(L)Awful Interception
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(L)Awful Interception
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#2I've only heard good things about mullvad and their Wireguard-based VPN solution (...so long as random reddit comments and forum posts are to be trusted).
I wonder what 5/9/14 eyes actually do with the intercepted data? Isn't mere processing of the said data, a gargantuan task? Is this where Palantir comes to play or is it more like of a `cat atlantic_pipeline | grep bomb` thing?
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#3This feels like mullad is trying to tell us something?
Or, maybe, it's just slightly inept at lobbying for their cause? It should really end with a specific call to action, or at least mention if there's any legislation going through the process right now that needs support or opposition?
I guess the call-to-action is to use Mullvad (which I happen to do, and can't complain about). For Germany, I will add http://freiheitsrechte.org/ as the local equivalent of ACLU & EFF that one might want to join.
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#4I've only heard good things about mullvad and their Wireguard-based VPN solution (...so long as random reddit comments and forum posts are to be trusted). I wonder what 5/9/14 eyes actually do with the intercepted data? Isn't mere processing of the said data, a gargantuan task? Is this where Palantir comes to play or is it more like of a `cat atlantic_pipeline | grep bomb` thing?
It is really awesome. I was looking for a solution that allowed me to use the native Wireguard implementation without needing a third-party proprietary client. Mullvad was it and port forwarding was just one additional benefit. Vopono works great for my use cases, although I have a hard time sending everything through a VPN because pretty much every VPN provider is going to put you into captcha hell or some services straight up block you when you're behind a VPN.
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#5This feels like mullad is trying to tell us something? Or, maybe, it's just slightly inept at lobbying for their cause? It should really end with a specific call to action, or at least mention if there's any legislation going through the process right now that needs support or opposition? I guess the call-to-action is to use Mullvad (which I happen to do, and can't complain about). For Germany, I will add http://frei…
Do take into consideration that this is a Mullvad VPN ad.
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#6This feels like mullad is trying to tell us something? Or, maybe, it's just slightly inept at lobbying for their cause? It should really end with a specific call to action, or at least mention if there's any legislation going through the process right now that needs support or opposition? I guess the call-to-action is to use Mullvad (which I happen to do, and can't complain about). For Germany, I will add http://frei…
Never heard of GFF, thanks for the link. For anyone who speaks German, the wikipedia article [0] has a decent summary of them.
[0]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesellschaft_f%C3%BCr_Freiheit...
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#7I've only heard good things about mullvad and their Wireguard-based VPN solution (...so long as random reddit comments and forum posts are to be trusted). I wonder what 5/9/14 eyes actually do with the intercepted data? Isn't mere processing of the said data, a gargantuan task? Is this where Palantir comes to play or is it more like of a `cat atlantic_pipeline | grep bomb` thing?
> or is it more like of a `cat atlantic_pipeline | grep bomb` thing
For what us ordinary people know, there are "selectors", something similar in purpose to regular expressions, that can filter out data out of the streams (not just raw IP communications, but also phone call metadata and PIR datasets from airlines) for storage and human inspection. Think of stuff like the phone numbers, names or email addresses of known or suspected "terrorists", drug dealers, organized criminals, or whomever else ends up on one of the flag lists.
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#8Ah yes “forced to surveil the populace”. This is horsehockey. They already do it, they just don’t want to be told what to do by daddy government. It’s “resistance as a competitive advantage”, minus the real resistance.
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#9I've only heard good things about mullvad and their Wireguard-based VPN solution (...so long as random reddit comments and forum posts are to be trusted). I wonder what 5/9/14 eyes actually do with the intercepted data? Isn't mere processing of the said data, a gargantuan task? Is this where Palantir comes to play or is it more like of a `cat atlantic_pipeline | grep bomb` thing?
> or is it more like of a `cat atlantic_pipeline | grep bomb` thing For what us ordinary people know, there are "selectors", something similar in purpose to regular expressions, that can filter out data out of the streams (not just raw IP communications, but also phone call metadata and PIR datasets from airlines) for storage and human inspection. Think of stuff like the phone numbers, names or email addresses of kno…
It also can be used once shortlists are determined.
EG, we suspect person 1. Now, do a deep search on 1, find associates, do deep search one those.
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#10This feels like mullad is trying to tell us something? Or, maybe, it's just slightly inept at lobbying for their cause? It should really end with a specific call to action, or at least mention if there's any legislation going through the process right now that needs support or opposition? I guess the call-to-action is to use Mullvad (which I happen to do, and can't complain about). For Germany, I will add http://frei…
You might want to remind people what commercial VPNs are good for: it masks the IP from _COMMERCIAL_ entities. It doesn't protect from the NSAs of the world because they have no restrictions in what VPN foreign servers they compromise, and FVEY routinely bypasses constitutional protections by compromising servers of opposing countries, e.g. GCHQ and NSA exchange data they extract from the opposing countries citizens.
Mullvad and other VPNs only provide trivial layer of IP address masking, they don't automatically block the endless list of tracking elements from HTTP headers to web bugs, LSOs, JWTs, cookies, webRTC, or canvas fingerprinting, and user actions on the site.
It's also the case simply downloading a bunch of browser plugins will probably make your browser look unique, if it wasn't already.
The best protection you have for anonymous browsing is with the Tor Browser, where every Tor user falls into three buckets depending on the privacy slider setting.
Commercial VPN to access the Internet is mostly a "feel good" service that offloads trust under foreign jurisdiction that might not e.g. have laws wrt. torrenting, but don't think for a second it provides safeguards against governments. It's not that Wireguard isn't excellent protocol, it's that the server is performance aside, just an ordinary computer that can be compromised invisibly with one expensive zero-day and a persistent rootkit, and there's nothing the companies can do about it.