wonderingwanderer

Would something like Anubis or Iocaine prevent what you’re worried about?

I haven’t used either, but from what I understand they’re both lightweight programs to prevent bot scraping. I think Anubis analyzes web traffic and blocks bots when detected, and Iocaine does something similar but also creates a maze of garbage data to redirect those bots into, in order to poison the AI itself and consume excessive resources on the end of the companies attempting to scrape the data.

Obviously what others have said about firewalls, VPNs, and antivirus still applies; maybe also a rootkit hunter and Linux Malware Detect? I’m still new to this though, so you probably know more about all that than I do. Sorry if I’m stating the obvious.

Not sure if this is overkill but maybe Network Security Toolkit might have some helpful tools as well?

Then the slackening of OSHA restrictions combined with the unattainability of retirement for many blue collar workers

And they never mentioned the slackening of OSHA standards?

If they don’t have anything to hide, then maybe they’ll consent to an unwarranted search. Who needs constitutional rights when you have nothing to hide? /s

New rule: recording someone else without their consent gives them partial ownership of your device: enough that they can rightfully destroy it if they so choose.

People used to call me a creep whenever I raised concerns about mass surveillance. Like, obviously if I wasn’t okay with that then I must have been planning something nasty, right?

Well this is precisely the scenario I was trying to warn about, and it’s far nastier than anything I could have possibly done, even if that were my intention…

This is the next logical iteration of “if you aren’t doing anything wrong then you have no reason to be concerned with people filming you without your knowledge/consent!”

It was never a good argument, but too many people seemed to believe it and now we’re here…

Only an absolute tool would wear that crap.