New on LowEndTalk? Please Register and read our Community Rules.
All new Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, so a short delay after registration may occur before your account becomes active.
All new Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, so a short delay after registration may occur before your account becomes active.
Comments
i am investigating 8 millions per year child abduction. I did not trust this number the first time i heard it. I did not trust it the second time i heard it. Today I believe it. (and let me be clear i am super glad if i am wrong)
I, for one, am excited to use it for my Invidious instance.
Same actually.
I wonder if it will be whitelisted for social media services so I can use it as proxy for privacy frontends
in minecraft of course - i would never break any ToS of any service
looks like a Federal Honeypot. would not doubt it would be using cloudflare warp and wireguard at least
It makes sense knowing that abduction means watching TV at a friend's place while the parents are busy bothering the police. But assault is my favorite nothingburger word. I've probably been assaulted 8 or 9 times today while alone in my house.
Indeed. And the second most common type of "abduction" is a child leaving with their preferred parent without going through court to determine custudy. Only an extreme minority of abduction cases are non-consensual.
Well unless they have everything open sourced. Wouldn't trust them at all.
Also we don't lack trustable privacy VPNs like Windscribe, Proton and Mullvad
Even if everything is open source, you can't trust them. All of those above VPN companies, even if they are honest about not keeping logs, can still get you deanonymized by exported NetFlow records at their upstreams. There are companies like Team Cymru who sell to governments the ability to deanonymize VPNs using such technology.
Not to mention, there is nothing that stops a VPN company from investigating and deanonymizing connections manually and in real time without using logs. After all, refusal to keep logs only prevents retroactive deanonymization. ProtonVPN, for example, is known to have deanonymized abusive connections in this way without having saved or read a single log file.
https://security.stackexchange.com/a/175186/106285
Well, these are probably the most you can get from a VPN service. And they have somewhat proven themselves in court. Otherwise just use TOR.
Not sure about Windscribe or Mullvad, but I would steer clear from ProtonVPN.
Why?
Because they have cooperated with law enforcement to deanonymize their VPN users (I can't find the resources for that, sorry) and have shown various other actions that are contrary to privacy and anonymity such as:
Meanwhile, Mullvad has partnered with Tor Project to assist in research, browser development, and funding and, to the best of my knowledge, have never attempted to deanonymize their own users. As for Windscribe, I don't have the slightest idea.
I actually always recommend mullvad for paid vpn and proton for free vpn when people are not the profile for TOR, so i can't agree more.
I usually say that VPNs are good for mild, casual anonymity (keeping the MPAA from pestering your ISP) and protecting your traffic when you're on an open, unsecured hotspot, but I try to emphasize that their anonymity is quite weak.
yeah. totally agree. We are betrayed at hardware level now ..
Lovely domain but no, just no.
And remember kids, the next time that somebody tells you, "The government wouldn't do that," oh yes they would.
~ Wendigooner or something
.gov - is USA domain zone for goverment? Freedom and .gov is incompatible at all
I can also recommend IVPN, servers are faster than on Mullvad and i’m not aware about them doing such things either.
For Windscribe, I believe few years back it was not recommended, also they offer (or did offer) free plans. There is nice saying that you pay either way, with money or with your data…
Doge is full of ddos kids, ofc its gonna be a vpn, what else would they do lol. Same as always.
If you could trust a government to not be worried about whatever you say, then you wouldn't even have any reason to use a VPN (or TOR). So why would a government make one unless they couldn't be trusted?
Freedom.gov is made for the average, non-technical, citizens in Iran, Russia, Germany, and other countries that make it illegal to publish or access certain kinds of information on the Internet.
Stuff like offensive, bigoted, abusive, hateful content, as decreed by the EU bureaucrats in Brussels. Or the right to be forgotten stuff.
Yep, they are offering it because most users are now using their own VPN, and it is hard for them to monitor what you do. Don't be stupid to bite it.
I highly doubt anyone who already has a VPN would ever consider switching to this.
The funny thing about it though is it'll likely be the easiest proxy/VPN for these governments to block lol.
Except that the boys in the EU will be peeing in their pants afraid of angering President Trump if they try to block it.
I was more so talking about countries like Russia, Iran, China, since they actively turn off internet in regions of the countries or censor the public internet and DNS servers. These countries would easily block a US government VPN project.
Do European countries even block VPNs? I've never heard of Germany, France, UK, Finland, etc blocking VPN providers like PIA, Mullvad, etc.
They're gearing up to do it.
do they got a loicense to do that?
Oi mate, you got a loicense to make that loicense joke?
Fun fact: the US already funds plenty of projects with this goal and DOGE tried to defund them (although after some lawsuits, they were forced to pay up).
https://www.opentech.fund/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69765042/open-technology-fund-v-lake/