• futatorius@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    Yeah, pretty basic opsec is not to drive to the crime scene. And don’t bring anything with you that is not essential to the mission and which might get dropped and be used as evidence.

    Wear cheap sweats and a ski mask. Dispose of them all as soon as you can. If cars are involved, use fake plates. Better yet, use bicycles and ride as much as possible off paved roads. And don’t ride straight home.

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      Oh, and the basic - don’t carry your cell phone/smart watch regardless of whether it’s switched off

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      And you can get a cheap used bike as well.

      I’m not condoning crime, but if you’re going to do it, give yourself the best chance of avoiding capture.

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    I hate how much effort is put into property damage but when my house was broken into or when my friends truck was stolen, the police did nothing.

    It’s also disturbing how hard it is to be anonymous. Crime or not, it gives me the creeps that anyone could probably track me down if they wanted.

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      I take my dog for a walk in my neighborhood and walk by no less than 10 different camera setups, and those are the ones I actually notice. Paranoia has led us down the road to a post-privacy society.

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        Lol ya and all that video footage is owned by the company of those cameras, like Ring aka Amazon. They can access it at anytime and they can even give it to the police.

        Edit: there are setups in which you can store your footage on your own drives. However, many people don’t know how to set it up so they use out of the box camera + app which stores all the data on the company servers.

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          I’ve been thinking of getting a camera setup, but all the popular stuff is cloud crap, and the best options seem to be Chinese crap that I wouldn’t trust on my network, so I’ll need a separate network for them.

          It’s a pain! Why can’t I just get the popular hardware and just disable the stuff I don’t want?

          It’s frustrating that nearly everything is either a security risk, a privacy risk, or a vendor lock-i, and often all three.

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          And Amazon definitely hasn’t ever provided police with any unrestricted access to whatever footage they want!

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    These people got caught because someone found their car and thus license plate.

    Another had left a fingerprinted bottle that went missing when watching surveillance footage.

    And then were able to confirm after finding the same outfit from the surveillance footage.

    The lessons to be learned are to not use cars anywhere near the scene, leave no trace, fingerprints or digital evidence, including a phone, and make sure any recognizable clothing is well hidden, or even better thoroughly destroyed.

    Oh and don’t post anything on social media.

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    The irony of being asked to sign up to a website to be able to read an article about opsec failures

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    With the current state of things, I expect no less than a public hanging in front of the Capitol building.