Physical surveillance of mail is incredibly expensive, slow and subject to a bunch of regulations.
It also doesn’t consistently work.
Electronic surveillance of communications is incredibly cheap in comparison, near instantaneous and an evolving new technology that’s loosely regulated if at all.
It also creates a 1:1 copy of the transmission for interpretation at a later date.
Hndl applied to physical surveillance is all metadata. Hndl for digital interactions is content too.
It’s anonymous at the moment you buy it. After that you use it and identifying data and metadata that conflicts with the original users data and metadata starts to accumulate.
Physical movement can be tracked by cameras. All digital transactions are tracked by virtue of the way the internet works.
When you put your trust in digital transactions you are putting your trust in the cryptography that hopefully underpins them. With recent regimes of harvest now decrypt later, you are putting your trust in both the perfect forward and quantum/parallel resistance of that cryptography.
Just some food for thought. Sending cash might be a smarter choice than you think.
You are not following the point I’m making:
The account you buy on the darknet works because the rest of the internet already associated it with an identity. That means law enforcement has cause to investigate the new user for impersonation or id theft. It doesn’t matter if they can’t get you for id theft or impersonation on a technicality, they’re already investigating you at that point! Law enforcement attention is what you don’t want!
It’s like using your neighbors car with an expired tag because you don’t want to have your car show up on the highway cameras.
It varies by jurisdiction but if the reseller you bought from is selling you an account used by some other person for some personally identifiable thing (which is why the internet at large trusts that account and why you bought it!) then you’re at the very least toeing the line of Id theft or impersonation and while the cops might not be able to get you for that particular crime they will absolutely have enough suspicion to investigate you and discover other crimes or even just watchlist you.
I don’t care if you break the law from a moral or ethical standpoint, but it can cause you problems from a practical one.
Yeah I use mullvad.
It’s not a big deal because the answer to the problem is “don’t run snaps”.
Uhh, proton works fine…
You might need to clear your browsing data. You might want to start doing that all the time if you’re concerned about anonymity or privacy.
Everyone telling you email isn’t private is right.
Don’t use it for things you don’t want to be public knowledge.
What is your desktop environment?
May I interest you in the “ln” command?
Usually if you wanna access a file (or a directory, that’s a file too!) from some place other than where it is in the filesystem you make a link using ln like “ln /mnt/target link_name”. Which would give you a link type file (that shows up as a link when you give -l to ls) called “link_name” which references “/mnt/target” when you try to do something to it (Like ls!).
Six gigabytes are plenty for even full desktop Ubuntu.
It depends on what they want. The op and title are pretty vague and general, so I offered a very easy solution that could meet their needs.
That’s exactly what I mean. It all depends on what makes a company big tech.
If it’s just having lots of money or capital then it’s really hard to divest oneself because of the phenomenal heights of industry required to make chips. Like, on some level you gotta accept that no one’s doing 14nm lithography in a shed out behind their house (people who do home lithography are in the micrometer range last I looked).
Waze, aka freemap Israel, founded by two veterans of the idfs electronic signals formation, unit 8200.
You can always just use an m series mac if you don’t want to support Intel or amd.
It all depends on how you define big tech.
The framework risc v board, for example, uses the StarFive JH-7110 which is manufactured by tsmc. Doesn’t get much bigger than that!
The threat is that someone who learns the material facts of your accounts interactions around the internet would (correctly) recognize that it changed hands and if that person were some kind of cop they would have cause to investigate further, possibly uncovering other facts about you or your activities.
The point is that you’re breaking one of the cardinal rules: “keep your head down and your nose clean!”
Not gonna fight about it, just making it known.