Submitted by LittleMonkey in freeAsInFreedom (edited )

People here and there calling you a tinfoil hat because you refuse to use a mobile phone, your friends mocks you because you don't use non-free closed source software (mostly spyware), gov add your name in the danger activists list because you browse the web over Tor, you are called weird dinosaur because you use PGP.

Congratulations!
You are one of the few aware people who refuse to sacrifice their freedom and human rights.
It worth the inconvenience.

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RockBiter wrote

TOR and PGP are both compromised to state actors. Your PC is vulnerable at the chip architecture level. Air-gapped devices have been compromised using inaudible sound. If any top-tier government is targeting you, then your dumb-phone and tinfoil hat will not protect you.

I'm not advocating that these precautions are useless. Most average hacks are not targetted anyhow. BUT, if THEY are looking for you, then THEY will find you.

Just ask Snowden.

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RockBiter wrote

Yes, you are correct. I mean flaws and bugs. The other thing I remember seems to have been a NoScript bug that has since been patched.

PGP has had two critical vulnerabilities discovered in the past year. A good article from ProtonMail does argue that PGP is not broken despite these vulnerabilities. I concede.

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