Encrypt all the things!

Sadly not available in Germany
:(

Why not?

Legal reasons or have they just not got it translated yet?

Out of interest has anyone dd-wrt'd their home router to default to using a VPN?

I'm waiting for it to break. Damn thing is mor robust than any android phone I've owned.

Damn thing is mor robust than any android phone I've owned.

http://www.catphones.com/en-gb/

Yes, two weeks ago as soon as they passed the Snoopers Charter / IPBill
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/205836/?offset=1150#13327961

Midget porn being "unconventional".

They have to make them robust so that they last long enough that someone might actually write some apps for them...

:P

All the noobs on this forum probably think I am actually into midgets which means it doesn't matter now if I download any midget porn or not, people just assume I have hahaha. Can't win!

I am opposed to government internet censorship though.

Technically it was Merlin and not DD-WRT but same principles apply.

Here's some shit that I read...
http://asuswrt.lostrealm.ca/screenshots
https://www.ivpn.net/setup/router-ddwrt.html
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Installation
https://www.dd-wrt.com/site/support/router-database
http://www.howtogeek.com/60774/connect-to-your-home-network-from-anywhere-with-openvpn-and-tomato/

Interesting. I will assess the speeds of my VPN (relative to the ISP bandwidth), and if it looks fast enough and suitably consistent, I will give it a go.

Maybe a dumb question but presumably if you connected a device via ethernet to the flashed router it would still use the VPN connection?

Based on marcom signing me up for who knows what porn, the government probably has it's own ideas about me too.

Useful. Thanks.

I'm on wifi anyway so I'm already taking a hit on my max bandwidth (maybe 80Mbit) and I don't really use high bandwidth stuff (no games, rarely torrent, etc) so I'd rather have the security and birdie-flipping "fuck you, Theresa May" benefit than an extra 10Mb or whatever.

Depending on the router you're probably able to configure it to do whatever you want - VPN or not. I know there were a few options for doing stuff like not allowing any connectivity if the VPN was down (so you're always encrypted) and not running local addresses through the VPN as well as stuff like being able to create rules to not VPN certain sites, say streaming locations.

Snoopers charter went live today.

Silver lining: Got me to pull my finger out and sort my VPN, etc.

It'll probably transpire the vpn providers are actually gchq.

Just trying to understand if I'm going the wrong way with my VPN.

I have a cloud machine on Digital Ocean, I installed Ubuntu on this and then OpenVPN. Machines at home, phone, etc connect to this using OpenVPN client.

Is it just the case that I'm moving the unencrypted point from my modem at home to where it exits Digital Ocean. Given that my cloud machine has a unique IP address, would it be the case that browsing, etc would just be tracked at the cloud machine level rather than from my home?

Is the point of PIA or whatever that the traffic is being blended with other people so none of it can be attributed to a specific person? Or am I missing the point?

PIA blends traffic with others and doesn't log (supposedly). So finding a specific person would be difficult. However, you are also at the mercy of sharing bandwidth, and I noticed more and more sites outright banning PIA hosted IP ranges so I couldn't get to some sites (or game).

I use a DO box with OpenVPN. It has a unique IP, so yes I could be tracked. My main reason for doing it was Comcast. They hijack and insert stuff into your HTTP connections for their draconian data limit purposes. I also don't like that they might be selling meta data of what I do. VPN solves that problem.

If you really want to hide, use TOR but even that's not full proof.

Don't use a British VPN.

I don't think it makes any difference.

A British VPN company would be trivial for the government to attack directly using legal powers. An overseas one would be much harder.

As for the tech argument: In theory it's a lot easier for a state actor (the UK) to monitor all traffic if all the traffic is kept within the UK. There could be timing attacks on a VPN to observe traffic going in and out, and if done during a quieter period they could correlate "that home/mobile IP uses the VPN to access these websites".

You want to make their job harder, surfacing your VPN elsewhere does so.

Top tips:

1. Don't use a VPN run/owned by a UK based company.
   
2. Don't surface in the UK during off-peak times if you're really paranoid, but you're probably OK if you've used a large provider (like PIA).
   

just purchased 12 months of PIA - connection speed just went waayyy up! #boost

Compared to?