Any Extreme Privacy Enthusiasts Here? Share your setup.

[ibose]

What happens when someone in authority shows up at your door and demands access to all your devices and apps? You will have to comply because you have no choice, and the very act of overly securing your data can be easily twisted into suspicion and can be used against you in our country.

So what you are really saying is that just because of this hypothetical possibility, we should stop securing our personal information ? I refuse to give my Aadhar unless it is required by law. Does that imply the authorities will target me ? If that is the case, you are implying that the law of the land is totally absent. Sorry but I don't subscribe to this absurdity.
If you want to express your frustration against the current regime, we have innumerable threads already available where you can do so. Let's not derail this thread any more.
@puns @logistopath please help clean this thread.

 

[buzz88]

So according to you the user blr_p should open a separate thread to say what ever he thinks about the subject if his views are opposite?

How is the situation here any different?

Yes, that is a classic case of thread derailment as is this present thread. The OP of both that and this thread wanted to discuss certain things as mentioned in their opening posts. Other members should give their views or share their knowledge that is related to the OP's queries or requests. This is common courtesy on forums such as this and the wider internet. This does not encroach upon your freedom of speech. The OP was not seeking a moral or a social debate, they only wanted a feedback on their query and possible solutions. If you want to make it a moral or a social debate, feel free to create a new thread and continue discussing it with other like-minded people.

This is a recurring problem and happens with many threads. Citing examples of the said problem happening elsewhere does not make the present case any less problematic.

@mods I request to move the unrelated posts, including this one, to a new thread, please.

 

[Heisen]

My apologies.

 

[blr_p]

What happens when someone in authority shows up at your door and demands access to all your devices and apps?

On what authority?

Telling them to fcuk off should be your first reaction

You will have to comply because you have no choice, and the very act of overly securing your data can be easily twisted into suspicion and can be used against you in our country.

Don't they need a warrant of some sort.

Police have too much power here, they can bend the laws against "probable cause" at their will, and can get anything they want from your secured folders. That, to me, is a far more serious problem.

Some proper legal advice would help. If you let them intimidate you then you make it easy for them.

This is not a police state. You do have rights. You need to be aware of them. And fight like there is no tomorrow to defend them.

Decide whether you want to live on your legs or on your knees.

Only works if you know the rules of the game. Otherwise counter productive.

So many people I find here have had the spirit beaten out of them from a young age so the default response is to comply and obey. Too many cynics. People who have surrendered.

Apologies @blr_p for dragging you in this by using your post as an example. The is the latest one I could remember from top of my head.

Was about to hit post and then saw this part

 

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Apologies @blr_p for dragging you in this by using your post as an example. The is the latest one I could remember from top of my head.

OP,

An excellent write-up on privacy measures!

I have started taking baby steps in being a bit more privacy-focused, as targeted ads on my feeds had started getting out of hand. Deleting Chrome was step 1.