Lawful for cops to hack into your computer/phone

enfield_freddy

I can only answer that statement with

baxie

Big_Graeme wrote: »

Oh that isn't the half of it once the SNP get their way, all in the name of "freedom" of course...

What "way" is that, I haven't heard anything about this from them.

prost

The one thing most people are not noticing is the fact that it is the government who controls everyone (on the planet). The “security services” were created by the government & they work for THEM.

Is the government your life-long friend, which it claims to be?

Is the government the only one deserving of rights?

Does the government ever do anything frightening or caring? Does the government ever lie? Did the government exist before you were born?

The NSA spies on people. Their employees even spy on their family & friends, because they have permission.

There are lots of people using VPNs; just look at the numbers using the free http://www.vpngate.net

The NSA even has backdoor keys to some encryption algorithms.

Who controls the stories presented by the mainstream news outlets?

Did you know that the main broadcasting networks around the world are funded by taxes?

Is the world a safe place? Does the government want you to think it is?

Are you a member of the royal family?

Do you control the C.I.A.? The N.S.A.?

Ever heard of Monsanto?

Have you been “medicated” by products from the billion-dollar pharmaceutical giants?

Does the government silence whistleblowers?

Are there poor people in this world?

Who funds & orchestrates terrorists? Who gains from the “work” of the terrorists & criminals?

Do you think the government is that worried about protecting you from terrorists? If you have no rights then is that what the government wants?

Is it always a good idea to copy others?

Do you want criminals to have access to everything you have access to? The government?

Who would the government rather protect, the criminals/terrorists or the people? Who starts all the wars?

Who really is responsible for 9/11? Who gave permission for the World Trade Centre to be built?

What is the government going to do next?

kwikbreaks

prost wrote: »

There are lots of people using VPNs; just look at the numbers using the free http://www.vpngate.net

It would be interesting to know what % of UK users are worried about HMG, NSA, etc. spying on them and what % just want to still be able to access TPB etc. post the court orders telling big ISPs to block them

Lumstorm

gjchester wrote: »

Let me give you another example, Heartbleed. That was open source, and reviewed by many people, but yet took two years to be flagged up in public.

This is true the open source model isn't perfect but it is more secure than closed source software.

Big_Graeme

baxie wrote: »

What "way" is that, I haven't heard anything about this from them.

No party member is allowed to be critical of the party, the leadership or any other member. The words are "accept that no member shall within or outwith the parliament publicly criticise a group decision, policy or another member of the group".

Have a look at the plans for an integrated ID database goes places Nu Labour backed away from.

The new named person law is a shocking intrusion into everyone's lives.

Its support for TTIP.

Its policies of slashing taxes for big business.

but hey, freedom and all that...

tronator

Lumstorm wrote: »

This is true the open source model isn't perfect but it is more secure than closed source software.

Reminds me of BBC Click some time ago when they were talking about drones and how to secure their communication with the controller to avoid hijacking them. There was really somebody saying something similar to "it needs to be 100% secure, so it can't be open source...". What? I had to rewind several times and replay it, because I thought I didn't hear it right.

kwikbreaks

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gjchester

Lumstorm wrote: »

This is true the open source model isn't perfect but it is more secure than closed source software.

The software may be open source but if the encryption it sits on is crackable its irrelevant.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/20/logjam_johns_hopkins_cryptoboffin_ids_next_branded_bug/

If the estimates are accurate then any actor (either a state sponsored agency or a very well funded private group) having cracked two of the prime numbers behind the encryption may have access to up to 66% of current VPN traffic can be passively intercepted and read.

Which comes back to my prior point, unless your writing and implementing your own VPN solution the chances are some one else has downloaded it and probed it for weaknesses. Some people will want to fix the issues, others use them for their own ends.

Open source means more eyes on code, but that's not the same as saying they all want to do good.

ChiefGrasscutter

Lumstorm wrote: »

That is why it is best to use open source solutions as suggested by tronator you have many eyes on the code so flaws are quickly made public and fixed and back doors can't be put in as they would be seen. Compared to Windows which source is only seen by a select few at Microsoft and they have a commercial interest in hiding any flaws.

The 'open source' stuff I'm looked at always relies somewhere on compiled binaries from external sources as routines called within them so who knows what is going on inside them.
Then there is getting the code in the first place. Source code available on application to the author says the website - who does not reply - well who'd have guessed that! I suppose it would be too much "effort" to put up the source alongside the executables wouldn't it?