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The approach once worked, but that was back before browsers began including the likes of things like advertiser IDs and other extremely high entropy attributes that no average person would ever think to disable. Contemporary hide-in-the-crowd strategies are mostly curated within efforts like Tor browser where everyone is encouraged to use the exact same configuration. But then it’s still a numbers problem. If only two attendees decide to hide their faces with party masks to a soiree of 100 people, one (large scale observer) only need check the guest list and use process of elimination to determine the identities of the 2% “hidden” attendees.

Somebody can, and probably will, come along and refute this assessment. I am not entirely convinced myself that it is a losing strategy yet. I’m open to hear opposing takes.

Privacy Badger: IIRC Privacy Badger operates by logging third party domains connections on a per-site bases, and only begins to actively block connections once a domain seen across multiple visits fits the profile of a likely tracker.

Nvrmnd, they’ve changed how PB works and it is now closer to a list-based tracker blocker (enumerate badness):

Privacy Badger no longer learns from your browsing by default, as “local learning” may make you more identifiable to websites.

So they’ve since corrected one of the core issues with PB. Still it is weak. To see why, please glance through The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security.

uBlock Origin in advanced mode, with default-deny rules (only allow assets by exception) is going to be much stronger at blocking crap.

Personally, I use uMatrix with pretty much all asset classes blocked by default. I never see popups. I never see banners begging “please allow our cookies, pleeeeaaase!”.

There, I saved everyone a click. Now thank me for my service.

Product manager for proprietary malware peddler attempts to convince suckers that their malware does anything other than artificially restrict users and further the cause of vendor lock-in.

In addition to the code being freely available, as others have pointed out, the developer has attended some number of software conferences at which his knowledge of this subject matter and this project makes itself evident.

What I like is that JShelter doesn’t try to “hide in the crowd” with its spoofed attributes which is IMO a failing strategy as the crowd increasingly becomes atomized by adtech.

I usually use

dd status=progress conv=sync,noerror bs=64k if=/path/to/source/drive of=/path/to/destination/drive

Take a reading of the drive health first with something like smartctl and if it has a lot of failing attributes, consider lowering the block size to something rather smaller like bs=512.

Edit: To elaborate, using the sync and noerror arguments will instruct dd to ignore errors and continue in the event of read failures, while allocating zeroes to the remainder of the block space. Which is also why smaller block sizes are better for potentially failing drives. The copy will take longer, but a single error won’t take large swaths of data with it.

Archived

It does make sense from the perspective of “destroy the public’s perception of ‘unsafe’ USB storage so that we can push them to use our ‘safe’ cloud storage (on our terms) instead”.

…with usbguard installed and configured with a default-deny policy.

Disable unused interfaces in BIOS.

Netinstall with only basic utilities.

Reduce Debian

TIL jump hosts are an existing concept

I do use ClamAV. Most users just run some sort of daily scan, but this is remedial and not preventative.

In order to truly harness clamav’s potential, you need to configure clamonacc on-access scanning. It passes items off to clamd with lowered privileges and prevents file access through inotify until its realtime scan has cleared.

I wonder sometimes if the advice against pointing DNS records to your own residential IP amounts to a big scare. Like you say, if it’s just a static page served on an up to date and minimal web server, there’s less leverage for an attacker to abuse.

I’ve found that ISPs too often block port 80 and 443. Did you luck out with a decent one?

You will run the games on our extremely specific hardware using our proprietary software environment and you will like it!

Anyone tried Lubuntu with LXQT desktop lately?

LXQt is developing nicely, but does not yet have wayland by default.

graphviz

https://files.catbox.moe/zwe5ns.mp4

Before I migrated, I had devised elaborate lists of programs and things I thought I would always want with me. But now, years later, looking back I realize that most of those list items had been replaced by new stuff that I found I like even better, or simply dropped from my routine altogether as I grew to realize they weren’t actually all that essential.