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Your ISP is going to spy on you starting July 12. Tips to protect your privacy.
- jey 15y agoWhere's the proof that this is really happening and isn't just some random blog that's fear mongering for pageviews?
- rasengan 15y agohttp://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-57397452-261/riaa-chief-isps-to-start-policing-copyright-by-july-12/ http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-57397452-261/riaa-chief-is... http://rt.com/usa/news/internet-providers-year-sherman-661/ http://rt.com/usa/news/internet-providers-year-sherman-661/ http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/15/american-isps-to-launch-massive-copyright-spying-scheme-on-july-12/ http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/15/american-isps-to-launc... While the post summarizes this, it also includes additional tips. Hope this helps.
- nextparadigms 15y agoWhy are so many people up in arms about this and believe this isn't true? Does no one actually remember the 6 strike "voluntary" deal they had last year? It's just coming into effect now. From last summer: http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2011/07/why-did-telcos-flip-flop-and-support-six-strikes-plan.ars http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2011/07/why-did-telcos-f... http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/ISPs-Agree-to-Six-Strikes-System-Warning-Users-of-Suspected-Online-Piracy-668389/ http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/ISPs-Ag...
- koeselitz 15y agoCary Sherman, the CEO of the RIAA, may indeed be lying; however, if you believe him, this is indeed going to start July 12. You might note that this "random blog" links to a CNET article about this at the beginning of the second paragraph.
- Cieplak 15y agoI'm afraid that anonymous VPN services will receive national security letters, will be monitored by the government, and operators will get gag orders. Tip: don't use a VPN with a .com TLD or with US (as of now, UK, Swedish nor Dutch)-hosted servers.
- baltcode 15y agoExactly. Isn't the VPN provider sort of like the ISP? What if VPNs have the same privacy policies as the ISPs?
- jasonkostempski 15y agoWhat do the ISPs gain from a deal like this?
- homunculus 15y agoCheaper access to content?
- mrud 15y agoThey can get rid of high bandwidth users
- greenyoda 15y agoSome of the big ISPs are also in the business of producing and/or delivering copyrighted content. For example, Time Warner, which provides internet service over their cable TV network, owns many media assets, including HBO. Verizon provides cable TV over their FIOS (fiber optic) network, so they'd much rather have you pay to subscribe to programming over their network than download movies via BitTorrent. More details on Time Warner's businesses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Warner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Warner
- wmf 15y agoI'm pretty sure there's no spying here. http://www.copyrightinformation.org/sites/default/files/Momorandum%20of%20Understanding.pdf http://www.copyrightinformation.org/sites/default/files/Momo... (sections 4.A and 4.C.) And some proxies have a habit of not totally obscuring your torrenting, so I'm not sure the advice in this article will work.
- rasengan 15y agoWhat exactly do you mean that it won't obscure your torrenting? I was under the impression that ssh SOCKS5 proxies are quite safe with SSL. Basically, SOCKS5/SOCKS4a will both route DNS through as well. However, you are definitely right if it is SOCKS4 as that will not put DNS requests through the proxy. But, in ssh's proxy supports SOCKS5 and is the default in the method described on the post. Let me know if you have some detail on something I do not. Thanks in advance!
- rasengan 15y agoDear HN Administration, This was on the frontpage twice, and twice was removed. I was wondering if I could receive an explanation as to why in order to help promote a better knowledge/discussion base on HN. If the post broke some rules that may not have been clearly documented, please let me know and thou shall not sin again. :) Thank you in advance and happy belated B-Day to YC, rasengan
- wmf 15y agoLet's see. The headline is wrong and alarmist. This is already being discussed in other threads. And the advice in this article may or may not work. Oh, and I just realized this article is a thinly-disguised ad, most likely for your employer.
- jaredonline 15y agoIsn't this what the Tor Project is all about? https://www.torproject.org/ https://www.torproject.org/
- wmf 15y agoTor is a pretty slow way to pirate stuff.
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- romnempire 15y agocan someone please explain to me exactly how running your traffic through a local proxy serves to protect it? I'm very confused.
- rasengan 15y agohi romnempire, This is not exactly a pure local proxy as per one might imagine, but rather, a local proxy that tunnels through your ssh connection. In other words, an "ssh tunnel"
- romnempire 15y agoi don't understand how that makes things secure. You are connecting to your own endsystem using ssh, and then your endsystem, on the server side, must send out an http/bittorrent/whatever packet to the content distributor over the same insecure channel your original application would have had to, right?
- kenmazy 15y agothe phrasing is vague, but all it is describing is tunneling http/etc through ssh. Ostensibly, you have some remote server whose internet connection is more "secure" than your home connection. I for one do not own any servers in Switzerland...