LAPD suspending their contract gives me hope that this movement is strong enough.

Protesting, showing up to city council, and generally making officials’ lives uncomfortable is the bare minimum, because it works.

iirc the flock database is searchable by “man wearing x” type queries, so grey-man style clothing would be more beneficial here.

we get none of the cool parts of cyberpunk I swear.

thank you for this

first off: super useful project.

the two biggest things I can think of are contact list imports and exports. I could see myself adding my immediate family manually. more than that and it becomes a chore rather than a setup.

awesome! I should have some playtime Sunday and hopefully get some real feedback to you. looking forward to watching this project grow

yoinking that phrase, thank you. do you remember where you got it from?

it might be because you were trying to access via VPN. if you have a residential IP to exit from or you can go to a library or something to try and sign up from there, I bet this wouldn’t trigger.

just did a quick readthrough. looks like you’ve covered my use cases (for my home network at least). looking forward to seeing how it integrates into my stack.

forgive me if you go over these questions, I didn’t find them covered anywhere.

how lightweight are the endpoints/sensors compared to opencanary?

is there any way to do a log export? I saw several siem integrations and more on the roadmap but I personally always appreciate the ability to do this.

good call. if they’re asking for photoID I will stop recommending them

depending on your use case, check out privacy.com

they offer digital cards that act as proxies to your bank. if there’s ever a vendor breach, payment information on you is not the same between any two vendors. you can limit your cards to single-use, merchant locked, and set spend limits.

this service is not anonymous as they need your bank details.

so does mine. I share your doubts, because I believe at the end of the day these systems are built to help public officials evade accountability.

its so much easier for a private company to fuck up and fine them for it(aka, cost of doing business) than any of the historical alternatives that pin accountability on our public institutions.

yes, iirc phones still advertise periodically. best to switch it off when not in use.

would recommend using obtainium instead of FDroid to get your apps from the source.

https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium

This is kind of like asking which drug is better to overdose on ;)

That said, in this scenario I’d recommend a Pixel, that way only one company is spying on you, since the stock android experience is kept ‘minimal’. Samsung will bloat the device.

Stock Android will also give you a fantastic jumping-off point if you want to get into something more privacy focused down the line, like GrapheneOS

I’ll back you on this.

A few years ago, most of my privacy effort was focused on removing myself from increasing restrictions online. Even this last year, there’s been a concerted, worldwide push towards censorship and removing anonymity online.

That is dangerous, and left unchecked, leads to a future where anonymity is illegal.

Now, the majority of my effort focuses on privacy advocacy and showing up to city hall meetings to pester council members about this stuff. If we don’t do this, they will continue to erode our rights, because there is no pushback to it.

Privacy is political, and removing relevant discussion helps nobody.

to reach the people with your message, you must go where they are.

this is marketing for people who are not already subscribed to their services or otherwise know about them.

https://wormhole.app/ sounds like it could fit

https://localsend.org/ for when you meet up

if you have a high threat model, I strongly recommend Graphene. since you’re considering ethics, have you thought about a used pixel?

so far, nobody’s talked about taking away computers. however, you’re correct in that taking them away is not a solution.

american schools are notoriously underfunded. google realized this a few years ago when they came out with the Chromebook lineup, which are dirt cheap entries into the google ecosystem. the hardware is not the problem, the data collection introduced to children in the guise of convenience at early stages is.

my preferred solution to that would be to introduce hardware outside of the google ecosystem. the issue is, very few companies can produce at scale in the way google can. any competitors would have to sell hardware below asking price to compete. its not feasible for small companies to do so. apple and Microsoft could, but they don’t have the same data collection ecosystem that google does for the same hardware subsidies.

another big reason small companies can’t compete is that the entire Gsuite is cloud based. all you need to access it is a browser. there’s not a single public school with the IT team to set up an open-source alternative, so schools are forced (or are enthusiastic about the opportunity) to get a full Microsoft-esque productivity suite for the kids without the licensing fees.

ever tried to convince someone non-tech savvy to switch from chrome to Firefox? attitudes range from uninterested to impossible, despite the functionality being identical at worst. now try to do that with every single tool they’ve been using since they were in elementary school.

its a simple game plan. lock them into a data-harvesting ecosystem. collect their data. nudge their opinions. influence their votes.

harder to sell our data if just anyone can waltz in and steal it