Big Brother is here !

[Mark Bolam]

Hahaha.

The wife asked what I'd been doing the other night.

I said I'd been watching hardcore porn.

'You liar', she said.

'You've been on Arbtalk, you saddo'.

 

 

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[TIMON]

Any privacy we might of had, disappeared a long time ago. This new bill probably changes very little in reality.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Tails with Tor it is then.

 

Agreed but the sceptic in me still has doubts... A set-up?

[Mike Dempsey]

This new bill in the main just legalises what the security service et al have been doing for years. They got caught out so rather than reprimand them they just legalised it.

[bluebedouin]

... A set-up?

By who? (Or should that be whom?)

It was certainly set up by people working for the us government,so possibilities are that it was engineered to be monitored.However it's been going for over 15 years so any holes would have been plugged by now.

I think the best way to judge it's efficient anonymity is to count the journalists who trust their lives to it.

[Marc Lewis]

Hahaha.

The wife asked what I'd been doing the other night.

I said I'd been watching hardcore porn.

'You liar', she said.

'You've been on Arbtalk, you saddo'.

 

 

Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk

 

Hahaha haha

[Haironyourchest]

By who? (Or should that be whom?)

It was certainly set up by people working for the us government,so possibilities are that it was engineered to be monitored.However it's been going for over 15 years so any holes would have been plugged by now.

I think the best way to judge it's efficient anonymity is to count the journalists who trust their lives to it.

 

Way I understand it, Tor does what it says on the tim, unless the people who want to snoop you have really really high end skills and hardware, and reealy want to snoop you. The resources available for those kind of snooping jobs are not infinite, so they will be picking their victims. But if you use it for logging onto Facebook and stuff like that - you just blew it! Best way to retain privacy online is use a generic non-warrantied smartphone - buy it disguised, glue on beard, fake nose, wide hat and shades, there are cameras over the till and they have face recognition software. Never use it in the same place twice. And use code words.

[Arctostaphylos uva-ursi]

[Gary Prentice]

Way I understand it, Tor does what it says on the tim, unless the people who want to snoop you have really really high end skills and hardware, and reealy want to snoop you. The resources available for those kind of snooping jobs are not infinite, so they will be picking their victims. But if you use it for logging onto Facebook and stuff like that - you just blew it! Best way to retain privacy online is use a generic non-warrantied smartphone - buy it disguised, glue on beard, fake nose, wide tin foilhat and shades, there are cameras over the till and they have face recognition software. Never use it in the same place twice. And use code words.

 

Fixed that for ya

[10 Bears]

I'm saying nowt.

 

 

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You're too late.

 

Still, it may be preferable that the government knows what you've been surfing, rather than the missus.

 

You're not wrong on this count, but to be honest, this type of technology has been around for many years for governments (not even thinking about what is available on the dark web).

 

Have a read of this review of XKeyscore which the US NSA developed and our government has been accessing via the NSA.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore

 

Ultimately, as others have said, this new bill to affect a change in the law is simply to legalise something that has been happening for many years - so it will make little difference now...