/tech/ - Technology

as i see it there are basically three ways to fight this sort of thing: state-level legislation, a supreme court ruling, or an executive order.

if you can convince your state to pass harsh laws regarding the involvement of federal agencies in investigations of individuals, you could make it impossible for alphabet agencies to get involved in local investigations without being specifically requested (ideally, this would require a search warrant). if individual states start aggressively legislating federal involvement in local affairs, this problem would be greatly reduced. good luck getting your state representatives to sign such a thing, though, and if you can do it before heinous abuses (several years) we'll erect a statue of you.

if a case that reveals this abuse reaches the supreme court, it's likely that any justices with a background in constitutional law would cut this shit right out. but this does require a case to end up in their court which could take years.

if the president issues an executive order forbidding this practice then it will be immediately halted. this of course will never happen, in this administration or any that might come.

in short, expect to start being monitored and/or heckled by your local law enforcement for anything you've said online, in text, phone calls, etc and expect no justice or recourse.

Someone should bomb the NSA. The more casualties the better.

Didn't the FBI already have these rights in the first place?

>>542319

Or you could, you know, as citizens of the country that created NSA and support it with your taxes, choose to not support the NSA anymore.

>>542360

>implying we live in a democracy

>>542323

Not really. Just after 9/11 Baby Bush tried to tell all the TLAs to cooperate-- but none of them wanted to share their precious intel with less-trusted pleb-tier civilian organizations. 'Fusion Centers' was as good as it got.

I still can't see the NSA giving the G-Men everything they ask for. (The FBI fucked-up keeping Stringrays under wraps because every Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane found out and blabbed about it. Will the NSA allow Rosco to do the same with their sekrettech ? Hell No.)

Been thinking about moving to russia for a while. Yes or No if that would be a bad idea.

>>542445

Russia is a shithole. Central Europe is probably the best.

>>542446

Even Western Russia like Moscow or ST. Petersburg? I've heard those two cities are the best in Russia.

>>542448

It's shit. Also Moscow is fucking expensive don't know about Petersburg. Czech Republic is the most developed and your best bet. Eastern/Central/South Europe generally dislike mudshits because they've been dealing with them throughout history unlike the faggot west.

>>542445

Bad idea. You're replacing one shitty spying government by another.

>>542445

Don't move to Russia, it still doesn't recover from the old days of post-Communist plutocracy. Better move to Eastern Europe, the old days of poverty and crime are long gone and countries like Poland, Slovenia, Czech Republic or the Baltic states are now back on their feet. Even Romania is a semi-viable choice, it's basically like Mexico but without blood-thirsty drug bosses.

That's bad news. The FBI was always a fuckall agency and they knew it (they only needed people to believe otherwise). Now if they actually get to ride the NSA's coattails...

>And we don’t have to guess who’s going to suffer this unconstitutional indignity the most brutally. It’ll be Black, Brown...

Oh cry me a river. The more degenerate drug lord YOUFFS we lock up, the better.

I bet they made this change to go after 8ch users.

I'm glad I hardened my Gentoo install yesterday.

I would recommend everybody else do the same. It's incredibly easy, although I think it made compile times longer, since recompiling everything took much longer than usual.

I guess it's because the hardened profile gcc does a lot more safety checks and stuff.

Should I encrypt my /home/ partition?

>>542540

Our society has reached the point where there are people who think that any crime committed by a woman should be excused and that female convicts should never serve a jail or prison sentence.

Are you really surprised that these same idiots think it's racist to arrest, charge and incarcerate non-whites for serious crimes?

>>542584

Encrypting your files is a good idea, yes.

>>542584

You should already have full drive encryption, before you even considered installing or hardening anything. Encrypting you home folder won't hurt, but it can't compete with FDE.

>>542593

My /home/ folder has its own drive, so I'm not sure there would be a difference.

Is there any point in encrypting root as well?

>>542594

If you encrypt root, an attacker is unable to steal your HDD and secretly put backdoored software on it.

>>542610

My root is on an 840 pro. Can I trust the in-hardware AES full drive encryption built into it or should I use software?

I've heard before that one should never rely on hardware based encryption and I'm wondering if that's true or just FUD.

>>542621

Always use FDE, even if your drive has hardware based encryption.

>>542621

It's always good to be double protected, especially since AES-NI uses almost no CPU and even Serpent uses very little CPU (no more than 15% on my destitute tier AMD A4).

>>542621

How can I tell whether I'm using software or hardware-based encryption? What is the default for Linux fde?

>>542640

LUKS is always software-based. The encryption engine runs on the Linux kernel.

>>542445

If you're not Russian, don't waste your time.

If you are Russian, you should already know the answer.

>>542445

Russia has the same spying business like every other semi-civilized country in the world does, see SORM-2/SORM-3

Picture of a 40 years old hag in school uniform can be considered CP because woman on the picture pretends to be underage

Laws require that if a company collects data of Russian citizens that those servers should be located in Russia so they're 100% accessible to authorities.

Those who deal with money are forced to collect extra personal data like Passport/VAT ID numbers, you literally can't use paypal in Russia without typing in those.

Internet is practically unusable without VPN because mainstream websites (github, wikipedia, etc.) get blocked from time to time, because government bullies every corporation that tries to hide personal data from it into submission

Websites like 8ch are blocked/mitmed by a half of ISPs because of pedo boards

Anyone who's sound about these policies is labeled as a threat to society (Wikipedia was officially labeled as a "pedophile lobby"), because anti-privacy laws were passed as child protection laws

Otherwise it's ok though

Everything that's not food or healthcare is expensive as in more expensive that in US/Central Europe

In St. Petersburg, minimum wage is $1/hour, average is $4/hour, 1 room sweatbox appartment costs at least $60k, renting one starts around $300-400/month

Still thinking about moving to Russia?

How is this a bad thing? Lack of communication between government agencies is exactly what lead to 9/11. Why shouldn't the government be able to make use of data it already collected?

>>542886

The FBI will be able to directly query the NSA databases.

The NSA has always given the FBI information about national security threats.

>>542884

>Picture of a 40 years old hag in school uniform can be considered CP because woman on the picture pretends to be underage

Are you fucking shitting me? That's literally Australia tier, where women in porn are legally required to have huge tits just to make it absolutely fucking clear that they're within legal age.

>>544060

/pol/ will do it FOR FREE