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Re:Tinc VPN: Secure Private Network Between Hosts by znpy on Thursday February 08, 2018 @02:01AM (#16330701)
> In the UK residential ISPs are required by law to store logs of your browsing data, and to make it available to ~50 government departments with no warrant or any other kind of oversight required.

Super scary. It would be cool if someone currently working at one of those 50+ government agencies would make an AMA, maybe using a throwaway account.

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Re:Tinc VPN: Secure Private Network Between Hosts by DanBC on Thursday February 08, 2018 @02:33AM (#16330785)
It would be scary if it was true, but it isn't true, it's scare-mongering bollocks.
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Re:Tinc VPN: Secure Private Network Between Hosts by cm2187 on Thursday February 08, 2018 @03:46AM (#16330972)
The sad reality of human nature is that if you give some people a power, sooner or later one will abuse it. I can’t think of a counter example.
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Re:Tinc VPN: Secure Private Network Between Hosts by d-sc on Thursday February 08, 2018 @11:35PM (#16337915)
I feel like this would be a bad idea seeing as their employers are in the business of watching your internet traffic and catching such shenanigans.
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