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Global surveillance, VPNs, and Tor w/ Smuggler

Oct 18, 2021

01:54:03

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Crypto Anarchism Is the Right Political Model for the Digital Age

02:25

The Promise of Safety and Security Versus Privacy

05:35

The Argument Why Global Surveillance Is Inevitable Is Much Stronger

02:13

Introduction

3min

Is There a Need for Privacy?

2min

Is Privacy an Important Thing in Your Life?

5min

The Philosophy and the Spirituality of Privacy

2min

What's a Common Myth About Privacy?

5min

The Promise of Safety and Security Versus Privacy

6min

Is Social Media a Core Tenant of Our Culture?

2min

Is There a Triple Push Around Privacy in Our Culture?

3min

You Need Privacy to Have Security

4min

10.

Privacy and the Politics of the Political Party

3min

11.

The Law Doesn't Work

2min

12.

Is That Black Rhetoric?

3min

13.

Is There a Divisive Approach to Privacy?

2min

14.

Are You Evangelizing Privacy?

3min

15.

Community Is a Big Part of This Journey Towards Privacy

2min

16.

Global Surveillance

1min

17.

You Can't Surveil the Internet. The Internet Routes Around Surveillance

4min

18.

The Argument Why Global Surveillance Is Inevitable Is Much Stronger

2min

19.

Optout Podcast - Cake Wallet and Local Monero

2min

20.

Tour and the Global Passive Assailant Threat Model

5min

21.

Is Tor the Best Solution for All Threat Models?

2min

22.

The Main Issues of Tor Network Attacks

4min

23.

Is Tor the Perfect Solution to All Privacy Problems?

5min

24.

Is Tor a Good Tool?

3min

25.

VPNs

2min

26.

Why You Shouldn't Use a VPN

3min

27.

Why Most VPN Providers Don't Keep Logs

3min

28.

VPN Providers

5min

29.

Do You Really Need a VPN?

3min

30.

How to Surveil Your DNS Queries

5min

31.

Crypto Anarchism and Cyberpunk

3min

32.

Crypto Anarchism Is the Right Political Model for the Digital Age

2min

33.

Sifropunk

4min

34.

I Love the Sifropunk Aesthetic and That Literary Genre

2min

35.

Sifropunk Bitstream - A Podcast About Crypto Anarchy

2min

36.

What Are Some of the Tools That You Use Regularly to Opt Out?

2min

37.

How to Be Your Own Bank, Take Into an Other Level

2min

38.

The Journey to Privacy Is an Enjoyable Process

3min

39.

Optout Podcast - What's Up With Google Search?

2min

Wondering how global surveillance could realistically work, or how VPNs can play a role in your privacy? This episode, we're sitting down with Smuggler to chat about global surveillance, a realistic look at VPNs (and Tor!), and his journey as a cypherpunk.

More about Smuggler:

Smuggler's guest profile -- https://www.optoutpod.com/guests/smuggler/
Cypherpunk Bitstream Podcast -- https://taz0.org/bitstream/
Smuggler's blog -- https://opaque.link/
Smuggler's paper on global surveillance -- https://opaque.link/post/2011-06-16-global-spying/

Smuggler's recommended tools to Opt Out:

Cash
Glasses and mask for physical privacy
Face-to-face meetings
Shipping containers as a Faraday cage
Voice masking technology

This week's project to help you Opt Out - Whoogle:

Github -- https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search
My instance: https://search.sethforprivacy.com
My instance on Tor: http://nuifgsnbb2mcyza74o7illtqmuaqbwu4flam3cdmsrnudwcmkqur37qd.onion
Setting it as your primary search instance -- https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search#set-whoogle-as-your-primary-search-engine

Opt Out's Sponsors:

Cake Wallet, an easy to use Monero mobile wallet -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#cake-wallet
LocalMonero, an excellent and privacy-preserving way to buy and sell Monero -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#localmonero
IVPN, an ethical, no-nonsense, non-logging VPN provider -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#ivpn

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