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Paranoia for Beginners
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Lobster
Official Crustacean  Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 15109 Location: Paradox Realm |
FBI backdoors http://www.bostonreview.net/BR36.5/evgeny_morozov_internet_spying_privacy.php _________________ Puppy WIKI |
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Sylvander
Joined: 15 Dec 2008 Posts: 2853 Location: West Lothian, Scotland, UK |
Is it possible/easy to make encrypted calls using Puppy Phone? |
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Lobster
Official Crustacean Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 15109 Location: Paradox Realm |
Encrypted calls are coming . . . meanwhile how many of these tests have you done? http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1197924 (that should keep the tin hats happy for a while . . . ) _________________ Puppy WIKI |
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Lobster
Official Crustacean Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 15109 Location: Paradox Realm |
http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/13/no-need-to-fear-this-face-tracking-automated-suspicion-generator-citizen/ The UK has more cameras than anywhere. Personally I look forward to open circuit TV access and the ability to monitor suspicious proprietary software engineers and others up to no good . . . 
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nooby
Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9385 Location: SwedenEurope |
As a continues noob status guy sorry bad grammar there. I wonder about something that happens almost every day and several times every day. I like old mechanical things with no batteries in them. Clocks that you wind up and them being totally mechanical no battery warns down and need to be replaced. So I look for such at Ebay and similar places in my own language. Take this one from Old Russia? Anlida Alarm Clock. http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250907058794 When I save the main picture of that one then it say a script is still running. Should I stop it or let it continue? I have no idea what is safest thing to do. Usually if one don't let it continue and actually stop it then it does not save. Now was that a download of a Trojan or Key Spy program on my computer? What other purpose could such "scrips" have? Where do them end up? Should I start a new thread about this one? It maybe derail this thread or drown in all the other themes we have here? _________________ I'm a noob so I use Google Search of Puppy Forum Last edited by nooby on Tue 18 Oct 2011, 02:08; edited 1 time in total |
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DPUP5520
Joined: 16 Feb 2011 Posts: 758 |
sorry I haven't read through this whole thread but nooby you can easily encrypt different types of communication such as Skype and Ekiga connections, don't know much about the Puppy Voip client though. _________________ PupRescue 2.5 Puppy Crypt 528 |
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nooby
Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9385 Location: SwedenEurope |
Encryption is a red herring. Them prepare laws that say that if you encrypt your messages then the authorities have to be given the keys to it. Now European Union may accept the law or not but you can be sure of that if you encrypt your communication then the authorities in Sweden will see you as someone them need to look into seriously. Why else would you need such desperate measures them would reason. That is at least what I have gathered through the years how them think. _________________ I'm a noob so I use Google Search of Puppy Forum |
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DPUP5520
Joined: 16 Feb 2011 Posts: 758 |
That's kind of funny considering that Sweden is one of the only countries that has refused to hand over IP addresses to the U.S. government of people using their proxy servers. On the other hand as I said before in another thread not just relying on proxy servers for things like email such as pgp keys or other encryption methods more or less prevents most snooping unless they want to spend months decrypting an email to my wife telling her i need her to buy me some more spices at the commissary before I get home to cook on the grill. _________________ PupRescue 2.5 Puppy Crypt 528 |
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Barkin
 Joined: 12 Aug 2011 Posts: 463 |
In the UK If you don't give the police the key when they ask you can be fined and/or jailed ... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/03/ripa-decryption_keys_power/ e.g. in the UK you could be jailed for not being able to remember a password to encrypted data 
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DPUP5520
Joined: 16 Feb 2011 Posts: 758 |
Here in the U.S. they need a warrant for something like that, and well if I just so happen to lose my encryption key cause well I accidentally deleted/lost it well then that's just too bad, one great thing to use for that is one time pads. I'll have alot of these different encryption techniques/programs built into Puppy Crypt when I finally get around to getting out a beta sometime over the weekend hopefully. _________________ PupRescue 2.5 Puppy Crypt 528 |
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Lobster
Official Crustacean Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 15109 Location: Paradox Realm |
All my passwords are at http://lastpass.com/ which I can sometimes remember so I can easily help out any govt agency needing access to my secret plans for . . .  . . . gosh nearly gave it away . . .
Meanwhile RIM are coerced by those safeguarding their (sorry I meant our) interests . . . http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/rim-establishes-indian-blackberry-surveillance-lab-44065 _________________ Puppy WIKI |
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Aitch
 Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6825 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK |
Lobster Surveillance is the new world currency - buy in, now!
Aitch 
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noubuntu4me
Joined: 29 Oct 2011 Posts: 7 |
Does the always running in root thing bother ya? I still don't know what the big deal is about it but it is something to be paranoid about. 
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Lobster
Official Crustacean Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 15109 Location: Paradox Realm |
No. 
It is pedaled by Security FUD who those who misunderstand what and why we use Puppy. In a multi-user networked system. For example in a company intranet. Every user should have their own virtual place in the company system server. People logging in should not have access to payroll and computer updates, next years new prototypes etc. You need secured servers, passwords and restrictions on devices and Internet connects etc. Puppy on single use home machines is used by those who want access to their files and are capable of encrypting directories or running from USB or multi-session. I do not want a password when I go into my computer. If using Ubuntu or another system on a single user system I turn off the password protect and run as su. My computer, my rules. For those who want to quake, tremble and spread ignorance about the nature of the 'risk', the only solution is a tin hat award. For the rest use the Puppy firewall and GROWL in Puppy 5.3 read and apply this if you must http://puppylinux.org/wikka/security Now be happy. You are safe.
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nooby
Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9385 Location: SwedenEurope |
Lobster I wonder about this thing you write.
Is that really possible. I have heard them have a 15 minutes time limit on being su so it would switch back automatically. But maybe it derails the thread. Do you have time for me contacting you on PM or should I start a new thread. I want to learn this thing you talk about. I have Kubuntu named Netrunner going now and it allow me to have access to the hdd in NTFS which is most unusual for a ubuntu. title Netrunner 2011 frugal iso boot of netrunner-3.2.iso find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /netrunner-3.2.iso kernel /netrunner/casper/vmlinuz rw file=/cdrom/preseed/netrunner.seed boot=casper iso-scan/filename=/netrunner-3.2.iso noeject noprompt quiet splash -- initrd /netrunner/casper/initrd.lz When I ask Ubuntu people about it them are big question marks asking me why would one want to do frugal. What is it etc. Them are so into Ubuntu that them don't trust being single user is good. _________________ I'm a noob so I use Google Search of Puppy Forum |
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