The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections • Hacker News Board

Re: The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections

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Post by subpixel » Tue, Mar 28, 2017, 10:23 PM UTC

marvindanig wrote: post #4

Before we jump in a shock and talk about the TFW political disaster there is happening in DC at the moment I want to ask a question: Is there a simple guide or steps that I can follow to make myself anonymous? I know there is TOR and VPNs, how can I go about setting it up?

Here are two good how-tos on the subject:

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/tor-signal-and-beyond-a-law-...

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/how-to-set-up-a-vpn-in-10-mi...

Re: The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections

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Post by beamatronic » Tue, Mar 28, 2017, 10:23 PM UTC

cblock811 wrote: post #18

marvindanig wrote: post #4

Before we jump in a shock and talk about the TFW political disaster there is happening in DC at the moment I want to ask a question: Is there a simple guide or steps that I can follow to make myself anonymous? I know there is TOR and VPNs, how can I go about setting it up?

This might be a good starting place for you. https://medium.freecodecamp.com/how-to-set-up-a-vpn-in-5-min...

That just moves the problem

Re: The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections

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Post by vhost- » Tue, Mar 28, 2017, 10:23 PM UTC

Doesn't this mean the government can basically buy user data through shell corps and bypass warrants all together?

Re: The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections

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Post by tzakrajs » Tue, Mar 28, 2017, 10:23 PM UTC

make3 wrote: post #9

thomastjeffery wrote: post #2

Time to start paying the VPN tax.

until they start throttling encrypted traffic systematically

That's all fine an idea until people use steganography to hide encrypted messages in plain sight.

Re: The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections

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Post by bigphishy » Tue, Mar 28, 2017, 10:23 PM UTC

hprotagonist wrote: post #7

thomastjeffery wrote: post #2

Time to start paying the VPN tax.

given the fact that deep packet inspection is real, to what extent will this actually help?

Your post clearly enforces my suspicion that comments on hackernews have increasingly become infected with users who do not know of what they speak, and do not clearly think before they type.

Re: The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections

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Post by callcallcall » Tue, Mar 28, 2017, 10:24 PM UTC

Please do not complain into the echo chamber of comments here. Please take a moment to support the EFF, call your representatives, and speak to friends and family.

EFF: https://www.eff.org/ Find your reps: https://tryvoices.com/

Re: The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections

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Post by k_sh » Tue, Mar 28, 2017, 10:24 PM UTC

orbitingpluto wrote: post #12

What about COPPA? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Pr...

You raise a good point- IANAL, but I can see this being a good avenue for challenging this soon-to-be law. Per COPPA, you have to confirm that someone is 13 years of age before collecting information on them.

What are they going to do, repeal a law that was sold on the premise of "think of the children"? Sounds like something that would come up during re-election: imagine a "Rep. X voted to make it easier for online predators to find your children online" campaign.

Re: The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections

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Post by msutherl » Tue, Mar 28, 2017, 10:24 PM UTC

Any clarity re: this comment[1], which seems to suggest that things are not as they seem?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13942989

> In June 2015, the FCC reclassified the ISP's as common carriers. Tada, the FTC rules no longer apply. So the FCC regulated them with roughly the same set of rules. Now they've undone this.

Re: The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections

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Post by curiousgal » Tue, Mar 28, 2017, 10:24 PM UTC

cmath wrote: post #6

Does anyone have suggestions on staying private that my mom could easily follow?

algo[0] doens't require any client software so maybe set that up on her computer and she'll be set?

0.https://github.com/trailofbits/algo

Re: The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections

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Post by rinon » Tue, Mar 28, 2017, 10:24 PM UTC

doctorshady wrote: post #3

It's a bit disappointing to see that aside from a few abstained votes, everybody just chose to vote along party lines. Do these people just rubber stamp a bill because there's a D or an R next to it? Even if it meant more nay votes for the bill, I really wish we had representatives that vote based on critical thought rather than what their friends were doing. I mean, as long as I'm dreaming too, we should give assemb…

I don't know that much about the inner workings of Congress, but I'm guessing that it might be because reps who vote against party lines won't get support for their own pet projects later on?