On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 10:47:30PM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 8:35 PM, Steve Kinney <ad...@pilobilus.net> wrote: > > > > > > On 08/13/2018 07:41 PM, Steven Schear wrote: > >> https://apnews.com/828aefab64d4411bac257a07c1af0ecb/AP-Exclusive:-Google-tracks-your-movements,-like-it-or-not > > > > Google tracks my movements? Not yet, anyway. > > > > The cell tower networks do track my movements > > And dump them straight into your government's databases. > > > except when I leave my > > $25.00 mobile phone behind or pull its battery. But Google? Not so > > much. Every so often they know when I was "at home" because I > > voluntarily accessed one of their server farms. Otherwise not. > > Google Analytics and the ubiquitous "G+" links on a vast array of > > websites, do not track my web browsing - one has uBlock Legacy and > > NoScript to attend to that, respectively blocking all outbound requests > > to blacklisted domains, and all outbound requests for Javascript except > > where and as whitelisted. > > > > The few occasions when Google does 'see' me on the networks, result from > > voluntarily revealing my existence when accessing YouTube videos, and > > occasional contact with a GMail account (via Thunderbird, not a web > > browser) which I use as a spam trap and offsite backup server for > > encrypted credentials logs and the like. > > > > :o) > > Generally beware web bugs, supercookies, TLS session metadata.
I only browse the web using links, started via torsocks, after first chaining through a few VPNs, all done via disposable 1-use SOC computer which I buy in bundles of ... OK, just kidding. My opsec is poor compared to Steve's :) If I really need something secure I'll boot up tails, after telling the router in front of tails to connect to a VPN (since VPN config within tails itself does not seem to be supported - unless things have changed). -- GPG fingerprint: 17FD 615A D20D AFE8 B3E4 C9D2 E324 20BE D47A 78C7
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