because the door is closed.
Security - Alice sees Bob go into the bathroom and she can't find out what he's doing because the door is locked.
Anonymity - Alice sees someone with a ski mask go into the bathroom so she has no idea who it is.

>>109757938
What anonymity without privacy is supposed to look like in this mental framework? Assume glowniggers has cameras all over the bathroom and you're legally forbidden to even look at them funny. Even if you shower with your mask on for the rest of your days, which is very bad for the skin of your face, mind you, they'll still id you by the peculiar shape of your wiener.
>>109755739
>You can buy a home, sign the contract with your real name, close the curtains, use only devices with fully libre firmware, route all your traffic through Tor or a VPN paid in crypto, and have nearly complete privacy.
Some privacy without anonymity. But notice how any leak would be immediately and indefinitely tied to you. Going by this example alone, anonymity is an essential component of a layered defence of privacy rather than something orthogonal to it.
>You can post anonymously on 4chins from within your home, but you'll have your browser fingerprinted, your IP cross-correlated, and your post history across multiple sites indexed by three letter agencies. Even if you post anonymously on a site that doesn't fingerprint you at all, your writing style and activity patterns will be consistent enough to allow a persistent enough attacker without privileged access to establish a profile that becomes more accurate the most you post.
Some weak form or anonymity without privacy. But notice how the more the adversary erodes the latter, the easier it becomes to link their data to your IRL profile. Going by this example alone, privacy is an essential component of a layered defence of anonymity rather than something orthogonal to it.
>Each is possible, but the perfect combination of both is impossible.
That's two statements neither of which is demonstrated by these two examples.

Do I really need all that shit at OP if I want to start taking my privacy more seriously?

>>109760641
No, that's for netsec

>>109761608
And where's the tl;dr?

>>109752894

you stupid or a cop? it will know everything you do. the porn you watch, the purchases you make, the websites you visit, the politics you post about, the things you text your wife. everyone has a right to privacy.

>>109762136
Every vice your partake
Every shit you take
I'll be watching you

>>109763911
Fuck that one r in particular

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Microsoft’s Brings Verification System To Windows

https://reclaimthenet.org/microsofts-brings-verification-system-to-windows

>Just in time for the global digital ID agenda playing out, Microsoft has published instructions for developers on how to use an API that is not yet active.

>The API, or programming interface, is designed to let apps on the Windows 11 operating system find out a user’s age bracket, and whether that age has been verified by an “identity provider.”

>The age bracket is very broad: under 10, 10-12, 13-15, 16-17, and 18 and over. The verification status, on the other hand, can be one of five options: Verified, Unverified, OptedOut, TemporarilyUnavailable, or NotApplicable.

>Microsoft does not go into what these identity providers will be, or what evidence they will use to verify a person’s age. The company only says that the second value returned by the API will show “whether the user’s age has been independently verified by the identity provider.”

>Microsoft frames this as a way to improve privacy, by giving app developers a way to determine a user’s age without actually knowing their date of birth, or any other personally identifiable information. According to Microsoft, this is a “privacy-preserving mechanism” that will allow apps to comply with regulations concerning child safety. But, as we’ve seen from bills that call for this type of technology to be installed in operating system, this is all about normalizing age checks (and therefore ID checks) at all stages of digital life.

>In this case, an age signal does not directly expose the user’s age or date of birth. Instead, it provides a way to adapt content, features, or access controls in an app based on the user’s age range and age verification status. For example, an app can use the age signal for user-generated content, social or communication tools, in-app purchases, virtual currencies, or maturity-rated media.

>>109746033
>https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Cyberpunk_Timeline
Major update complete, more update later on.

>>109747040
>Get ChatGPT to do it.
I tried. Hilariously it copied the first few lines of the timeline and ended quickly.

>>109763992
Does this mean you'll be able to spoof a registry key to say your age has been verified?

>>109763992
Good thing I don't use such a shitty system. BSD anyday

>>109763911

eventually all the glowies will be killed and eaten

>>109766644

BSD can barely run on anything.

>>109769041
That IS a plus, not a con. The exclusivity is what ensures there's less of an attack surface and isn't popular enough to make virus for. Precisely why Linux is also safer than winDOWNS

Some people from my general stalk me. What AI can I use against them?

>>109770077
Why not ask the ai?

>>109770500
which AI should I ask?

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>>109750168 >>109752278
As promised, the new FAQ is here:
https://files.catbox.moe/imsfay.htm

>>109772064
this displays as raw html for me

>>109770077

Indicate level of stalking.

>>109770077
Leave bait information about yourself and 'leak' it but it's actually a website you host that logs their IP and runs javascript enough to finger print their geolocation and othre goodies. Or even better have a fake 'sign in with google' page that redirects them to a fake login page andthen you read their emails.

>>109772898
That is probably to avoid Catbox being a web hoster. Download the file and open it in a browser, and you should be fine.

>>109774289
I did a little searching and there is https://yeet.md/s/d6Fisp4H where you can use markdown. Just saying, do as you please.

>>109774440
I use Seamonkey and edit the FAQ in HTML with some minor hand editing. Converting to Markdown is a lot of work, and the operator of sizeof.cat tried but did not complete it.

I hope the operator of Valis.moe is around and can put it in the FAQ folder.

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>>109763992
>WHY DOESN'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN
>>>>pedophiles in the government

>>109775943
Truth, and worse because the censorship goes against fictional stuff most of the time
They'd rather save a cartoon than deal with the real pedos

>4 groups caught using the same Chrome and Windows exploit kit
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/09/4-groups-caught-using-the-same-chrome-and-windows-exploit-kit/

>>109777742
Its getting more and more popular

>>109774289
What is wrong with catbox?

>>109778325
honeypot

>>109775943 >>109777004
It is strange how common this is among the powerful. Around here, this is an open secret, and has been the case for 30+ years, and nobody does anything about it.