Hi,
im a major proponent of online privacy for all. Yes in some circumstances it'll be abused by the criminal fraternity but they're generally using more than a just a VPN , they're using TOR, its hidden services .onion sites and bitcoin as a payment method with further anonymises the payer as bitcoin us extremely hard to track in that it's encrypted and passes through several 'hands' so to speak , so it's near impossible , but not impossible to track the start point and the destination , Silk Road,Silk Road 2.0&Silk Road 3.0 in point if fact #FreeRossUlbricht
i would like to know if PlusNet just hands over its clients VPN data to the authorities or refuses , as it can do. Most ppl w a brain use a VPN that stores nothing on its servers and wat is stored us encrypted w a minimal 128bit SSL, but usually twice that. The reason being is their customers pay not enormous amounts of money, around £23-25 although u can now get the pocket Raspberry Pi p2p VPN for around £42 a year,The higher price is that the VPN and its data is held in a card which slots into the raspberry pi, thus out again w no loss of data, making it secure as hell that way, also the Swiss company Unseen.is that make the raspberry pi and another hardware VPN naturally have the tightest privacy in the world as they , so far, have yet to yield to EU pressure and threats of this economic block and so on.The Swiss provide most of the worlds topmost secure online systems, usually free or for a very small fee. I use both of their Unseen chat service and their Zimbra End-to-End Encrypted Email message service , also w the URL Unseen.is. Aswell as that I use PROTONMAIL.ch which is another end-to-end encryption service which is extremely secure especially when combined with a 'Fort Knox' (lol) {their term not mine} password from randomkeygen.com; refresh the page to get more random pws. Mine is strong enough for root or admin strength keys. I use that strength for everything, google, FB, twitter, basically anything where I have sensitive data, although I have zero to hide, I have plenty that's noones business but mine and the person I'm in touch with online. One large problem I'm finding is 99% of my online friends are American, and President-Elect Donald Trump wants to not only legally FORCE Apple to build into its sourcecode a 'backdoor' which can be used by the police to bypass TOUCH ID and pass codes.He doesn't realise it gives the hacking community exactly the same powers but he's trying to fast track the Bill which allows police forces to go to a website and find a forum of judges in favour of his dismantling of the backbone of their 4th Amendment, pick one and get said judge to sign off on a warrant for a person they know nothing of thus allowing the FBI to use all possible means to surveil the populous , semi-en-Mass or individually by essentially using the techniques that they're looking to put people in hail for , hacking, to get into backdoors in systems and monitor online data from origin to destination which wd put thousands of TOR bridge builders at legal risk too, but I imagine if they're not American itll be hard work getting their home govts to follow Trump like lapdogs. Except Britain of course who is attempting to bring in the Investigatory Powers Bill 2016 (I believe Digital has been prefixed to the Bills name now) .Thankyou Theresa "Will, not" May.
http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/investigatorypowers.html
so yes, my question is where, as a leading ISP ,do PlusNet stand on the issue of handing over your clients private (and in some cases, lifethreatening ; should it be leaked before it's fully collated and ready to be 'leaked' slowly to the right sources)information garnered from VPNs??Although a sizeable chunk will be encrypted.. We've all heard of Edward Snowden (hero) and Julian Assange (self publicist and really more in it for the money)? Snowden has lost literally everything for the information he came across and leaked in the interest of humanity, Assange has admittedly had a hard time and faces jail time in the US but he's also made an awful lot of money from the traffic through WikiLeaks.
i think the next 4years will see a degradation in personal privacy , a possible mass deportation of Muslims with the still active Natioanal Security Entry-Exit Registration System.
"President George W. Bush and Dick Cheney’s administration launched NSEERS in 2002. It required men from 25 countries to register when they entered the country and then check-in regularly with immigration officials. The registry was not officially a Muslim one, but 24 of the 25 targeted countries were ones with majority Muslim populations.2 Supporters claimed the program was necessary for national security, but in reality, NSEERS was a program that profiled Muslims, subjected them to detention and deportation, and damaged and hollowed out their communities. Not a single person on the registry was ever convicted of a terrorism-related crime, but in only the first year of the program, the government started deportation proceedings on more than 13,000 people." (Source Credo.com)
i know this post went off on several tangents but essentially they're linked in together.
