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Let's just cut the bullshit. If you really need / want #privacy. You don't need VPNs and hacker software that you have never heard of. You just need some simple hardware mods.

1. Buy a old laptop with cash or monero.

2. Open it up and remove the hard drive, camera, microphone, Bluetooth, and wifi card.

3. Put a drop of nail polish on the screws when you put it back together for anti-tampering.

4. Boot off a non persistent USB. Tails is the right answer.

5. Keep the USB on a lanyard and snatch it if things get hairy.

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Fren, odds of a normie doing this are somewhere between slim and none. Personally, I keep a Tails USB stick on me; big fan. But a solid VPN and a few good browser extensions are much more approachable.

librekitty · 41w

im all for privacy, but how useful will the laptop be after these steps?

sister_sam · 41w

Not that many need that level of privacy all the time or even some of the time. Great when you do. There are many gradations along the way a low better than nothing. One of mine one level above Tails is Whonix. And even with Tails it doesn't matter a whole lot what computer you boot it on.

sargkinni · 41w

Useful tips for ensuring a lack of persistence for certain types of users. For most others the same hardware modifications with LUKS (assuming *nix) on all connected drives would be quite sound in the event of device seizure/loss.

Play Nostr Zap · 41w

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VPNs are not really hacker software, they're the most user friendly privacy tech in existence right now. Also this is excessive, to the point of being highly inconvenient.

Low Information Voter · 41w

What about firmware / hardware level threats like the Intel Management Engine?

₿oniz23⚡️🏴‍☠️🇮🇹 · 41w

Wow cool 😍💪

Neigsendoig Cocules · 41w

Just use as much FLOSS as possible, including GNU/Linux. Problem solved.

Tico 🇨🇷 · 41w

shortwavesurfer2009 · 41w

You should also remove the battery or if you don't want to do that use a buskill that will automatically shut the machine down if it is snatched away from you. No battery would make it slightly more inconvenient to use, but it would make it a hell of a lot safer because if it was ever taken away fro...

HODLudek · 41w

Solid advice for a paranoid