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The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance (www.wired.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 49 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

The thing which pop security types miss here is the need to blend in. Being a hole in the noise is like the worst thing you can do. Establish a pattern of life and you can use it to obfuscate your alternative activities. Understating how tracking works and using it to your advantage is 100x more useful than pretending like using a different app store or some random ROM is keeping you safe.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I've heard this called "social chaff"

AIs generating false data for you to hide behind may be one of the few good things to come out of the LLM craze.

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