90% me. :3
“Well, we raided his mom’s house and confiscated all his cobbled-together e-waste.”
“And!?”
“His drives were encrypted. Apparently he ‘applied PQC patches to dm-crypt himself’, whatever that means. All I know is that it made the guys from NSA scream. There was nothing we could do.”
“So we’ve got nothing?”
“Oh no. He happily gave us both the keyfile and the passphrase.”
“So…?”
“No warez, no CSA, no political manifestos or illicit recipes. Not even tax evasion - it’s not like he has an income. Just… copyleft source code as far as the eye could see.”
I lol’d at this. But seriously, privacy is a fundamental human right. You don’t need to have something to hide to assert your right of privacy.
there was another crypto kidnapping (also in russia) a few years ago, they tortured him and got all his apes. DeFi, kinda scary
What if i don’t remember my own password?
It says “until” so you’ll be having plenty of time to remember it.
give them the duress password gg
“His fucking kernel is deblobbed too?”
As a noob, I genuinely can’t tell if this is real jargon or not
It’s referring to binary blobs. A windows exe might be a binary blob.
These are distributed compiled. Even if the project is open sources, the binary blob might have been generated by a compromised compiler.This is one of the reasons the XZ Utils compromisation went unnoticed for so long. One of the compressed files used for testing contained malicious code that would be included in the build artefacts (IE, the final compiled binary) under very narrow and specific circumstances.
So “deblobbed” means absolutely everything in the OS was built & compiled on their computer from original source code
Thanks! I wonder if I will ever reach that level of privacy paranoia. At the rate that I’m going, maybe 5 years.
I got into gentoo because it made patching the kernel to hold luks keys in debug registers instead of RAM easier than Arch 😅
Wait, what? That’s so cool! Care to share somewhere I can start looking into this?
Thank you very much!
Linux nerds literally only want one thing and it’s fucking the idea that your full disk encryption will pay off one day.
It can, but most likely it only would if you’re doing illegal shit and get caught. They’d search your place for evidence and FDE could keep them from discovering some things.
But uh, if they got that far into investigating you then you’re probably already screwed.
Not true at all. Governments regularly raid political dissidents. It’s a disciplinary tactic in and of itself. I’ve been raided for plenty of shit and never been convicted of any crime.
I mean the average dork not cool people like you (if you’re being truthful)
Persons of interest to governments should always be diligent.
Time for the $5 wrench…
I’m in this post and I like it.
Thoughts on Gentoo over something like Fedora? (Or whatever you’re using)
I run Gentoo.
It’s made my fundamentals stronger.
It allows me to run the minimal number of codepaths.
Every now and then it makes me happy. Sometimes proud of myself. All because I solved some problem that was helped by the mindset Gentoo had set up.
it makes me happy
This is the exact way I feel about Gnu Guix_SD
Gentoo is fun and a nice way to learn more about computers. Their wiki and their community was really good when I was into it, I’m sure it still is. But compiling everything from scratch is quite demanding of your CPU and your time, so it’s not really something that you run as your daily driver for long.
Gentoo based daily driver since 2007.
Is nearly 19 years long?
(Also, there’s the official binhost now, so emerge does not even need to compile everything.)
All lies.
After install, the distro just works.
I’ve had more failed upgrades in Ubuntu.
So if you have base Linux skills, you will have a rock solid distro, which may take a while to update, but you can limit the number of CPU cores for compiling, and therefore use the PC even during that.
And USE flags are so addictive, while being just strings in a single file.
I believed I would learn more about Linux when daily driving Gentoo. But all I learned is how to run three commands to keep the system updated, including compiling the kernel. And it just works.
all the 3-letter agencies pool their resources
billions of dollars are dumped into the project
several years later they manage to decrypt all of this guy’s communications
it’s nothing but chats about how to encrypt shitcheck the IP logs
Its all encrypted? This guy uses VPNs and Tor?
Presuming that Mossad can be topped with a subscription to ProtonVPN or a Tor browser is adorable. Hell, presuming nobody in the intelligence services is familiar with Linux is even more adorable. “We’ve got everyone at the NSA fooled because we’re Arch users”. Yeah, sure buddy. What do you think these professional computer nerds are doing in their own free time?
Where do you even think encrypted applications come from?
most of these security agencies effectiveness is just in the myth’s they’ve built around themselves of actually being effective.
mossad in particular, just has a complete disregard for killing innocents and a really good propaganda wing to suppress all their fuckups.
most killers are not right in the head, they act on pure emotion, they post “i am going kill X” online to their social media of choice the night before going to kill X…it’s dumb as shit. that’s how low the bar is on utilizing violence
fact is lone wolf threats are practically unstoppable, especially if they have a modicum of competency
this is also why it’s said killing gets easier/“first ones the hardest” etc. even if your not some sociopath (which, most people as a whole arent)…once you know and understand just how easy it is to kill people and get away with it…lot of the worlds problems start to look like they have very easy solutions…
The extent some people go to refuse their privacy being stepped on. These people like this are pathetic. /s
BRO JUST LET THEM DO WHATEVER THEY WANT YOU’LL BE FINE AS LONG AS
Y O U H A V E N O T H I N G T O H I D E
Frankly, I think the people with more to hide are more virtuous than I. Labor organizers, activists, etc. If you’re working to overthrow my country, awesome. Best of luck to you.
But it’s also fair to say most of us will not truly benefit from writing a custom boot loader and after a certain point this is just a hobby.
