Been messing about with VPNs again lately due to the fascist/totalitarian laws that have come in to the UK that make the Stasi look like rank amateurs. But more of that later...
So, what do you do if you live in the UK or any other place in the world with total surveillance on your communications? What if you don't want your next door neighbour (who works for the council or perhaps any other random job) that now has full access to your internet history, recorded in totality, in perpetuum via your ISP, without you knowing, via gag laws and secret courts full of people who make secret decisions about our everyday lives? Politicians are exempt of course. Wouldn't want to see their love for Pizza pr()n now would we?
So you decide to take the big leap. Get VPN'd up to the eyeballs. Okay, it's gonna cost you a fiver a month on top of that internet connection you already pay for. But do you really want Mrs. Marple at no. 56 who volunteers as a mental health therapist (cos her life is so miserable and other people's misery is her 'porn') and who is known to have a rather large mouth, knowing, that you, in fact, are a lover of a combination of pink frilly nighties and orange marmalade? I have said too much. Perversions changed to protect the innocent...
Who is this little micro data-sheet for? Well, it's for anyone who wants to kick against the pricks just a little bit - shits and giggles as they say. It won't protect you from doing anything illegal (not until you get really good at it anyway), and it's best you don't, anyway, but it will stop the government spying on you, and worse, sharing and disseminating that information with your neighbours, that you don't know, but sure as fuck now you! There are also other benefits as well, that I will point out.
I'm doing this as a kind of general 'how to' guide for total noobs who want some real privacy/anonymity in their lives, but you will need to be fairly tech savvy to do this. I'm pretty sure the vast majority of RVF users will find this useful and not beyond their ken. (please note: anonymity is not privacy and vice versa, though there is overlap - this is vital to understand)
Please excuse me for splitting up some of the posts as I'm having a nightmare with the captcha system and I like to format my posts properly before posting them. Captcha makes that much more difficult with long posts. If there is enough interest, I will do a proper Data Sheet for any noob that wants to get covered. I'm just going to wing it for now, and lay down some bare bones that anyone should be able to follow, to be fleshed out later on, by myself or the many others more knowledgeable than me on this very website. I welcome any feedback or pointing out of mistakes...
So, what do you do if you live in the UK or any other place in the world with total surveillance on your communications? What if you don't want your next door neighbour (who works for the council or perhaps any other random job) that now has full access to your internet history, recorded in totality, in perpetuum via your ISP, without you knowing, via gag laws and secret courts full of people who make secret decisions about our everyday lives? Politicians are exempt of course. Wouldn't want to see their love for Pizza pr()n now would we?
So you decide to take the big leap. Get VPN'd up to the eyeballs. Okay, it's gonna cost you a fiver a month on top of that internet connection you already pay for. But do you really want Mrs. Marple at no. 56 who volunteers as a mental health therapist (cos her life is so miserable and other people's misery is her 'porn') and who is known to have a rather large mouth, knowing, that you, in fact, are a lover of a combination of pink frilly nighties and orange marmalade? I have said too much. Perversions changed to protect the innocent...
Who is this little micro data-sheet for? Well, it's for anyone who wants to kick against the pricks just a little bit - shits and giggles as they say. It won't protect you from doing anything illegal (not until you get really good at it anyway), and it's best you don't, anyway, but it will stop the government spying on you, and worse, sharing and disseminating that information with your neighbours, that you don't know, but sure as fuck now you! There are also other benefits as well, that I will point out.
I'm doing this as a kind of general 'how to' guide for total noobs who want some real privacy/anonymity in their lives, but you will need to be fairly tech savvy to do this. I'm pretty sure the vast majority of RVF users will find this useful and not beyond their ken. (please note: anonymity is not privacy and vice versa, though there is overlap - this is vital to understand)
Please excuse me for splitting up some of the posts as I'm having a nightmare with the captcha system and I like to format my posts properly before posting them. Captcha makes that much more difficult with long posts. If there is enough interest, I will do a proper Data Sheet for any noob that wants to get covered. I'm just going to wing it for now, and lay down some bare bones that anyone should be able to follow, to be fleshed out later on, by myself or the many others more knowledgeable than me on this very website. I welcome any feedback or pointing out of mistakes...