Computer COMSEC for preppers

Previously I had mentioned there was a big project coming for this year, and here it is, is a course called
Computer COMSEC for preppers. The goal is to provide you with the tools and knowledge to
communicate securely using digital channels.

The course name is "Computer COMSEC" because COMSEC also involves operational aspects that
I would rather leave to more knowledgeable people like Sam Culper at Guerrilla America.

There is plenty of tutorials covering the tools we are going to use but the content of this course will
be targeted to preppers, III%'ers and Liberty Fighters so the lessons will be focused on our particular
needs.

Lessons will be in layman terms and explained simply so everyone can participate. More advanced
lessons will rely on previous lesson concepts.

Every Friday I will upload a lesson, article or tip that will include a practice segment which you can
use over the weekend.
These practice segments will be short so they won't eat up all of your weekend but will aide you in
retaining the needed knowledge.

In case you have a problem with the practice segment, you don't understand something, you have
doubts, or there is a topic you would like to see discussed, we have the "Questions & Answers"
board at Unchained Preppers or you can contact me. I encourage you to actively participate and ask
the questions you might have, don't forget your questions will give me ideas for new and future
lessons.

The course is absolutely FREE and you won't need to spend a single dollar. The only things you will
need is your computer, a 2GB or bigger pen-drive and some time.

This Friday February 14th the first lesson will be available, the intro is already available HERE.

Edward Snowden Interview in English (1/27/2014)

Whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked the documents about US mass
surveillance. He spoke about his disclosures and his life to NDR investigative
journalist Seipel in Moscow.

The Day We Fight Back

https://thedaywefightback.org/

Maybe the Most Orwellian Text Message a Government's Ever Sent

“Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance.”

That's a text message that thousands of Ukrainian protesters
spontaneously received on their cell phones today, as a new law prohibiting
public demonstrations went into effect. It was the regime's police force, sending
protesters the perfectly dystopian text message to accompany the newly
minted, perfectly dystopian legislation. In fact, it's downright Orwellian (and I
hate that adjective, and only use it when absolutely necessary, I swear).

But that's what this is: it's technology employed to detect noncompliance, to
hone in on dissent. The NY Times reports that the "Ukrainian government used
telephone technology to pinpoint the locations of cell phones in use near clashes
between riot police officers and protesters early on Tuesday." Near. Using a cell
phone near a clash lands you on the regime's hit list.

See, Kiev is tearing itself to shreds right now, but since we're kind of burned out
on protests, riots, and revolutions at the moment, it's being treated as below-
the-fold news. Somehow, the fact that over a million people are marching,
camping out, and battling with Ukraine's increasingly authoritarian government
is barely making a ripple behind such blockbuster news bits as bridge closures
and polar vortexes. Yes, even though protesters are literally building catapults
and wearing medieval armour and manning flaming dump trucks.

Hopefully news of the nascent techno-security state will turn some heads—it's
right out of 1984, or, more recently, Elysium: technology deployed to "detect"
dissent. Again, this tech appears to be highly arbitrary; anyone near the protest
is liable to be labeled a "participant," as if targeting protesters directly and so
broadly wasn't bad enough in the first place.

It's further reminder that authoritarian regimes are exploiting the very
technology once celebrated as a vehicle for liberation; last year, in Turkey, you'll
recall, the state rounded up dissident Twitter users. Now, Ukraine is tracing the
phone signal directly. Dictators have already proved plenty adept at pulling the 
plug on the internet altogether.

All of this puts lie to the lately-popular mythology that technology is inherently a
liberating force—with the right hack, it can oppress just as easily.

By Brian Merchant
http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/blog/maybe-the-most-orwellian-text-message-ever-sent 


 

Back from vacations

 
Sorry for disappearing, I was on vacations.
Is a good habit to mention it once you're back to avoid half the world knowing
your home will be empty and ready to be robbed.

Updates coming soon, and also I'm working on a big project for this year, bear
with me.

The Pirate Bay keeps moving

Last week The Pirate bay had to change domains once again because of anti piracy groups pressure,
and now, they did it again...

Now they are located in a domain from Peru, so they new url is http://thepiratebay.pe

Anyway, they claim they are coding a "PirateBrowser" that will allow to have distributed websites in
the peer-to-peer network, at the moment doesn't seems to be many details about it, but they claim that
the Peruvian domain will work until the "PirateBrowser" is ready.

If you ask me I'll rather just go to the hidden service in the Tor network, you can visit it using Tor at
http://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion/ or visit it directly from the clearnet using https://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion.to

EDIT : .pe domain is down after just a few days and TPB moved to .gy, is time to use the hidden
service guys.

EDIT 2 : .gy was took down too so they are back at Sweden with .se

Cheerz

Reduce your online traces with DuckDuckGo

Lately I've trying to reduce the signature I'm leaving online with Google following me everywhere I
go, and is pretty hard, specially for email, I'll let you know if I found a solution.

Escaping from Google to go to other US provider/host won't solve anything, US gov can still analyze
your traffic and can access the provider's internal network and DBs.

You don't know what I'm talking about? All of that was leaked by Edward Snowden, you can check
this nice article at the Washinton Post about it.

Anyway, this is an easy step everyone can take to stop being related to everything they search, which
could have nasty results, you can see this great infographic explaining why: http://donttrack.us/

To start trying it just go to https://duckduckgo.com/ and in the bottom right corner there is an option
to configure it as your browser default search engine.
The first days your fingers will try to type google as soon as you open a new tab, but try to resist it :D

DuckDuckGo as a lot of great functionalities, for instance I love the !bangs, that is using something
like !a to search directly in Amazon, !yt to search directly in Youtube etc.
It also supports the classic keywords like 'site:' or 'inurl:'

Besides by default it will run using HTTPS, not like other services where you need to configure it
manually.

And there is another great advantage, you can use it directly from the Tor network as it also runs as
an hidden service!

Give it a try, I really liked it

https://ddg.gg/
https://duckduckgo.com/
https://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion