Can anyone explain the concept of "freedom" on the

>>62296928
I want bliny now

>>62296928
There's no guarantee of privacy regarding the internet. That said, no, a VPN prevents your ISP from seeing what you're doing, other than connecting to an ISP. Insofar as backdoored hardware, there's not much you can do about that. But backdoored hardware doesn't mean you shouldn't protect your info from non-government entities.

>>62296928
Those things are like having alarms and security cameras on your house. They don't guarantee that you won't get burgled, nothing can. But closing off all the obvious routes makes it much less likely, and probably less severe if it does happen.

You don't need to worry about the management engine stuff unless you're an Iranian nuclear physicist or something. Those do not get used to mass dragnet surveillance, it'd be too loud. It'd get detected and patched, and it'd be on the front page of the newspapers. The NSA hates being in the news.

Like home security, you don't have to make it impossible to break in, you just have to make it not worth the cost to.

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why should i care if the govt. or 3rd parties have my information? What information?

My bank details are the scariest ones and as long as I'm not negligent my bank is insured.

>>62297043
Do what you want. If you don't see the value of privacy, then go ahead and give it up.

>>62297116
Not OP, but i for one have a hard time carring about win10 botnet because MS doesn't focus on being political or selling your data to ad providers like a certain G, I don't know who would want to know my windows info, the cia? Why? I'm dping anything of their inteterest, i just hate google for its cesorship and cockyness to act like they own the internet, thats why im using a gappless rom on my phone and FF with starpage

>>62297043
>>62297116
The question shouldn't be "why hide my data from the government?", it should be "why should I lose my privacy?". You already have your privacy and you can lose it. It's not something you should specifically request to have in the first place. They don't own your privacy by default, you do. What is a good enough reason to give it away? Can you think of anything?

>>62296928
>backdoored CPU
Possibly. Multiple NSA & CIA leaks have totally failed to suggest the existence of such a backdoor and they instead show significant effort being put into far more limited higher level exploits that wouldn't be necessary if such an exploit existed. Besides, it's not like you can't get libreboot compatible hardware

>Doesn't internet provider can see what you're doing online?
No. With an encrypted tunnel (HTTPS), they can only see what servers you're talking to, not what is being said. With a VPN all they can see is that you're talking to one server which is the VPN.

>>62297043
>why should i care if the govt. or 3rd parties have my information? What information?

>le nothing to hide nothing to fear fallacy

now imagine your government became authoritarian and made illegal something you do regularly that is legal now, for example browsing 4chan.

suddenly all that data the government has collected can be used to prove you're a subversive trouble maker and even put you in prison

inb4 the government is my friend and ally... fucking retard

>>62296928
There is two parts of all this.
The first is using free software.
Mostly this means that you do things locally. A good example is krunner vs apples spotlight.
Krunner is free software and doesn't need to go online in order to read my mind and give me relevant results.
Because of that, using free software let you be more specific about what you share and with who.

Next part is who you share which information with.
If you use google apps on your phone, your contacts (among other things) gets leaked to google. This means at least google now knows about your contacts.
If it is encrypted, the traffic your ISP can monitor is just gibberish. They can see who you are talking too, eg you send data to google, but they can't tell what you send, why you send it and stuff like that.
If you use a specific port to send the information, it can be deduced which application is talking to who and then the ISP can see you sent your contacts to google.
A way to limit this is to encrypt all traffic.
On your phone, I would suggest that you setup a VPN on your home connection. That way, all traffic from your phone is routed to a single address and the sites you visit can't tell where your phone is located.
You can use an additional VPN from your home to one abroad, but those only work for mascarading the traffic (eg watch nextlix for the american price which is cheaper) they don't offer any security.
If you visit https://pornhub.com, the traffic might be encrypted which means people can't view what specific videos you watch but they can still see that you watch porn.

If you don't trust the sites you visit, you can block cross site scripts from being loaded.
I would recommend to at least block the social media malware people throw on sites.

I want you to repeat: "VPN isn't privacy"

If you use a VPN from a shitty provider, it can be much worse than your ISP.

Botnet free Browser? What browser do you mean?
IE or Edge: Micro$oft
Firefox: Uses GA
Chrome or Chromium: Google
Opera: A modified Chrome

Linux?
Ubuntu: Amazon Ads included in the OS

The government already knows everything they need to know about you. They don't need the internet for that. I for one agree to give up my online privacy to a certain extent if that provides me a sense of security. Monitoring potential criminal activity is way more important to them than someone googling tentacle anime porn or shitposting on 4chan

>>62297746
so which are the best VPN's?

>>62296928
freedom and privacy are not the same things what the fuck are you on about m8

>>62297043
Privacy means you are in control of who knows what about you.
The government is more than one thing, so while your financial information is known to the IRS, the local police might not have this information (unless a judge grants them permission).
You might tell a family member about your financial situation, but that doesn't mean I should have that information.
Imagine all communication with your family had to be written down on a piece of paper and then you handed it to me so I could read it out loud to them.
You have to be damn sure I wouldn't abuse this power.

A lot of online communication us like that. The man in the middle might be facebook, apple or google, but the man in the middle is still there.
You loose any control of who knows what and you have to assume that everyone is watching. I personally think this is bad.
I setup servers to handle a lot of my private information.
It is not about denying the government access. If they want to look into my life, they should get a warrant.

Why not make everything private by default and then share what you whish to share?
Eg this post can be read by anybody and I am aware of that.
But a ton of stuff shouldn't be said in a public forum. It is not about hiding illegal activity or hiding something I am ashamed of, it is about not being judged by every thought that goes through my head which then leads to me thinking differently.

>>62296928
Avoid intel CPUs with vPro and AMD CPUs with PSP, however it is not really known if the AMT is truly backdoored, your router firewall should protect you from any outside intrusion, so the only way is that if the ME engine reaches out to a server on its own, which you can detect if you monitor the router.

>>62297741
What about DNSCrypt?

>>62297746
amazon ads are no longer included, and they did have the ability to opt out at the time, though yes it was a shady move, something that doesn't work anymore, get on with the times