>What is this? /bootbg/ is for the purposes of helping people break out of the botnet, whether that involves advice on switching from Windows to GNU/Linux, or giving recommendations for free alternatives to proprietary software
oops, forgot to add >What should I use instead of Google Drive/OneDrive/Dropbox? Owncloud or Nextcloud if you want cloud storage, Syncthing if you just want to share files between devices
Connor Baker
Bump
Blake Richardson
What about chromium?
Brandon Diaz
Don't forget rsync or or sftp. The default raspbian install includes the latter, so anyone can burn an image to a microsd card and plug in a gard drive to set up their own file server.
Connor Watson
I'm pretty sure stock Chromium still communicates with Google servers, though ungoogled-chromium should be as good as Iridium
Yes, excellent points. I will add those in to the next OP as well.
Hudson Turner
I'm planning ti buy motherboard and processor. What should I buy? I'd like to have possibility to install libreboot and disable intel ME. This threads are very nice idea, we should make some guide for escaping botnet with all details covered.
Hunter Ross
>using a computer connected to the internet
how's it feel to be part of the global communications botnet?
Just build a shed and move inna woods like the Unabomber you fucking loon
Sebastian Young
libreboot.org/docs/hcl/ should be a good start, I don't know much about libreboot though so can't help more than that
>This threads are very nice idea, we should make some guide for escaping botnet with all details covered. Thanks, I'm glad you think so. And that's a good idea, something like:
Use these OSes Tape up your webcam and mic/here's how you disable them Use these browsers Use these search engines Use these office suites
Use these cell phones
what else?
Oliver White
This man was right about everything.
Anthony Cook
i have nothing to hide
Benjamin Myers
The internet is a prerequisite for participating in a lot of aspects of society such as work, so yes even though you can't completely break out of the botnet while using it you can take steps to mitigate it.
>what else? Possibly guides about selinux, running suspicious software in VM / chroot / docker, liberating router and mobile phone, firefox addons and about:config setup.
Jayden Watson
Are there any good VPN addons for Firefox?
Eli Fisher
This company is working towards security-focused Linux laptops. They have coreboot running and successfully disabled Intel ME on their 13" Laptop
I haven't bought from them, because I bought a new computer too recently, so I can't actually speak to their quality, but I've been keeping an eye on them, and I think they look good.
Zachary Powell
>you can take steps to mitigate it. The CIA can hack anything. If it has code on it, you're fucked.
Jace Morgan
Great suggestions. So far we got:
OS (including OS tweaks like SELinux) Browser/browser tweaks Search Engines Office Suites Running suspicious software in VM/chroot/docker
Routers/router tweaking
TVs/TV tweaking (how to stop your SmartTV from spying on you so much)
Phones/phone tweaking
doesn't mean you have to make it easier on them.
Connor Phillips
>doesn't mean you have to make it easier on them. >implying NSA-developed software like SELinux doesn't have backdoors >implying $randomsupersekritsearchengine matters, when all your traffic gets logged at the IX level anyway >implying office suites matter >implying the Linux kernel is not backdoored
Get a load of this freeturd.
Mason Reyes
>The CIA can hack anything. If it has code on it, you're fucked. It was discussed for million times. Having or not having code does not affect hackingness. But if code is open, it will be audited by people who want to fix exploits, not hack. Binary will be audited only with bad intensions, so free software is more secure. >it is hard so don't even try You are retarded heavily if you think so
Michael Johnson
Nice try, bronie
Isaac Jackson
>But if code is open, it will be audited by people who want to fix exploits Yeah, just like "press backspace 28 times to get root" was discovered so easily... after years! lmao
Liam Taylor
Nice fallacy right there. "Only good people look at open source code"
Brody Hernandez
Custom ROM's for Android phones, line Copperhead
Lincoln Gonzalez
Ungoogled won't let me install add ons like ublock. It is hard coded not to do certain Google things.
Recently in the Libreboot project, we've been informed about the new Ryzen platforms being released and sold by AMD. They are currently taking input from the community. Here are ways you can contact AMD to tell them that you demand libre hardware:
How to escape android botnet? Is it possible to have android without botnet? If no, what alternatives there are?
Hunter Bell
I'm gonna setup GPU passthrough so windows is not longer my main OS. Where do I go once OSs are good?
Cameron Myers
Install GNU operating system on your device instead. But you still have proprietary kernel modules and drivers tho.
Kayden King
firefox comes with lots of crap settings out of the box, it also uses safebrowsing (which contacts google), though this all can be turned off in about:config I recommend icecat, which is basically ff with all this stuff turned off
That's true, I will clarify that you have to do some tweaking in the next OP. Also thanks for letting me know that about IceCat, I thought it was literally just firefox with 100% free images
guess you confused icecat with iceweasel, which is/was actually just a renamed firefox on debian doe to license issues
Nathaniel Brown
fuck off pablo
Jayden Hill
>Search engine searx.me >source code on github >can host your own
Uselful addons for FF uBlock Origin Privacy badger HTTPSEverywhere HTTP by default No resource URI leak Canvas Blocker Decentraleyes Certificate Patrol
Things to do Stop posting on 4chins or teh webz in general since most sites relay on Google for captchas and analytics and go back to IRC. That's where the cool kids are.
Parker Smith
Hardened browser is better than a dedicated security browser
>Hosts File >Add all google analytics shit and friends >Add all this shit github.com/StevenBlack/hosts >Chromium with no google sync shit >Add u matrix >Add u block >Add self destructing cookies equivalent
Done
Noah Bailey
Forgot to add, Harden Firefox by using a better config file
searx is actually nice, beginners should be reminded to change the default engines to their likings (remove endgines they dont need), to speed up the whole thing
Xavier Martin
>97.56% (4318 of 176794 user agents have the same signature)
What does this mean?
Jayden Rodriguez
What's the most up to date guide on GPU passthrough? All the ones I find involve the kernel messing with, and that's not needed anymore
Jason Clark
>posting on Sup Forums which uses Google recaptcha and uses Google analytics >breaking out of the botnet
inb4 use a Sup Forums pass That doesn't stop Google analytics and Chinkmoot as well as PayPal have your payment information.
>just give up guys >follow my example >here is my butt >just push it in >everyone is welcome
Noah Jones
That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying in order to start, you'd have to ditch Sup Forums as well.
Adam Cruz
Ungoogled chromium contains all the iridium patchsets, plus the debian ones, plus the inox ones, plus their own custom patchsets.
Read the FAQ dumbass. It explains exactly how to install extensions from the chrome webstore.
Bentley Bailey
So because Sup Forums is bad when it comes to privacy we should give up our privacy for the whole world wide web?
Levi Gutierrez
I paid for my pass with anonymous bitcoins. And I block GA with uBlock
Logan Wilson
>And I block GA with uBlock lmao, google still gets your ip with the captcha, retard
Jeremiah Myers
/tread
Bentley Myers
I don't have a captcha, and I made sure its iframe is blocked anyway. Also I use a VPN.
Austin Kelly
I don't speak russian.
Bentley Carter
/thread
Oliver Rogers
>implying I do all my browsing from this IP
It's a worthwhile gain to wall off what you can from Google even if you can't hide everything. Don't fall into the trap of thinking that if you can't plug every single leak in the world, then you shouldn't bother doing anything at all. That is false.
Liam Johnson
proxies are against the rules user
Bentley Barnes
Not if you have a pass. You get an exception from that rule.
Jayden Scott
use tor.
Luke Foster
I don't know, most of the methods in this thread shield you primarily from advertising companies. If that's the goal, go right ahead.
Should you be *directly* be targeted by a state sponsored actor, you're pretty much fucked unless you turn to the most extreme methods (such as dropping off the grid entirely), using stolen identities etc.
I'm already pretty extremist when it comes to my personal data, I do not exist to google or any social network. There are no pictures of myself (as far as I am able to tell) on the web either. But that's mostly due to not even once using my real name on the web, with all it's drawbacks.
Chase Garcia
>>Should you be *directly* be targeted by a state sponsored actor, you're pretty much fucked Well its also the case that targeted surveillance is more difficult and expensive for three-letter agencies by orders of magnitude. That makes defending yourself and others against easy, cheap, dragnet mass-surveillance a worthwhile endeavor. And a lot of what you need to do to do that is the kind of stuff you want to do to defend against ad companies anyway.
Jonathan Carter
Then leave the thread
Nicholas Williams
How is iridium safe? I thought not even chromium is debotneted.
Leo Gonzalez
The sticky has everything you need
Lincoln Williams
Ungoogled chromium contains the iridium patches so use it instead see Anyway, its safer because it removes all known telemetry and tracking methods currently integrated into chromium. It applies patches to skip over that code and make the browser believe it was successful in uploading the information.
Dylan Hill
The Protonmail app doesn't send notifications without Google Services on your phone, but you can read and send mail, FYI.
Isaac Flores
Not gnu/linux but rather any OSS OS.
Lincoln Brown
Linage os, replicant
Logan Baker
It cant be done you dumb nigger, Intel ME and AMD PSP have put the botnet into the hardware layer, any pc past 2006 ish is hardcucked.
Kayden Ross
It can be completely disabled in some PCs up to about 2009, and badly crippled in one or two newer i-series chipsets.
So, not all computers, but it is pretty bleak.
Caleb Russell
The only thing I need help doing to break out of the bother is convincing my friends to use apps like telegram or signal instead of Hangouts.
Lucas Barnes
If the CIA cares enough to be looking into your activities then yes, you're fucked. If they're not then all you're really preventing is megacorps from having your information.
John Williams
Not getting your shit tracked is worthwhile even if you're not worried about the CIA. Stuff gets hacked sometimes. How do you know some Russian douchebag isn't going to hack Google and leak your shit to the public?
Austin Scott
Like anyone cares that you jerk it to cartoon dogs fucking lolis
Christian James
Modern firefox is literally turbobotnet. Meanwhile palemoon explicitly removes botnet features from firefox on top of hardening it and responding to firefox CVEs much faster than mozilla does (by months!).
Additionally, you should use firejail to isolate everything. This prevents the botnet from knowing specifics about your environment (though of course your hardware can still clue the botnet in).
Jayden Miller
I'm currently using Tor for everything except Sup Forums and I have Debian. Have I escaped?
Mason Morgan
Add LibreJS and html5 everywhere.
Gavin King
No because both tor and debian are botnet.
Connor Ramirez
Source? Tor is listed in the leaked NSA documents (Snowden) and the New CIA documents (Vault 7) as a "Catastrophic threat" and debian has been audited a bunch of times.
Charles Clark
>debian >audited HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAA MY FUCKING SIDES!
Grayson Cox
Use coreboot. Libreboot is sjw
Daniel Perez
Tor exit nodes aren't safe. Tor browsing of clearnet is pointless. Tor browsing onions is fine as long as you stay out of 14eyes.
Safer to use a vps in Switzerland and ssh tunnel.
OS Alpine Linux Devuan Slackware Freebsd Openbsd
Carter Davis
freebsd and openbsd (openbsd: by design, freebsd: by incompetence) are hypercompromised. Install Hardened Gentoo.
Isaiah Edwards
Ungoogled chromium with Ublock origin Https everywhere or kb ssl enforcer Disable Java by default
There's some good roms for android getting around. Nano rom for s6 is one of the best with microg
S4 and s5 have a balance between hardware and community support.
Easton Myers
Conversations on self hosted xmpp is the current champion of im
Easton Watson
Still need the firmware to communicate with the hardware backdoor. If you're packet sniffing, software and hardware firewall, ip tables are strong and your system is encrypted to stop cia niggers then you're good
Cameron Hall
nigger do you even have any idea how tor works? it doesn't matter if the exit node isn't save, because you're still behind 9001 proxies
tor is save, all the "hacks" and "compromize" meme crap is related to other stuff that may expose identity like running flash or javascript when using tor
Nicholas Howard
>coreboot this is a thread against botnet, not pro-botnet
Isaac Green
Just let the exit node see everything you're doing, right. You're a joke. That's why they say don't log on to your Facebook through tor. Tor is only useful for the 'deep web' onion sites.
Ian Morgan
>using post 2006 hardware your problem
Kayden Robinson
Explain. Libreboot is deranged, the devs are out of touch with reality. Coreboot doesn't have backdoors or work for government entities
Adam Russell
>everything yeah right, like the 2-3 things til the next exit node cycle, you have no idea
Henry Wood
It is a vulnerability. Tor nodes work through proximity too so it can be exploited
Josiah Reed
>Break Out Of The Botnet General Pretty easy. Don't use proprietary software.
Aaron Kelly
chromebook = usb encryption "tokens" with private/public key exchange + read-only frimware (physical screw)
also Windows 10 if u create secure domain for it
aslo Linux had one of the largest botnet few years back, cuz nobody suspected it would have any
Ayden Price
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Aaron Rogers
I laugh in your general direction
Ethan Myers
I had a similar issue trying to get my friends off of Facebook. I was able to convince them by showing them how shit messenger was feature wise compared to telegram. Not sure if Hangouts is any good in that respect tho
Angel Phillips
How do I purchase online without being tracked? What are some good online markets that take Bitcoin? I'm also too pleb to use anything other than coinbase, how do I get anonymous Bitcoin?
Jason Reed
Hardware wallet or local wallet. Trade your btc for eth or monero
