Lmao then they bitch and moan when people abroad start cutting back on us-based tech and enforcing open standards
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After what Snowden has uncovered, Palantir plain in the open, companies like Meta/Facebook and Alphabet/Google shitting on your privacy , I am absolutely sure you will be subject to spying always and regardless of what you're doing.
Does anyone seriously believe that not using a VPN would save you from governmental snooping?
reddit pretty much would ban people using vpn , so they know too.
Just think of all the children they will be protecting! (Sarcasm)
I note the range of Republicans and dRepublicans (Democrats are Republicans in every meaningful way) who support this action (not sarcasm)
As if they weren't already scooping up people's information already. The point of VPN and other defenses is just to make investigation too expensive to do as a free action.
I hate the way this is getting it twisted.
Just because your signal is misinterpreted does not mean you've waived your rights. It means their system and it's use of citizen's data is flawed and violates the law.
I thought the law said that inadvertent collection has to be deleted asap not that you forfeited your rights.
Right? The real irony is that those who are paid to enforce the law, and who're sworn to uphold it, feel they're above it - beyond reproach.
The system is sick with apathy and outright corruption.
We must save ourselves
Wow! Interesting I didn’t know
No.
Stop fearbaiting.
...Americans may be inadvertently waiving the privacy protections they’re entitled to under the law.
We have no protections and no privacy, laws or no.
I hope they enjoy Farscape, because that's what they're getting of they eavesdrop me.
"Do I hear chanting and laser gun sounds?"
- Some NSA agent, probably
So in the US, locking your metaphorical doors or windows, or closing your digital curtains, means that authorities can presume you are hiding something and your 4th Amendments rights cease to be valid.
Well, while I agree with that sentiment, you may be looking at it the wrong way.
It's not that locking your doors gives them permission, it's that they're just doing it whether you lock your doors or not.
Imagine you're the NSA, imagine you're already spying on every American who isn't using a VPN (not because you have any legal right to, but because you can). Now ask yourself, where's your biggest blind spot?
This is why they want legal permission to spy on people using VPNs. If they can do it legally, they can just walk right into a VPN's server room and install whatever eyes they want on the inside.
All I'm saying, is that there is no legal justification for this, they don't care. Their plan is simple, spy on everyone, fuck the law.
All while abusing Third Party Doctrine to buy your data from advertisers and Palantir anyway.
If a VPN routing of someone in Chicago is via Texas and California, what judge would see that as "foreign"? Oh, right, one of their idiot ones they like to give cases like this.
The entirety of this has made me furious so I'm leaving a comment to remember to come back and soapbox in a bit.
https://www.scribd.com/document/1017859680/Congressional-VPN-Letter-to-Dni
And the letter (because these asshats make these things difficult to find)
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Americans may be inadvertently waiving the privacy protections they're entitled to under the law.
lmao
Yeah. That really jumped out at me. My very first thought was “Americans have privacy protections?” Since Roe v Wade was overturned, Americans have basically no right to privacy.
Old news... If you are using a VPN, it's "foreign communications" and subject to spying; and if you aren't using a VPN, they route the data through a room that's considered a foreign enclave (like an embassy), turning it into "foreign communications" and subject to spying.
Did they stop spying on americans. Im pretty sure snowden is still living in russia.
America should have took him seriously.
I really think there's no worth in the average American people anymore.
I took him seriously. I was a teenager when Snowden leaked those documents, and I took it seriously.
Why do you think I'm here today?
Yeah it was pretty big. So much of modern times it just boggles my mind for anyone who grew up in the 80's. We are literally how we portrayed russia or what we would become like if we let communism win. A whistle blower had to flee to russia. 100% bin laden won. Half my life has been in this millenium and there is a stark difference before and after (even with there being plenty which headed us in this direction).
“Mighty suspicious of you to protect yourself from our abuse. You must be up to no good.”
Lmao, what privacy protections? This is the land of the grift, you're more protected using a VPN than without one.
I'm curious how this works in action. If you use a VPN provider that doesn't do logging, and inherently you're traffic is encrypted via that VPN, what are they spying on? That's kind of the whole purpose of running a VPN in the first place.
If they happen to somehow see the unencrypted traffic, I hope they enjoy sifting through ass loads of torrent data. Good luck, shit bags.
It's not so much spying as moving you to the front of the line for suspicious persons.
I hope I'm there already. If I'm not then I'm not being vocal enough about how much I despise the current US government
I hope I'm on that list already, I'm a waste of their time
I already assume the gubmint can see everything else I do. The VPN just keeps my ISP from cancelling my service.
Bro these last two years I've been put on every list. It's way too late for any of this.
Ooh ooh, I know how to get on a list!
Ahem
Luigi did nothing wrong
Luigi did nothing wrong…
…also I am Spartacus
I hope they have fun watching me pirate the entirety of the Pokémon anime then.
Just change your username AiLearningModule.
Things keep going on their current path, I'll be using i2p fairly soon.
I wonder how the goberment feels about that?
Edit: spelling
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It was the Swedes causing mass shootings in America the whole time!
- Republicans probably
They already spy on everyone. They probably do worse and promote social manipulation too.
Humanity is owned. And they are trying to own it further with air and digitizing everything. And they will succeed because most people don't give a fuck and just consume all the bullshit and lifestyles marketed to them.
like in the old days of illegal wiretapping when throughout the conversation one would randomly say "bomb", "arson", "nuke" etc. It's time to use more VPN to generate such a level of white noise where it becomes impractical to track VPN access...
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They will waste waaaaaaaaaay too much time chasing ghosts for this to make sense.
Doesn't CGNat obscure the user true location in the same way? And what kind of VPN are we talking about? Company with exit node in the country? Commercial ones only?
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