The UK Is About to Legalize Mass Surveillance

Re:The UK Is About to Legalize Mass Surveillance by philfrasty on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @01:31PM (#13065064)

Anyone permanently using a VPN (e.g. for home traffic) that you can recommend?

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Re:The UK Is About to Legalize Mass Surveillance by maxt on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @01:40PM (#13065152)

I only use a VPN for:

- Spoofing my geo-location

- Securing my phone's traffic when surfing on a 'free' or tariff-ed wireless hotspot

Sure, the provider might not keep logs, but it's certainly not for casual surfing, or heavy surfing. Stick to old reliables like TLS, TOR, and ADBlockers for vanilla /ISP connections

You might want to read these concerning VPNs and privacy:

- http://blog.hidemyass.com/2011/09/23/lulzsec-fiasco/

- https://torrentfreak.com/police-seize-two-perfect-privacy-vp...

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Re:The UK Is About to Legalize Mass Surveillance by SturgeonsLaw on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @04:08AM (#13069401)

OpenVPN on a couple of low end VPSs, depending on where I want to appear to be.

It's a breeze to set up [0] and I can know for sure that logging is disabled. Of course, I have to trust the VPS provider not to snoop, but I'm not doing anything that would warrant attention from authorities, I just don't trust this government to have the infosec chops to protect my data.

[0] https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install

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Re:The UK Is About to Legalize Mass Surveillance by katkattac on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @01:46PM (#13065214)

I run everything through TorGuard. It's low cost and is somewhat reliable. They have lots of servers in many locations.

Honestly, the most annoying part is that I see more CAPTCHAs. This is because it mixes everyone's traffic together, and some of those users are bound to be bad actors.

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