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Quote from: aleksej996 on January 06, 2018, 05:46:07 PM

Quote from: vectorshield on January 06, 2018, 05:36:01 PM

I'm not so sure about using tor, to me that is nothing more than a honey pot, however another thing you can do is to encrypt your hard drive and to avoid using your smartphones to anything that is too personal and avoid social media as well.

Tor is as much of a honey pot as is Bitcoin. Only reason why Tor was given to public (it was developed by US Navy) is because you can only be anonymous in a crowd, so government agencies needed general population to use it and some government agencies are still funding it.

You are probably afraid of it because of a lot of stories about dark markets and all that, which is exactly why some are afraid of Bitcoin. scared they will be connected with terrorists and criminals and whatnot.
Neither Tor nor Bitcoin are very anonymous, there are better ways to be anonymous on the Internet with botnets and there are better ways to fund terrorists with cash. It is just that they are developed to be the best they can for the general population. There are reasons for existence of both of these technologies, not everything is simple like that. For certain use, they are both very good.

Great explanation of what's going on.
And about what peolple think about BTC and TOR, you're totally right: they do not have good information of it and tent to believe what mass media say ( and they don't even know theirselves so how could they give ).

Always try to give youself ax explanation of everythink and do not believe at first what is being said

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Quote from: dumbfounded22 on January 06, 2018, 03:37:16 PM

Secret telegram chats can be called an ideal option. They guarantee the security of sent information have the function of self-destructing messages after a certain time and do not allow forwarding correspondence to other people.

Yes that's true! Good tips

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i think for the safety purposes that we need data too be encrypted and anti hack

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For me, data needs to be encrypted to avoid scams and hack or other criminal act, This method will help you secure your account:)

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Quote from: vectorshield on January 06, 2018, 05:36:01 PM

I'm not so sure about using tor, to me that is nothing more than a honey pot, however another thing you can do is to encrypt your hard drive and to avoid using your smartphones to anything that is too personal and avoid social media as well.

Tor is as much of a honey pot as is Bitcoin. Only reason why Tor was given to public (it was developed by US Navy) is because you can only be anonymous in a crowd, so government agencies needed general population to use it and some government agencies are still funding it.

You are probably afraid of it because of a lot of stories about dark markets and all that, which is exactly why some are afraid of Bitcoin. scared they will be connected with terrorists and criminals and whatnot.
Neither Tor nor Bitcoin are very anonymous, there are better ways to be anonymous on the Internet with botnets and there are better ways to fund terrorists with cash. It is just that they are developed to be the best they can for the general population. There are reasons for existence of both of these technologies, not everything is simple like that. For certain use, they are both very good.

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Quote from: luxcoin on September 30, 2017, 08:56:49 AM

Do you trust you government ?
Do you trust any of its agencies ?

DO you believe in bank system ?

If you read this topic, I don't think , but how do you really text in a usual day ?

Do you think WhatsApp it's really the solution ( because its end-to-end cryptography) ?

Are you still using Chrome ?

[ I got to tell you - I've just watched the "Deep Web" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3312868/ and "the internet's own boy http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3268458/ so I'm very angry ]

The real problem I think we are too busy and to lazy to pay attention on it: you can it start now.

Just:
- use Duckduckgo as search engine
- navigate with Tor ( I know it is slower but it's for your privacy )
- use Toxchat or whatsoever
- you're good to go

None can steal your information anymore.

You can do it. Right now

Any other suggestion guys ?

I'm not so sure about using tor, to me that is nothing more than a honey pot, however another thing you can do is to encrypt your hard drive and to avoid using your smartphones to anything that is too personal and avoid social media as well.

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I don't worry about the government, since I don't think I would be an interesting target. It's just for privacy from family members.

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Secret telegram chats can be called an ideal option. They guarantee the security of sent information have the function of self-destructing messages after a certain time and do not allow forwarding correspondence to other people.

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I think that we have the right to do this, because we are individuals in democratic countries

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Quote from: yoseph on December 30, 2017, 06:32:59 PM

Quote from: luxcoin on September 30, 2017, 08:56:49 AM

Do you trust you government ?
Do you trust any of its agencies ?

DO you believe in bank system ?

If you read this topic, I don't think , but how do you really text in a usual day ?

Do you think WhatsApp it's really the solution ( because its end-to-end cryptography) ?

Are you still using Chrome ?

[ I got to tell you - I've just watched the "Deep Web" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3312868/ and "the internet's own boy http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3268458/ so I'm very angry ]

The real problem I think we are too busy and to lazy to pay attention on it: you can it start now.

Just:
- use Duckduckgo as search engine
- navigate with Tor ( I know it is slower but it's for your privacy )
- use Toxchat or whatsoever
- you're good to go

None can steal your information anymore.

You can do it. Right now

Any other suggestion guys ?

Irrespective of what you do when the government says that they want to spy on you, there is not a lot of things you can really do to avoid it all, the smartphones, smart TV and a lot of new electronic gadgets are being used to spy on us all the time.

Unless you know how to not leave tracks Wink

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Quote from: reymartH on December 30, 2017, 04:30:53 PM

If your data isn’t encrypted, anyone who happens across your phone or laptop can get at the files within pretty easily; with encryption added, accessing the same data becomes very, very difficult (though not impossible, if other security loopholes can be found on the device).

Do you know that most of the peolple choose a Pin to unlock the phone that is so easy to guess? What if you have been stolen your personal contats? What if I know when do you leave home and left some of wallet's private keys somewhere?

There are too many thieves that are just looking at it and only by stoling your phone they would know everything.

So, do not unlock your phone in public and do always use ID touch or fingerprint.

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Quote from: nagatraju on December 30, 2017, 04:12:18 PM

Because now there are a lot of thefts of your personalities. In banks take loans in your name, or buy cars and so on. Personal data must be encrypted, as it is not safe in our time.

That's right! You will never be safe anymore if you do not take care about protecting your privacy. Everyone out there is willing to take advantages of that 'cause it's worth !
And unfortunally not everybody has good intention - so first you realise you are in dangerous better it is.

Always CARE ABOUT PRIVACY

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Quote from: luxcoin on September 30, 2017, 08:56:49 AM

Do you trust you government ?
Do you trust any of its agencies ?

DO you believe in bank system ?

If you read this topic, I don't think , but how do you really text in a usual day ?

Do you think WhatsApp it's really the solution ( because its end-to-end cryptography) ?

Are you still using Chrome ?

[ I got to tell you - I've just watched the "Deep Web" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3312868/ and "the internet's own boy http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3268458/ so I'm very angry ]

The real problem I think we are too busy and to lazy to pay attention on it: you can it start now.

Just:
- use Duckduckgo as search engine
- navigate with Tor ( I know it is slower but it's for your privacy )
- use Toxchat or whatsoever
- you're good to go

None can steal your information anymore.

You can do it. Right now

Any other suggestion guys ?

Irrespective of what you do when the government says that they want to spy on you, there is not a lot of things you can really do to avoid it all, the smartphones, smart TV and a lot of new electronic gadgets are being used to spy on us all the time.

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If your data isn’t encrypted, anyone who happens across your phone or laptop can get at the files within pretty easily; with encryption added, accessing the same data becomes very, very difficult (though not impossible, if other security loopholes can be found on the device).

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Because now there are a lot of thefts of your personalities. In banks take loans in your name, or buy cars and so on. Personal data must be encrypted, as it is not safe in our time.

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Quote from: selen on December 19, 2017, 07:38:24 PM

it seems that confidentiality will soon become a big privilage. meanwhile we try to protect ourselves ...

It definately needs to change somehow.
I mean you cannot even trust your neiborout, can you imagine an international firm who maks money on your data?

Everyday they're trying to stole more and more of yourself with tracking of pretty everything from your smartphone till your home termostat.

And we don't even know what they are doing with the huge data they collect!
Start realise your privacy has a cost!

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it seems that confidentiality will soon become a big privilage. meanwhile we try to protect ourselves ...

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Quote from: wawanwawan96 on December 08, 2017, 10:49:01 PM

Quote from: luxcoin on September 30, 2017, 08:56:49 AM

Do you trust you government ?
Do you trust any of its agencies ?

DO you believe in bank system ?

If you read this topic, I don't think , but how do you really text in a usual day ?

Do you think WhatsApp it's really the solution ( because its end-to-end cryptography) ?

Are you still using Chrome ?

[ I got to tell you - I've just watched the "Deep Web" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3312868/ and "the internet's own boy http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3268458/ so I'm very angry ]

The real problem I think we are too busy and to lazy to pay attention on it: you can it start now.

Just:
- use Duckduckgo as search engine
- navigate with Tor ( I know it is slower but it's for your privacy )
- use Toxchat or whatsoever
- you're good to go

None can steal your information anymore.

You can do it. Right now

Any other suggestion guys ?

I really need data secured I do not trust the government in my country now a lot of corruption cases that happened.
I really do not believe in their banks system sometimes mixing counterfeit money

I'm totally go with your words.
In the web you cannot really trust anyone else expect yourself.

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I will just answer the main question, without having your wallet data encrypted anyone could access to the funds any time.
While there's people always trying to bruteforce addresses to stole the money, that's the main reason of why is it encrypted.

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Quote from: Snub on December 08, 2017, 12:22:21 PM

on the one hand we have the right to a personal life, so it is convenient that our data is encrypted...on the other hand, this hiding of the data opens the road for bandits and scammers...a double feeling

I think that is the common Idea of the mass media today about Bitcoin - because it is supported first on Silk-Road so it is a gateway for the drug dealers.

It's not like that! of course there will be also scammers and so on like there are also when BTC did not exist.
They found another way to make illegitimate things.

But because we are using Internet so much during our life, the information we store on the web is crucial - because of that I think all your data, not only personal as you mentioned, need to be encrypted.

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