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I don't think that VPNs are any good at protecting privacy nowadays... Maybe Tor or I2P just might work. Team Cymru are collecting flow records from backbone r

I don't think that VPNs are any good at protecting privacy nowadays... Maybe Tor or I2P just might work. Team Cymru are collecting flow records from backbone routers worldwide, with the permission of the ISPs. They claim to be able to trace through VPNs by simply looking at the timing of flows. https://www.team-cymru.com/pure-signal-recon-threat-hunting-and-threat-reconnaissance https://www.team-cymru.com/pure-signal-recon-threat-hunting-... Perhaps we should try experimenting with satellite or radio data broadcasting? Just send highly compressed text to make it low bandwidth? Then anyone can receive the stream without intelligence agencies from finding out. Ever. Assuming it's a receiver that cannot physically be connected to a network. Bye bye NSA and GCHQ surveillance... For good this time. By the way, here's an example of a satellite data broadcasting system that's actually in operation: https://blocksat-reader.herokuapp.com/ https://blocksat-reader.herokuapp.com/

jhoelzel 4y ago
Thank you for that! in my younger days I imagined a system like this would come sonner rather than later. I also dont believe that there is really an incetive for corporations to keep the web "free" (as in freedom) and while - A LOT - of people are hyping the crypto scene or TOR as solutions, I have come to think, that we soon simply have identiy tokens (on cards or phones or usb sticks) and that identity will be provided not requested. Its what the movie studios wanted since the 90s, its actually what your government wants too! I finish with the thought that blocking the api for adblockers on chrome is only the beginning. And yeah, firefox also sends home a lot of data. We as programmers need to find solutions to this. It would be organized open source, but without proper funding, noone is going to be organized

jhoelzel 4y ago

Thank you for that! in my younger days I imagined a system like this would come sonner rather than later. I also dont believe that there is really an incetive for corporations to keep the web "free" (as in freedom) and while - A LOT - of people are hyping the crypto scene or TOR as solutions, I have come to think, that we soon simply have identiy tokens (on cards or phones or usb sticks) and that identity will be provided not requested. Its what the movie studios wanted since the 90s, its actually what your government wants too! I finish with the thought that blocking the api for adblockers on chrome is only the beginning. And yeah, firefox also sends home a lot of data. We as programmers need to find solutions to this. It would be organized open source, but without proper funding, noone is going to be organized