Today I learned that Pornhub, RedTube, YouPorn and Brazzers are all the same company.
Also - A MindGeek spokesman said:
”Due to the encrypted nature of AgeID’s login credentials, such data cannot be exposed in the unlikely event of a hack."
Totally reassuring…
“The internet can never be controlled, if you think it can, you don’t understand the internet” - liberal idealists, 90s/00s
Maybe you can use your “can’t-be-regulated” bitcoins, to buy some fancy IP tools, to hide your porn surfing?!
Um, yeah, you can. There are also free services that make it nearly impossible. But, if you really wanted to go full anon you could use Tails, a respectable VPN provider, and TOR. It would take about three hours of buffering to watch a two minute video, but it is possible.
Just using a VPN is enough for 99.9% of the crowd though.
Using tor on a vpn on a public wifi is a little worse but not terribad… whats tails do?
Also, I’m fairly sure the us govt has access to all us based vpns and to tor.
dang talk about synergies for security risk! all great sites
Whether or not the government controls all major VPN providers gets into tinfoil territory. I highly doubt it. Many VPN providers eliminate your data as your using their system so you essentially disappear as you surf the web. Some actually do keep your data so be sure to read the fine print.
TOR is more complicated. It was developed for the US Navy so, yeah, the government uses it. The question becomes, how many exit nodes do they control? Certainly some, but to think they control them all is also in the realm of tinfoil. Hell, I could start an exit node today. It’s a simple click of a button. (Note: If you do this, you’ll be visited by the FBI as traffic coming from your IP address will be going to sites that you really, really do not want to be associated with.) And, even controlling an exit node doesn’t mean you can identify who the user is, their original IP address, or even where they might be. That, again, is tinfoil. No one has ever been busted because they used TOR unless they’re really stupid (enabling Javascript, giving out personal info, logging into their gmail account while on TOR, etc.).
Tails is a self contained operating system that you can run off a flash drive, external hard drive, etc. It’s like running a totally different computer on your PC that leaves no traces on your PC of whatever you do while using Tails. It forces all Internet traffic through TOR and blocks anything that’s not encrypted. And, Tails itself is encrypted (I think, I’ve never used it) or you at least have the ability to encrypt it making it like a lock box. And easy to flush down the toilet in a pinch.
Got to love the UK. They managed to squeeze the term “bashing the bishop”
That poll is great also. There is only 1 correct answer.
The corporate-government state (USG/GOOG/FB/etc) sees all. They can triangulate.
Wrong think is being noted, for future use, if you become a problem.
Not control, but has regular access to in such a way that it provides no actual anonimity, like with room 641A. My understanding is that its similar with private email services:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/08/lavabit-email-shut-down-edward-snowden
I’d imagine that anything that actually gets directed outside of the US is also de facto fully examined (unless its sufficiently encrypted, and even then maybe its not that secure).
I read a thing that suggests that an entity would only need to control about a third of the exit nodes to have access to all the data on the network. That would cost about $10m/year, so I think its reasonable to imagine with a $50b or whatever intelligence budget. I imagine that this is getting into the sources and methods/parallel construction area, with the govt having the ability to see everything on tor (and probably giving it extra attention), and just not actively making people aware of it to protect their ability to do it.
That’s very interesting about tails. Thanks for the heads up.
lol this is pretty close to a black mirror episode
China is worse, they appear to be using facial recognition software to constantly track everyone. I imagine that its the same or more invasive in the US, but that we aren’t as open about it.
Just use ip log like Blake and get STL’s contact info for the porn login. Problem solved.
My username is “password” and my password is “password.”