[BleepingComputer] UK Passes the Most Extreme Surveillance Law in the History of Western Democracy
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So, no-one then? Perhaps you'd be happy in China or North Korea.
Don't take it out of context. Why should people be entitled to privacy if all it gets used for is illegal purposes?
By that context I shouldn't be allowed to use CCTV around my house, as it clearly intrudes on the privacy of the burglars who may try to break in.
There are lots of legitimate reasons for using VPN's, businesses for one will heavily rely on one. I require use of a VPN to access my works global network if i'm external to the office. By "banning VPN's" would mean something like 25% of the workforce couldn't do their jobs as they couldn't access the network resources.
True, but you're ok with a VPN on Steam as long as you don't use it to circumvent regional restrictions ie buying and trading
I don't doubt that there are legitimate reasons - why shouldn't a business' data be kept private and secure via VPN?
However I question how much total traffic that VPNs carry these days is "business data", when a large amount of people who aren't I.T. literate know how to use a VPN, in order to bypass region restrictions, traffic shaping, and blocked websites.
This may solve your problems. Well, unless you're playing hentai games and are ashamed to the point where you want to hide it from the gov
On what planet is privacy only used for illegal purposes? You seem to assume that privacy is only needed by criminals for some reason. I and others have already listed various reasons why privacy is important, even without considering the internet as part of the equation. The fact that the government is involved makes it a matter of free speech also.
You can have CCTV to protect your private property; that is a completely seperate case. However, imagine the government imposing their own brand of CCTV cameras be installed all over your house. You can't tamper with them, you can't see who has access to them at any given time, you can't stop malicious people from poking around at the back of them, you can't view the footage, and you can't turn them off or avoid them if you want to. Even aside from the privacy concerns, I doubt you'd feel safer with that setup.
You might as well say that safes shouldn't be allowed because you can keep illegal items in them though. This isn't a new realm of thought, the desire to curb freedoms and privacy for the sake of "security" has pretty much always existed in society. It just takes on a new form today with this thing we call the internet...and I guess for a lot of people the fear mongering about the internet disguises the actual cornerstones of democracy at stake here.
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This may solve your problems. Well, unless you're playing hentai games and are ashamed to the point where you want to hide it from the gov
I'd rather have a hardware solution, so i can avoid installing clients on 6 machines and i can still protect phones etc.
Could i set up a Gateway PC with this client on? Would that work?
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Not sure it's possible to do "split VPN" using a router. I know my Archer VR900 can host a VPN server (although I don't use it since I have my own server doing that) but I don't know if it can actually be configured to relay all traffic through another VPN server.This may solve your problems. Well, unless you're playing hentai games and are ashamed to the point where you want to hide it from the gov
Your attitude is both tiresome and annoying. Try and educate yourself as to the whys, rather than continually bleating the "I have nothing to hide" fallacy.
I hope the open rights group or the like take this to the ECHR.
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I clearly can't be educated then, as honestly I can't see how a VPN would benefit me in day to day life. It doesn't affect my online banking or shopping habits, doesn't benefit me when posting on public forums, doesn't help me with online gaming, or streaming via any of my paid for services.
I didn't say a VPN would benefit you, did I? I said that saying "I have nothing to hide" is a fallacy.
And no, you're clearly not educated. So the government can push through legislation like this, at the expense of everyone, because not enough people care enough to complain. There is no coming back from this. Once you've lost a privacy, it's gone.
What do you not understand about the loss of privacy being a bad thing?
And no, you're clearly not educated. So the government can push through legislation like this, at the expense of everyone, because not enough people care enough to complain. There is no coming back from this. Once you've lost a privacy, it's gone.
What do you not understand about the loss of privacy being a bad thing?
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It won't benefit you then.
If you just wanted another level of security to what you usually do, it would.
If you had your own business, it would.
If you wanted a remote connection to your home server, it would.
Indeed. Outside of the VPN, just encryption alone is under threat. Which is madness really.
Emails, transactions, accounts, piracy of legitimate streaming data.
No you didn't, but replace VPN with "online privacy" in my previous statement, and again how does it benefit me - It honestly makes no difference to me.
As already said, I don't agree with it and I do understand that it is a bad thing (and is unlikely to solve any of the issues it's being targeted at). But for a lot of people, it makes no difference whether their traffic is logged.
