Can somebody clarify the rules on parking on pavements?

LincolnshireYokel

TrickyWicky wrote: »

Banter but you're the one getting all serious... Sheesh. You're the one who made the implication so you're the one who puts up with the comeback for it.

My comment about the injunction was made as a tongue in cheek comment but you're the one who's made a big thing out of it.

Frankly rather than go into the VPN stuff I would of just said something like "I use a prepay dongle with a voucher bought in cash".

I have no need to lie tho.....................

Although that does apply for phones. I also use VOIP over the VPN (so my line cant be tapped or eavsdropped by any known method) for the landline and I use a 'dirty' mobile phone, ie a sim card out a second hand phone paid for in cash and topped up with vouchers bought for cash. I also own an 07 redirected non geographic number.......

Privacy is a matter of principle. I refuse to lay down for the Big Brother Police state we have.

mikey72

LincolnshireYokel wrote: »

I have no need to lie tho.....................

Although that does apply for phones. I also use VOIP over the VPN (so my line cant be tapped or eavsdropped by any known method) for the landline and I use a 'dirty' mobile phone, ie a sim card out a second hand phone paid for in cash and topped up with vouchers bought for cash. I also own an 07 redirected non geographic number.......

Privacy is a matter of principle. I refuse to lay down for the Big Brother Police state we have.

No offense, but do you have a tinfoil hat as well?

LincolnshireYokel

mikey72 wrote: »

No offense, but do you have a tinfoil hat as well?

You DO know that your ISP logs everything you do on the net using a technology called Deep Packet Inspection, and GHCQ scans all your emails and texts, and then passes it all to the NSA? The CIA also use bots to scan social networking sites like facebook, myspace, bebo etc with face recognition software, and for text keywords.

And you don't call that a Police State ?

If there was a man followed you around, noting everything your watched on TV, opening your mail, watching over your shoulder when you wereon the PC, and listening to every phone call you make, would you object? Cos thats exactly whats happening now, its just that they are very good at being discrete about it.

mikey72

LincolnshireYokel wrote: »

You DO know that your ISP logs everything you do on the net using a technology called Deep Packet Inspection, and GHCQ scans all your emails and texts, and then passes it all to the NSA? The CIA also use bots to scan social networking sites like facebook, myspace, bebo etc with face recognition software, and for text keywords.

And you don't call that a Police State ?

If there was a man followed you around, noting everything your watched on TV, opening your mail, watching over your shoulder when you wereon the PC, and listening to every phone call you make, would you object? Cos thats exactly whats happening now, its just that they are very good at being discrete about it.

I don't really care.

LincolnshireYokel

mikey72 wrote: »

I don't really care.

Ah well i do. If you cant see the value of your privacy then you have no self respect.

(and lets not trot out the old chestnut "if you've nothing to hide you've nothing to fear", we're well past the point where thats been proven to be bollox. There is no justification for a democratic society to practice such intense surveillance on its perfectly innocent citizens, its an abuse of power))

mikey72

LincolnshireYokel wrote: »

Ah well i do. If you cant see the value of your privacy then you have no self respect.

(and lets not trot out the old chestnut "if you've nothing to hide you've nothing to fear", we're well past the point where thats been proven to be bollox.)

Not really, I'm one of 60 million in the uk. Hiding isn't about being the one in a crowd wearing the dark coat, the hat, and the sunglasses with the false nose.

give_them_FA

In practise it doesn't matter. In fact you could say that by trying to spy on everyone, the State hasn't got the resources to pin down the people who actually are a threat.

LincolnshireYokel

mikey72 wrote: »

Not really, I'm one of 60 million in the uk. Hiding isn't about being the one in a crowd wearing the dark coat, the hat, and the sunglasses with the false nose.

Im not hiding, im simply declining to let them come in and ransack my privacy. Im staying in control of it.

Im a second cohort Baby Boomer. My generation was brought up to value our privacy. Unlike the Generation Y'ers and Millennium Generation, who spread there entire lives in detail out on the internet for the whole world to examine willy nilly.

TrickyWicky

LincolnshireYokel wrote: »

Although that does apply for phones. I also use VOIP over the VPN (so my line cant be tapped or eavsdropped by any known method)

You realise that the security services use technology years ahead of what the general population has don't you? I'd bet serious money on them being able to monitor your communications if they really wanted to. They also have access to far superior hardware than most of us and with the latest advances in GPU processing..

LincolnshireYokel wrote: »

for the landline and I use a 'dirty' mobile phone, ie a sim card out a second hand phone paid for in cash and topped up with vouchers bought for cash.

Took me up on my idea then

LincolnshireYokel wrote: »

Privacy is a matter of principle. I refuse to lay down for the Big Brother Police state we have.

In honesty I don't think there is much that you can do to avoid it other than disconnect yourself from the internet, stop using the phone and live as a caveman. Something somewhere has records about you and having once worked for the government i can tell you it's pretty easy for them to find out about you if they want. Of course you'd really need to upset someones apple cart for them to even consider it though.

As for the CIA.. if they think they can find anything suspicious in my internet logs they're welcome to it. I could do with a one way ticket out of the UK as its such a draconian dump these days.

Seriously, as I mentioned elsewhere, these practices are happening all over the world. China being a fine example. In the west, despite having all sorts of snooping abilities, we're actually a lot luckier than many places. If you lived in China you would put up with dictatorship and like it or else. At least here in the UK you can vote against any party that you dislike etc although admittedly this place has gone to the dogs under the present and last government..

LincolnshireYokel

Nah, your wrong. I worked in IT 25 years, doing wans, lans, comms, workstations and servers. Im extremely au fait with that sort of technology. One project I did was a secure video conferencing and document transfer system for Doctors.VOIP currently cannot be realistically tapped and decrypted by anyone, thats why the NSA tried to prevent the technology leaving the US many years ago. The police and security agencies may be able to see that a VOIP conversation is taking place, but not who is speaking, where they are or what they are saying, especially if you also use VPN. The first point you can tap it becomes the VPN server, which might be in another country, and its still encrypted at that point.

I also use Private Idaho to encrypt private emails. Thats another technology the NSA tried to stop. The beauty of it its a N-polynomial encryption. If they build a bigger computer to crack it, you just make the keys longer. Each increase in key length producaes an exponential increase in process time to crack it. Technically its an an RSA encryption algorithm based on Chebyshev polynomials. Mathematically they are a group of problems known as np-hard, because such polynomials are generally unsolvable.

oh i also use a double password Truecrypt volume for data...............

Believe me, i know far more about this subject than you can imagine.............