In March of 2020, we reached out to all of Google Sadie's users for an interview. Out of all 17 of them, only one said yes. Oh, okay, is this where I sit? Go ahead and just have a seat right there. Sorry, I'm really excited, really nervous. I actually haven't done anything. Is this thing on? Yes, it's on. Please don't fiddle with it too much. Oh, sorry, sorry. Do I look here or here? Okay, well, I'm ready. So, tell us, why did you decide to back Google's Game Streaming Service Stadium? Yeah, so I love video games. I mean, who doesn't? I have an Xbox One, I have a PlayStation 4, and I have a Switch. And I love how portable the Switch is, but there's something so freeing, you know, about playing Assassin's Creed, like top tier games on your phone of all places, but, you know, playing games anywhere, it's just so exciting. Right, so the concept of a console-free gaming platform really appealed to you? Yeah, for sure. I mean, again, as I said, like just not being tied to one place, having to use a console, like it's 2020, you know. So, how does it work? Oh, for sure, yeah. So, all you gotta do is plug this into your TV and away you go. Oh, so can you tell us how that's different from having a console plugged in? No, not at all. Well, that's great. So, what's your experience with Google Stadium been like so far? Yeah, all right, Jordan, last round, are you ready? No, I'm not seeing any lag. Are you seeing some? Oh, maybe a tiny bit on my end. No, look, no, I'm hitting you, see?  Did you see that block? When I jumped over your head, you're just seeing it now. Yeah, it was a little bit ago, but my, yeah, I can't really. All right. Oh, no. Oh, you got me. I wasn't, I wasn't ready. Here comes my special move, Jordan. Did I do it? You won. Oh, yeah. Now, now I'm seeing it. Yeah, you won. Good job, Jordan. You still there? Yeah, we don't have to talk anymore. Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't, I thought you'd like the body pass. Yeah. That's okay. No, I get it. You're busy. Are you still there? Play some Destiny. Yeah, that's all I've played. Right. Stadia released four months ago. Isn't there any fun, exclusive games? No. No, there's no exclusive games or no, they aren't fun. Yes. Okay. You didn't buy anything else like Tomb Raider or Assassin's Creed? Ah, you see? The thing with that is when I paid $130 for the Stadia Founder's Pack, I didn't realize I would then still have to buy all the games. So I can't really afford that right now, but it's okay. Like I don't mind. I've played all those games. Like every game on Stadia I've played before anyway, you know, on like Xbox and PlayStation and literally everywhere else years ago. So it's fine. I'm not missing out on anything. Well, you want to show us how to actually play Stadia? Perhaps on your phone? Not on my phone, because it doesn't actually work on my phone yet. Ah, you got an older model phone. No, it's the newest model. It's just a Samsung, not a Google phone. Okay, but what about the TV behind you? Is that where you usually play Stadia? Yes, that is one of the few places I can play Stadia. So I'll just go ahead and hook this back up and I'll show you how it works. Yeah, you just got to get up in here, which isn't always the easiest thing to do. Cables, all right. Okay, so that's in. And now I just need the controller. I can actually turn it on without the controller, which I left around here somewhere. Sorry. I haven't seen it in a while, actually. Shoot. Oh, there it is. Yeah, I remember now. Sorry. So silly. This chair was a little wobbly, sir. I just had to manage to actually find a use for it. So I figured, you know, why let it go to waste, am I right? So you just got to, the battery is dead, so I can actually turn it on. How about your computer? Yes, that's an excellent idea. We'll go do it at the computer. Yeah. All right, here we are. Gonna play some Stadia finally. Geez, you think it'd be easy. What's the cable for? Oh, the controller. Oh, because it's dead? No, because it won't work on the computer without the cable. That doesn't seem right. I know. All right. Sorry, I made you wait, but we're gonna play Stadia. Get excited, guys. It's the future of gaming. What now? I guess my three month trial just ran out. What did you pay for that again? $130 for how long? About three months.  Yeah, my computer. All right. Sorry, though we were done.


Yo, what's going on guys welcome to another video. Hope you guys are doing good. Hope everything's going well today. It's Saturday I've been pretty much catching up on school work and stuff tomorrow now. I have some busy plans So as you guys know, I've been planning on going on the river forever and I haven't had a chance It really sucked I promise two people out take him on the river a girl on the fishing team and a guy on the fishing team I haven't been able to take either one of them out and we're about to go and break which sucks Because I don't know if I'll have time and I physically just have not had time to go out on the river And it's either like I haven't had my boat or just physically haven't had time So I've really been that busy just working on the business and working on kicking and working on school work and they go in practice doing all these things and Further things as well that I'm working on for the future.  So that's why I'm not gonna be I'm not gonna be taking them out because of That reason and it's it's just gonna be one of those days where I'm just trying to get film for a project Actually, it's not just for it's not for kicking this actually for a project I will get some photos for kicking as well, you know But I'm not gonna be fishing now and if I take them out I actually want to go fishing and go have a good time and actually go try to catch some fish So who knows I might there if you cast tomorrow see if I can catch a fish on film or get some cool pictures But overall just gonna be going out there So I actually want to get to bow storage later tonight and get the boat I'll show you guys the boat and everything but it gets so dark so early It's already 4 30 and it's like the Sun is coming down as you guys can see it's like hitting my face Sun's already coming down stupid crazy.  I have a lot I'll have a lot more to do today. I have to go to the gym. I do want to finish one of my projects I just want to get over with and get out knock that sucker out Because tomorrow I'm gonna be really focusing on getting content for my project. Let's do Wednesday The lake is looking beautiful though only if there was some fish in here Which is I don't understand but there's like no fish in here Like you can come out here you can catch one every once in a while But like of course I have a pond in the backyard that was good when I first came here and now it's just It's so rough and it's not even worth me getting the cameras out and coming filming a video out here anymore just because like I Mean there's you barely catch any fish here. This is what I'll do I actually go grab a few fishing poles. I'll throw a few casts out there Let's see if we can catch one, you know, like I said, I I don't know why but there's like no fish out I haven't been catching them lately, and like I said, I haven't really had too much time There is some current pushing back into that look of my walk over there I don't know. Let's go through a few castings even hook into something at least attempt to all right Got a few fishing rods got this one with a rattle strap on it I was throwing it yesterday. I could not get a bite on it And I just don't know if they're not wanting to moving bait or what it is I also have a little weighted wacky rig that we're gonna throw cooking a June bug yum dinghy on this one Now, let's just see if we can go catch one. I said I just this pond I wish it was better. It could be a lot better But see what we could do for what we got right now Let's see if we can go catch fish real quick before the sun goes down through this lake. I hate this place So I would like to talk about something real quick while we're on topic of how this pond sucks So there's a bait I've been using recently that you know I've used the past couple of years that I've actually had you know a good bit of confidence with and I've got a good But a fish on and it's perfect for on this fish or slow, you know you can pretty much go to any body of water for this bait and Most mostly shallow water, but not saying you can't go There's some like deep docks and stuff of this as well, but this is actually a weighted wacky rig So it's not just like your standard little wacky rig hook It's actually got a little weight and two little end pieces right there for a weed guard And you just hook your little wacky worm. I promise you any ponds that you go to throw this bad boy You'll catch them if those fish are slow, even if they're active You're gonna catch them anywhere like if I tell a friend if they want to go catch some fish on a pond They're like throw a little Cinco Throw like a little wacky rig like a weightless Cinco or a wacky rig anything pretty much for the Cinco and that Right there I smoke them so I'm actually gonna go inside cook some food And then we're gonna be going to boat storage here a little bit where I can show you some of the rods I want to rig up Just because you know, I'm gonna be taking videos I am gonna be casting rods and just get a little bit of stuff ready for tomorrow Just got to the boat as you can tell all the compartments open The reason these are all open is because during the tournament I actually had it rain super bad during the trim like I set up for my GoPro in the past I was just in what I did was I actually had to open up all these compartments let them air out because all the water You know when this carpet and it gets super wet of course is waterproof and everything but when the sink is super wet You just want to air out so every time like after a tournament if it's raining I'm definitely gonna open these and let everything air out. You're all good. So I'm gonna clean this bad boy I'm not really gonna bring anything up because I really don't think I need to for tomorrow I might tie something up but all in all I'm not there to fish. I'm there to get a lot to video for my Assignment so I just kind of want to tidy up the boat and I am gonna take this home So it's much easier. I can just fly from home in the morning. Look how big of a mess this is guys I got stuff everywhere. I need to put these I'm just gonna take these out Usually with the boat cover. I'll keep these in so with the book over right there You have to keep these in because to keep it, you know up on the cover lays on top of those And look at all this is from like linear more efficient You clean all this off take these out if you guys are wondering what this is right here I've never said anything about this but the craziest thing first day. I went out to practice I was driving and driving to my first spot for the linear tournament for first day practice And this literally just lifted up.  We're all good. I'll make sure everything's locked up later I just wanted to take it home So I'll leave from here and just don't waste any time You know go into the river tomorrow because the film that I'm trying to get is going to require me to get out They're pretty early just because I need to get the right shots with you know The right lighting the thing to be cool to get some morning shots as well So that's my mother do all right guys just got home decided I'm just gonna film right out here Because the lighting sucks in my front yard, and I got this beautiful spotlight to actually show myself That's how good it is actually pretty cold outside. It's pretty windy. I'm honestly the type of person that doesn't wear like I'm our jeans. I don't wear like a sweatshirt. I wear t-shirts when it's like super cold outside Unless I'm like on the water like I'm going to something like special But it's like 50 outside right now. Yeah boats all good Like I said not really gonna be fishing I might just you know I'm gonna be throwing cast just for the film who knows they might end up biting. It's pretty crazy But uh, yeah got a lot done to update on this week this week has been in an insane week like absolutely crazy Like I finished 10 weeks. We're at the work in two days for one of my classes It just been pounding it out, and I got a lot of stuff due Monday, so I'm pretty much gonna be editing this tonight I'm gonna be working on some more school work And then tomorrow I'm gonna be filming all day and then of course working on some more school work So I can get everything done by Monday just gonna be grinding gonna keep on doing everything Gonna keep you know striving to be the best that can be I hope you guys are doing that as well Like I said, I hope you guys would be in the best like trying the best just just putting a hundred and fifty percent effort Everything in life, and I think that's very important, and I think you guys are awesome You guys are like the best fans in the world and you guys support me so much I just like to say thank you But overall thank you guys so much for watching if you could please smash the like button Please comment below and please subscribe if you haven't already But overall thank you guys so much for the support


Yes, what's up money geeks Mr. V here. Welcome to another video guys. So in this video we are going to do a quick review of the trades that I did today. So as you can see on the screen we had AMC and OEG and these are all off of the watch list that I posted on our discord server. So if you're new here, we talk about how to earn money, how to save money, how to invest and build wealth. So if you have something that interests you, go ahead and hit that subscribe and the notification bell so you don't miss out on new content. So before we jump right in guys, I kind of want to give you guys kind of an update because I haven't posted here for a while. I got sick three weeks ago and so in the process I lost my voice so I tried recording some videos and it was just awful and I didn't want to post that because I sounded like I was in the container and I didn't really enjoy it. So I recorded those videos and I didn't think that would make sense for me to post them and then after that I started to feel better. So I just want to give myself enough time to recover but I do feel better now and I think to the point where we're getting back into the game. So I do apologize if you haven't sent me posted. I'm doing great now and thanks for everyone that's reached out to me to just check and see what was going on. I really appreciate that. So let's jump right into the trade again. Like I said, we have right here AMC and OEG. So I'm going to jump in, take a look at the trade that you'll see. So this is OEG. This is the trade I took today. As a matter of fact, right out of the gate, I'm going to show you guys what this did. So you can see here, right out of the gate is squeezed up to about 6.2 and then flushes. And then so right here, this is where I traded. So it crosses VWAP right here about 5.6 as where I got in and then it squeezed all the way to about 6.4 as where I got out. And then if you notice like the retracement here was pretty much consistent. It kind of just gap all the way to the top, flushes, consolidate, gaps to the top, flushes, consolidate, gap a little bit, flushes, consolidate, gap a little bit. So if you look at the retracement, it was pretty consistent throughout the day. I didn't trade these other pieces. This would have been a good trade right here, but I didn't trade that. And then right here would have been another good trade as well. And I'm still just anticipating that it's my move after hours, but that's beside the point. So here is again, let's go back to the trade that I took. So right after breaks VWAP right here, look at the volume that Kim's been giving me confirmation about 5.6 somewhere there. So that's when I got in about 5.6, I'm going to squeeze all the way to the 6.7 and then look at this red volume of red bars here. It tells me that volume is dropping. So it was time for me to get out. So I think my out there, it took me at about 3.9 or so. So I didn't go all the way to 4. Sorry, 6.39, 6.39. So I didn't go all the way to the very top there, but that kicked me out. As you can see what happened there flushes. So I took that profit and now I was extremely happy with that. Can't complain. So that was it. Again, if you can see here, this stock of pre-markets already showed us that it had opportunity. This thing was about $3.50 pre-market, I say gapping all the way to almost $6 pre-market, which is awesome. So that's why we is one made it to our watch list. For those of you that are not part of that watch list, link in the description. You can join our discord server. So you can see that watch list there for free before we make it to the point where it's going to be just for our paid members. But for now, I'm posting it out there for free. The next one that we traded was AMC. This was another one. If you can look at this thing pre-market, it started out, let me see if you can pull back here. So this is it. Open up from about $25 and squeeze all the way to $29. Pull back, consolidate it around VWAP, and then instead of squeezing back up to a high of about $30, almost $33 before the market opened. So this one had a price target on about $35 on a watch list. But look at what happened. Market opened and flushes down, kind of and regrouped a little bit crosses VWAP, but it was still a little bit choppy. But I mean, like if you have been following all the forums online and looking at it, you will see that this thing has been really, really moving. So I finally get an opportunity to get in this one. So I got in here about $31 and $40 or so, and then squeeze all the way to $33.53. And I got out about $33.30 because I saw volume started to die down. That's why I got out and look at what happened right after that if flushes down. So I took profit up here, which is that was an excellent trade. I think there was other opportunities in the stock to trade somewhere around here. So if you look at that retracement here, flushes and then consolidate. It's almost the same thing that happened with OEG, that same principle, but these guys have been on the move recently. So I definitely would expect AMC to continue to move to the upside. Hopefully by the end of this week, AMC should probably get to about $40 if the momentum continues. So that would be my prediction here. I'm only day trading it. I'm not holding it overnight or I'm not swinging it. In my other account, I might pick up a few shares there and hold it, see what happens with a tight stop loss. Because again, with these meme stocks, you don't want to be caught with your hands down. You want to be in a situation where you're protected. So those are the two stocks that I traded today. Again, as you can see here, we made over $400 in profit, which is good. Again, we're not greedy savages. Some of the trades you can stay in and make a ton of money or you can stay in and give some of that profit back. As you can see, AMC is starting to curl back up again. And I'm pretty sure after hours, you might see a pullback on this one and then I squeeze all the way to maybe 35 bucks. That's getting my prediction. And so I'm going to be watching this one after hours today. So let me know again in the comment section what you guys think. I just want to apologize again, guys, having been posting the last three weeks or so as consistent as I would love to. So at least I'm slowly but steadily getting back. I think my health is in a point where I feel comfortable now. My voice at least doesn't sound terrible, well, in my opinion. But yes, I think we're back in business, guys. Thanks again for all the love and support. And I'll see you guys in the next one. Again, if you're new to the channel, we talk about how hard to earn money, how to save money, how to invest and build wealth. So if there's something that interests you, go ahead and hit that subscribe button and the notification bell so you don't miss out on new content. Also, guys, if you're looking to get started with investing, Weibo has their promotion right now where if you sign up, you get free stocks, links in the description below. And as always, guys, do your due diligence.


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way back in 2015 average number was about five and a half innings so in LA times it sounds like they were wanting Richel to go seven 17% of pitchers who pitched for a team that won the game in the World Series only 17 went seven or more so the LA Times was calling for him to do something that it's not really done by pitchers or by teams that win these World Series games what I'm going to show you is a quantile-quantile plot it's going to show you how well normally distributed the data is so this line if the data points match with the line perfectly that's indication of normal distribution it's kind of sort of as you can see there's a couple of outliers that are really dragging it so if I was looking for an absolute perfect number maybe I wouldn't use normal distribution I'm not looking for that I'm just looking to see if Richel should have gone further so estimates are okay because a small deviation it's not going to make a big difference and what is really kind of a subjective subjective-ish question so I'm about to show you a lot of graphs coming your way so the first two hitters he would have faced the two that he would have had to retire in order to get the seven inning first one was a general one named Brock Holt this is his batting average and yeah there is a rainbow color so let's think about the rainbow this is his batting average by first inning in 2016 and I did include a line here that you could see his batting average in the seventh inning so you could get a more or say you could compare so as you can see he bats better in the seventh inning than he does in most other innings but it's pretty close the player that would have come after Holt is Jackie Bradley Jr with him as you can see he bats the seventh inning is not his best inning so back to that that list of innings pitched by starters who won the World Series World Series game so here I hand calculated the standard deviation for you and what I did is I included trend lines regression lines at one standard deviation above two above two below so on and I included a trend line at seven to show you where it would have fallen if Holt had pitched seven innings like the LA Times fairly wanted to trend lines were not showing up here is what I don't like about this you have to initialize everything so you think oh I can just run it and then it will work out you actually have to initialize it just like in Java, Python, etc but no that's not it's not a concession of saying that those languages are better not at all here we go here we go so this this is one standard deviation below the the mean this is one standard deviation above the mean and that may be hard to see because right above it is the seventh end line so as I said 68% of the data should be in here so basically below below this line would be half the data 50 plus 34 to be about 80 to be seven innings this would be in the top 20% and that's what the LA Times is wanting they're wanting and they're having high expectations for Rich Hill so high that's against the parent formula for winning the world series now one thing I want to notice down here you see a really low value for innings pitched by a starter that was two and a third innings by Lance McCullers Jr game seven of the 2017 World Series over the Dodgers and they won that game after McCullers went out they put in Brad Peacock who gave them two clean innings they brought in Francisco Liriano who got out Chris DaVinsky who also got out and of all people Charlie Morton no one really had ever outside of Houston had heard about before the World Series he pitched the last four innings and got the win so that says something about how you need a strong bullpen to win the World Series so I'm going to look at that graphically okay it's a lot of graphs settle down I'll get to them so this is the ERAs by the last four World Series champions you can't find out so bullpen ERAs by last four World Series champions in the regular season so this line is where the Dodgers bullpen falls see that's right around in there I talked about the field independent pitching and by the way these stats are from fan graphs these are the field independent field independent pitching my last four World Series champion okay it's higher than all of them the timer's up but we'll be wrapping up in a few minutes I promise another important concept is the save so for relief pitcher he has to finish the game he has to come in with the team winning and he has to pitch one inning and enter the game with one or two or three run leads enter the game with the tie or enter the game with the tie run on bases at bat or on deck if you enter the game in a safe situation you don't convert you don't leave the game with the lead it's called a blown save so that's what I'm going to be looking at save percentage save converted divided by total save total divided by saves plus blown saves so look it's all lower Dodgers bullpen a lower save percentage and all four World Series champions that I've deemed as the appropriate population so that leads me to my verdict is that this one as you can probably expect because this is not not nearly as an objective test as a freeze in Muncie this isn't as simple an answer for me the LA Times when they made this criticism by the way they're not the only one not my long shot that's just where I found one I can cite is that they were assuming that the bullpen blow it they wanted Rich Hill to continue to come through so it's it's so I guess the stats show that maybe Robert shouldn't have maybe they shouldn't have expected Hill to go far the underlying problem it's more simple than just should Hill have stayed or gone the underlying problem is that the bullpen they didn't have a bullpen to win it they didn't have a bullpen to win it so it's a simple time and I think you saw in the graph that that was unfortunately the case now it's time for questions there's one right there unfortunately I have to turn down yes sir thank you yeah so what varied for every time I ran the simulation so what I did is I randomly selected so I had a list of all the potential outcomes and the probabilities and the statistics so every iteration it randomly selected one there are different probabilities for each player it randomly selected once and it did that a hundred times and then added up the run expectancy based on the results so that's how so why there is a vary is because since it was a random selection it was random variance is that the answer for example freeze prem is basically the breakdown of probabilities so it's basically it's basically a hat and I had a bunch of random or I had a bunch of different outcomes different amounts there's a hundred outcomes so there's nine of walks and hit by pitch 23 strikeouts every simulation it took one and it converted it used that outcome to add a run expectancy added it did that every time so it was basically what that means I'm really sorry I didn't explain that when I was doing this so in 2018 overall David freeze he would get a walk or hit by pitch 9% of his plate appearances he would strike out 23% of his plate appearances you know 18% he would hit fly balls and then every time he hit a fly ball 4% of those fly balls he gets single 61% you get now and then 18% it would be a home run yes it's a random selection based on stats from this season and then when I ran the other simulation it was stats against right handers specifically ok so it does that a hundred times for each player and it compares them and whoever has more wins that game and what I just showed you was 10 games and so what the results we got was when it was all stats max muncie won 7 out of 10 games right handed pitching only muncie won 8 of those games anybody else yeah it's the sample it takes a random sample that's actually a very good point so I read this in an article somewhere sometimes you know obviously managers can't can't see all of this during during a game the baseball team's best attempts to their best attempts to do this deep analysis is they all have analytics departments you know hiring like people who are very good with big data or very talented with big data and you know basically this type analysis no managers don't have this during the games but the job of the analytics departments would be to do this deep analysis on their own and then they'll use that strategy in the game and also they use this to look at basically flute performances and stuff as I alluded to earlier this so those are the pre calculated run expectancy like remember when I showed you oh I'll give you the 32nd version so there is a whenever there's 24 different situations because there's like on the bases there'll be empty one on, two on there'll be runners at different places on the bases there'll be 0 out, 1 out, 2 out there are values there are values to show like at any given point what's the expected run to be scored from now until the end of the inning so in this situation I talked about there was 1 on 1st, 2nd, no outs the dodgers expected to score 1.437 runs for those of you wondering they actually did score a run in the inning to tie the game but there could have been more so they disappointed so there's constant to calculate run expectancy added by a batter it's the run expectancy probability run expectancy at the end of the play minus at the beginning of the play so on those constants those are precalculated values using this exact formula and using this less of an assumption for what the situation would be after each outcome so unfortunately as much as I would love to do that someday I was not in the dugout my sorry I read an article once saying how managers don't really have this kind of you know when the heat of the moment in the dugout trying to make the best decisions I think it's no no so there was a lot of time on their hands a baseball statistician did average run scores after every occurrence from the 2010 to the 2015 season so there's like over 2,000 games in the season 5 seasons and then there's somewhere from 9 to I don't know 14, 15 innings per game they analyzed every single situation for every team every game anymore can you say a little louder please I guess but you mean are you saying without 4 loops I'm sorry I understand your question yeah I'd say so but when I did the saver I've done multiple classes I started with saver metric I did a lot of steps through our class and I have to say simulations were my favorite part so I guess it'd be yes let it be as much I guess a thrills pack or maybe not anybody else you know after this I'm kind of pessimistic honestly the one big drawback of having technology is that there could be texting going on during games which is illegal according to the rules they would be cheating you know you could use internet during the game so the one big drawback with technology in the dugout would be like internet access and messaging access that would ruin the game basically yeah it would be it would be quite more interesting if they could find a way to have these tools available without without those restrictions at the moment job analytics department is to use this do these types of analyses and then they communicate with the managers and that's how they form game plans and decisions and stuff Hello, welcome to my talk on Linux and Liberty an exploration of digital privacy I'd like to start off by thanking Austin for a look for that great talk that was really nice to see I've had the pleasure of going to Polytechnic school with Austin as a senior and I've gotten to be one of his friends and really enjoyed that friendship as well so thank you Austin for that amazing presentation about something he's taught me a lot about with that passion for baseball so my presentation today is on Linux and Liberty my name is Desmond Mantle and I sort of want to disclaim before I go too deep into this that I am not an expert in this field I'm a high schooler and I don't want to be liable for your digital privacy decisions that I might advocate in this presentation they're my views, mine alone not endorsed by any particular outside organization it's what I've discovered through my personal practice and through my own personal research and I'll be talking about some of the advice that I can give just from a lay person sort of perspective so I'd like to start with the problem in 2013 X Keyscore as a program was revealed by Edward Snowden along with a prism and a number of other programs used by the NSA to store and collect data and ultimately use it to track the online activities of millions of Americans and people abroad there was a massive collection of personal data and it was across multiple developed nations it was most prevalent in the U.S. and in the E.U. in fact very notably a case in the E.U. occurred when the United States was spying on Chancellor Angela Merkel's phone German Chancellor Angela Merkel got in some diplomatic trouble for doing that but there's a number of other nations where that kind of spying occurred Germany is actually one of the most notable nations where that occurred outside of the U.S. now another big problem is that Congress was trying to put oversight on this and established what's called FISA foreign intelligence surveillance act the thing about FISA is that it really has no teeth to it it's very empty sort of reform with regard to civil liberties because the courts are essentially just rubber stamps they don't actually use civilian judges who like weigh the evidence and often come in favor of civilians they just have specific FISA court judges the idea being that they're supposed to have a security clearance to be able to view what is going through the FISA court and then that they're able to render a decision based on that and not leak the information the downside of this of course is that you have specific FISA judges who have an incentive to just clear as much as they possibly can in many ways the same effect happening to public defenders just trying to take as many plea deals as they can to reduce court clog the same thing happens in the FISA courts they're hit up with so many requests from the NSA and other surveillance organizations every day that they have a huge incentive to just get everything cleared as fast as possible and what that means is that the judges really aren't going through due process they're just taking whatever comes to their court and the vast majority of the time they're rubber stamping it sending it through and it means that the surveillance is allowed to happen relatively unchecked despite the fact that Congress is ostensibly checking it with these FISA courts now only one party needs to be believed outside the U.S. in order for NSA authority to kick in and this is crucial because it means that we're not immune just because we're mostly American citizens or American permanent residents it means that if we ever have a contact outside the nation then that conversation can legally be monitored by the NSA and all sorts of third degree fourth degree contacts end up permeating through that there's information you carry from one conversation to another and then as soon as it goes outside of the nation the NSA has authority over it which means that a lot more domestic information is collected than one would expect and then what the government really claims the fact is though most of us don't really like the idea of the government looking at our personal data a lot of us want our data to be private for various reasons there's financial data there's social data there's all sorts of stuff that we do online where we want anonymity or privacy or just generally not having the government spying on us constantly and so this score to the point of this presentation to help you figure out how to navigate this kind of atmosphere how I've navigated this atmosphere and what exactly it means to do that so first I'm going to talk about what your privacy rights are we'll start with the really big obvious one, the United States Constitution's Fourth Amendment which was established in the Bill of Rights written by James Madison and no warrant with searching is allowed without an immediate safety threat basically what this means is that unless a police officer or other peace officer fears for the safety of himself or others around you you can't just like do stuff to you like seizing or searching without a warrant from a magistrate a judge of some sort and so this is a really crucial protection it developed from the British protections of the right to privacy developed over hundreds of years in Great Britain and it's really important sort of an equalizer in a democratic republic meaning that even common people have the right not to have their persons and effects invaded by the government or even by other people and may or may not extend this right in the Ninth Amendment depends how you view a couple pieces of case law Griswold versus Connecticut and Lawrence versus Texas both of those really have more to do with personal like body based privacy like your right to property over your own body but there's a wide variety of jurisprudence that holds that the Ninth Amendment extends privacy rights as established in the Fourth Amendment and therefore that the Ninth Amendment makes the Fourth Amendment somewhat broader and a more complete right to privacy than just the one established in the Fourth Amendment there's also the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment and the United States Code Title 42 Section 1983 and this is actually very important because it is enacted as the Ku Klux Klan Act and what it does is actually these two combine to make you protected from infringement of your rights by all levels of the government that's what the Fourteenth Amendment does it incorporates those rights so it means that no level of government is supposed to infringe on it you can get an injunction against their actions if they do that and 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 allows you to sue for civil damages in the past which the Fourteenth Amendment doesn't so if your rights have been violated if you've been searched and you saw some problem from that like there was a financial loss of value they broke into your car and now your car has a lower value of that damage according to 42 U.S.C. in 1983 and that means that these rights are very firmly established in the United States Constitution no matter how much the modern federal government might ignore them full disclaimer I'm not a barred attorney this isn't legal advice that were legal advice it would be followed by a bill so since these next generation talks are supposed to include a sort of personal element I thought I would include like my personal journey through digital privacy and I think it's somewhat relatable a lot of us have had this sort of thing although I might have taken it farther than the average student but let's start with my middle school experience so the school gave us Google Apps for Education Accounts and that was my first exposure to the various Google Apps like Docs Drawing, Slides, all that stuff and that was wonderful and the thing that that really did was it allowed us to work collaboratively and that's a big thing at my school being able to work collaboratively on stuff to this day I use Google Docs extensively to do collaborative work on projects also Google Slides in fact I even used that to make this presentation and so those are really really helpful apps but a teacher did warn us at the time, read your terms of service if Google gets subpoenaed it's all coming out now being the legal nerd I am I actually had read the terms of service as I do when I download any application and the thing is in the terms of service it does explicitly state that if Google gets subpoenaed they have a record of what you've done they've collected it and targeted ads based on it sometimes and then the government has full access to it if they serve Google with a valet subpoena that's a big problem for me feeling like my data is being stored and can be accessed later but as I've just told you I continue to use Google so the fact is I'm just very careful what I put in Google any Google service because I know that that data gets tracked I know that they log ISPs I know that they log other information and that they will provide it to law enforcement without destroying the record first if they get a subpoena now at the time I used a family desktop running Windows I had barely even heard of Linux at the time or even like what open source was it was also a pretty slow family desktop which was kind of not fun and I didn't have a smart phone yet at that time in fact I actually didn't get one till just about a year ago so then by the time I was in high school I got this laptop a Dell Inspiron which runs Windows normally there's a little bit more about what I do on it now I switched from Chrome to Opera in terms of browsers and that contains a free VPN now I know this is an open source convention but Opera's code is proprietary I'm sorry it's just really good and it has a free VPN with unlimited data that you can send through it which I consider a huge bonus a huge plus in being able to use it because so many VPNs are paid after a certain amount or even paid right up front and Opera just has a really solid VPN that enables you to use it you know wherever you want and then that allows you to use what you want with that I used Tor briefly but I went back to Opera for speed the reason I actually switched over to Tor in the first place was just that my school for a period of time blocked the Opera VPN I was like well this is pointless the whole point was to encrypt my traffic and now the school is not letting me encrypt my traffic so I started using Tor and then I think the school got a little gun shy so I decided to just unblock my VPN because they knew I was going to encrypt my traffic one way or another and it might as well be a way that isn't also used by the dark web so I decided to get to go back to Opera later on for the speed and because my school unblocked the VPN but my experiences with Tor did inform me a little bit about that application I'll be talking about that later now I've sent my default search engine to DuckDuckGo also that has a proprietary core that's listed on GitHub and I would argue that DuckDuckGo is really sort of hybrid between open source and proprietary in the sense that developing that core on one's own is not impossible it's not even all that hard of a task if you're setting out to make a browser and so you can use a lot of the privacy features that are open source which means I feel less bad about advocating that in an open source convention I also got a blackberry priv as mentioned this past year it actually has a little fire button you hit it and it burns all of your traffic so they don't store your traffic there are no log and network entirely like the Opera VPN it's a no log network they destroy the government subpoenas them they can't give them anything because they've destroyed the logs and that's an advantage of the DuckDuckGo mobile browser too the other thing is I can't give them the logs either because I've destroyed it locally it destroys the local copy of the cache and it gets rid of whatever DuckDuckGo has which makes it my favorite browser I've ever used also gives websites a little privacy rating like a grade like A, B, C the websites privacy practices which is nice and fun I also use Proton VPN again it's proprietary but it's free and it's unlimited and that's nice although it does reduce speed sometimes and finally I got Linux Mint I run it on a virtual box in an effort to compile code faster actually I'm part of my school's robotics club and for that I wanted to code things in Arduino and compile a little bit faster I was complaining about this to a computer science friend of mine he was like well wait a minute you do realize you're trying to compile on Windows in that flow run Linux and then it'll be faster so I ran Linux on this virtual machine it does compile faster once you get Arduino running in the first place but unfortunately loading Arduino is infinitely slower on a virtual machine than it is on Windows so it ends up being a wash it just sort of shifts the time burden a little earlier doesn't actually help me very much but that's fine because it got me interested in Linux and that's why I'm here today because I think Linux is a very cool operating system there are definitely some difficulties associated with this foremost among these is reading Ukrainian because my VPN for opera keeps sending me to Ukraine it's really their fastest server there or probably because there's multiple banks of the servers in their Ukrainian location but I'm very used now to seeing sending in my Google account and seeing Vtymo and I have to know that that means welcome to Google and so anyway getting past the Vtymo and knowing what to put in which field has definitely involved some learning basic Ukrainian but that's something I'm worth doing I feel worth doing in order to get into my account using the VPN that's more secure I also get pretty much constant security alerts because my VPN switching location that tells me it's a good VPN switching locations making it so that I'm not easily trackable online but that does mean I'm getting security alerts on my Google account all the time you find into your account from a new device and then you have to figure out and tell them no this was just me spontaneously teleporting to Ukraine and Singapore and Belarus and all those great countries and then the other thing I have to deal with is frustratingly long captures captures a little I am not a robot thing you click and then it asks you to select all the pictures of cars and then click verify and so having done that multiple times definitely gets kind of tiring that's one of the more annoying ones probably the most notable case of this was when I signed into my Wikipedia editing account I'm a regular Wikipedia editor when I signed into the Wikipedia editing account using my VPN Wikipedia flagged me as a robot and I had to be like no I'm not a robot and then tell them that I was human doing an insanely long capture to try to prove my humanity but on the upside reduce the amount of existential crises I face because I know Wikipedia knows I'm human so the other thing I have to deal with is definitely dropping speed this is more of a problem using proton VPN than it is using opera opera is actually very well optimized for speed including with their VPN it's really quite an admirable effort that they put into that and I'm very happy with opera but on my phone definitely proton VPN unquestionably slows things down quite a bit so that's something I have to be willing to accept to use that VPN there's also a lot of geo restricted content I know a lot of people use VPNs in other countries to try to get around geo restrictions of content and I think that's great I'm all for internet freedom in other countries and the United States for an American to be using a VPN and then going to another country it often reduces the amount of content you can access because US copyright law is one of the best and we have some of the least geo restrictions and so there are definitely times we're trying to watch a YouTube video for a Vivo song or something like that where it'll say this video is disabled in your country because I'm not in the US at the time and it means that I can't access it due to the copyright laws wherever my server is and I have to refresh my VPN until I get the US and I'm able to view the video the upside of this randomly teleporting around the world thing is that you can sometimes get into places a little early so for example AP scores are released at different times based on which state you're in and a couple years ago California was one of the later states to have its AP scores released and I was not down with that so I refreshed my VPN multiple times until I got the first state to be released which was Utah and then I got to see my AP scores four days before everybody else in the state the other thing I have to deal with is the limited choice of server locations because I use free VPNs that means that there's not infinite server locations it's just whatever established networks they already have and so as I mentioned Ukraine is a very popular one there's also others in Singapore Belarus has a few Netherlands, France not Germany quite so much because of their less protective privacy laws there but definitely that's something I have to deal with in that I can't just randomly choose where I want to teleport sometimes refresh a bunch of times until it gives me randomly where I want to go the other thing is I have to explain all of this stuff to lay people and this is really the biggest thing because people are constantly asking me why on earth are you doing this to yourself I mean I have what seven bullet points here it just seems a little excessive but it's definitely worth it for me to be able to access online privacy and have my right to privacy protected online now here's my conversation on free and open source privacy also known as what you're actually here to see me talk about and so I want to go first into the history of sort of the open source movement and privacy for those of you who don't know I'm sure that's not many of you most of you would know this floss is free slash Libre open source software basically free slash Libre is a reference to the whole Linux free as in free speech not as in free beer thing that basically says Libre meaning that it's open source that anybody can access it not as in that it doesn't cost money although everything I'm talking about today also does not cost money but so early floss involved the new project being announced in 1983 and then the free software foundation was founded in 1985 Linux was released in 1991 but then it was re-licensed under the new GPL general public license in 1992 funny thing about new it actually is a recursive acronym standing for news not UNIX kind of a funny name for a program but that's what it is and then Java became fully open source in 2007 allowing students to be able to learn programming basically at no cost now which is very nice also security in the way of security for free and open source technology Tor was released in 2003 I'll be talking about Tor extensively in my presentation Android was released in 2008 I should note that the Android version that's on my blackberry priv is encrypted by what's called BTEC it's a proprietary blackberry program that actually encrypts all my data and doesn't back it up to Google in the cloud the way most Android phones back it up which I like very much because it's another way to prevent a log from being stored of what I do on my phone Tails which I'll be talking about later in the presentation was released in 2009 Ross Albrecht whom I will be talking about later in the presentation was arrested in 2013 and then operation on a mess I'll talk about right now which is a huge operation by the FBI, Interpol and a number of other government organizations and it was a raid on darknet markets it involved Tor Dot Onion hidden services and it arrested a lot of people I don't remember exactly how many who were convicted of either selling on those darknet markets or facilitating the markets themselves being webmasters coders things like that so I'm going to be giving a review of some specific applications now the first one I want to talk about is USB kill and this involves a very interesting story to its development so Ross Albrecht the guy was mentioning earlier he was arrested in October 2013 now Ross Albrecht was a guy in San Francisco he would go to the San Francisco public library and using the Wi-Fi there he would run a Tor hidden service with the Dot Onion domain that enabled him to run a website called Silk Road Silk Road was a huge online marketplace he had a very libertarian ethic of not having any interference in free markets so he believed people should be able to sell and buy whatever they wanted on an online marketplace and so that was working very well for him it was extremely profitable it was a huge marketplace but he was arrested in October 2013 due to a number of kind of silly mistakes that he made with regard to his own encryption processes and the user names that he reused too many times the passwords that he reused too many times and eventually the FBI tracked him down to a branch of the San Francisco public library where he was running this program now they had a kind of funny way of capturing him a couple of the FBI agents pretended to have a lover's quarrel in front of him and got him super distracted and the third guy literally just ran in and snatched the laptop off his lap while it was still running then stuck a USB in it and the USB kept clicking on the screen which keeps the screen open that means that Ross Ulbricht didn't have his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incriminating evidence because his evidence was right there it was free to the FBI he didn't have to give his password which he could have refused to do under the Fifth Amendment and that meant that they were able to keep his computer open find all sorts of evidence against him he's currently serving a life sentence actually although it's worth noting that Maryland prosecutors drop charges against him that were brought after he was accused of it's facilitating the hiring of a hitman on his site and it turned out that there was really no evidence whatsoever to support that Maryland prosecutors dropped that case and as a result of them dropping that case the Libertarian Party ended up passing a resolution formally requesting that he be pardoned by President Trump or a future president on the grounds that he never committed any violent crime now the USB kill program was developed by a user the user name of Hephaestus on Github and basically he developed this program to combat exactly what Russell Brookfell victim to which is the FBI sticking a USB in your computer and then using it to keep it open and deny you Fifth Amendment protections so the USB kill program takes action when non-white listed USB is inserted or when a USB is removed you can set it either way and the action it can be basically anything you want so if somebody sticks in a non-white listed USB it could shut down your computer completely it could just put it to sleep it could actually wipe all the data the version I have on my Linux virtual machine is the one where it just shuts it down so it'll just shut down the Linux virtual machine take you back to my windows home page where there's nothing incriminating and then that means that there's no problem involved if somebody sticks a USB in there that I don't want stuck in there or you can have it where there's a USB constantly stuck in your computer and if anybody tries to pull it out either to insert something else or just for any other reason it'll just shut off the computer for that reason unfortunately it only works on OS X Linux and BSD meaning you can't get it on your windows machine or on a number of other programs but it's still very effective I'd highly recommend it because it's a good security measure even if you're not worried about FBI agents having a mock-lover's quarrel and then swooping and sealing your computer it's still a good safety precaution to have because anybody with any malicious intent could stick a USB in your computer do whatever they want while it's open if you're just using it at the San Francisco Public Library or something like that and so it's a really good measure to have this making sure nobody gets access to your computer via the hardware by sticking in or removing a USB that you don't want them to. This program is hosted on GitHub and that's where you can contribute to it if you're looking to contribute to it again contributions are always appreciated in the open source world especially for something as important as this that really needs to be democratized everybody should have USB kill on their machine to get rid of this unfortunate regime of sticking in USBs and stealing people's data without giving them Fifth Amendment protections. Now Tor, this one is kind of infamous in the computing world routes all traffic through onion-like system of layered encryption and in fact Tor actually stands for the onion router. It's worth noting that Tor was actually developed by the United States Naval Research Laboratory with federal government funds and in fact it continues to be advocated by the U.S. abroad as a way for citizens of under despotic regimes abroad to be able to access the internet to violate people in China, Venezuela, other countries like that are able to access for your version of the internet than what are allowed into their country normally using Tor. So the United States has a huge commitment to civil liberties abroad. Unfortunately then they realize that they shot themselves in the foot domestically because people were using Tor to violate U.S. federal law and so that then involves some flagging about Tor and I'll be talking about that a little bit more with tails too. Tor probably has some weaknesses that are being exploited by law enforcement I say probably because I don't have access to secret law enforcement data but it seems very likely that certain weakness have been exploited. A very notable one involves not having an updated version of Tor meaning that it didn't have a firefox patch and so a number of four users were arrested for various crimes following their accounts being completely breached by the FBI after they didn't have the most updated version of firefox included with their Tor. And the other thing is that running an exit note can get you in serious trouble in fact there was a man in Germany who actually was running a Tor exit note never actually used it himself but another person using the Tor access child pornography they couldn't find the original person but they found the guy who was running the exit note and arrested him in Germany for trafficking child pornography because he facilitated it by running this exit note. With that kind of a liability that means that there are only three types of people who can actually run Tor exit notes. Civilians who just have no clue that this is a thing and don't realize that they're signing up for this level of liability in which case I question their awareness and savviness of the market enough to actually be able to run the exit note. Two, civilians who do know this and are just massive like the sort of fighters for the open source privacy cause in which case that's very bold of them and I applaud them but I don't think there are many of them. And the third and most likely option is that they're actually law enforcement agents. That governments because they're immune from prosecution are the ones signing up to run Tor exit notes and then running timing attacks on everything that goes through it trying to find what's at the origin. That's really dangerous. It means that when you use Tor it's really a huge risk with regard to your privacy being exposed and so although it's wonderful and being open source and everything like that I would not use Tor without other stuff. The other stuff that you can use is an underlying VPN that encrypts all of your systems internet traffic and then if you run Tor over that everything you do can be encrypted and you can even access dot onion hidden sites that way or if you're not looking to access dot onion hidden sites because you're not a shady dark net seller or buyer then you can just use the HTTPS only extension for Firefox that forces all connections that you access to be HTTPS which means they're encrypted from end to end independently of Tor so that even if a timing attack is run only your location can be determined just generally with an ISP area it's not very specific because the HTTPS has encrypted all of your data that way. Now Linux Tails is sort of an extension of Tor. It's a Linux distro like Ubuntu, Debian and any of those. In fact Linux Tails was actually the version used by Edward Stoden to take his information out of the base in Hawaii where he did that. In fact it boots from small devices such as a USB or microSD card and actually it's worth noting that Edward Stoden used a microSD card and then hid it in a Rubik's Cube as a way of smuggling the information out of the base in Hawaii where he did that but small devices like a USB and a microSD are the ideal way to get information clandestinely and it runs an entire OS on it's just a very very lightweight OS entirely privacy focused based on Debian and it routes all connections through Tor. Now of course I also just told you why Tor isn't reliable on itself and so you really with while you're using Tails would need to have either HTTPS only enabled there or if you want to visit non-HTTPS sites you have to encrypt all the internet traffic of your machine outside of the Tor that Tails already routes everything through and I think in order to do that you probably need to have a virtual machine set up and there's all sorts of problems you can run into with that so basically Tails is just sort of a last resort if you insist on using Linux if you insist on booting from a tiny device and if you insist on having everything encrypted then you can take a lot of precautions to find stuff but it's kind of it's not the easiest road to digital privacy in fact according to a German magazine Das Erste even searching for Tails or visiting its page on Linux Journal was enough to give the searcher an X key score fingerprint in fact very hilariously the X key score comment section of the code called the tool advocated extremist by extremists on extremist forums in fact I actually was teasing the Linux Journal people at the exhibition out there about that and they were laughing because they sort of wear that as a badge of honor now that they're called an extremist forum but the fact is it's kind of absurd that they would consider Linux Journal an extremist forum but yet at the same time it's worth noting if you're visiting pages on Linux Journal and accidentally or intentionally click on the one for Tails or even the fact that you should just search for Tails through an unencrypted connection or anything like that you automatically get a fingerprint in X key score if you get enough fingerprints then they actually track everything you do online if you get just a few fingerprints they track some of the stuff you do online it depends it's a complicated algorithm and Edward Stone wasn't able to reveal all of the algorithm in that sense but we do know that a fingerprint means that you're going to get at least partially tracked in some extent and that will automatically sort of a red flag means you should only download it through a VPN or we search for it through VPN if you don't want any fingerprints by the federal government now SoftEtherVPN is very interesting it's based on OpenVPN I'm sure you've all heard of OpenVPN and that is actually a master's thesis by a guy by the name of Dayu Nobori who is at the University of Tsukuba in Japan and SoftEtherVPN is really optimized for use by normal people in the sense that it is based on OpenVPN super intuitive layout and UI and everything of course the thing is it has to have servers set up to work you can't just like download SoftEtherVPN and then connect to an existing network you have to set up a network now I'd highly recommend this for anybody who's running a business or even a privacy conscious school or anything like that where you're going to be setting up a VPN for a different sort of area that you want to encrypt things for but you're not super concerned about anonymity or teleporting to random locations then definitely if you want to set up a server run SoftEtherVPN on it and then have the client side SoftEtherVPN running on everybody's computer connecting to it it's a really good way to encrypt all your traffic efficiently, effectively, safely and without having a huge drop in speed or other problems like that it's open source which is why I'm including it here and I think it's a really excellent tool to be able to use GhostPress is a very interesting piece of software it's an anti keylogger developed by Heinrich Schiffer it is open source although it's not included in a whole lot of open source news because it's just not super well known but I use it because it is amazingly unintrusive it doesn't do anything per se it just regularly sweeps your computer for keylogging software for those of you who don't know keylogging software is software that gets loaded on your computer from one way or another it can be downloaded by a virus it can be loaded on by a USB card anything like that almost never is a keylogger something you want either because the government is spying on you or a hacker is spying on you and generally you don't want either of those things to happen in fact I really can't take off the top of my head of any situation you'd want a keylogger installed on your computer by somebody else so an anti keylogger is a really crucial piece of software for any computer that can be used by multiple people as soon as you let it out of your site anybody who wanted to could install a keylogger on it and I think at GhostPress the keylogger is an excellent way of getting rid of that you just download it it's free open source and then it just runs in the background quietly not really doing anything except protecting your keystrokes from getting logged by a malicious external force and finally I'll be talking about privacy badger so privacy badger was developed by the electronic frontier foundation I think you all pretty much like them I like them a lot their organization devoted to civil liberties in digital age and encryption things like that and the great thing about privacy badger is actually that it's a sort of nuanced ad blocker it blocks tracking advertisements so for example google adsense actually is frequently blocked by privacy badger but it actually doesn't block people independently trying to make an honest living on the internet who aren't stealing your data which is great because it means that it's not a blatant or a blanket ad blocker would actually just block all of the traffic or all the ad traffic coming to you through pages and that means that the more times you use that the fewer ads get seen the less revenue advertisers can make online and the less incentive people have to create more free content online that's a problem trust me I believe ads are annoying but I think they're much more annoying when they're tracking you than when they're not so privacy badger is excellent at finding that line it's nuanced it means that you can get it as an extension by the way I don't have that on the slide it's an extension for the vast majority of browsers and it blocks tracking advertisements it means that you're not going to get tracked by advertisers and have targeted ads the same way that you normally would but it involves heuristic blocking meaning that the longer you use it the better it gets and this is this is a really kind of crucial point because it means you should start using privacy battery soon as possible and then just keep using it and eventually it gets really really good at figuring out what is tracking you it's not tracking you and navigating that fine line so you don't have to feel like you're depriving people of making an honest living on the internet and yet at the same time know that you are keeping yourself well protected by privacy and by encryption so for a little credits for this presentation and I'm going to be opening up for Q&A all images are courtesy of wikimedia.org I'm a huge fan of the wikimedia foundation for a variety of reasons including their own source licensure I also would like to thank wikipedia for fueling my brain, Soylent for fueling my body and Richard White for getting me into this whole thing telling me to apply and suggesting that I do this because it's been a lot of fun thank you all for that so thank you for watching the presentation and I'm now going to open this up for questions I believe you have to get it separately like on each OS you run so I have it on my windows machine and I don't think it sweeps into the Linux partitioned portion of my machine right I think that's probably I actually haven't done as much research into ghost presses into these other ones so I'm not entirely sure about that I would if I were personally figuring this out I'd probably get those pressed separately on each one and just have them both running in the background each time I do that but certainly if there's a way around that that'd be great if it were more efficient yes definitely there's a concern about like opera's reliability and I have to actually put my faith in the Norwegian courts for this one I say that because the terms of service include a binding term that you abide by the rules of Norwegian civil proceedings because opera was originally made in Norway even though it's now owned by a Chinese businessman and so the way I put my faith in it basically is arguing well if it turns out they've been stealing my data this whole time I'll join a class action lawsuit in Norway that probably has really good merits to it but I think because they know about that disincentive they're probably not stealing my data that's the way I justify it you're right I can't personally verify that opera's not stealing my data but I think there's a good reason for them not to and if it turns out that they haven't honored that good reason I'll have a good reason to go after them for it yes definitely I would not just download a VPN from anywhere but that's not safe because not all of them are bound by Norwegian courts terms of service and stuff like that and they're not all reputable sites in that sense and the reason I went with opera is because it existed for a long time over its decade some of existence it hasn't had claims against it for having leaked data everything it sure looks like they're eliminating their logs and I feel like I can trust that but you're right I wouldn't just go around downloading random VPNs everything I put up here has been to make sure that it's not some site that's actually just stealing your data yeah there's definitely that element so I actually pack my pocket constitution on top of my bag and I've repeatedly have TSA tell me your bag's packed too densely because I tend to pack very densely and TSA always tells me your bag's packed too densely we gotta search it they open it up they see the pocket constitution they zip it right back up and hand it to me I highly recommend getting yourself a $1 ACLU pocket constitution it's worth it for the time it saves you at TSA before I had my pocket constitution I also had densely packed bags had people trying to look inside I never had my laptop open so I don't know what that would be like if they opened it and were like doing some really intense analysis on it and found a partitioned Linux machine I would just you know I would be like okay yeah I have a partitioned Linux machine but there's no inherent reason to suspect me of anything for that and definitely like looking through like the personal belongings I mean they if you fly you do consent to that basic sort of level of things so I do but definitely like the pocket constitutions are remarkably effective deterrent any other questions yeah okay I'll go with you yes I'm the only one I know I'm the only one well okay take that back I know a guy at Locking Out High School uses Proton VPN as well for his phone and I know a couple others who use various VPN services like at times I'm just the only one I know who basically encrypts everything with regard to my internet traffic on laptop and on phone and stuff like that and I'm really the only one who I know who would like be willing to do that kind of research in the sense that they just a lot of people are kind of sort of laissez-faire about their privacy like well I'm not doing anything bad so it doesn't matter to me I love Edward Snowden's quote about this which is saying that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying that you don't care about the right to free speech because you have nothing to say I love this quote on that and that's very personal to me I feel like yeah I don't have stuff to hide but I'm gonna hide it so that's kind of how that works for me yeah yeah excuse course fingerprints yes sure definitely yeah I think I mentioned it here yes excuse course fingerprint yeah so the thing the way X key score works and this is kind of the core of Edward Snowden's revelations is that X key score looks at traffic just really really broadly just eats metadata for breakfast and and and then takes it from everything that they can believe has a connection outside the United States and then what they actually does with X key score is that you're able to identify people because of course culling through all this metadata can't be done by humans you have to have some sort of automated process the way a fingerprint works is X key score looks at your data and if any like one of these URLs because it's actually a URL on Linux Journal that is the thing that gives you the fingerprint and if you access that URL you get a fingerprint in X key score it stores it in the X key score database and then they have your name for whatever they're gonna do with it the federal government has repeatedly claimed in the wake of the Edward Snowden revelations that they don't do anything per se with fingerprints you have to get like a lot of them to be tracked frankly I don't believe that quite so much given the fact that they never specified what number really they have to have it and so I definitely think having your fingerprint in there for a start is a problem but there's also the fact that I've gone to that Linux Journal URL and searched for tails and downloaded Tor and all this stuff I definitely have multiple fingerprints in there a lot of us would actually at a Linux convention so that's something that I think is it's a collection of data that isn't necessarily inherently harmful but it snowballs very quickly yes so the big encryption method that the government has broken is SHA01 I believe that's the big one that got broken in the hack off or whatever it was if you're using SHA3 or later that's pretty secure if you're using there's another one I can't remember right now that's very secure so I think there are a lot of encryption methods that are just not solvable readily by people yet there just isn't the computer science yet to break those efficiently and so even the government can I just don't know of anything the government has access to that can quickly break any of the encryption methods I mentioned here the only one that I know of that was a big thing when they broke it was that version of SHA that they broke but everything else I think it's pretty hard for them to break definitely there's an XKCD comic about that where it's like I want to send an angry email to the president about the Edward Snowden revelations and the other guy says we'll just leave it in your drafts for him to read yeah yes on the Linux machine I do I don't encrypt the full windows machine largely because I want to boot quickly I mean that's the easy answer I don't need quick booting on the Linux and I want privacy a lot on the Linux so if my virtual machine is double encrypted actually the whole the portion of the drive is encrypted and then the OS's boot process is encrypted so I have to decrypt to open the virtual machine in the first place and just even get it to boot and then once I boot I have to put in the password to continue booting within the Linux machine and there are two different passwords too so it'd be really hard to break it any other questions I think I suck yes well certainly there is more attempts to reassure the American people that their data is not being watched over after though the ACLU filed a lawsuit against the NSA and lost they filed a lawsuit against the NSA over this data collection and they ended up losing the lawsuit and as a result of their loss of the lawsuit people had a lot lower confidence in the federal government not doing this kind of thing and so it's meant that although Congress has instituted new protections and they did not renew the sunset provision of the Patriot Act it means that there's still data being collected because it's not just the Patriot Act there's other stuff that the NSA does through their own administrative rules outside of congressional authority and that stuff means that your data is still being collected it's probably better there's a big investigation into I think it was CIA agents who were actually watching their significant others for cheating using the system they literally spy on their significant others as much as they could to try to catch them like cheating or doing whatever they were going to do and so after that broke those agents got fired they did a big internal review that thing at least seems to have gone away but definitely there's still stuff out there I still feel very justified in advocating continued privacy even with the new restrictions on what they can do yes yeah I mean exactly I can't tell you whether that's inside tour or outside tour that caused that it's not good for you that that happened because I'm sure a lot of the American exit nodes are run by the federal government so I mean it's not good for you that that happened because if they have access to the exit node actually to answer your question more about encryption too it's still encrypted even if they run the exit node so it's not like they just automatically access all your traffic through the exit node they don't know it's you they access the traffic they don't know it's you though but they can run a timing attack on it if they run the timing attack on it then they can determine that it's you and so that's the risk involved and then they can definitely run an exit node and get everything from everybody but they can run those attacks well basically the idea is it's almost the same way how if you're driving on the road and they have lines on the road and then there's a helicopter or a plane above you that literally has a little stopwatch and then they time your car and see if you're speeding or not it's basically the same thing over the internet the idea is that you send a signal using your computer your ISP records that you're using the internet at a certain time or like doing something on this as well as the exit node where that's coming out and know exactly how much time it took because they know the whole route if they're running the exit node then they can just figure out that you're the one taking that path if I walk into a forest and walk out of a forest at exactly the amount of time that it would have taken me to walk through the forest you know I was the one walking through the forest that's kind of how a timing attack works basically yes that would be a wonderful idea but I'm afraid it would slow your internet down considerably if you did it constantly you know I just I don't know it's a little bit mobile because mobile data but on a laptop I don't really know I haven't heard of a VPN that does that you're right that'd be a really cool sort of like honeypot way of doing it I just send a bunch of traffic into it I mean that sounds wonderful I just don't know if there's anyone that does this all the proprietary ones that I mentioned have existing networks of servers where they just they send what you send but well encrypted and then the open ones also involve good encryption but you set up the VPN yourself to server yourself yeah just to play around all right so any other questions yeah yeah oh yes anti key loggers one yes yeah so actually I run this on my windows and I was a good I would just search for ghost press and actually I'm pretty sure there's a download via download.net which is the CNET site that has secure downloads that vets everything from malware and I'd highly recommend I mean I download everything through downloads.com and so that's what it is just d-o-w-n-l-o-a-d-s downloads.com and if you go there search for ghost press it'll actually give you and I'm pretty sure it works on basically every OS and then you'll be able to get this again highly recommended if anybody ever has access to your machine outside of you because key logging software is pretty much never good no problem yeah if you download something sketchy yeah um I mean that's the thing like it it can be embedded in anyway just its code um so it you know it'd be hard to do it like I mean you'd have to you'd have to be on a public network not using a VPN like a certain connection to the hacker that would that you know they could say it right but you can't like if I'm if I'm on this Wi-Fi using my VPN I'm not going to get in unless I download stuff or somebody runs up here having a lover's quarrel and sorts of the USB into my my laptop all right any other question yes yeah um well I would not recommend she encrypt her disk because of the boot time problem that'd probably be frustrating for her um but I would recommend the opera browser in VPN again I'm sorry to recommend that in an open source convention but it's really good um it's very efficient it's easily accessible to lay people contains an ad block or you can get privacy badger on it and it has um the free VPN that's unlimited it's very reliable in my opinion um and and it's very normal functionality looks like chrome or firefox or any of those with with ease of use um it's just normal and then if she sets her default search engine to duck duck go within that looks a lot like google it gives you equally good search results but it's private it's a no log network those two things combined are going to give you a lot of good stuff and if you want to get ghost press for her on it that'd be fine she's probably not vulnerable to to key logging attacks but it'd be nice to get that for her just to make sure that um that all is in order yeah yeah actually there's a little boot out in the exhibit hall that I'd highly recommend where they have uh I forget what they call it but um it's this little thing I just put it on my my smartphone um and it covers the camera it's really cool but it has a very weak adhesive deliberately so you just like move it whenever you want to use your webcam which teenagers do a lot um so you can you can move it and then but if you if you cover it um they have it right in the boot over there I'm really glad to see that's free um I'm trying to remember which one it is I I try to see if I can read this little tiny type it's something ASP CH ASP Los Angeles um I don't remember what that stands for I'm sorry but yeah yeah yeah I think that might be right but it's either Linda's chase or one of those near there um oh yeah chase you have one okay yeah yeah yes yes I'm a senior yeah like Austin is often I've known each other for four years yeah yeah I started doing this mostly back in my my freshman sophomore year exploring this stuff but yeah I'm a senior now uh Claremont McKenna actually so I'm looking forward to that actually I'm gonna be hanging out with Austin so it's gonna be pretty nice he's going to Harvey Mudd so it'll be a fun I think get four more years of fun yeah right or clueless exactly a crusader or criminal or clueless or or law enforcement yeah unless the law changes to make you not liable for traffic that would be hard I mean I think there are legal cases you can make again I'm not a lawyer there are there are legal cases you could probably make that you shouldn't be liable for them um and I don't think there's really US case law about this I just after hearing of the case in Germany and there are a lot of tour exit notes in Germany it puts it on my radar like hey you got the clueless the criminals or the the federal government are the ones primarily running this this exit note and that's probably not good I wouldn't run an exit note because I'd be afraid of the liability after hearing about the guy in Germany and also not really you know wanting to facilitate people accessing child pornography there's that too so I you know I wouldn't run a tour exit note I don't expect other people to run tour exit notes unless they're they're trying to access the traffic for some reason or are just a really noble crusader for open-source privacy any other questions we're almost to the end of our time so I could take one more if one more person has them but I'm pretty sure they have it for Linux it might not be on downloads.com but I'm almost positive okay yeah sorry I didn't realize I would yeah yeah no I haven't well yeah I mean I just I'm really happy with opera because of the functionality of it and everything like I just it's great to hear something's being built off of chromium like that's that's good for people at this convention obviously you know but I just I am I like opera so much I'm kind of a loyalist to it now with the free unlimited VPN and everything like that that you can't get with quite the same efficiency with any other browser that I know of all right well thank you very much for listening to this talk and asking such great questions no no


In China you have two major groups, the biggest one are Chinese Muslims and they're called actually Wei, they're called Wei-Wei, okay, and so the Wei-Wei or the Wei, they're the Chinese Muslims and they're everywhere in China, they're everywhere, and they will always speak the local Chinese language and they cultivate architecture and so forth, and then you have the Wigurs, the Wigurs are not Chinese, they are Turks, okay, they're Turks and they live in the Northwest, which is called Xinjiang, big, huge part of China, you'll also find them throughout China, running restaurants and things like that, the Wigurs today are really in trouble, really in trouble, and the Chinese government is coming down on them really, really unforgiving, there's reasons for this, one of them is that there were secessionist extremist groups among the Wigurs, I was in Jeddah, I taught there for 16 years, it happened that my best department head was a Wigur, he was a Wigur from Mecca, they had come to Mecca in the 1930s and 1930s, but he still spoke Wigur, he spoke the perfect Arabic as well, and I liked him, he was my best, and so these Wigurs came to see us, they were young, Wigur extremists, and he wanted me to come, so I did, and we talked to them, and we told them, you don't rebel against the Chinese state, do you realize what you're going to do, you bring death and destruction upon your heads, and that's not permissible in Islam, don't call them jihad, you are not able to do jihad against the Chinese, they will crush you, this is the laws of jihad, you have no right to do it, first of all, you don't represent anything, you're not a state, of course they knew that we were just sellouts, and then they go back and they begin to blow things up, and they do other things, so this brings hell down upon them, now I'm not going to say that that justifies what has happened, and I'm not going to say that that continues, because there's also a lot of prejudice, and in China, this is something again, where is our political representation, and we have some great countries in the Muslim world, if they would just come together, Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan, if we get their houses in order, and if they were allied with each other as they ought to be, Egypt should never be alienated from Turkey, Turkey needs Egypt, whether you like what's happened there or not, you need them politically, so if you had these three countries, Egypt, Turkey, and Pakistan working together, they could pull us out of the mud, they could, and I'm not trying to denigrate any Muslim country, okay, so please if you're from other countries, don't feel that I think little of a country, but I'm just talking about geopolitically, these countries are extremely strategic, and of course Pakistan does have a really good relationship with Turkey, they always have, but we've got to have some kind of political force in the Muslim world, and these are really intelligent people, and they could do that in my opinion, and of course what are we able to do about it, and that's just ideas, but somebody's got to stand up for us, and the Chinese are always doing business with us, and the Chinese are doing a lot of business with Pakistan, okay, so we should say like, we don't accept that you treat the Rikers this way, right, and I hope and pray that someday you'll do that, like you know that Pakistan has really good reasons for working with China, because China's also a rival of India, and India's a big problem for Pakistan, and Indians do a lot of dirty politics whether you know it or not, they do, they dammed up the rivers of the Himalayas that go into Punjab against international law, does anybody take them to court, no you can't because Israel's there on their side, and so they make the rivers in Punjab dry up, go and look for yourself, and then when it's the rainy season they open up the dams and flood the people, they do all kinds of things like that, okay, Allah enable us to find leaders in the Muslim world who will at least stand up for the Rohingya, you know, like you can't do this, but we have no voice, do we, no voice whatsoever, and I hope and pray that someday we will.