• TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
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    7 days ago

    You think having a fake online name will stop them from finding out who you are? Did you even pay attention to the Snowden leaks?

    • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 days ago

      Make them spend more resources doing deanonymizations. First they have to get the IP from instance admins, then trace the tor routing, then the VPN that I use, then ask for my ISP. Make them do all that work.

      (Or maybe they already have access by simply activating their backdoors within Intel ME, AMD PSP, and whatever baseband backdoor on the phones they have, and have just gotten everyone’s real identities in an instant, we can’t know for sure.)

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        7 days ago

        They also have backdoors in most implementations of TLS, according to a person I know who worked government security.

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          It wouldn’t be impossible. There are like so many different certificate issuers, any one of them collaborating with a government would allow them to create a certificate that would be accepted by your browser.