Guess who can NOW view your browsing history?

Code

Also, just to add, the current push to require all websites to use HTTPS (and marking insecure in Chrome etc of those that don't) will prevent the disclosure of the full URL also, causing another fun challenge for any authority that wants to investigate someone.

Fortunately the UK govt lunatic idea to require encryption backdoors has been dropped. For now.

pogofish

Hoseman wrote: »

Thoughts please...

There are a good half dozen threads about this here already - and probably many more about VPNs. They seem to be cropping-up weekly just now!

Strider590

ARandomMiser wrote: »

Quite honestly if you are that paranoid then stop using the web - nobody will see your browsing history then - the choice is yours.

At the same time give up your mobile phone since various bodies can track you within a few feet.

You show lack of understanding of where this can lead......

To clarify, this won't affect criminals or terrorists, because they'll use methods (like VPN or the TOR network) to get around this snooping.

So this really isn't about catching wrongdoers, this is about spying on the average Jo, and will most likely be for commercial purposes OR a long with censorship (already in place), as a way of getting back to the early 20th century where the minds and opinions of the people of England were almost fully controlled by the authorities via the media.

The concept of the evil internet and all the nasty people has been beaten into the minds of the people by the likes of the British Brainwashing Corporation for the last decade. It is clear from your statement that you yourself have been influenced by this concept of "I don't care, I have nothing to hide".

This really isn't about what you have to hide at all, it's about control, it's about divide and conquer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...

I use a VPN, i've done so for years, this doesn't really affect me, BUT it worries me greatly for what it could turn into.

Strider590

Code wrote: »

Yes, almost unpublicized, the UK became one of the most surveilled nations last week.

Code wrote: »

For me, for example, it will pretty much show I read BBC news,

Sorry for butchering your post!

Whilst this was all happing, what distraction stories were the BBC running?

Happens every time, some new law is being passed, something people would hate, BBC runs a huge BS distraction story and nobody notices.

Bykerlass

No surprise that MPs are exempt from this piece of legislation. Its not as if they've got anything to hide now is it!

ARandomMiser

esuhl wrote: »

If the idea of privacy horrifies you, then install CCTV in every room of your house and stream them all over the web 24/7. The choice is yours.

If you consider that to be a like-for-like scenario then you are very much in need of a tin foil hat and some basic technical knowledge training

But my security system does actually stream live content from CCTV in my house onto the web 24/7- so does the nursery that my son uses - can be very useful

ARandomMiser

Strider590 wrote: »

You show lack of understanding of where this can lead......

To clarify, this won't affect criminals or terrorists, because they'll use methods (like VPN or the TOR network) to get around this snooping.

So this really isn't about catching wrongdoers, this is about spying on the average Jo, and will most likely be for commercial purposes OR a long with censorship (already in place), as a way of getting back to the early 20th century where the minds and opinions of the people of England were almost fully controlled by the authorities via the media.

The concept of the evil internet and all the nasty people has been beaten into the minds of the people by the likes of the British Brainwashing Corporation for the last decade. It is clear from your statement that you yourself have been influenced by this concept of "I don't care, I have nothing to hide".

This really isn't about what you have to hide at all, it's about control, it's about divide and conquer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...

I use a VPN, i've done so for years, this doesn't really affect me, BUT it worries me greatly for what it could turn into.

I hear that Mr muscle does a good job in keeping those tin foil hats shiney and bright.

BTW do not think that VPN's offer that much more protection - everything is traceable - it may hide all the dodgy material you are trying to move around but the end to end routing is still determinable (if required). The only way to be 100% safe from prying eyes is not to use the internet and your mobile phone - your choice. ... hmmmmm, but then we have the bobby on the beat that collects information, plus your nosy neighbours watching when you come and go, not forgetting all those surveys we do, and our tax returns, national insurance connections and teachers and the most heinous crime of all, workmates asking questions about what you were up to at the weekend --- sorry you are right we all need tin foil hats


Besides that you only have to look at the brexit referendum and the American presidential election to see how much mind control was going on both with and without the internet.

Code

ARandomMiser wrote: »

BTW do not think that VPN's offer that much more protection - everything is traceable - it may hide all the dodgy material you are trying to move around but the end to end routing is still determinable (if required).

VPNs absolutely do offer lots more protection against unwarranted surveillance of internet activities. I'm not going to give the step-by-step as I don't really want to help the kind of people who might benefit (note: basic VPN will offer your every day citizens ample protection, a few tweaks will protect those downloading torrents etc), but it's relatively straightforward to create am environment through dedicated servers, VPNs, network routing, encryption etc that is essentially confidential and impenetrable for a closed group of people to communicate over.

Of course as soon as you connect to a "public" service - one not limited to a group of people you "personally" know - your actions become less confidential. But again, the only people who would care about this level of exposure are looking to do some serious harm. So, personally, I don't care to help them by explaining further.

esuhl

ARandomMiser wrote: »

But my security system does actually stream live content from CCTV in my house onto the web 24/7- so does the nursery that my son uses - can be very useful

Cool -- what's the IP address and login details? I'll have a nose round since you don't care about privacy and don't have anything to hide.

ARandomMiser

esuhl wrote: »

Cool -- what's the IP address and login details? I'll have a nose round since you don't care about privacy and don't have anything to hide.

They are coming for you .... . quick put up the barriers, they have your name, they know where you live - get that tinfoil hat on before you give yourself away

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