As a french, i'm ashamed of those (idiot/useless) politics
Lawmakers in France Move to Vastly Expand Surveillance
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Re: Lawmakers in France Move to Vastly Expand Surveillance
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
VPN will make you a target. That's the whole point of recording at the ISP level, the traffic is still quite individualized.
Saying "encryption makes you a target" represents a lack of understanding for how spy agencies monitor all communications. It's not like spy agency analysts target only some people and when they are in their offices and see some encrypted traffic from someone they go: "AHA! This guy uses encryption - let's monitor his (encrypted) communications and his metadata!" It's more like everyone's wide-open communications are…
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Re: Lawmakers in France Move to Vastly Expand Surveillance
#73The internet is a perfect surveillance machine. It is irresistible to those in power. I believe it shifts the balance of power towards the center more than it empowers distributed forces. For example, protesters have more tools to organize but governments have more tools to know what protesters are up to, they know where protesters will show up, how many and who they are. So there are no surprises. Overall advantage…
> The Hong Kong protests would have sparked a revolution 20 years ago
I'm not advanced on the topic, but as I understand Hong Kong is protesting against the corruption of their new owner, China. And 25 years ago in China was Tianenmen, where the regimen squashed the revolution.
Yes Internet helps centralization too. It matches the concentration of money seen with the new enormous tech corporations.
The irresistible surveillance machine is currently more in the hands of the corporation owners: Facebook has mapped every relationships between people in the world. I'm wondering whether the NSA has a better knowledge than us on our own citizen's communications. I'm wondering whether the NSA provides information to the French government about those communications.
Re: Lawmakers in France Move to Vastly Expand Surveillance
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
in that framework, consider that encryption is just a special keyword. And then they see that not a lot of people use it, then they have an opportunity to add just a bit more effort to those cases (maybe just storing the encrypted traffic), because there are so few.
That is okay. I stream Spotify through a VPN try to break that much traffic only to find my playlist.
How expensive is a VPN which lets you stream sevetal Gigs a month with good quality?
Re: Lawmakers in France Move to Vastly Expand Surveillance
#75Talking to friends lived or are still living in France, here are just some of the problems I heard: - in Paris, it's common to get robbed, and sometimes beaten up if you are not careful, and cops can do nothing. This is from a guy who went to school in Paris, I can't imagine what's it like to be a girl. - some of the non-French speaking neighbourhoods are quite dangerous, even cops would avoid going there for their o…
Your friends are living in a xenophobic fantasy.
Re: Lawmakers in France Move to Vastly Expand Surveillance
#76In France, as in the US, the legislature and judiciary exist to limit executive power. Once the judiciary gives away this power, it will be difficult, if not impossible, to get it back. One would think it hardly needed to be mentioned, but these tools can be used against legislators, too.
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
I plan to use VPN in area that are NOT friendly with the OTAN, such as Russia. I'd rather have Putin spy on me, than my own governement, or its allies. He has far less influence over my life, and I doubt that french and russian intelligence are cooperating.
>and I doubt that french and russian intelligence are cooperating. You guys build warships for Putin's war machine which is murdering civilians in Ukraine, something the French knew they were going to empower someday with arms like these. You don't buy helicarriers for defense, you buy them to easily attack your neighbors. Ties between these two nations go back hundreds of years. I would absolutely not assume the FSB…
Do you have a source for heli-carrier being deployed in Ukraine?
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#78People need to wake up to the fact that many of these so-called terrorist attacks are in fact being done by the intelligence services, which is to say they are false flag operations, the sole purpose of them being to push through a far right wing agenda that involves surveillance, unending war and eventually Mass incarceration. http://www.globalresearch.ca/state-sponsored-terrorism-who-w... PS: this comment will like…
It seems unlikely at best. Extraordinary claims like this require extraordinary evidence. You haven't provided anything like that, merely a much more complex explanation than the obvious one.
What constitutes an 'extraordinary claim' is a subjective judgement.
I don't find it at all impossible that governments would resort to tactics like false flags. I don't find it to be an 'extraordinary' claim, just... a claim. I'd consider it if I saw at least some credible evidence. But in this case I just don't see much evidence at all beyond suspicion and innuendo.
That and false flags really aren't necessary. There are enough fanatics out there. Governments just have to wait for one of them to do something and then take advantage of it to push the agenda. No need to take the immense risk of forcing it when independent actors will do it for you if given enough time.
Re: Lawmakers in France Move to Vastly Expand Surveillance
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
I plan to use VPN in area that are NOT friendly with the OTAN, such as Russia. I'd rather have Putin spy on me, than my own governement, or its allies. He has far less influence over my life, and I doubt that french and russian intelligence are cooperating.
> I doubt that french and russian intelligence are cooperating I wouldn't be so sure, as France and Russia have a long, special history of diplomatic ties, dating as far back as when both were among the most influential countries of the Old World.
That's hardly the case anymore. Hollande clearly made the choice of being an atlantist. Whatever was left of the Russian/French cooperation it's gone.
Re: Lawmakers in France Move to Vastly Expand Surveillance
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
I plan to use VPN in area that are NOT friendly with the OTAN, such as Russia. I'd rather have Putin spy on me, than my own governement, or its allies. He has far less influence over my life, and I doubt that french and russian intelligence are cooperating.
>and I doubt that french and russian intelligence are cooperating. You guys build warships for Putin's war machine which is murdering civilians in Ukraine, something the French knew they were going to empower someday with arms like these. You don't buy helicarriers for defense, you buy them to easily attack your neighbors. Ties between these two nations go back hundreds of years. I would absolutely not assume the FSB…
Ukrainians don't need the Russians to screw each others.Their oligarchs have been doing that for decades. The only thing that changes today is who is financing that corrupt nomenclature. The truth hurts.