Go for a walk somewhere you've never been. Wander around until you get lost and find your way back home again. Take a different walk tomorrow. Salt your data. Leave your phone at home sometimes, take out the batteries or let it run down to empty for shits and giggles. Leave it in the car overnight. Get a new facebook. Get seven LinkedIns. Update them all infrequently and with conflicting information. Encrypt your grocery lists. Learn to fingerspell. Go to a different restaurant, shop at different stores. Take a different stop on the subway and walk the rest. Show up for work early at random intervals, and just sit in the parking lot. Learn all the different long ways home.
Make new friends. Reconnect with people from high school. Talk with the homeless people at the bus station (you can bribe them with a sandwich if you don't know how to start a conversation). Go to a club full of pretty people. Spend three hours at the library reading things and never checking them out. Go to political rallies for your ideological foes. Pop into a church on Wednesday.
Humans are creatures of habit, so make new habits you can take with you in your unpredictable life. A morning sudoku. A fidget toy. Mismatched socks on Thursdays. Don't worry about it being too silly or to small, you're just reprogramming your security blanket settings. Because you should be able to go about your business and not have anyone tracking your movements, logging your emails and phone calls, listing your associates and political affiliations. You should have your freedom to assemble, to speak, to security in your own property and privacy, but as long as the only thing keeping the cameras off your back is the discretion of a bored contractor you don't have any of it. Salt your data.
Don't wait until you have a reason to do it, then it will look suspicious that you have changed your activities and the powers that be will use this fact against you in a secret court of secret law. Don't assume you're safe, today it's Muslims in American and Trans people in Greece, but tomorrow it could be Buddhists in England or Single Parents in Brasil. Even if it's never you, you have a responsibility to make life difficult for those who would indiscriminately spy on and harass the citizens of the world so they can sleep better at night.
Or Kill Me.
I loved sitting for hours in the library reading. Don't get the chance to do that anymore.
Love this post. It's not only a good idea if you want people to not know your habits, but it's good for not getting stuck in a rut.
Just have to be careful not to make the randomness predictable, if you know what I mean.
Quote from: Sita on June 20, 2013, 04:57:36 PM
I loved sitting for hours in the library reading. Don't get the chance to do that anymore.
Love this post. It's not only a good idea if you want people to not know your habits, but it's good for not getting stuck in a rut.
Just have to be careful not to make the randomness predictable, if you know what I mean.
I absolutely do. The flower project I've been on has done a good job of encouraging me to take random different paths every morning instead of the rut I wore into the dirt over the winter.
Quotethe powers that be will use this fact against you in a secret court of secret law
And they'll do it
secretly.
That said: yes.
I like the repetition there :p
:mittens:
It makes me sad that the anon forum I posted this in (after here) is getting push back from idiots.
WHO CAN AFFORD TO DO THAT STUFF, GUISE? GOING FOR WALKS AND SHOWING UP EARLY FOR WORK IS EXPENSIVE! :horrormirth:
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on June 20, 2013, 08:02:07 PM
It makes me sad that the anon forum I posted this in (after here) is getting push back from idiots.
WHO CAN AFFORD TO DO THAT STUFF, GUISE? GOING FOR WALKS AND SHOWING UP EARLY FOR WORK IS EXPENSIVE! :horrormirth:
THEN DO SOMETHING REALLY RADICAL AND CHANGE SOAP BRANDS WHEN YOU SHOWER (REMINDER: SHOWER MORE OFTEN!) OR SHOVE A DIFFERENT BRAND OF JUNK FOOD IN YOUR SLACK-JAWED GAPING MAW. IT WILL KEEP MORE STUPID FROM FALLING OUT.
QuoteI, for one, have a home office. I'm not changing my routine. I have security/privacy measures in place. You are far too paranoid to be outside an asylum.
I AM NOT EVEN KIDDING, THAT'S JUST COPYPASTE.
QuoteI have security/privacy measures in place.
LOLNO. If you think this is paranoid, and aren't already salting your data, then you don't have a security system, you have the illusion of a security and privacy system, a nice little bit of theatre and ritual to console yourself that you've done what you need to.
Here's what an actual infosec expert said to me:
QuoteAt this level, the nation state level of surveillance, one cannot hope to really be secure in their communications using technologies as they are because of the access the government has built for themselves post 9/11 with the Patriot Act as it's fulcrum.
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on June 20, 2013, 10:36:47 PM
QuoteI, for one, have a home office. I'm not changing my routine. I have security/privacy measures in place. You are far too paranoid to be outside an asylum.
I AM NOT EVEN KIDDING, THAT'S JUST COPYPASTE.
Dear Sir. Grow up. Your blanket fort won't protect you. There are, in fact, monsters out there. They're just people who don't give a shit about you.
Amazon Web Services are currently datamining this thread.
AWS's chief information security officer (CSO) Stephen Smidt spent ten years as a section chief for the FBI; AWS's deputy CSO, Carl Moses, spent nearly four years as an FBI Assistant Section Chief, and Andrew Doane, AWS's director of security products and services, spent six years as a technical director within "the US Intelligence Community".
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/08/aws_spook_cloud/
QuoteIn a statement emailed to The Reg late on Friday, Amazon Web Services confirmed the existence of a contract between it and the US's Central Intelligence Agency
LOLPARANOIA
They just won't fuck off will they?
How many threads is that now? A fucking few.
ONE MORE ALIAS FOR WHEN I INEVITABLY END UP IN COURT FOR SOME BULLSHIT! HOORAY!
Man. These guys are so jihad getting on my Afghanistan nerves with all their bombing nose-pokey bullshit. :P
Again, thank you all for being here for this supremely bizzare point in history. I don't think I could stay sane if there weren't people out there who can go pro when shit gets weird.
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on June 20, 2013, 10:36:47 PM
QuoteI, for one, have a home office. I'm not changing my routine. I have security/privacy measures in place. You are far too paranoid to be outside an asylum.
I AM NOT EVEN KIDDING, THAT'S JUST COPYPASTE.
And he's in an asylum of his own making.
...At least I KNOW I'm batshit crazy.
My routine could use a good shaking, too.
ALSO:
Mean what you say, mean what you do, and overall, make peace with it, for all eyes on us
(http://wiltsphenom.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/eyes.jpg)
ETA: Don't know how to resize, but i guess it emphasises my point anyhow.
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on June 21, 2013, 02:25:25 AM
Again, thank you all for being here for this supremely bizzare point in history. I don't think I could stay sane if there weren't people out there who can go pro when shit gets weird.
Weird is my natural environment. I'm like the old combat vet who can't get to grips with anything other than a warzone. I don't know what the fuck to do with myself when shit isn't really fucking strange.
[img width=600]image[/img]
I think is the right way to resize.
(http://i.imgur.com/H3MnKkw.jpg?1)
Smaller than the A0 size one I emailed junky, should fit okay on a full sheet of letter size paper.
EDIT: imageshack link borked, new upload.
Wow, Gogira. O.O
I am so printing that to put up around here.
So. Very. YOINKED. 8)
This is good. I missed it originally.
All of these things are good. Although, I will say, if you already have watchers they won't be fooled by any of it. If you don't already have watchers, you probably aren't on any of the forums it might be posted on.
You should do it all anyway, though, because it makes their job a little more fun.
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on June 20, 2013, 10:36:47 PM
QuoteI, for one, have a home office. I'm not changing my routine. I have security/privacy measures in place. You are far too paranoid to be outside an asylum.
I AM NOT EVEN KIDDING, THAT'S JUST COPYPASTE.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Oh my god. Seriously?
I mean, my perspective might be a little skewed because I've had watchers since I was maybe 20, thanks to my dad being who he is. But I am pretty confident that everyone on every Anonymous forum is pretty closely monitored, and their data is looked over by live people and not just a computer. That's why sites like WWP will never (and should never) see any real action. I mean, seriously, what better flag of "HEY MONITOR US!!!" can there be? When I first heard about it my first thought was that they had set it up specifically to monitor would-be Anon activity.
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on June 29, 2013, 07:05:58 PM
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on June 20, 2013, 10:36:47 PM
QuoteI, for one, have a home office. I'm not changing my routine. I have security/privacy measures in place. You are far too paranoid to be outside an asylum.
I AM NOT EVEN KIDDING, THAT'S JUST COPYPASTE.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Oh my god. Seriously?
I mean, my perspective might be a little skewed because I've had watchers since I was maybe 20, thanks to my dad being who he is. But I am pretty confident that everyone on every Anonymous forum is pretty closely monitored, and their data is looked over by live people and not just a computer. That's why sites like WWP will never (and should never) see any real action. I mean, seriously, what better flag of "HEY MONITOR US!!!" can there be? When I first heard about it my first thought was that they had set it up specifically to monitor would-be Anon activity.
Remember, it was set up for the legal arm of the Chanology stuff, no one was or should be concerned about those plans being public. As other things got added, the moon bats showed up in stronger numbers and there really wasn't much they could do about it. In a lot of cities you need permits for yelling at buildings anyway, it's not like any of that was super secret.
I hear you about the futility part, but it's at least important as a symbolic gesture of flipping the bird at the cameras. I bet we could swap awesome surveillance stories :D
Yeah, being blocked into my driveway by MIBs who just want to ask me a few questions about my recent shopping habits was awesome. :lol: Up til then my ex thought I was paranoid.
Here's the takeway, which I think your piece captures well. ASSUME that you're being monitored. Assume that some government agency schmuck is reading everything you post on the internet and listening to every phone call and knows when you come, when you go, who you hang out with, and where.
Most likely, it's not an actual schmuck, unless you start doing something interesting or talking to someone interesting. But still. Just assume.
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on June 29, 2013, 09:42:57 PM
Yeah, being blocked into my driveway by MIBs who just want to ask me a few questions about my recent shopping habits was awesome. :lol: Up til then my ex thought I was paranoid.
Here's the takeway, which I think your piece captures well. ASSUME that you're being monitored. Assume that some government agency schmuck is reading everything you post on the internet and listening to every phone call and knows when you come, when you go, who you hang out with, and where.
Most likely, it's not an actual schmuck, unless you start doing something interesting or talking to someone interesting. But still. Just assume.
Exactly.
Though I personally am taking that a bit further...
My current email tagline has a bunch of "trigger words," some of them old ones, some taken from headlines and/or my own warped brain.
...I'm not doing anything illegal or particularly dangerous to the powers that be, see?
I'm not really involved right now.
(Not that I would be so dumb as to talk about "stuff," but I'm not doing anything, really.)
...So I figure I can at least be useful as a decoy, right?
And I just suck at sneaking.
...So I ought to get as big and loud and vocal and goofy as possible.
...Waitaminute...
I'm embarking on trying to troll the government.NSA reader person...you want a pizza.
(http://www.campanellu.it/campanellu_file/pizza2.jpg)
A big, YUMMY pizza just dripping with gooey cheesy goodness. SOOO good!
YUMMM...It's okay if you gain a little weight, you can work it off LATER...ooh, PIZZA....
Well it's printed.
It's fucking huge and looks great. Grabbing some shit tomorrow to hang it properly.
Quote from: Junkenstein on June 30, 2013, 01:38:36 PM
Well it's printed.
It's fucking huge and looks great. Grabbing some shit tomorrow to hang it properly.
Did the lines on the border come out clean? I had to do some stupid tricks to get it to scale up.
Pretty much perfect. Slight blot on the last corner printed, but I'm pretty sure that's down to the printer.
Catching up with a few people this week, will be fun to see the reaction to it.
Oh holy shit I just googled A0 poster to get an idea how big that is. That's like, bus terminal advertising size.
GO BIG OR GO HOME.
GET ME PICTURES I WANNA SEE IT OMG
Will get something over to you as soon as it's hung.