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It's worth noting that if they didn't hand over the passwords they're automatically liable for an offence whose punishment is two years in gaol, and all the pol

It's worth noting that if they didn't hand over the passwords they're automatically liable for an offence whose punishment is two years in gaol, and all the police need to prove is that it is likely that they did know them. One of the quotes of the article describes the husband getting what is presumably an admin key from work for a Windows laptop -- if the crown wanted to, that alone would be enough to utterly throw him under the bus. I honestly have an irrational fear of this happening to me. It's a great way for a malicious actor to utterly wreck someone's life. I tunnel all outbound traffic over a supposedly privacy-preserving (or at least non-UK) VPN, but honestly, this is the dystopian stuff of my nightmares. And I don't know why!

alibarber 5y ago
How do you tunnel your traffic though? Unless you can be sure it's forcing everything on your wifi network through it, then that wouldn't offer any protection to someone else using it without the tunnel, as is assumed to happen in this case.
- slimsag 5y ago
  A lot of WiFi routers actually support plugging in VPN details in the router software itself, it's not complex at all[0] even for your average consumer. [0] https://www.expressvpn.com/vpn-software/vpn-router#recommended-routers https://www.expressvpn.com/vpn-software/vpn-router#recommend...
  - rnotaro 5y ago
    I believe you're over estimating the skills of the average consumer. The average consumer usually don't even know how to access their router' web interface.
- azalemeth 5y ago
  As the other poster here says, I just configure it at the network level: my default gateway is a single-board computer set up to act as a router and intercept and rebind DNS. It's not hard, seamlessly works, and is quite fast via wireguard. My VPN provider also provides a reverse port to provide convenient ssh tunneling into the SBC "bastion host" which I have configured to use a random port, changing IP addresses, and only accept certificate-based authentication.

alibarber 5y ago

How do you tunnel your traffic though? Unless you can be sure it's forcing everything on your wifi network through it, then that wouldn't offer any protection to someone else using it without the tunnel, as is assumed to happen in this case.

slimsag 5y ago
A lot of WiFi routers actually support plugging in VPN details in the router software itself, it's not complex at all[0] even for your average consumer. [0] https://www.expressvpn.com/vpn-software/vpn-router#recommended-routers https://www.expressvpn.com/vpn-software/vpn-router#recommend...
- rnotaro 5y ago
  I believe you're over estimating the skills of the average consumer. The average consumer usually don't even know how to access their router' web interface.
azalemeth 5y ago
As the other poster here says, I just configure it at the network level: my default gateway is a single-board computer set up to act as a router and intercept and rebind DNS. It's not hard, seamlessly works, and is quite fast via wireguard. My VPN provider also provides a reverse port to provide convenient ssh tunneling into the SBC "bastion host" which I have configured to use a random port, changing IP addresses, and only accept certificate-based authentication.