Re:Tailscale Has Partnered with Mullvad
by hinkley on Thursday September 07, 2023 @04:04PM
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Yeah I wasn't talking about surveillance, I was talking about adulterating internet traffic.
From the surveillance standpoint, we now have devices we take with us and leave unattended. We are all waiting for a proverbial woodpecker to destroy civilization.
> ISPs learned how to be bad from security experts explaining how much mischief a person could get up to and deciding that sounded like a swell idea
Telecommunications companies have played a central role in government surveillance schemes for at least 50 years, well before the advent of WiFi. ECHELON was fairly extensively reported on in the late 90's.
> it might have seemed like you heard about ISPs and hackers around the same time
I connected to the Internet around 1993, but my interest in computer security didn't start until around 1996. I'm not sure if that qualifies.