What are some best practices for avoiding the botnet?

i sometimes think i want to go back to the days without a smartphone

then i think how inconvenient my life becomes, and i realise i really couldnt do without my portable shitposting and porn machine

>TT: lmao u can't completely anonymize yourself so you shouldn't do anything

first off, be aware of all the data you give and have given to various sources
take a piece of paper and start jotting down the major ones

your phone and the software on it matter less than being aware of what you put there. you can always leave a phone home or take the battery out (if applicable)

you should probably use an android phone with a custom ROM + degoogle it + don't install any non-free, non-trustworthy applications aside from the absolute necessities to get the phone to work. dumbphones probably work too, but aren't probably any better, some may be equal, others slightly worse.

at home, run some proper GNU/Linux distribution, and again, don't use services that particularly spy on you. use tor and VPN:s to further mix up your connections

the main thing, though, is, just don't give out information or use social media and popular search engines. this will drastically decrease the information anyone can have on you.

You have to make a tradeoff. How much effort and inconvenience are you willing to stomach to minimise your footprint in the botnet? Most urban centres have facial recognition, are you willing to avoid these entirely? Probably not. On the other hand, building your own private server so you don't have to store your shit on Google Drive is achievable.

Don't use the internet at all and don't use devices that can connect to any kind of network. That's the only way.

>posts memes on 4chin
>i wanna drop off the map completely

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Stop using electronics.

>I wanna drop off the map completely.

take the battery out of your phone, dipshit.

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Yeah, you're totally secure with ol' gsm, no way to follow you or know what you're communicating over that secure, time-tested channel.

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>typewriter
>snail mail
>barter for food
>pretend to be blind so you can wear sunglasses everywhere
>don't live in England

You can be tracked and bugged with any mobile communications device.

Yeah, but with a flip phone I can easily pop the battery out if I don't want the NSA tracking me.

>not embracing botnet

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>Implying there aren't backup devices to keep the tracking powered at all times

Backup devices? Like what?

>disconnect from the internet
>never leave faraday's cage in your basement

*crack*
*siiiiip*
Yep, these darn younguns and their crazy newfangled phones... Flip phones, now those were real phones...

Why are you all so afraid of being tracked?
Serious question, not trolling.

I mean, I could care less if the NSA/CIA/FBI/whatever knows that I am doing groceries or something.

nice try Mr. Government

A single data point (like you doing groceries yesterday at 5pm) isn't the issue.
It's the multi-dimensional combination of millions of data points over the course of years.
These can be used to create an accurate psychological profile used to manipulate you.
It's a powerful weapon and just because someone hasn't fired it yet, doesn't mean no one ever will.

Don't own any kind of computer or electronic devices

Why the fuck are you okay with the idea that someone is creeping on you, studying every single thing you're doin, judging you on your actions and assumes shit about you based on your actions and based on that giving you disadvantages in real life even, if they see fit, when they see fit, without you having a single say on that?

make your clothes out of hemp

You, son, are being paranoid.

Ok, that does sound reasonable. Thanks for explaining.

fpbp

Not paranoid. I just wouldn't be okay with it if that was the case, I dislike the idea of being tracked a lot.

I sincerely doubt "they" studying every single thing you're doin of you are just some average Joe..

"They" are computers that work 24/7/365.
It's not that expensive to monitor everyone.
Psychological profiles are generated automatically by machine learning algorithms.

when they collect the data, they can look it in any time if they want, they can make an easy usable search engine for it. Allowing them to track you allows them to automatically create a profile on you with everything you ever did. They can even automate "red flags" or anything that might be suspicious to then be manually inspected.

Use Linux, use Tor nonstop, delete all social media, delete Google, use a private email like Tutanota or Proton Mail (or host your own), and lurk more faggot

They would get bored very quickly tracking me. :'(

Home-work-store-home-atm-bar-murder hooker-lake-home-sleep-work-store..etc etc

there are two levels of botnet - marketing botnet and NSA botnet
the first one is a legitimate problem the second is paranoia bordering on mental disorder
the only time to worry about botnet beyond marketing is if you know you're doing actual questionable shit you want to cover up but I doubt you're running a piracy network, questionable porn or radical political group etc

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I have generated a lot of anti-government propaganda.

>They would get bored very quickly tracking me. :'(
This isn't the 1950s. Do you really think there's a human watching every monitor subject?

I run multiple Tor nodes

>Device that has to connect to physical radio tower and routes data through unknown service isn't botnet
Why half-ass your autism like that ?

are you trying to keep that separate from your public identity?
if you're already known as a "radical" in certain communities you're probably already being tracked anyway
it's not a secret that the police keeps tabs on people who even show up to protests

The very single day, hour and second you do something they don't like, determined by computers and algorithms, a human will get notified about it. You constantly have them watching over your shoulder.

so I'm sure you've read this then right?
torproject.org/eff/tor-legal-faq.html.en
seems like it covers everything

live with aborigines

>cashiers checking you out at a store
this doesn't happen

Yes, I was actually thinking there is a Winfield smoking man sitting behind a flickering crt monitor watching a live-stream of a satelites camera that is focused on me only 24/7.

/s

>implying Tor isn’t botnet too

ITT : niggers
Since when Jow Forums defend the botnet exactly?

Jow Forums is tech support for /v/ children
/v/ is addicted to the botnet
Therefore Jow Forums defends the botnet.

only way to truly escape is to go full Kaczynski and live alone in the woods with no technology

Super cringe

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>Pry it from my cold dead hands motherfuckers! I ain't joining the botnet.

In order for someone to break iPhone, they literally have to buy some Jewish password cracker and wait like a fucking week if they're lucky to access your information.
With a flip phone, literally all they got to do is open the device and read the storage.
>b-b-b-b-b-but user I don't use the interwebs XD
They can just go to your carrier and get your call logs/chat logs from there, cause it's fucking unencrypted SMS. It's amazing how retards like you fall for every trick in the book and ironically join the botnet, all cause a couple of pajeets convinced you Apple is the greatest evil on earth.

Yeah, but with a flip phone, you get literally 0 protections from the NSA tracking you, as the device uses 0 sort of encryption and likely no password protection. I hope this is bait, cause if not, you should be ashamed of yourself.

> What is key escrow?

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>let me throw around this buzzword that doesn't actually make any sense in the way I'm applying it and try to feel smart

>The Clipper chip was a chipset that was developed and promoted by the United States National Security Agency[1] (NSA) as an encryption device that secured “voice and data messages"[2] with a built-in backdoor.

why do people get tattoos like this? what are they thinking

No, I'm saying it doesn't matter if your phone is encrypted, because Big Brother can just get the key from Apple. I don't store data on my phone. I store it on my computer, which isn't synced with the cloud. If I suspect that Big Brother is coming for me, I can just erase any suspicious files with srm, because they're only stored locally.

no-one cares enough about you to spy on you exclusively OP

Extremely tempting. Anyone else thought about this? I imagine bring computer(s) with, whether or not I have internet. Maybe stock up on books and videos ahead of time? I have a shovel and hatchet already. I don't know much about building structures or generating my own electricity.

Retard, I don't think understand let me explain this to you in terms I think you will.

If you make a text, that text will end up instead of your carriers server and they'll just be able to get it from there and it's not a choice or debate. Second, Apple in the face of there be a terrorist with data on his phone, still didn't unlock it but you trust your carrier with your data? Big fucking B Brainlet.

That's why I don't send sensitive texts or say anything suspicious during voice calls, because I know the NSA monitors them.

whats utnudu

>at first technology introduced convenience, but after widespread adoption in now reliant on it, thus decreasing my freedom.
Gee, I wonder if anybody saw this trend coming and tried to stop it. Maybe even wrote an essay about industrial society and it’s future.

honestly the first time I've seen this posted and it actually applies

then why the fuck do you have a phone?

this thread just proved how many pozzed phonefags have infested Jow Forums, this is no longer a safe space for desktop pc users

the google-trusting children have won

To communicate non-sensitive information with my pairs, duh.

>why do people get tattoos like this? what are they thinking
Not much. There's a reason why you don't find many tattoos at MENSA meetings. Tattoos are the marks of the Commoners.

>he thinks he is not part the botnet, using a propitiatory os "dumb"phone.

All phones are proprietary, unless you can find a MeeGo phone somewhere.