Surveillance

[Sauer90]

Use an encrypted off shore vpn. feck the snoopers.

 

[Taff]

So are all the people on this site using a VPN, using it at this moment, otherwise can,t they just piggyback of your posts here to hack your computer and gain access before you encrypt your message, I know I will be OK because when out in public I wear a layer of tin foil under my hat

 

[aris]

So are all the people on this site using a VPN, using it at this moment, otherwise can,t they just piggyback of your posts here to hack your computer and gain access before you encrypt your message, I know I will be OK because when out in public I wear a layer of tin foil under my hat

Yes, if a security agency wants you - they'll get you. If they think i'm a treat to state security - more power to them, they are welcome to make the effort to hack my computer and plant some spyware targeted at ME. What this new law is about is a blanket storage of everyone's web activity - no warrant, and limited oversight on who has access to this information. Sod that.

 

[EccentricJackal]

Yes, if a security agency wants you - they'll get you. If they think i'm a treat to state security - more power to them, they are welcome to make the effort to hack my computer and plant some spyware targeted at ME. What this new law is about is a blanket storage of everyone's web activity - no warrant, and limited oversight on who has access to this information. Sod that.

This is the point I tried to make above; VPNs don't hide you from GCHQ. On their own they don't even hide you from a competent PC Plod. What they do is allow you to opt out of the mass data gathering.

Also thanks to Pine Marten for pointing out that this is the minority use for VPNs - they are primarily used to access secure documents from your company while away from the office (I mentioned it to start with then forgot about it when exaplaining VPNs!). This is the reason that similar laws were immediately blocked in the US; big business did not want the government able to snoop on their private emails.

Ryan

 

[aris]

This is the point I tried to make above; VPNs don't hide you from GCHQ. On their own they don't even hide you from a competent PC Plod. What they do is allow you to opt out of the mass data gathering.

While possible, I doubt GCHQ can do or actually do mass surveillance of VPN traffic. Could they if they targeted an individual of interest - yes sure, more than likely.

Also thanks to Pine Marten for pointing out that this is the minority use for VPNs - they are primarily used to access secure documents from your company while away from the office (I mentioned it to start with then forgot about it when exaplaining VPNs!). This is the reason that similar laws were immediately blocked in the US; big business did not want the government able to snoop on their private emails.

Ryan

Indeed VPN's are not nefarious in the least. They have been used for decades - and mostly by businesses who want to connect their regional private networks, over public networks (such as the public internet). If you connect to your work prive network from home - you are using a VPN. Quite a few home (SOHO) routers support VPN's - so you can connect to your private home network remotely.

 

[Sauer90]

Yes, if a security agency wants you - they'll get you. If they think i'm a treat to state security - more power to them, they are welcome to make the effort to hack my computer and plant some spyware targeted at ME. What this new law is about is a blanket storage of everyone's web activity - no warrant, and limited oversight on who has access to this information. Sod that.

absofrikkinglutely

Originally Posted by Taff
So are all the people on this site using a VPN, using it at this moment, otherwise can,t they just piggyback of your posts here to hack your computer and gain access before you encrypt your message, I know I will be OK because when out in public I wear a layer of tin foil under my hat

What the feck has a vpn got to do with computer hacking???

 

[sauer]

I love my vpn

Travel abroad lets me use BBC iPlayer & Amazon prime as makes it think I'm in U.K.
Also for those countries who don't allow the likes of " elephant tube"[emoji851]
A vpn gets past that one too

Paul

 

[Taff]

What the feck has a vpn got to do with computer hacking???[/QUOTE]

well as I understood some of the posts it was being implied, that using a VPN would enable you to prevent government/ private monitoring, by using encrypted messages, which it sounds like it does not, that's what the FERK ( not a real word by the way) has to do with it,
Or would you prefer the words cracker, white hat or black hat , all apparently the correct terminology not hacker.

 

[aris]

What the feck has a vpn got to do with computer hacking???

well as I understood some of the posts it was being implied, that using a VPN would enable you to prevent government/ private monitoring, by using encrypted messages, which it sounds like it does not, that's what the FERK ( not a real word by the way) has to do with it,
Or would you prefer the words cracker, white hat or black hat , all apparently the correct terminology not hacker.

A bit like saying anyone who uses a gun only does so for nefarious purposes.

 

[Sauer90]

What the feck has a vpn got to do with computer hacking???

well as I understood some of the posts it was being implied, that using a VPN would enable you to prevent government/ private monitoring, by using encrypted messages, which it sounds like it does not, that's what the FERK ( not a real word by the way) has to do with it,
Or would you prefer the words cracker, white hat or black hat , all apparently the correct terminology not hacker.[/QUOTE]


So you just do not know what a vpn is then?

 

[Greymaster]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)

 

[Taff]

well as I understood some of the posts it was being implied, that using a VPN would enable you to prevent government/ private monitoring, by using encrypted messages, which it sounds like it does not, that's what the FERK ( not a real word by the way) has to do with it,
Or would you prefer the words cracker, white hat or black hat , all apparently the correct terminology not hacker.

So you just do not know what a vpn is then?[/QUOTE]

its why I asked what it was.

 

[old man]

Just another block knocked out of the wall of trust and stability?