What Does Edward Snowden Recommend and Why?
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
- Today we look at the privacy tools Edward Snowden recommended any more importantly, why does he recommend such tools.
#privacy #snowden #Tor
00:00 - Hero or Villain?
00:54 - Metadata
03:27 - Snowden Recommends
06:54 - Defunct Recommendations
11:20 - What Might Make Good Services
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**STL IS FAKE NEWS** - At 5:02 I say, "TAILS and Whonix..." WHOOPS! That should be TAILS and QUBES (but Qubes uses Whonix for part of the network stack....)
STL is FAKE NEWS!!
You are fake
It is all pointless if people in your social network use Discord, Facebook.
Snowden said this decades ago, is there no newer better option?
Snowden is a likely CIA asset who's part of a psyop to damage or curtail the activities of the NSA. Real whistleblowers don't get celebrated in the media, they get their lives and reputations ruined (look at what happened to the guy who leaked the CIA Vault 7 hacking tools). I would be cautious about any supposed privacy solutions he recommends people use.
When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals." -Edward Snowden
At least he didn't get rich by insider trading like all the members of the U.S. Congress and Senate
Not to mention the in-your-face millions of dollars and gifts given to them by their "sponsors" (ie blatent bribery). Not surprising that the common Joe falls for the Trump bs.
AFAIK Protonmail didn't hand over the metadata to the authorities, but the account recovery mail address. That address was in Applemail, and Apple handed over the owner information of that account to the authorities.
This should be noted for those who don't follow this sort of thing. Proton enjoys a good reputation for privacy. However, they're still subject to Swiss Law. The activist in question was being pursued under "terrorism" charges, (terrorism is illegal in Switzerland and all) so Proton was obligated to hand over the info they had. Which as it turns out, wasn't much. Proton Mail doesn't ask for a ton of personal info. The one piece of critical information was the email address he used for backup authentication. Using an email address with your Apple ID tied to it isn't typically recommended for trying to stay anonymous.
@@aarongeerer7758 Yeah. Here in Finland we had the so-called "Vastaamo" - case where a hacker stole the database of a psychotherapy center and demanded a ransom from the involved clients. The police caught the hacker and broke the encryption of his server, but they couldn't access Proton and Tutanota's data, so I trust Proton quite a lot.
@@aarongeerer7758 Yeah. Here in Finland we had the so-called "Vastaamo" case, in which a hacker downloaded the client database of a psychotherapy center and blackmailed clients by threatening to disclose the information. The police caught the hacker and, for example, broke the encryption of his server. However, the police did not manage to access the hacker's email accounts located in Proton and Tutanota.
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Signal’s ownership is a problem. Awesome.
i also like these outdoors videos. they remind me that there is real life pulsating, outside of the digital illusion. this contrast revitalizes me. mentally, at least.
Same, a lot
William Gibson type prose
@@SonOfMeme hahaha. i know him, but never read him. maybe i should have. but yes i am a huge novel reader and an incurable romantic....👋
I like these nature walk videos. It's like a walk with a friend.
Agreed. Great format.
I will keep them up, but try not to over do them.
@@SwitchedtoLinux
Good video on grass.
Also, cia hacked my Proton mail. I guess they just have the password. But they are in there and can mess with my emails. I should probably just get a new email address and scrap that one..
@@SwitchedtoLinux
We also have the names of two criminals/ cyber criminals. Who work for cabal.
Nice video and great explanations on all the topics you touch upon. I really like that you did this video outdoors :) Cheers
Wow what a great video. Great topic and interesting and you made it look so good with the beautiful landscape. Excellent job.
I really enjoyed the outdoor video! Great content too!
Thanks. I look foward to scoping your channel. Great stuff. Subscribed. Cheers
**MINOR CORRECTION**
5:36 I incorrectly overlay "honeywell" microphones for those wanting to know the tech. The correct brand is "Hollyland"
Honeywell is also an aerospace Engineering Company, by the way.
It’s refreshing to see Americans gradually waking up. There’s still a long road ahead.
What sad is it’s to late they woke up just in time to have to sleep in the bed that’s been made.
Be ready for the collapse it will be painful and likely very very traumatic but if you can survive we may just have enough of us to preserve the memory of what was our once great nation.
@@sirdoomer7927 at some point you must see, It has already collapsed. The collapse has already occurred.
banking education government commerce healthcare labor wages agriculture military etc
all of it
@@antonyka-pra-ra We exist only in name yes but that is not a true total collapse. The Roman Empire took years to fully collapse and it is the same for us.
I’m more eluding to the total collapse when someone else takes over, the country’s name changes the people change that’s what I mean.
They Need to Stop the Democrats...Republicans are more homeland issues centered...
@@antonyka-pra-rait's still not felt. Collapse is when you feel it.
Let's take Hollywood for example. Hollywood is still making profit, albeit much less than it was making before. With more and more people stoping watching Hollywood it can collapse completely and become totally obscure stuff that people largely forget about. People play games and watch RUclips instead of movies and TV. More and more people are doing it because movies are just not worth it anymore. There was no competition before so people could stand several bad movies in a row. But now? Several bad movies and people just stop watching all Hollywood movies, they watch TV series or sport or play video games or watch RUclips or do something else. There is too much competition for them to swallow it. There is of course old population and people still think that Hollywood stars are important as before. But they are not. Mr Beast is much more famous than any Hollywood star that appeared when Mr Beast appeared. And Mr Beast is probably not as famous as Hollywood star was when Hollywood was a thing.
American products by design have mandatory backdoors at the CPU level. Two examples are the Intel ME and AMD PSP. They don't need to compromise the OS or userland applications.
Just wait till Pluton is in them and then the fun really begins.
Suspect this, too. Got a source?
@@sotecluxan4221 the one that will provide the source/evidence, will face the same fate as Snowden. But the future will tell whether in the past and the present we were right.
. What is Pluton?
@@johnroberts1734 A search will tell you what it is and there's a few RUclips videos about it also. It boils down to it is not good for consumers in my book especially with microsoft is supposed to be the one responsible for the updating of the firmware and this is bios/uefi territory. Microsoft won't even fix their botch 444 update from January and you think you can trust them for firmware updates on your CPU?
Thanks for sharing.
Very relevant and valid today. Congrats!
Great information, thank you!
Cool format. I like the outdoors backdrops.
I'm in a park watching a guy walking in a park with good conversation. Sub
Very informative!
Thank you 🙏🏼 for this 👏🏼
Very interesting. Thank you.
Great content, Chips are compromised in phones that work with Graphene OS, however still many positive things about them. I have interest in some other phones.
And what about CalyxOS or Crdroid?
Nice outdoors format
I'm building a raspberry phone. Is there any hardware w backdoor I should avoid? Or some I should consider?
great video mate!
I use grapheneOS and I'm in the process of removing my Google account and just making one for RUclips comments. I use the app that shall not be named to consume RUclips.
I also use signal only for calls and messages, Firefox whenever possible due to not having 2 companies controlling web standards.
Enjoy your videos, keep em up.
I also have no google services or google stuff on my device not even in grapheneOS google play sandbox. My phone, my files, my data. The security is only as good as the end user
Who is behind Graphene and why is it free. There is no free lunch, do ur due diligence!
@@sotecluxan4221 The open source community is dedicated to free software, they often rely on donations.
As for GrapheneOS, the main contributor is paranoid programmer and wanted a private phone OS and when realising the competition was poor he started GrapheneOS
@@sotecluxan4221 grapheneOS is a team of privacy conscious individuals you can inspect their source code and it's all open source built upon the AOSP. I trust them than Google's proprietary add-ons
@@sotecluxan4221 Also linux is free ie debian
I love this channel.
please a link to the service mentioned in the video at 11:32 , thanks in advance...nice video
Ed snowden actually said meta-data is enough info and that the actual subject matter was not needed. Whonix is better than tails because it runs in a two vm's that route everythng through tor and even if your vm is compromised they won't be able get to your actual machine. The cia is getting around end to end encyption by doing client side scanning, which means they can see everything ur doing BEFORE u encrypt. Congress is trying to pass a law right now to allow client side scanning - call your sentaor. the uk has already approved the law
When the government runs theTOR exit nodes... and many of the entry nodes, connecting entry to exit isn't hard. I've heard a story of a person who started up an exit node, and the government came a knockin... told them to get their @$$ off of TOR. (insert implied threat)
The answer I can't seem to find is if I install graphene on my phone, but still have a google account and use it on the phone such as google maps (which everyone uses). Does that compromise everything I'm trying to do with Graphene?
It does not. Google services are OPTIONAL on Graphene, and if you choose to install it, Graphene sandboxes it to protect other data on your phone. Google services is easily installed from the Graphene Apps App
so what do you say about sekur mail based in Switzerland ?
I need a security mentor 😔
Just started my cybersecurity journey but the most valuable lessons are from someone who has a deep understandi g of security vs privacy
Looks like someone needs me
I have a flash drive with TAILS on it. Encrypted on it is my contact lists, physical mailing addresses, etc.
Proton will be 100% safe and private if you don't have recovery mail.
Also able to delete proton mail recovery mail once set up and working. There is no record kept of this data once deleted only required for setting up an account, though obviously not able to recover account with out it as protonmail has no way of confirming your account ownership….
Great outdoor scene makes the discussion much more engageable, good idea done well. Many thanks
Can I use it to access dark web to talk about secret stuff on forums?
I have been trying to get all of my contacts to switch to Signal for years. I have been unsuccessful due to the "If I'm not doing anything wrong who cares?" argument. I tried describing that is not the point by asking if the same people would object to the government having the ability to read every letter theyv'e ever sent?
Thoughts on Lokinet & Session, an outfit from Australia?
Was it the metadata what Snowden focused on? He was also speaking about people in government logging on to citizen's camera's and watching them undress......
He is IT guy.
They used cameras to drag attention of layman people to the problem. Any hacker can use camera to watch you having sex with your wife is he really intends to do so. Just put a tape over camera. And yes, people in government agencies also enjoy home porn.
The problem is your intellectual property can be stolen and other secrets. You may make a valuable invention and it can be stolen from your computer before you even register it.
Big data is also problem. One church used advertisement data to harass homosexuals. Imagine anti-Semites buying data on whereabouts of Jews. Yes, this advertisement company was selling usual location of the phone of homosexuals. It's not like you change your ways all that often. You typically visit the same places over and over again. It's really scary thing.
I don't even talk about selling your income status to advertisers. You can literally buy information about all high earners in your city. They target advertisement to particular income brackets. You would be soon unable to find a deal because system will know how much you earn. Even now there are algorithms that jack up prices on many things like housing, healthcare, meat... Most companies use this algorithms to find most lucrative price. And it raises prices for everybody. Now there are algorithms that will change price depending on how much they can price this time of the day. Wendy wanted to use it, but was stopped by public outrage.
Tor browser is very slow any tips how to fix that?
How does Session stack up?
do you have a link to the story on the proton metadata?
how do you spell the service you mentioned after signal?
spideroak
spideroak.com/
They moved away from consumer and into high end corporate last year.
Great stuff! Did you know Lavabit is back in business? I'd like to get your take on their current service offerings.
I use proton apps but understand my surface it's more so to get convenience of google workspace but on grapheneOS with APK files. I even have 6TB of cloud storage, visionary member I put old CCTV files of my home in their. I use reolink cameras with onboard storage and upload into my proton drive account.
Signal worries me as one of the board members may back door it somehow.
About signal... do you have a source, please?
Tor has also sone like this....
@@namelessuser666 you can find the source in one of the previous videos done. Says Signals "name of board member"
I covered this in the Weekly News Roundup last week, so you can read that or look at my show notes from last week for the references.
Sooo... what's the best phone for GrapheneOS? Has anyone tried the Punkt MC02 phone?
It only supports Pixel phones.
Please write the names of the software mentioned either in the video or put put at the top of the comments.
Mother Nature is AMAZING!❤❤❤
If you're only needing to message in your local area using a LORA device with Meshtastik is probably the most secure as it doesn't use the internet.
Snowden recommended QubesOS too at some point. Did that change?
I meant to say "Qubes" instead of "Whonix"... I repented and called myself FAKE NEWS.
The concern for the ordinary citizen is if privileged access to private information is being used to the economic advantage of insiders. Generally, what would be considered corporate espionage. It is difficult to securely obtain a lot of this software.
It surely used by corporations. Even government is waking up to private sector using algorithms to raise prices for people on meat, rent...
There is also targeted groups. One church used big data to harass homosexuals.
Raspberri Pi thats will be my only next Daily Driver Pc..
This guy loves a good walking transition.
Meta data is sensitive information if it is going to have real implications, such as: if it will be used to make incomplete, partial, and conditional deduction, which will be wrongfully used as complete proof by ignoring the doubt, that you are implicated in something, or, if the meta data will be used to wrongfully harm your person or your rights through unjustified actions. However, the emphasis in both cases is that there is another systemic or individual wrongdoing against you from which you should have been protected already, by law and by Constitution. Of course, it is better if you had both protections, but my point is that the ways in which metadata is abused is the wider problem, and metadata privacy is only a feeble cover which is being lost in the next, smaller step.
Pixel device and grapheneOS. Do you really think google would be allowed to bring a phone on the market without a hardware backdoor?
Allowed? I'm pretty sure it's voluntary at this point. 😢
Don't be Google
Where's your evidence (if any) for 'backdoor'?
@vthomas375 I believe it was in the news in 2009 or 2010. There were huge reports from major outlets. A dude is literally trapped in Russia because of revealing this kind of stuff. There was the entire fallout over apple putting these backdoors in. I don't believe yt allows us to link websites but the info provided should be enough for you to figure out that the patriot act was just them dipping their toes in the water.
😲 damn that looked like a big trout feeding on insects near the end. O and great vid. Sorry but what does STL stand for? Did I blink???
They do stock these stream with trout and just down stream is year round catch and release for some amazing trout.
Hey make a way where we can talk and join dude -
I cant join your mastadon link , invite only.
thx .
Any thoughts on GrapheneOS vs a rooted install of Kali Nethunter?
They are two completely different use cases.
Nethunter is just fr pentesting that's it not a everyday driver os.
@@IlIlIIlIlIlIlIlIl I was curious if you can still use the SIM for calls?
Difference between those 2 Systems (Custom ROM) is that :
1) Graphene OS is an hardened Android ROM using encrypted memory space thanks to the hardenmalloc libraries, but drawback is it was designed by Google guys and made for Google Pixel smartphones, so also include backdoor for remote access
2) Nethunter is the portable version of Kali, but mostly for ARM CPU on almost Android smartphone
What does Snowden recommend to get the XY back door weakness fixed in Linux ?
It never made it into Linux. They tried and failed because of the open source model.
You probably meant Qubes OS and not Whonix (which anyway, despite being a separate operating system, is also used in Qubes) 😉
Yes, If I said Whonix, that was in Error.
Quebes uses Whonix?
What about Qubes?
I meant to say "Qubes" instead of "Whonix"... I repented and called myself FAKE NEWS.
How about session and simplex?
Session has been popular lately, I have not heard of simplex.
I like them
Are they secure enough?
@@meekdook4236 no always use messaging apps that you wish to stay 100% anonymous through tor gateway.
Speaking of metadata when a professional photographer uploads an image to Facebook or Instagram the digital metadata that's in the professional photograph usually tells the time of the camera exposure f-stop light value in such other indicating important data those websites scrub that off and put their own unique number on it therefore removing the creators identity to the actual digital image does that seem fair 4:42
Tor network is compromised. It has been for a long time.
Email will never be secure. Proton Mail is probably as good as it gets.
5:19 - “Obsticates”?
Whatever that word is that I can never say...
@@SwitchedtoLinuxobfuscate?
Which Linux do you recommend?
For the new user, Linux Mint Cinnamon
SNODEN = HERO. PICK YOUR OWN SOFTWARE, CAVEAT EMPTOR.
I wish you'd list all the names of recommended apps & systems. The transcript did a horrible job.
Linux has a backdoor so?
My name is Lynn Marie Oliveras. My neck was broken by a military member. I was put on a watch list. I have been stalked and hacked because my ex works for the government. He is a hacker for the government and is involved in many crimes including the other members. I suffered a C2 fracture and I have cancer. They keep refusing me care because I told people my story and exposed crimes. I am currently in Gdansk Poland and being followed and stalked by people from US and police here in Poland. My email now tuta mail has just been hacked and my phone being tapped. My medical care is being tampered with. I am going to die if cancer because I can not get care or the justice I deserve. I contacted the IN for human rights violations, no answer. Government is corrupt.
There is plenty of info on natural cures for can$er
You know you have to watch out for those guys, who are the ones sneaking into whatever you do: Rev 2:9
She is not “somewhat compromised”. She is untrustworthy.
Wait. Isn't SpiderOak a Palintar clone? I knew someone who worked for SpiderOak and I would always tease her about working for a statist NSA analog.
Edward Snowden is an international hero. He symbolizes honesty in the fight for justice. He has a wonderful faithful wife and they deserve a happy life in beautiful Russia.
Only Russia is strong enough to defend the truth.
Just two major disagreements, one very close after the other:
5:57 Have they developed better in the last ten years? Or have they become more compromised? Or perhaps they merely ruined their credibility?
6:14 There really is no _true_ anonymity on the internet. But what there is, are many degrees of lacking anonymity.
Proton gave their IP only and that's because they didn't use a VPN. Proton + VPN = zero Metadata.
Lol vpns no use tor
Simply searching for tails gets you watched
Searching anything on Google gets you watched.
Love your content ,
But one thing that really winds me up is "free speech"!!
It doesn't mean you can say whatever you like , it means you can say what you like about the Government without getting into trouble , If you are breaking a law E.G. Slander etc then "Free speech" arguments are not valid!!
I dont care, cuz i have nothing too say
=off me i have nothing too do
I dunno - even a burner phone with Signal, Tor and all that can stick out, especially in rural areas. It's a full time project being secure if you're trying to stay invisible to the big kids....
get on with the software
Tor is good? 🤣 You just remind me of why I'm not subscribing to your channel. 😂
LOL. Go do some research
@@SwitchedtoLinux Does an average Joe run his own Tor nodes? Does an average Joe know how to reinforce Tor's weak spots other than simply using the Tor Browser? Tor was created by the US govt and it's not for my right to privacy. I've done my research.
@SwanTube so what do you use?
I would be very wary of what Snowden recommends. He is on the Russian Federation's custody, and he was working for them from the US before defecting, too.
I'd genuinely be less inclined to use hardware or software that he recommends since russia owns the guy's soul now
Clown 🤡
Snowden did not commit crime. In fact he saw crimes. Going on. He didn't want to participate. He then
Quit his job , in protest. And left. Moved away.
I'm too old for this cloak and dagger crap...
I just want to watch RUclips videos...
Is there a safe way to watch without being marched into the oven?
Nein.
@@slacker1 נכון מאוד
That depends on what you want to watch!
This is a joke right? You're talking about data storage companies and privacy. That is literally someone else's computer. What happened to storing everything locally in your own devices?
That is long time ago. Do ur due diligence, before using "safe" stuff!!
Snowden did his country a favor but he still is guilty of espionage, although an argument can be made that since Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden have been given a pass, Snowden rates a pass too.
What pass did biden and clinton get?
passes.
@@lordhriley They didn't get indicted for "mishandling classified material", a violation that by law doesn't require an element of intent. Only a U.S. president is beyond such a charge although an intent by anyone to divulge classified material to foreign powers could be indicted for treason.
he uncovered the spies of his fellow-people, although he could perfectly shut his mouth up and be a part of the system's elite. when i watch him talk, i see a man with both a conscience and a rational thought. he did more than all of us who kneel all day to our little and big masters, actually. as for Russia, he went to the only place in the world that would not give him in, or send him back to the USA, while maintaining a ''western way of life'' and a ''western mentality'' (in the cultural and not strictly political sense and in contrast with china). Putin's Russia was the most obvious, safe and sane choice for him. the alternative: lifetime imprisonment in the country of ''democratic'' genocides...he opened humanity's eyes and we should all thank him for that.
@@user-gu7wy3qj9x Russia, the last white christian country, is the last place in the western world with a rational common sense and sensibility, we should all be so lucky.
So we should take advice from somebody who fled to Russia? 🤣
Not if you like prison or work for a three letter agency 😊
It’s irrelevant.
Good points, except for the part about taking Snowden seriously.
The word is ORIENTED, not ORIENTATED.
helpful .... certainly regarding text and or documents.
In this verbal context, how appropriate is it to correct stumbles in speech?
@@antonyka-pra-ra It's not really a stumble, it's an ingrained misuse. But I still feel like a douche for pointing it out, BUT I JUST CAN'T HELP IT!
@@cpsemple agreed, no it likely wasn't ....
I know that feeling well ... a lotta too well, due to the same reason.
i wonder,
Does a misuse, once ingrained actually become coined?
@@antonyka-pra-ra I'll leave that question to the discipline of linguistic anthropology. But until Websters lists it, orientated is not a thing. (I didn't even check. Imagine if it is?)
Is it 'oriention' or 'orientation'?
Oh Jesus you don’t know what the first amendment is lmao
I have read and understand the constitution thank you...curiously, NOTHING in this video discusses freedom of speech, so I wonder what you think you know about it.
@@SwitchedtoLinux You haven't read a legal textbook on the first amendment, and it really shows. Just go like 10 pages in, and you'll see why. If you need a tutor, I accept paypal-otherwise, good luck with doing "your own research" bro. Also, "I read the constitution" is what dudes who clamored for the "Tea Party" in 2010 (remember them and what they're about?) said. My god you need to renew your library card-again, I accept paypal!
@@SwitchedtoLinux Yes, you did nice a hippy punch 3/4 of the way in with your pseudo-intellectual grasp of the 1st amendment. Sad.
M8crosoft on board of linux foundation. Gave em 500k years ago
So what's the answer?
My name is Lynn Marie Oliveras. My neck was broken by a military member. I was put on a watch list. I have been stalked and hacked because my ex works for the government. He is a hacker for the government and is involved in many crimes including the other members. I suffered a C2 fracture and I have cancer. They keep refusing me care because I told people my story and exposed crimes. I am currently in Gdansk Poland and being followed and stalked by people from US and police here in Poland. My email now tuta mail has just been hacked and my phone being tapped. My medical care is being tampered with. I am going to die if cancer because I can not get care or the justice I deserve. I contacted the IN for human rights violations, no answer. Government is corrupt.