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IcLife


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Thanks for the info, I didn't know. Looking at the PIA video, it seems its designed to keep individual hackers from spying on us through our WI-FI internet connection. From what you wrote, it seems it applies to to all forms of internet access, including DSL.
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Re: Search engines [Re: IcLife]
#22366726 - 10/12/15 04:42 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Doesn't protect your wifi at all, nor does it protect you from hackers... it stops your traffic being logged by your ISP.
Yep, it applies to all forms of internet access
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Re: Search engines [Re: IcLife]
#22370047 - 10/12/15 07:14 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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IcLife said: These new computers, I can't believe they don't come with a detailed manual. I use Duckduckgo for things I don't want NSA or the Gov to find out Im searching for. I hope its good for that.
No. It's not good for that. Advertisers and social media sites can follow you around from site to site so long as they have assets on the pages that you visit (or you're using their browser ). DuckDuckGo keeps advertisers from linking your search history to your identity and surfing habits. That's it.
The NSA gets everything it wants from your ISP. Imagine that there is an NSA agent sitting just outside your computer recording every packet that you send, and you'll start to get the picture. That's why you want end-to-end encryption. In the case of websites such as DuckDuckGo, you can connect to them using a secure HTTPS connection that they NSA can't break, sure. The problem is that the NSA doesn't need to break the encryption. They just smash the service provider in the face with a secret, cooperate-or-else national security letter, and the site has to unlock your communications for them.
That's why you need to disassociate your encrypted communications from your physical location by routing through a VPN that doesn't keep logs and doesn't have servers in the United States or its close allies. Even that can't stop them if they feel that you're worth the effort, but at least it raises the bar high enough that you won't get snarfed up in their front-line vacuum.
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IcLife


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Re: Search engines [Re: Bacchus]
#22372385 - 10/13/15 09:36 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Shit! Im not worth the effort, the only "bad" thing I want to do is get drugs for myself, post on this web site and visit alternative news web sites.. Im more concerned about the DEA then the NSA.
I learned how to operate computers using my windows XP manual. I tried and abandoned windows 8 and got a mac. I can barley comprehend what your telling me and so can't do most of it. I really do appreciate the info! I know enough to be careful.
Edited by IcLife (10/15/15 10:24 AM)
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