Privacy Tools: Encryption against global mass surveillance
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Privacy Tools: Encryption against global mass surveillance
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Re: Privacy Tools: Encryption against global mass surveillance
#2Nice list, knew many, but didn't really knew of their 'canary' files.
Though when checking a few i found,
"Statement VPNSecure has not been silenced by legal and or anti-democratic law. Last updated Thur Jul 30 00:57:30 EDT 2016
If there is no statement, please proceed with caution"
It doesn't state how often/recent it should be updated, its august 2nd now, did this canary choke in the mine?
Re: Privacy Tools: Encryption against global mass surveillance
#3Nice list, knew many, but didn't really knew of their 'canary' files. Though when checking a few i found, "Statement VPNSecure has not been silenced by legal and or anti-democratic law. Last updated Thur Jul 30 00:57:30 EDT 2016 If there is no statement, please proceed with caution" It doesn't state how often/recent it should be updated, its august 2nd now, did this canary choke in the mine?
Aparrently, that's one of the problem with canaries - there's no standard - see https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/05/canary-watch-one-year-...
Re: Privacy Tools: Encryption against global mass surveillance
#4Not choosing US-based hosting providers is sound advice for various reasons, if not only for the reason that the US has invented crimes that do not exist in other countries or the sentences for existing crimes are 10 x higher than anywhere else. (I do not want to defend criminals but some of those "crimes" also affect people who e.g. write p2p programs or decompilers. You get what I mean.)
As for the value of encryption to keep governments from snooping -- no way, that's not going to work ever. Endpoint security is a joke, PC and mobile phone are insecure on all levels, from applications over OS to firmware and microcode. And if Snowden's educational slide show leaks have shown anything, then certainly that the guys at NSA know what they are doing in terms of side-channel attacks.
Government snooping and privacy decay is a social and political problem and should primarily be addressed at that level.
Re: Privacy Tools: Encryption against global mass surveillance
#5Nice list, knew many, but didn't really knew of their 'canary' files. Though when checking a few i found, "Statement VPNSecure has not been silenced by legal and or anti-democratic law. Last updated Thur Jul 30 00:57:30 EDT 2016 If there is no statement, please proceed with caution" It doesn't state how often/recent it should be updated, its august 2nd now, did this canary choke in the mine?
Canaries have no legal meaning as far as I know:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary
Archive of the page your looking at maybe found here: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.vpnsecure.me/files...
(Given the pull date noted by the archive and the date listed in the related cache of the canary are off in some cases by months, may guess is it is meaningless that the current canary is off by a few days.)
Re: Privacy Tools: Encryption against global mass surveillance
#6IVPN are based in Gibraltar and should be considered to be on the UK list. While they have separate courts and legal systems, their defence, including intelligence gathering is run by the UK.
I'd also suggest striking anyone from the 14 eyes off the list too.
Re: Privacy Tools: Encryption against global mass surveillance
#7All great tools (ghostery is missing, although there is Disconnect), but the lack of a great search engine like Google is a big deal. I don't use DuckDuckGo regularly because, although I believe it's a great search engine that works mostly fine, sometimes the results are somewhat unexpected, and you need to be fast and focused. The rest is okay, there seems to be a good amount of email providers, but Search Engines? :(
Re: Privacy Tools: Encryption against global mass surveillance
#8All great tools (ghostery is missing, although there is Disconnect), but the lack of a great search engine like Google is a big deal. I don't use DuckDuckGo regularly because, although I believe it's a great search engine that works mostly fine, sometimes the results are somewhat unexpected, and you need to be fast and focused. The rest is okay, there seems to be a good amount of email providers, but Search Engines?…
DuckDuckGo can still help somewhat here. You can search pretty much anywhere via DuckDuckGo and it strips out some of your personal data when it redirects you. It's not perfect but it helps. Also, the bang syntax (i.e. search google with !g, google images with !gi, wikipedia with !w, etc.) is so damn helpful. Whenever I'm using a browser without DDG as the default I find it so much slower to search something.
Re: Privacy Tools: Encryption against global mass surveillance
#9All great tools (ghostery is missing, although there is Disconnect), but the lack of a great search engine like Google is a big deal. I don't use DuckDuckGo regularly because, although I believe it's a great search engine that works mostly fine, sometimes the results are somewhat unexpected, and you need to be fast and focused. The rest is okay, there seems to be a good amount of email providers, but Search Engines?…
DuckDuckGo can still help somewhat here. You can search pretty much anywhere via DuckDuckGo and it strips out some of your personal data when it redirects you. It's not perfect but it helps. Also, the bang syntax (i.e. search google with !g, google images with !gi, wikipedia with !w, etc.) is so damn helpful. Whenever I'm using a browser without DDG as the default I find it so much slower to search something.
What would be more useful than the bang would be a button that lets you click "try this search again in google".