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What basic steps can a Canadian do to preserve a little bit of privacy? Currently with Shaw. Not sure how they fair for respecting privacy but wouldn't mind ste

by 14 6y ago

What basic steps can a Canadian do to preserve a little bit of privacy? Currently with Shaw. Not sure how they fair for respecting privacy but wouldn't mind stepping up my efforts. Like a VPN for example. Thanks

Scoundreller 6y ago
Check some trace routes and see where things go. Not sure how bad Shaw is with ignoring any and all IXs. But Rogers and Telus would send some 5km away end-point packet on a tour of the USA. No wonder why voip.ms seemed so shaky. Like, hey Telus, you’re a Canadian ISP. Maybe peer in Canada instead of US only? https://www.peeringdb.com/net/76 https://www.peeringdb.com/net/76 Teksavvy sells service in Shaw areas. Not sure which other independent ISPs do. Can always use tor or VPNs, but need to understand their limitations and problems too.
ampdepolymerase 6y ago
The major anglophone countries make up the five eyes. In practice anything you do would be marginal at best unless your goal is to only thwart commercial surveillance.
freeflight 6y ago
Use startpage.com [0] for your Google searches, DDG even has the !sp bang for that. Be very cautiousness about whom you share your mobile number for what, it's used to cross-reference account ownership across services. Many services use them for 2-step, but very likely also share them past that, that's also how the numbers end up with spammers/scammers. VPN I'm a bit lukewarm on, heavily depends on the VPN because in the worst case you will funnel all your traffic trough one party giving them very convenient access. Least of all look for a VPN that offers anonymous payment options, afaik there are even some that accept cash-drops or money sent in. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startpage.com#Startpage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startpage.com#Startpage
swiley 6y ago
Any VPN other than TOR just moves the problem somewhere else and likely makes it worse.

by 14 6y ago

Scoundreller 6y ago

Check some trace routes and see where things go. Not sure how bad Shaw is with ignoring any and all IXs. But Rogers and Telus would send some 5km away end-point packet on a tour of the USA. No wonder why voip.ms seemed so shaky. Like, hey Telus, you’re a Canadian ISP. Maybe peer in Canada instead of US only? https://www.peeringdb.com/net/76 https://www.peeringdb.com/net/76 Teksavvy sells service in Shaw areas. Not sure which other independent ISPs do. Can always use tor or VPNs, but need to understand their limitations and problems too.

ampdepolymerase 6y ago

The major anglophone countries make up the five eyes. In practice anything you do would be marginal at best unless your goal is to only thwart commercial surveillance.

freeflight 6y ago

Use startpage.com [0] for your Google searches, DDG even has the !sp bang for that. Be very cautiousness about whom you share your mobile number for what, it's used to cross-reference account ownership across services. Many services use them for 2-step, but very likely also share them past that, that's also how the numbers end up with spammers/scammers. VPN I'm a bit lukewarm on, heavily depends on the VPN because in the worst case you will funnel all your traffic trough one party giving them very convenient access. Least of all look for a VPN that offers anonymous payment options, afaik there are even some that accept cash-drops or money sent in. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startpage.com#Startpage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startpage.com#Startpage

swiley 6y ago

Any VPN other than TOR just moves the problem somewhere else and likely makes it worse.