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| Thread ID: 137317 | 2014-06-20 23:52:00 | Secure communications - do you use encryption technology for your online activity? | chiefnz (545) | PC World Chat |
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| 1377606 | 2014-06-20 23:52:00 | Hi all, Just curious to understand how many of you make use of an encrypted internet connection? I'm talking mainly for the purpose of "protecting" your online activity from these wacky government agencies who think everyone is a threat to national security, I'm not referring to using corporate VPN's for work purposes but more home use. I've nothing to hide but I use an encrypted VPN connection (VyprVPN) on my home PC and mobile phone. My rationale behind this in NOT to hide illegal activity but to shield myself from those who would target me for illegal activities. I've been reading up on the whole "Reset The Net" movement and I think it's a good thing, it seems "big brother" has forgotten one of the most fundamental inclinations of being human... the need to protect ourselves from harm and with us so meshed into the the digital world this dictates today that we protect ourselves from those online threats as much as we would from the potential burglar, murderer or rapist etc. I'm self sufficient, I don't expect the government to be able to or even try to protect me from every little dangerous entity out there, this in itself is a folly notion. Personally, I think they should spend their billion dollar budgets on the real issues of today like over-throwing dictatorships, ridding the world of genocidal maniacs and eliminating poverty and hunger. The Internet is, has and always will be a non-proprietary entity, trying to regulate it world wide or even nationally is a ridiculous idea unless of course your population has the mindset/belief in the government such as the Chinese or North Korean's do and even in those countries there are underground movements which do not support the regulation and censorship of the Internet by their respective governments. #ENDOFRANT |
chiefnz (545) | ||
| 1377607 | 2014-06-20 23:59:00 | Nup haven't bothered before, not going to bother now | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1377608 | 2014-06-21 00:11:00 | Way too late, 1982 was too late. To quote the late Neil Roberts "We have maintained a silence closely resembling stupidity" :( |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1377609 | 2014-06-21 00:15:00 | I rely on my spelling to encode things. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1377610 | 2014-06-21 02:47:00 | Personally, I think they should spend their billion dollar budgets on the real issues of today like over-throwing dictatorships, ridding the world of genocidal maniacs and eliminating poverty and hunger. Yeah. Getting rid of whacky dictators, replacing them with puppets - killing and displacing millions in the process - then having said puppets overthrown by fundamentalists Terrorists before realising the original whacky dictators were better for us anyway. As for encryption, there ain't nothing you can do. You could go with Tor perhaps? |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 1377611 | 2014-06-21 03:00:00 | I find my tinfoil hat works a treat. | plod (107) | ||
| 1377612 | 2014-06-21 03:50:00 | I really don't buy into this paranoia. ;) | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1377613 | 2014-06-22 22:41:00 | Personally, I think they should spend their billion dollar budgets on the real issues of today like over-throwing dictatorships..... That didnt work so well in Iraq, Iran, Afganistan, .....and the list goes on. The west should stop trying to force its political system on other countries,where it just doesnt work. Big Budget attempts at solving 3rd world hunger never work in the long term either . Perhaps tinfoil hats could be exported to 3rd world countries , were there can be used as food bowls ? |
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