Comment by Barbing

Comment by Barbing a day ago

Maybe more I want to have a library computer at my house that somehow doesn’t use my ISP or, to go real paranoid, even click/type the way I always do.

I should already be sharing iCloud Private Relay nodes with thousands upon thousands of people. Yet:

“Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the [~240k] tested in the past 45 days.

Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least [over a dozen] bits of identifying information.”

-Cover Your Tracks results

Apparently VPN is one thing, but then sites will analyze “operating system, graphics card, firmware version, graphics driver version, installed fonts”, and more. Creepy even though I’m quite vanilla.

magicalhippo a day ago

> Maybe more I want to have a library computer at my house that somehow doesn’t use my ISP or, to go real paranoid, even click/type the way I always do.

You could build this yourself with relative ease[1], just add some software in the mix to tweak the typing and cursor movements. Have the "controller" connect via mobile network, Starlink or similar if you really want to separate concerns.

[1]: https://pikvm.org/diy/

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Barbing 14 hours ago

Oh very interesting thank you!
Uhg making reasonable-cost investments to protect my privacy before it costs me more in other ways, what a drag. (I know myself here… need to motivate myself to at least try to do better than a cheap VPN and a private tab… will come back to this sometime)
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Also did you see the post about North Korean IT workers? Mini KVMs cited in the thread, shown in “The first time I was visited by the FBI” by ‘Level 2 Jeff’ on YT. May severely hamper my efforts to find takers on who’ll put spare laptops behind their residential IPs “but just so I can meme more privately I swear!”

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