Encrypt all the things!

That's sickening.
As has already been mentioned, privacy is a fundamental component of democracy.

I got RELAKKS working in the end, had to disble my routers firewall (which is ok seeing as its just macs in the house with software firewalls)

(which is ok seeing as its just macs in the house with software firewalls)

Gah!

I don't use it on my phone, because of phone latency issues.

What do you use on your phone?

ipredator is cheaper than relakks. Will sign up.

Gah!

I know what you're thinking, mac user assuming they're safe.

Yep, well is it, that's a very bad idea.

Find out what ports you have to open, enable UPnP if that's what it uses, whatever, just don't disable your external firewall.

I know what you're thinking, mac user assuming they're safe.

I haven't touched a Mac for a long time so can't comment on that. I don't come across them at work either as I have never worked for an organisation that allows them. This is for procurement standardisation reasons mainly . There were some security issues but that was more to do with standardisation of disk level encryption products from a service catalogue perspective.

I was more worried for any guests who might come round and use their devices on his wifi :D

And the fact that disabling a hardware firewall sets every alarm bell possible ringing in my head simply from a general best practice perspective. Hence the gah!

Might be mentioned up-thread, but there is a scray as fuck article in Wired, talkign about the new US gvmt data storage site. Talk of storing Yottobites of data, and developing new supercomputers to render 256bit encryption useless, as it'll just brute-force it anyhow. And making the point that if it's stored, it might not be de-encrypted now, but it will be at some point.

http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2012/05/features/the-black-box

Also, I'm sure this isn't the case, but should this not only come into effect when the law is passed, i.e. anything that exists before that point is out of their jurisdiction?

I circumvent this problem by saying, writing, and thinking nothing in any way controversial, detrimental or in any way interesting. The only things I store on my computer are pictures of kittens and the poetry of William McGonagall, and all emails I write are on the subject of the weather we are currently having.

On a more serious note; Fuck.

Tin foil hat anybody?

All this crap will just push privacy further underground as people become more paranoid.

Talking of paranoia, my old neighbour actually had three bodybags in her house during the really tense parts of the cold war because she wanted to prepare for the absolute worst. There were only three of them living there. She never did explain how she planned to do the zip on her one.

Thanks for all the information on this tread. I'm now setting about being a little more private with my actions.

Wander if I should encrypt the many gigabytes of data I've produced for my PhD? or the flipside of hosting it somewhere so another scientist can analyse it (they never never will).

Depends on the nature of the data and how easily it can be turned into information.

If it is personally identifiable data then I would encrypt it as a matter of course. Even if identifiable using a query of one order of separation (i.e uses ID number instead of name) but contains DOB or gender etc.

Whether you want to encrypt it because it may be proprietary is up to you.

I'm actually chuckling at the thought of someone coming after me and plowing through loads of my stored data. "What are these NetCDF files? they seem to contain some sort of 'ice edge'"

Ha

We used NetCDF occasionally when I worked at the Dept of Sexual Health & HIV Research.

I was just a data skivvy but it was interesting work.

It would be really easy to encrypt NetCDF data, just say the lat lon is in degrees, but actually put it radians. Fucks things right up.

Ugh, VPN still not working. Plusnet can suck my balls.

hello from* relakks

*via

Wait... how can i download free things since btjunkie died & how do I not get caught.

Unsecured WiFi

hello from sweden

Ftfy

Just a couple of quick points - the law hasn't changed yet. It is just a proposal and it hasn't even been made formally. If you remember back to 2009 when they tried to create central database of every communication the ISPs basically said it wasn't possible to monitor all their subscribers because of the associated cost and technical complexity. Funnily enough that move was opposed by the Conservative Party.

However back in 2009 the EU directive for ISPs to store all call info, email and internet access came into force. The important thing is there was never any remit about storing the actual content, just the fact you visited a site or sent MrX an email.

This time round it sounds like they are increasing the powers that law enforcement have with accessing the content associated with your interation. Now the BBC article I have linked below uses the term 'real time' which technically is infeasible. The best they can do is see your requests, then piece together your interactions.
Think of it like 'The Wire' but on a grand scale, which again is the problem. No one can monitor everything!

Now I'm not saying don't rush to use some proxy service or don't encrypt your drives. (I do encrypt one of my drives, and I use Tor on occasion.) But I have a feeling this proposal is not going anywhere.

Not all politicans are going to support such a move, plus now that this information about such a proposal is public people will be writing articles and posting on forums about it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17580906

Still... encrypting all the things is the only way to be sure that they won't do such rubbish, or at least that it will be useless to them.

^^

Reading this reminds me of something I read on here, might've been Velocio who wrote it. Basically they enforce a small change to the law every year or so, that alone isn't that big of a deal, but in 10 years time, enough enforcement has taken place right under our noses without anyone making a fuss, and suddenly we're in 1984...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquiescence

logs off the internet for everz

bye bye cruel 21st century