You know what doesn’t stop crime? A camera.

I GOT BONES IN THE GROUND AND I WILL BUY EXTRA LOBSTER ROLLS JUST TO FEED THEM TO HUNGRY DOGS EXPECT ME

Isn’t this the same party that wants to send voter fraud criminals to a gulag?

Go ahead then, get to it.

ZeroFox eh?

I guess the next time their inside sales call, I can tell them to get fucked 4x in each earhole.

They’re the same shitstains that sell security services for CEOs and other rich assholes. They show up at security trade shows. No huge surprise, they are the toadys that will lick the boots of the highest bidder.

Oh kids.

A VPN is only really good for plausable deniability. That is there is no direct correlation between the activity coming from an ISP’s IP address that is directly connected to your billing profile, home address, etc.

There are countless ways your identity can be gleaned from your digital exhaust. Fingerprinting just takes maybe four or five attributes your browser will hand over and from there, you can be reasonably identified with a high level of certainty.

For example, you might be using a Safari browser, your resolution is known (browser spills the beans to render pages), operating system, details about how your device performs a TLS (encryption) handshake, timing, any browser add-ons you might use etc.

See for yourself: https://demo.fingerprint.com/playground; there are countless pages that show you the same, this is just one.

If you think that a VPN is going to act as some sort of anonymizer, I’m afraid you’ve been misled. Even the act of setting up a machine/browser to be properly anonymous will generate signals which will make you stick out like a sore thumb.

VPNs are one small slice of the pie, they help but they don’t solve the problem of being identified online. If you’re going to do something that you REALLY don’t want anyone to see, you’re going to have to spend a lot of time learning–which is a signal also.

This seems underwhelming.

What I find to be more compelling is to use an old android as a Sendspin client. Pick an open source music server of choice like Music Assistant and now you have multiroom sync players akin to overpriced Sonos devices, you just supply the amp/speakers.

If you really like fancy audio, just connect the old phone via the USB to a nice DAC like a Fosi K11 and you have a very reasonably priced multipoint streaming solution.

I am disappointed in the number of naysayers here. This guy is working on the problem and delivering results. What are any of you doing? Yeah, it turns into a cat and mouse game if one person is doing it and that mouse is bright purple. If there is a diversity of solutions to this issue, now there is a whole rainbow of mice, more than cats.

If you have an idea, contribute. If all you want to do is armchair quarterback, maybe don’t. The world already has plenty, that job is well filled.

Now we just pipe the data through tools that can summarize it and give it to a llm. No sane person is staring at logs. Even when we did, we would grep, sed and awk the fuck out of it so it wasn’t so miserable.

Those were the bad old days. Do not miss fighting with a command line because you didn’t get the syntax perfectly right and have to mess around only to find out it was a permission issue.

If you have the mobile app installed, it’s running GPS in the background anway. High accuracy mode just ups the frequency of checkin to your liking. Besides, you only need to have it on for a minute or so to determine vector. You probably already have it, but if there is any question, going high accuracy for a moment will answer it.

I don’t find that high accuracy does much to battery life as long as you’re smart with it. There are may ways to configure it so it won’t eat your battery.

You can just remotely enable high accuracy mode for a minute and it will trace their path on a map cleanly.

_action: notify.mobile_app_your_fone metadata: {} data: message: device_high_accuracy_mode data: silent: true high_accuracy_mode: turn_on channel: loc __

I use home assistant and have a dashboard button that triggers an automation.

Using the notification action, I turn off do-not-disturb, turn off Bluetooth (so it doesn’t pipe sound to earbuds or remote audio), set notification mode to on (not vibrate) and set the notification volume to max. I used to loop the default notification sound, but then switched so that the notification uses a new channel entirely and set each phone with a song so it will play for a while. You can silence it with the volume key.

Took a little tinkering to get it right, but works really well.

Yeah, I will show them how much I hate socialism by moving to EUROPE.