I’m looking to get one soon enough from the EU store. Depending on the product they will say if it is shipping from China directly. I guess we have to trust some of these companies at some point with all of our devices. I plan to use it with a commercial vpn

Personally I just throw my roms in directories and serve them from nginx. Its easier to just pull them down on deck that way and requires no extra effort or maintenance on my end.

Everything else is on steam.

If the news is that important you’ll find it elsewhere without this bs

Ah that explains it. They have their own way of doing things over there. Thanks for sharing your experience all the same, it is good to know.

Where are you experiencing this ? I have not experienced personally this in South America or Europe. It is usually just the immigration who look at the passport and let you through once you say you’re visiting or whatever

Buy a second hand phone

install a custom ROM / block all the shit corpo stuff

Make an email just for that phone

Get a temp number if needed for registration.

use a prepaid Sim or twillo or something. After registering remove the Sim and only use WiFi.

Install fdroid

install aurora store via fdroid

Install a vpn (próton is free or get mullvad)

force the vpn to always be on

then install Instagram

Dont give the app any permissions and keep private data off the phone.

Put tape over the cameras.

Im guessing Israel will retaliate without warning and with US backing.

The problem is the client 🤣

Do what you can and dont let perfect be the enemy of good. You’re still ahead of the rest of the crowd who don’t give a shit.

I don’t really bother much in public places, I use umbrellas when it rains and sunglasses when it is sunny, but In general I try to avoid connecting to public WiFi and always use my vpn when I do.

I dont have any identifying data on my mailbox. I make sure to destroy PII on mail.

My routine is normal, gray, boring.

Not yet, I’ll wait for it to hit the stable channel

Thats good to know. Thanks for sharing

Do you know if these folks actively develop it or do they just apply patches to the Firefox codebase ?

Like do they just pre configure a bunch of about config settings and the pre installed search or do they harden the binaries at compile time ?

I’ve not kept up with this but I’m curious if there is any real advantage of this over Firefox after it has been configured. If not I would stick with Firefox as it will get security updates quicker by people who know the source code intimately.

Anyway not shitting on anyone’s choices here just curious.

Both my browser and network level dns blocker blocked the test attacker site from loading but in general there are 2 approaches to this: minimize your fingerprint data points or change them to blend in with the crowd.

I think for the most part selectivly blocking js and cookies will do a lot for you. You can also block the canvas and limit fonts too. I’d also recommend a vpn as they can associate it with your ip too.

Random hackers, companies, dragnet surveillance.

The companies are probably the biggest exposure as we are forced to interact with them for utilities, flights etc . They get hacked all of the time and dont bother to secure their data.

Also as a side note I hate how lots of places just assume you want to download their shitty spyware ridden apps or hand over your phone number or an email.

Personally I would split them so they are not all in the same place. So for email use something like proton or tuta, vpn could be mullvad and a local password manager such as keepass xc synced with syncthing.

Connect it to your PC or laptop and do a netinstall. Configure SSHD and a static ip. Plugin the disk to your server and then connect via ssh to admin it.

You could also set your laptop or PC to boot from the attached disk in the bios to test the services you want to start are starting

Happy to help 😉

Syncthing can do direct sync if you give the ip address to each node and you can disable relay servers .

Could come in a future update