Internet privacy is dead, redux
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@Rhywden said in Internet privacy is dead, redux:
@Groaner said in Internet privacy is dead, redux:
@Rhywden said in Internet privacy is dead, redux:
@loopback0 said in Internet privacy is dead, redux:
@PleegWat said in Internet privacy is dead, redux:
Ah, yes, the old if you've nothing to hide you've nothing to fear argument.
If the concern is blackmail you probably don't.
Next up: Your insurance company buys this information to see if you ever googled for "Very Expensive Hereditary Disease".
How well is that going to work when browsers force
https
these days?Then make it: “Visited a health site.“
That could be a good mark in their favor. Unless it was helpihavemesothelioma.com.
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@RaceProUK Why not be proactive and combat yourself from authorities spying on you. The best reactive approach would be getting VPN tool and get protected. After this broadband concern, I am sure I will renew my PureVPN account and become darker in the eyes of Govt. (If you now what I mean)
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@Adynathos said in Internet privacy is dead, redux:
A countermeasure to traffic analysis is to fill the unused bandwidth with fake traffic.
Someone already made it
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@Kenny-Reid said in Internet privacy is dead, redux:
Why not be proactive and combat yourself from authorities spying on you.
Why should I trust some company that runs a VPN when I supposedly can't trust my ISP, or the Government, or my local tinfoil supplier?
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@loopback0 Also, if VPN usage starts to become wide-spread, how long before there are cries for some kind of backdoor or other listening mechanism to be made mandatory in them? This is not speculation, see what happened with Apple and phone locking...
In other words: relying on "there are additional layers of security that can be used" when regulations fail to ensure that the first layers are efficient is bound to fail. Technology cannot win over morals and politics.
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@remi said in Internet privacy is dead, redux:
Also, if VPN usage starts to become wide-spread, how long before there are cries for some kind of backdoor or other listening mechanism to be made mandatory in them?
You mean there aren't calls already?
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@RaceProUK
Of course not, the CIA already operates most of the VPN providers, and the FBI operates Tor