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Brendan wrote:The level of corruption is unreal. Seems like a daily/weekly basis these days when you encounter some organization doing at best shady shit....

Coordinated fires wrote: > good luck I'm behind 6 proxies!

> Believe it or not I'm a total tradecraft nerd. I like maintaining
> as much OPSEC as possible in my daily life as a sort of hobby,
> even if my girlfriend thinks I'm crazy/ a drug dealer. I use
> different 32 character passwords for everything, generated from a
> random number table I use for stats classes and change them at
> irregular intervals. I Use encrypted email with integrated
> whitelist, although who uses email anymore? I tend to communicate
> using secure encrypted apps like Whatsapp with friends and
> family. use whitelist based anti-malware filters for browsing ,
> have zero social media/search engine footprint( this was not
> easy). Have automated alerts set up for all my bank accounts and
> credit cards to send notifications of any applications or
> transactions over a certain amount and check my statements
> regularly. Subscribe to a credit monitoring and insurance through
> a reputable financial institution. Use RFID blocking sleeves for
> my cards. Use untraceable prepaid credit cards for most online
> purchases and cash for most small purchases especially at places
> where I don't trust the Card readers to be secured. Webcams and
> Mics covered on all internet connected devices. I also change the
> SIM card on my phone every 4-6 months, which is about how long it
> takes for a sim to show up on a carrier database, only 10 bucks
> it's cheap insurance. I bleachbit and store my own hard drives
> before disposing of old computers, I get no paper bills in the
> mail that can be stolen.

> That's about it. let me know if you think of anything else, short
> of rotating in and out of safe houses and keeping my phone in the
> microwave. I'm pretty sure I'd be single at that point lol. At the
> end of the day there's only so much you can do, a determined
> adversary can easily defeat these measures, but at least the
> crimes of opportunity are deterred.

> This reminds me of the OPM hack. These hackers( state or
> non-state?) are getting smarter. Why hack dozens of banks or
> government agencies when everyone's information is stored on the
> poorly maintained servers of one or two companies/bureaus.

John wrote:

Coordinated fires wrote: > good luck I'm behind 6 proxies!

> Believe it or not I'm a total tradecraft nerd. I like maintaining
> as much OPSEC as possible in my daily life as a sort of hobby,
> even if my girlfriend thinks I'm crazy/ a drug dealer. I use
> different 32 character passwords for everything, generated from a
> random number table I use for stats classes and change them at
> irregular intervals. I Use encrypted email with integrated
> whitelist, although who uses email anymore? I tend to communicate
> using secure encrypted apps like Whatsapp with friends and
> family. use whitelist based anti-malware filters for browsing ,
> have zero social media/search engine footprint( this was not
> easy). Have automated alerts set up for all my bank accounts and
> credit cards to send notifications of any applications or
> transactions over a certain amount and check my statements
> regularly. Subscribe to a credit monitoring and insurance through
> a reputable financial institution. Use RFID blocking sleeves for
> my cards. Use untraceable prepaid credit cards for most online
> purchases and cash for most small purchases especially at places
> where I don't trust the Card readers to be secured. Webcams and
> Mics covered on all internet connected devices. I also change the
> SIM card on my phone every 4-6 months, which is about how long it
> takes for a sim to show up on a carrier database, only 10 bucks
> it's cheap insurance. I bleachbit and store my own hard drives
> before disposing of old computers, I get no paper bills in the
> mail that can be stolen.

> That's about it. let me know if you think of anything else, short
> of rotating in and out of safe houses and keeping my phone in the
> microwave. I'm pretty sure I'd be single at that point lol. At the
> end of the day there's only so much you can do, a determined
> adversary can easily defeat these measures, but at least the
> crimes of opportunity are deterred.

> This reminds me of the OPM hack. These hackers( state or
> non-state?) are getting smarter. Why hack dozens of banks or
> government agencies when everyone's information is stored on the
> poorly maintained servers of one or two companies/bureaus.

So how do you protect yourself from muggers, urban warfare,
Chinese and North Korean missiles, and crazy ex-girlfriends?