What are /r/darknetdiaries' favorite Products & Services?

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Mullvad is pretty great ngl. Although I'm not sure if it has been tested in court yet if they give up logs. Although they say they don't even keep logs, which an order would basically mean they'd have to keep logs on you then give it to authorities. There is no reason not to use a VPN on top of other services though. It's just wise to remember it's not perfect and won't keep you anonymous forever, if at all depending on the service (looking at you Nord).

>truly anonymous and no logs policy providers

Doesn’t exist when it comes to VPN providers even for the supposedly good ones like Mullvad. If a Government wants to find you, especially the U.S. Government, they will find you. Even if your VPN provider isn’t hosted in the U.S they’ll bully whatever host country into subpoenaing the VPN provider for their logs. At most using a VPN is just going to slow down the authorities.

Of course they do, what does being in Switzerland have to do with anything? ProtonMail has logged IPs and given them over to Swiss authorities in the past so I would be skeptical that they aren’t doing the same for their VPN service.

Besides, all of these VPN companies claim they don’t keep logs until Mr. Alphabet Agency shows up at their door. Then they say “oh well, this person was doing something illegal so it doesn’t count” - That’s exactly what happened with the whole HideMyAss VPN & Anonymous thing like 10 yrs ago.

https://www.amazon.com/Social-Engineering-Science-Human-Hacking/dp/111943338X/ref=pd\_sbs\_1/138-4898600-0203836?pd\_rd\_w=fG1eF&pf\_rd\_p=3676f086-9496-4fd7-8490-77cf7f43f846&pf\_rd\_r=Z00N18SWZ30PN3GY1HBR&pd\_rd\_r=a740dd98-8633-44d6...

An Audible exclusive called Ponzi Supernova. Steve was one of the lead investigators in the Bernie Madoff case and was interviewed heavily for that podcast. I never did give it a listen.

Interesting story! The whole part about how Trick became radicalized in prison reminds me so much of a book I read a long time ago called "Europe's Angry Muslims" that I think is worth sharing for context.

To summarize what I remember: a recurring pattern the author (a political scientist) points out is how a curious number of European Islamic terrorists are second generation immigrants and provides a compelling explanation. Islamophobia is pretty bad in Europe (measurably worse than even in America) so they feel unwelcome in the new country, but they also feel ostracized when they visit extended family in the old country. The result is a deep sense of loneliness, that eventually turns to anger; kinda sorta like with incels. From there I suppose a few commit petty crimes (like theft) and get sent to prison, and it's there they meet other more sinister criminals who radicalize them.

If I recall the author makes a point to say: it seems as though for these people they're not really all that big on following the teaching of Islam, so much as their inner rage gets channeled into something that gives them a sense of purpose through violence.

May I suggest pocket casts? Spotify is nice from a one stop place, but they're buying out and walling off some of the best podcasts. Also their interface for podcasts just isn't there yet.

I'm sure everyone on this sub (and most network security subs) knows of it by now, but I heavily recommend Bitwarden for ease of use. Integrated with just about every platform. I've successfully convinced a few friends and my partner to start using it, and they love it (for a password manager that is).

It's unfortunate they hadn't planned to release the music from the podcast. The compositions are extremely well made, in my opinion. But I can respect their decision not to release it.

Name the Fear has very similar music. If you like the podcast's music, you WILL like this:

https://hearthis.at/ayylmao/hack-the-planet-name-the-fear/

https://youtu.be/o6q5fe5XieQ

PIA is another one Michael Bazzell recommends and uses. ProtonVPN comes with an email service and now an encrypted storage service with your monthly plan, lots of value that’s why I use it over other options and they have a good server selection too.

1. Bitwarden. Open source, has been audited. Works really well with web and mobile clients. Inexpensive, $10 a year for all the pro features
2. ProtonVPN. Works well and the company is trusted in the security and privacy community. No log policy, they have a large number of servers
3. use 2FA where possible. Best option is hardware key such as yubikey. second best is an open source TOTP authenticator. Worst option is SMS, but still better then no 2FA
4. I flashed my router with OpenWRT. Much more visibility into my router and the ability to setup firewall rules
5. use a trusted dns service rather than your isp dns. Pihole or NextDNS or quad9

KeePass, it’s an offline manager, open-source. Recommended by a lot of people in privacy/security

ProtonVPN, highly regarded by many.

Do your own research, listen to people like Michael Bazzell. Be wary of “security” products that advertise themselves a lot. There’s a vpn that rhymes with hoardvpn that comes to mind.

Michael Bazzell recommends setting up a protectli firewall with pfsense to protect your home network, but there are tons of other options. ProtonVPN also works with another company (can’t remember their name) to offer a similar product that’s preconfigured.

1. LastPass, even with recent pay wall controversies. It’s a very simple UI and I like the simplicity.

2. I use NordVPN. No log policy, located in Panama (not a 5 eyes country). I bought the 2 year plan about 6 months ago and I have had very few problem, other than the occasional connection slowness

3. Don’t download files without checking to make sure they are safe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_cyberattacks_on_Estonia

IIRC, there isn't a full episode on the attack. Might be too small of an incident to dedicate a whole episode to.

There's a chapter dedicated to the attack in the book Sandworm, which I believe was one of the books used to source the episode on the Ukrainian cyber attacks.