Nice video. You covered more of the privacy issues here than are in most other videos on the subject. I recently made a similar one about securing your data on the hardware end. I haven't tried Lokinet, but I'm not sure I would trust onion routing. Does the service use the same nodes from the Tor network? If you do some research on the subject you'll find that hundreds, maybe thosaunds of those nodes have been compromised by "certain third parties." From what I understand, if your traffic goes through more than one of the compromised nodes, you can be easily identified. Tor used to be a great service, but now you run a risk becuase you have no idea where your traffic is being routed and who owns those nodes.
Oxen Network is separate from the Tor network. there are around 1750 or so Oxen Service Nodes at the moment which provide the onion routing for Lokinet and onion requests for Session messenger. It takes 15,000 Oxen stake to be an Oxen Service Node. Owners of the Service Nodes get paid for running the nodes in Oxen crypto. I have several videos on the subject. If some entity were to try to capture a majority of the network, it would drive the price of the Oxen cryptocurrency very high.
I just happen to use GrapheneOS as my daily driver, and have used LineageOS, too. I haven't used CalyxOS, but from what I have read and understood it is a good choice.
Hi, excellent video... thank you....I would like a suggestion on how to get started transition. What phone and os do you suggest? Pixel 4,5,6.7 with what os? There is also Braz phone, fairphone etc. Additionally I am interested in a turn key phone with OS and apps installed. I am not concerned with cost. Is there a turn key option.
There may be turnkey solutions available, I'm not sure. We used to offer Pixel phones with GrapheneOS and apps pre-installed. However, the demand wasn't there, so we stopped offering them. Price is an issue for most people, and it can get pretty high when customizing phones and then providing the necessary support.
The other way to look at the vulnerability potential is that when you split your activities over multiple browsers, you limit the damage any one browser can have. Keeping browsers updated isn't very difficult. It's also pretty rare that a browser would have a vulnerability that allows the takeover of the entire device.
@@ultravioletiris6241 I don't think so. It is a security feature, not privacy feature. Pretty much any time you see "Security" as being a great new feature, it often involves a big company "protecting" you. A prison is a very secure place, too, but has no privacy.
What is your opinion of newer social networks including paid ones not depend on advertising that are designed to be censorship resistant? I agree 100% on not throwing too much of your personal info to stangers or where it can be gathered up against you, especially not under your true name. However there are many business and community building uses for social media like things. One objecting that I have to MeWe and other alt paid social media sites is that I haven't seen even one of them that doesn't require a credit card and thus any real anonymity is not possible. You would think that at least a few would have privacy coin payments, at least for say a year at a time, in place. I imagine I don't have to tell you why anonymity is important in these increasingly tyrannical, litigious, social cancelling by accusation, de-banking, de-platforming, doxxing times.
I personally don't use any social networks and have no desire to use them, so I can't say much about the paid ones. I guess I don't even know what they are. I guess one could probably consider this UA-cam channel to be a social media platform, at least to the extent of commenting on videos.
Don't log in. Use it through Lokinet for near perfect privacy. yolo.loki/ is one such site that proxies UA-cam over Lokinet so UA-cam can't see your IP address.
I must be getting old because I don't hear that. I'm not saying it's not there, I just can't hear it. In any case, my newer videos are taken with different equipment that has a much better microphone
I don't agree about protonmail. At the least it is orders of magnitude better than gmail and its kin. I don't agree you are advertising anything since they support using your own domain which removes visibility. I don't think it is good generally to fear being known to be interested in what our parents and grandparents took for granted. Most of the worst personal data dragnet works off the patterns of those that know nothing of privacy or think they don't need it or are fearful of standing out. It is not designed to so much endanger those that take basic countermeasures. I think your reasoning is either spotty here or not sufficiently presented.
My concern with Protonmail isn't the quality of the service. It is very nice, and I don't distrust them. What I am saying is that using Protonmail puts a bullseye on you as a "privacy person".
Nice video. You covered more of the privacy issues here than are in most other videos on the subject. I recently made a similar one about securing your data on the hardware end. I haven't tried Lokinet, but I'm not sure I would trust onion routing. Does the service use the same nodes from the Tor network? If you do some research on the subject you'll find that hundreds, maybe thosaunds of those nodes have been compromised by "certain third parties." From what I understand, if your traffic goes through more than one of the compromised nodes, you can be easily identified. Tor used to be a great service, but now you run a risk becuase you have no idea where your traffic is being routed and who owns those nodes.
Oxen Network is separate from the Tor network. there are around 1750 or so Oxen Service Nodes at the moment which provide the onion routing for Lokinet and onion requests for Session messenger. It takes 15,000 Oxen stake to be an Oxen Service Node. Owners of the Service Nodes get paid for running the nodes in Oxen crypto. I have several videos on the subject. If some entity were to try to capture a majority of the network, it would drive the price of the Oxen cryptocurrency very high.
Hi Tim, you mentioned GrapheneOS, LineageOS but not CalyxOS. Is there a certain reason? Thanks.
I just happen to use GrapheneOS as my daily driver, and have used LineageOS, too. I haven't used CalyxOS, but from what I have read and understood it is a good choice.
Hi, excellent video... thank you....I would like a suggestion on how to get started transition. What phone and os do you suggest? Pixel 4,5,6.7 with what os?
There is also Braz phone, fairphone etc. Additionally I am interested in a turn key phone with OS and apps installed. I am not concerned with cost. Is there a turn key option.
Pixel 7 will be supported the longest, I'd go with that. I'd go with GrapheneOS
I've also used LineageOS, but GrapheneOS has worked better for me.
There may be turnkey solutions available, I'm not sure. We used to offer Pixel phones with GrapheneOS and apps pre-installed. However, the demand wasn't there, so we stopped offering them. Price is an issue for most people, and it can get pretty high when customizing phones and then providing the necessary support.
That is brax not braz
What's the browser you use for online shopping?
Typically Librewolf or Ungoogled Chromium. Brave sometimes, too.
How private and secure is using orbot on your phone? It redirects all traffic tthrough the tor network of all the apps that are selected.
I haven't used it, but from what I know it should be secure. I'm pretty sure it is very slow, though.
Is it really a good idea to use many browsers like that? Isnt that a larger surface area for passive telemetry and vulnerabilities?
The other way to look at the vulnerability potential is that when you split your activities over multiple browsers, you limit the damage any one browser can have. Keeping browsers updated isn't very difficult. It's also pretty rare that a browser would have a vulnerability that allows the takeover of the entire device.
@@privacyproshop thanks. What do you think about the feature to use Edge in a sandbox? Do you think it affects telemetry at all?
@@ultravioletiris6241 I don't think so. It is a security feature, not privacy feature. Pretty much any time you see "Security" as being a great new feature, it often involves a big company "protecting" you. A prison is a very secure place, too, but has no privacy.
@@privacyproshop well said.
What is your opinion of newer social networks including paid ones not depend on advertising that are designed to be censorship resistant? I agree 100% on not throwing too much of your personal info to stangers or where it can be gathered up against you, especially not under your true name. However there are many business and community building uses for social media like things. One objecting that I have to MeWe and other alt paid social media sites is that I haven't seen even one of them that doesn't require a credit card and thus any real anonymity is not possible. You would think that at least a few would have privacy coin payments, at least for say a year at a time, in place. I imagine I don't have to tell you why anonymity is important in these increasingly tyrannical, litigious, social cancelling by accusation, de-banking, de-platforming, doxxing times.
I personally don't use any social networks and have no desire to use them, so I can't say much about the paid ones. I guess I don't even know what they are.
I guess one could probably consider this UA-cam channel to be a social media platform, at least to the extent of commenting on videos.
What about youtube?
Don't log in. Use it through Lokinet for near perfect privacy. yolo.loki/ is one such site that proxies UA-cam over Lokinet so UA-cam can't see your IP address.
Good video but has high pitch whine in background.
I must be getting old because I don't hear that. I'm not saying it's not there, I just can't hear it. In any case, my newer videos are taken with different equipment that has a much better microphone
I didn't heart it to.its probably him.
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I don't agree about protonmail. At the least it is orders of magnitude better than gmail and its kin. I don't agree you are advertising anything since they support using your own domain which removes visibility. I don't think it is good generally to fear being known to be interested in what our parents and grandparents took for granted. Most of the worst personal data dragnet works off the patterns of those that know nothing of privacy or think they don't need it or are fearful of standing out. It is not designed to so much endanger those that take basic countermeasures. I think your reasoning is either spotty here or not sufficiently presented.
My concern with Protonmail isn't the quality of the service. It is very nice, and I don't distrust them. What I am saying is that using Protonmail puts a bullseye on you as a "privacy person".