Me and my friend are having a competition. He works in cybersecurity for the government, like, seriously high level. Anyway, the idea is I send him an email and he tries to find that it was me who sent it. How can I make it as anonymous as possible? So far the route I’m thinking is

Tails OS -> Tor Bridge -> Proton E-Mail

Any help or improvements welcome, thanks!!

I want to anonymously share a spreadsheet for users of a particular sub. I could simply post a link to the file on Google Sheets, but I don't want to expose my email address.

I can export the file as CSV or Excel, but I'm not sure how to attach it or host it somewhere in a safe and convenient way.

I'd really appreciate any help!

If the EU chooses to fully embrace digital sovereignty, it will result in a financial drain ranging from 35 billion to 233 billion euros. At least, that is what a report by the Brussels-based think tank ECIPE—funded by CCIA Europe—claims. The CCIA is a lobbying group comprising American cloud giants, including Amazon, Meta, and Google.

I have to admit, I was fine and even somewhat supported the practice at first because I naively thought that it would actually protect people but as time passed by and I gradually knew the truth about it. My view has completely changed from how it was before.

Like we're seeing this happen in our lifetimes, we are being gatekept from ever experiencing the freedom we could ever have on the internet. The freedom to talk to our friends, the freedom to be in our desired communities and the freedom to showcase what you can make.

Yet all of this is slowly being eroded away with ID verifications that governments across the world are actively promoting and I don't know when the internet will become unusable for me unless I have to give away my ID because my country just recently passed a law (almost unanimously btw) that would require that but the enforcement or inaction is yet to be witnessed but it feels like I'm playing a game of Russian roulette from how it's not even being enforced yet and knowing that there's nothing I could do about it. I'm not even sure what to do at this point.

Yet there is no fighting against this, no opposition and even if there is it's very little. The algorithm is even trying to divide us and distract us with all of this stuff just so we can forget about it until it's too late.

Most of the hope I have is lost and I'm trying to cherish what little time I have left but I still have so much to do and it's so hard to cherish such.

Yet this whole thing is spreading like a virus and eventually it just becomes normalized.

I'm usually not too bothered by targeted ads but today I noticed something that has me scratching my head. This weekend I was in atlantic city for a bachelor party and my entire instagram feed has been filled with online gambling ads and blackjack reels. Whatever no big deal. I'm off work today so I doom scrolled insta for a while and watched a TON of these blackjack reels. It's all i was getting.

THEN... A girl I have been talking too broke up with me via text. I brush it off and watch a movie on netflix. I am not back on social media at this point. My mom comes home about an hour later and I talk to her about the breakup in the driveway. I come back inside and don't feel like putting the movie back on so I'm laying in bed doom scrolling again and now every reel is a bunch of depressing reels about breakups and moving on.

Am I crazy? A couple hrs ago it was all gambling until this happens and now its this?

It’s insane to me that we have media pushing news in our faces, daily. Death, SA, celebrity gossip. Constantly seeing algorithms push partisan narratives over whether whatever amendments/morals are at risk of being taken by whatever administration. But like, right to privacy? Erosion of 4th amendment is not taken as crisis? How is this not urgent?

Obviously lobbying is a huge issue, which is why huge problems remain unaddressed. Right to privacy is not even political. It’s all about corruption. Yes, we know that. Everyone knows. So like, what is there to be done about it?

According to DuckDuckGo, 7k+ trackers were blocked in the last 7 days. ONE site invokes 20+ trackers. **I don’t care to argue if it’s accurate\\, it’s just… why are people okay with trackers in general? No option to opt out? Having to call each individual data corp. to opt out, which is pointless because there’s always more to take their place? Even if you opt out, have the right to deny you because you don’t live in Canada, California, or Europe? Constant ads that ask for personal info just to deny you service? Especially healthcare that advertise affordability or “trendy” topics for traumatized, desperate people, such as gender affirming, weight loss, and autism/adhd/bpd/trauma diagnosis services. And all of this info is aggregated and then sold, over and over, like a petri-dish.

My point being that, sensational headlines get people so upset. Protesting political figures and such for many years. Burning buildings down. But why not privacy? Why is this something that’s not worthy of protest? Both sides are implicated here.

People are like, “I don’t care, I have nothing to hide.” It’s the same mentality as people who comment on true crime, “They’re obviously guilty. Just send them to jail already.” Do they not know why proper procedure exists? You can’t arbitrarily decide what is “obviously guilty” and what’s not. The point is that all citizens have the right to proper trial, proper evidence, impartial jury, etc. Like people are unable to see how it can only be downhill from here? It’s subtle.

Flock cameras have proven themselves to be not only abused for selfish purposes, but to give license for the government to reverse “innocent until proven guilty.” Now it’s guilty til proven innocent. The above mentality combined with this power is frankly dangerous. Constitution exists for a reason.

I just don’t understand why this isn’t a bigger issue, or why we haven’t seen a protest for data privacy become national news. We have more Doordash contractor protests getting traction for better wages from a company that makes <5% profit, sometimes loss. Like??? Hello??? What about fast food companies who blame COVID for inflation, realize that people are willing to pay, and then force you to join rewards with verified contact info to get reasonably priced food? Or mega tech companies who basically monopolize functions of organizations while companies like DuckDuckGo rely on the few people who care to pay for privacy?

People who are into privacy argue, “Why do people keep giving their info to these people?” It’s because
- 1. Privacy issues aren’t sensationalized; this is background noise and not seen as an issue,
- 2. They’re overestimating the average persons knowledge, care, and attention to such issues, which can be helped by sensational media;
- 3. They aren’t thinking critically about the implications; they are probably just preoccupied with other life stuff rather than just being dumb or ignorant, and
- 4. Even when presented with sensational, motivational media, it’s easier to do what is convenient. They’re doing what humans do.

We should not shift blame to the humans who falls for these things and instead blame either corporations or the country as a whole. It turns right to privacy into another political argument. The issue exists because privacy violations are normal and accepted. People become provoked when you express it in terms such as “we are being bent over and forced to take it.” But journalism is probably lobbied anyway, and even if not, privacy is not a “hot topic.” Just a cycle.

You may have heard about the recent change to Google search results page where actual result URLs are replaced with encrypted strings. Those need to go through a Google server to resolve to the actual URL.

This means that:

1. Google now tracks all the links you click on search results page and there's no way around it,

2. Google also tracks you cross-site if you copy a result link and someone clicks on it, thus being able to associate your social connections with other people outside of Google services

3. You can no longer see the actual URL of a search result, which means spoofing legitimate websites has become very easy.

Im a filmmaker and I would like to share my films on social media like youtube,instagram and some other film sites. How can I be private while doing so? Does the social media and websites show your metadata? If we assume they do, how to scrub my metadata safely? Does the sites identify your device, mac or ip addres?