Cookie AutoDelete for Internet Privacy

Cookie AutoDelete is a powerful resource that stops cookies from following you around and analyzing your clicks, website visits, and recording what you look at by automatically clearing these cookies by event based rules you establish in the Settings page of the app. Whether you login to a website or are passively checking it out, cookies are loaded into your computer, though it doesn’t always mean its for nefarious purposes. There are several types of cookies that have various danger levels in terms of risk to your internet privacy.

Cookie Name Application/ Use Risk To Privacy
Zombie Cookie Persistent Internet Tracking. A regenerative cookie that is hard to remove Extreme
3rd Party Cookie A cookie on one website that is hosted on another site. High
Tracking Cookie Traffic monitoring Medium
Session Cookie Used to track user data just for that session. Typically deletes upon session end Low
Persistent Cookie Cookie that stays on a user’s computer even after the session ends Medium- Low
Authentication Cookies Utilized when logged into a website Low
1st Party Cookies A cookie from a website that’s hosted on that website Low

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Colorado Flock Camera Location Database

[Just Give me the Flocking Database]

The first time I heard of Flock cameras was when I happened upon a Steve Lehto video where he discussed how Fedex was working with police departments and Flock in order to “prevent” crime and honestly let’s call it what it is, mass surveillance. Be it government, corporations or intelligence agencies, everything these days is about consuming data and monitoring the populace for “safety”. In Flock’s case, its being leveraged by the police to dragnet information to include bumper stickers, sounds, people, and license plates to geolocate where you were, for how long, your direction alongside the obvious time stamp. Flock’s website is straight to the point in stating their goal is to eliminate crime. By using their network of pole and Fedex mounted cameras they are always watching your movements and making a database of their findings for future recovery, pattern of life recognition, and trend analysis.

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Firefox for Internet Privacy (Internet Privacy lvl 1)

“If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear” Bullshit. Power corrupts and the more power internet companies, governments, and other gate keepers of knowledge and technology have the more they will abuse it. Whatever you research, post, look at online should be private and not up for Google to package and sell like many internet companies do. Such information not only gives ad companies data on your browsing habits, but also enables a compilation of data about what makes you you. You’re political beliefs, where you live, how many people are in your house, if you’re pregnant, etc.. Of course you shouldn’t do anything illegal, but do I really need to tell you that? This tutorial will show you a beginner friendly way to obfuscate your internet activity and stop trackers from tracking you. Per the usual of my posts I’m getting down to brass tacks, so let’s get started.

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Plane Tracking w/ ADS-B and RTL SDR

Whether you’re developing another leg of your OSINT package or new to the world of software defined radio, plane tracking is a cool demonstration of basic signals intelligence without breaking the bank.

Hard/Software

Needed hardware are an ADS B antenna, a band pass filter+ LNA, an RTL SDR, SMA male to SMA male adapter.

Needed software are Windows 11 computer, dump1090, Virtual Radar Server (VRS), Notepad++ & SDR++.

The ADS-B Antenna will receive the GPS coordinates and plane identification data, the bandpass filter will reject all out of band signals and amplify the in band signal, then the RTL SDR/ Windows 11 computer connection ports the data to dump1090– which formats the data into human readable text and the Virtual Radar Server overlays the data with silhouettes, plane data, and map overlay.

When connecting the SMA side of the ADS-B antenna to the band pass filter, pay attention so that you’re connecting it to the 1090MHz port and NOT the 978MHz portion as seen below. Also ensure that you connect the antenna to the INPUT side of the filter amplifier, not the output.

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Antennas, Filters, Amplifiers

Within the RF realm, filters are used to reject undesired signals when monitoring the spectrum environment. Maybe you’re in an urban area and your neighborhood is right next to an FM tower, or you happen to live next to an Army Signal Corps antenna nerd who does home experiments where he stomps over other signals with his home made radio that runs off a generator, significantly raising the local noise floor. Weird coincidence, right? But you need to do something about it, ergo– use a filter!

But What Kind?

Depends on your use case as there are several types of filters. You have High Pass, Low Pass, Band Pass, and Notch Filters. Low pass filters allow low frequency signals to pass- hence the name- and rejects/ eliminates/ attenuates (all words are the same in execution) higher frequency signals. High pass filters work inversely, allowing high frequencies to pass and rejecting low frequencies. Band pass and notch filters have an inverse relationship as well in that band pass filters allows a specific frequency range and rejects all signals out of the frequency range while a notch filter does the opposite and only eliminates a specific range, allowing all else to pass. The filter you use depends on what you’re trying to do. Going back to the Army guy example, if he’s stomping all over a specific and small signal band it may be better have a notch filter; whereas if there was a larger interference source OR you were analyzing a specific band for regional plane tracking for example, a band pass filter may be better. The TLDR is if its a specific signal you’re looking for or looking to exclude use a notch or band pass filter, if its a wider range of frequencies consider a low or high pass filter.

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