029 - Minimize Not Militarize And Avoiding Surveillance With GrapheneOS The Lockdown

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029 - Minimize not Militarize and Avoiding Surveillance with GrapheneOS

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In this episode, I explore the difference between the military mindset and the more stealth approach of minimization in cybersecurity. I share the results from the Ghost in the Source Capture the Flag (CTF) challenge, revealing how the winners cracked the AES encryption using dictionary attacks, keyword harvesting and the cipher tool hidden in robots.txt. I discuss why the “assume breach” mentality just leaves the doors wide open, using examples from Kevin Mitnick’s 1981 Pacific Bell infiltration to modern ransomware groups like Scattered Spider who breached MGM and Marks & Spencer through social engineering.

I also cover practical tactics for using public Wi-Fi, data curation techniques, the invisible surveillance net including Stingray devices, and provide a deep dive into GrapheneOS covering user profiles, app sandboxing, network controls, sensor permissions, and the proper use of sandboxed Google Play services.

In this week’s episode:

Ghost in the Source Capture the Flag challenge results
The military mindset problem in cybersecurity
Strategic use of public Wi-Fi for account creation and privacy techniques
Data curation tactics, and “Minimizing What Can Be Known”
Invisible surveillance net and Stingray devices
GrapheneOS discussion on user profiles, app sandboxing, network controls, sensors permissions, sandboxed Google Play services, and security architecture

Matrix Community Rooms

Matrix Community Space - https://matrix.to/#/#psysecure:matrix.org

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Show Links:

Noam Chomsky on Internet Privacyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIWsTMcBrjQ
Noam Chomsky on Advertising - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfIwUlY44CM
TryHackMe Platform - https://tryhackme.com
Hack the Box - https://hackthebox.com
Wired Article on DNC Stingray Surveillance - https://www.wired.com/story/2024-dnc-cell-site-simulator-phone-surveillance/
IntelTechniques Data Removal Guide - https://inteltechniques.com/workbook.html
Optery Data Broker Removal - https://optery.com
Graphene OS - https://grapheneos.org

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