Comments on: How Long Before VPNs Become Illegal?

By: Donuts4U

Donuts4U — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:29:00 +0000

Actually it can all be monitored and stored. Then you can run data analysis on it. Want to know who doesn’t like the government? There’s a app for that. Want to know who shares music? There’s an app for that.

With the size and scope of just the US government data centers that are public knowledge and in the news, someone “interesting” in some way could conceivably have every online thought, movement and search term available on demand. There are also some leaks that the best modern encryption is tissue paper. SSL for instance is vulnerable to man in the middle attacks especially when the man in the middle owns the cables and can generate the certs on the fly. I know my firewall allows me to do a man in the middle attack on https if I chose to.

By: Oyleldfb

Oyleldfb — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 02:01:00 +0000

Fuck them, I’ll use a VPN anyway

By: VPNUser1174

VPNUser1174 — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 06:17:00 +0000

They aren’t going to ban VPNs. People use them to stop hackers at public WiFi, hackers on the Internet and many legal things and so on. US is a pretty small Country compared to Russia and Russia doesn’t give a heck about Internet crime as they have real problems to worry about and not misfits on the Internet. Same with Sweden,Finland,Germany,Hungary,Cyprus,Norway,Switzerland and so on. Don’t worry about it.

By: TheIroa

TheIroa — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 03:56:00 +0000

Ukraine shut down Demonoid as a “gift” to the US government. You can cross them off the list.

By: Matrix

Matrix — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 23:59:00 +0000

Switzerland shows to be a country still respecting privacy of it’s citizens and handing out users’s data TO ANYBODY is considered a serious crime in this country. Furthermore Switzerland is NOT a EU member (and will probably never become one).That’s why their VPN services are getting more and more popular outside of Switzerland too :o) As for the “great ideas” and proposals coming from the US. I am disgusted when seeing whats coming from US. I was born behind the Iron Curtain=in Eastern Europe and grew up under the Communist dictatorship. I can tell you one thing: Watching US development for past 10-15 years I am more and more convinced that you- Americans are heading towards fascism….and you are heading pretty fast. It’s very sad.

By: Hugochavez

Hugochavez — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 23:25:00 +0000

People refusing (or scared to) use internet would be a win-win situation for Hollywood morons – they have allways dreamed about killing the internet, so they can again start selling their overpriced “best of” CDs with 1 OK song and 10 crappy shits… Hollywood wanted to kill VHS recorder some years ago, then sued producers of MP3 players, then opposed to DVDs…. the list goes on. Those dinnosaurs simply love living in the stone age and they will do anything to keep the rest of us to live there with them! Because they NEED US!

By: Chilly8

Chilly8 — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 08:28:00 +0000

I wonder if corporate America won’t push for some kind of VPN restrictions. With “bring your own technology” and “bring your own device” starting to make a comeback in offices, an outside VPN will make it harder for the office to monitor what you are doing.

I think the BYOT/BYOD might spur some kind of legislation on VPNs, as corpoate network admins will surely start raising hell about people being able to circumvent the offfice network.

By: Chilly8

Chilly8 — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:01:00 +0000

Such a scheme may become harder to enforce. People close enough to the border could sign up for wireless internet service from Mexico, and avoid such a ban.

The Partido Revolucionario Insttitucional (PRI) has been returned to power in Mexico. And the PRI has never exactly been known for being friendly towards US law enforcement.

I could see the PRI telling the Americans to rack off. That is why I think that it will make it that much harder for TPP and ACTA to come into force, becuase I think the PRI will reject both treaties.

By: TROLOLTRON

TROLOLTRON — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:15:00 +0000

Let’s stop with this ridiculous Corporation stuff. Many Corporations do good things. Many do bad things. Unilaterally using your far-left rhetoric only serves to discredit you.

By: Jadephoenix34

Jadephoenix34 — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:20:00 +0000

Have you ever monitored cameras? I’m going to take a guess the answer is no. Well I have and one person can only see what’s going on on so many cameras at once. Really only about 3 and REALLy know what’s going on (possibly a few more if you’re REALLY good at multi tasking). If something of note happens on a given camera your mind is much more focused on that camera than the ones surrounding it. At any rate once you get past X number of cameras any additional cameras are not going to be watched…at the very least not properties.

How does this apply to what your comment said? Simple there are many more John Q Publics than there are Richard S Governments. It’s not feasible to track eeverything EVERYBODY says and does.

It’s much more likely this is an excuse to set up a spy network. Then they can more easily monitor someone they find suspiscious even if their reasons don’t quite add up to probable cause. Joe drives a Caddillac on a Mazda income? No prblem let’s watch his internet activity for awhile and see if he gives us a reason.

Big Sam doesn’t really care if your mom looks up 20 recipes for chocolate chip cookies in a week…just sayin