From the time you are born, your very birth is documented by the state with a birth certificate. Shortly thereafter, the state assigns you a citizen tracking number (commonly called a Social Security Number). Years later, you are given another state tracking number called a "Driver's License," which then tracks any vehicles you own via registration and a license plate. Every year, you are compelled to file where you work, and how much money you made. Until you finally die, when the state certifies it with a death certificate.

This doesn't include a single shred of digital tracking they also do, and yet even excluding the digital tracking, I cannot say that the above is indicative of a free society. And you can't either, no matter how badly you may want to.

From cradle to grave, the state monitors your existence with mass surveillance tools, and has done so since before technology made it MUCH easier for them to do so.

Business idea: Truly private off-site cloud data backup.

- Users can create an account with just a username and password.
- 2FA integration with other FOSS solutions
- Payment with XMR accepted.
- Non-Crypto payments obviously require applicable identifiable info to process
- User data is encrypted locally prior to being uploaded to company servers
- Uploaded data is fragmented and randomly stored across several servers, the number and specificity of which are random,
- Software is all FOSS (front end and back end), and company encourages auditing of it.
- Company encourages and allows independent 3rd party audits on site to verify claims of user data privacy
- Service available on clear net, Tor, and I2P
- Duress decryption passwords allow users to immediately destroy all backups and account info if necessary.

I have no idea how to implement this, but the fragmenting of user's encrypted data would ensure:

1) The company literally has no ability to see users private data
2) LE cannot subpoena or seize any user's data from the company since they have no ability to provide anything
3) truly private off-site data backups are available to anyone who wants to get rid of Google, Dropbox, etc.

All of this is technically feasible... But is practically illegal in the "land of the free." The US government will essentially make the owner of such a company into another Ross Ulbricht.

Sarah didn't vote to change the future...

I find your lack of root disturbing. You don't know the power of the tux side! Take your Windows, strike it down with all of your hatred, and your journey towards the tux side will be complete!

At the end of the day, voluntaryism is all that matters in anarchy, regardless of its economic philosophies.

I'm kind of digging this setup. Still have some work to do, but pretty solid.

The same is true for things like PGP, Tor, Monero, etc.

Just because something was developed by an entity doesn't make it inherently bad. If it is open source, it doesn't matter who developed it. The code is auditable, and any issues for privacy, tracking, etc. would be known.

I convinced my wife to let me install LMDE as a VM on her ThinkPad to let her try it out while still keeping her Windows machine up.... and I just learned that Windows no longer just allows free personal use of Word and Excel.... You can only use the free version of the Office products on OneDrive like Google does with their docs and sheets...

I'm sure this has been a thing for years now, but holy shit. Microsoft is such shit. Get Linux. Install LibreOffice. It's so much better, and all local!

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If you saw someone destroying a Flock camera, no you didn't.