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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: iheartpills on January 15, 2012, 08:49 pm

Title: making a encrytpion and security programn standards
Post by: iheartpills on January 15, 2012, 08:49 pm
first is there a programn for this that is free? PGP BY SYNAMTEC cost 120 bucks a year???is this the programn you all use??

what are some ways to protect my PC and my use of SR ?? any free software online? i saw linux but kno NOTHING ABOUT LITERALLY NOTHING
ways of cleaning out your system?? i have norton 360 so i believe that protects my identiy a bit extra.. any tips? what security procautions do you expirenced members have that protect.

i havent ordered yet im a FEW days new
thanks guys


Title: Re: making a encrytpion and security programn standards
Post by: v01d on January 16, 2012, 09:05 pm
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=8569.msg78910#msg78910
Is a great miniguide I wrote up.

Also, we use GPG.
Title: Re: making a encrytpion and security programn standards
Post by: abuttelmao on January 17, 2012, 04:33 am
people posted in your other thread telling you to get GPG.  you don't have to pay for any of the programs you need to use SR safely.  seriously, search around the forums and read a lot more.  the more you know the easier it will be, and the safer you will be. research everything exhaustively, from the vendors you are considering, to secure methods of communication and receiving deliveries.


also, norton 360 is absolutely terrible.
Title: Re: making a encrytpion and security programn standards
Post by: kmfkewm on January 17, 2012, 06:15 am
first is there a programn for this that is free? PGP BY SYNAMTEC cost 120 bucks a year???is this the programn you all use??

what are some ways to protect my PC and my use of SR ?? any free software online? i saw linux but kno NOTHING ABOUT LITERALLY NOTHING
ways of cleaning out your system?? i have norton 360 so i believe that protects my identiy a bit extra.. any tips? what security procautions do you expirenced members have that protect.

i havent ordered yet im a FEW days new
thanks guys

Anti-virus programs (at least the ones civilians have access to) have a security value that approaches zero in regards to preventing you from being entirely pwnt by any attacker who targets you. They exist entirely to prevent you from being pwnt by a dragnet attacker who isn't targeting you in specific, and they even do a poor job at that. All anti virus scanners really do is prevent botherders from getting twenty million node botnets (instead they might get only a few hundred thousand before the virus is detected and the anti virus product can prevent it from infecting you). In short, anti virus program protects you if you are insanely shitty at computer security an launch random attachments etc, and they protect you from being the 1,000,000th infected node (of course they don't protect you if you are one of the 1,000,000 infected nodes). Anti virus programs give you an almost entirely false sense of security. I still suggest them for windows users, but if your security is coming from anti-virus scanners you are pretty much insanely fucked and not at all secure.