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staticsafe

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    Comment #13983068

    Perhaps I should clarify that I am not discouraging the use of VPNs, but I am encouraging more involvement in the policy process. Indirectly, I guess I am encouraging a better unde…

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    Comment #13982933

    Some food for thought: Such data can include say, the fact that a certain person enjoys some fetishes or maybe some other similarly compromising data. The possibility for blackmail…

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    Comment #13982877

    At the risk of sounding increasingly naive: I believe policy is important as a part of the solution because it is a matter of protecting the general public not just a select techni…

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    Comment #13982805

    You can guess some of it trivially, cloud services such as AWS are popular and mask the ORG using the IP addresses. Example: any traffic to 17.0.0.0/8 = user probably has an Apple …

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    Comment #13982763

    That is still a significant amount of traffic to analyze and store data for. I don't want to speculate further as I don't know what margins for transit providers in NA look like.

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    Comment #13982707

    That would depend on your traffic levels and which instance type you want to use. This should help figure things out: http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html

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    Comment #13982694

    VPNs will definitely incur overhead and latency costs, yeah. OpenVPN can be fairly slow if you are sharing CPU usage (ex. VPS provider) with other users. You are also most likely i…

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    Comment #13982667

    SSH tunnels work in a pinch (OpenSSH is <3). However for coverage across devices such as smartphones OpenVPN works better long-term.

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    Comment #13982636

    DNSCrypt + HTTPS everywhere solves the latency issue but it doesn't solve some of the other issues. You still need the technical know-how to set up a DNSCrypt recursive resolver. T…

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    Comment #13982605

    If I was a betting man - backbone providers don't do this (sell to advertisers). It would be costly to maintain the interception/analysis infrastructure required for such data coll…

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    Comment #7702070

    That font is honestly nearly unreadable on Firefox. Font is too thin.

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    Comment #5017096

    Site seems to be timing out here.