Snooper's Charter' surveillance trial

There's an ongoing thread in GD about this. Strangely many of the posters are in favour. "Tech" forum lol... Don't host your own VPN if you want privacy. It's trivial to log and tie your activity back to you. Sign up for something like Mullvad, OVPN or AzireVPN. Same cost per month as the cheapest basic DO droplet, and easily saturates gigabit using WireGuard. Proper anonymity.
 
I suspect this is DNS based, in which case simply using a third party encrypted dns service is likely to prevent them from monitoring most of your activity.

Some sites will be identifiable by IP address, but many won't or will be too much effort.

That said, I'm not too worried by it if I'm honest. I have nothing to hide, but I'd sure be grateful if these operations keep me safe on my daily commute in and around London.
 
Nothing new here, having sat through a ‘voluntary’ interview under caution 3? years back about an incident with absolutely no link to any form of digital communication or online activity and had (not) my search data used against me. This was after the ruling that the oversight system for access to DNS/search data illegal, but before anything actually changed.

I’d be more concerned that - for example - Sky have admitted to logging suspected illegal streamers on it’s network, the original disclosure was picked up on TF a while back.
 
Bouton Aide said:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/forums/threads/surveillance-of-the-internet-for-uk.18923026/

I would rather be safe by allowing government to log my internet activity over them catching the next planned bombing. More positives than negatives in my eyes.
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Thing is though - those sloppy enough to be caught by surveillance like this are going to be leaving a lot of evidence anyhow which can be detected without as much intrusion into people's lives generally and those that are more organised are just going to be pushed into being more wary about how they do things and if anything then harder to detect and probably the ones we need to be more concerned about.

At least as far as fighting people up to no good goes this is more about trying to shortcut having to go to an effort and avoid spending money on good old detective work, etc.
 
I have no issues in principle however those that want to do harm will do harm regardless. Advertising stricter rules on surveillance will push those that are desperate to stay anonymous to make greater strives to do so. Let's be clear though, what you think is anonymity on the internet is only as secure as the weakest link in your chosen path. TBH the majority is like a sieve to state actors, including our own.
 
‘Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.’
Benjamin Franklin
 
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