Reference Note on Russian Communications Surveillance

Re:Reference Note on Russian Communications Surveillance by borski on Monday April 21, 2014 @12:47PM (#7621993)

Everyone should really be on a VPN. We built an easy way to get your own personal VPN during Sochi, but lots of people are still using it now: https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com/vpn

The interesting part about this is that the ISPs pay for it. I didn't know that. Forcing someone to pay for you to spy on them is ballsy.

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Re:Reference Note on Russian Communications Surveillance by drdaeman on Monday April 21, 2014 @01:07PM (#7622157)

VPNs do protect against rogue networks like a hacker sitting on the same open hotspot and listening for credentials.

In a more global way, unless you're fine with one high-grade adversary spying on you, but not others (i.e. good with NSA, but not so happy with FSB), VPNs don't provide any real security.

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Re:Reference Note on Russian Communications Surveillance by borski on Monday April 21, 2014 @01:28PM (#7622311)

Right. I tend to trust my country with my data more than a foreign country. That may be wrong, but it's how I currently feel.

Not sure why my earlier post is being downvoted =\

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Re:Reference Note on Russian Communications Surveillance by ForHackernews on Monday April 21, 2014 @04:21PM (#7623531)

* I tend to trust my country with my data more than a foreign country.*

That's probably a misguided attitude. Your own country is in a much better position to persecute you than some random foreign power.

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