A VERY useful book for privacy (How to hide anything) (limewire.com)
from lunatique@lemmy.ml to privacy@lemmy.ml on 12 Oct 05:54
https://lemmy.ml/post/37421598

You’re welcome I’ll share even better books later.

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org on 12 Oct 06:15 next collapse

Also available on LibGen when this link goes down. Thank you for bringing this to our attention 🫡

lunatique@lemmy.ml on 12 Oct 06:21 collapse

I’ll repost if need be. Unless you have the libgen link

Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 12 Oct 06:46 next collapse

This site immediately got flagged by uBlock Origin’s malicious sites filter, do you have an Anna’s Archive link or an ISBN I can use to look this book up?

SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 12 Oct 06:54 next collapse
lunatique@lemmy.ml on 12 Oct 07:02 next collapse

Yeah on one of my browsers it flagged it. Which is odd because Limewire is a legit business that’s been around before social media, but they use to get hated on by companies and regulators because they allowed people to share free music. I don’t have any other links personally. As I directly uploaded this file myself. I see that 70 people downloaded it so far with no problem.

I would recommend making an exception on your ublock for it, after you research limewire and see if you trust it.

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Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 12 Oct 07:05 next collapse

Limewire has had a history of uploaders using it for malware distribution (hence why it’s probably included in the filter).

lunatique@lemmy.ml on 12 Oct 07:15 collapse

Fair enough, I didn’t think about that. But I feel every torrent or sharing site has that potential flaw.

artiman@piefed.social on 12 Oct 20:32 collapse

Just use soulseek, limewire is blocked for a reason

lunatique@lemmy.ml on 12 Oct 20:43 collapse

102 downloads so far. I guess it’s not blocked. Just because you all don’t like a site or platform doesn’t mean I’ll conform. I’ll check soulseek at my leisure though, if it is superior in functionality and efficiency then I will switch.

Zerush@lemmy.ml on 12 Oct 10:45 collapse

No problems here, URLvoid and Webbkoll don’t show any security issue, Limewire is a legit site. For sure a false positive of one of the uBO filters

affenlehrer@feddit.org on 12 Oct 07:26 next collapse

Well the simple ideas in the beginning seem plausible but afterwards it’s basically dig a hole, hide the thing, put a house (or tree) on top of it. It’s indeed hidden but you also can’t access it any more.

lunatique@lemmy.ml on 12 Oct 07:34 next collapse

The useful parts are useful admittedly

unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml on 12 Oct 09:03 next collapse

It all depends on your security model.

If you want to stuff some cash, you probably want that easily accessible.

If you want to hide something you’ll need in a few years, you’ll probably stuff it under a pile of junk.

If you want to make your family heirlooms safe until you reveal their location on your deathbed, planting a tree or building a house on top of them is a valid ultra-long-term option.

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 12 Oct 15:19 collapse

you can’t access it anymore

Someone hasn’t seen John Wick

glitching@lemmy.ml on 12 Oct 09:17 next collapse

I mean this is certainly something somebody wrote, but the content is a joke.

first off, it’s from the 80s, so it might as well be from the 1800s, that’s how much it has to do with our everyday lives. second, it’s rife and overflowing with prepper-adjacent gas and fantasies. the writer’s style is lacking, to be overly generous and the whole thing gives off vibes from the days or alt.* newsgroups. finally, the “advice” in there is laughably naive and sometimes just plain wrong.

so thanks OP, had a few laughs browsing it but this got deleted almost instantly.

lunatique@lemmy.ml on 12 Oct 12:57 next collapse

Omg stfu the 80s might as well be the 1800? Just use the book if you need. If you can’t find any useful tips or something you’ve never thought about it’s probably because you just never think.

glitching@lemmy.ml on 12 Oct 13:56 next collapse

that’s a… mature, measured, and well thought-out reply. good job!

mistermodal@lemmy.ml on 12 Oct 14:50 next collapse

In the 80s the cops could just kill anyone they wanted and blame a serial killer. Now they do it on bodycam and nobody cares. Things change.

astropenguin5@lemmy.world on 13 Oct 15:54 collapse

The 80s were 40 years ago. The security landscape is so different now, even if it was a perfectly valid book on how to actually hide anything then, it is not accurate at all to the current environment and internet. There may be some physical security things that apply, but even with those there are likely things that now need to be taken into account that did not exist then.

lunatique@lemmy.ml on 13 Oct 19:26 collapse

You all are fools. No one on average reads this type of book. It’s not like everyone has a reference of all these hiding spaces. It is hands on so it is very practical.

irmadlad@lemmy.world on 13 Oct 20:08 collapse

It is very difficult to have an objective and meaningful conversation with someone who considers their audience to be simpletons and fools right from the gate. Add in condescending references to the masses as ‘normies’ et al or those with conflicting opinions labeled as ‘hypebeasts’.

If we are the enlightened, why don’t we come down from our enlightened pedestals and assist our fellow man in lieu of brow beating them from some assumed level of superiority or high ground? If I were one of the supposed ‘normies’ and you were trying to convince of privacy, security, and anonymity with the tone you arrived here a few days ago with, I’d probably tell you to piss right off. We’re all here to learn and help learn, and take that knowledge and teach others around us how to use their technology in the most safe, secure, and private manner possible.

Condescending attitudes and tones don’t do much to further the cause.

lunatique@lemmy.ml on 13 Oct 20:10 collapse

Not interested in you. Read the book or don’t

irmadlad@lemmy.world on 13 Oct 20:33 collapse

It’s not really the book that is the issue

irmadlad@lemmy.world on 12 Oct 16:14 collapse

Soldier of Fortune vibes

DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml on 12 Oct 11:35 next collapse

If you’re cooked, then just use a lighter to set the thing you don’t want to be exposed on fire.

XTL@sopuli.xyz on 12 Oct 18:43 collapse
kalpol@lemmy.ca on 12 Oct 14:47 collapse

Here’s an actual good book:

Helen Nissenbaum (2009). Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804772891.