>...it establishes a dangerous new norm, where surveillance of all citizens’ online activity is seen as the baseline for a peaceful society. Collect evidence first, the government is saying, and find the criminals later.
Sounds like something right out of 1984. Who is Oceania at war with again?
Never mind the fact that such surveillance has never stopped or even mitigated a terrorist attack. Nevertheless, this security theatre continues, at the expense of everyone's civil rights.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of people either think that this kind of legislation is fine - to catch terrorists/pedos, nothing to hide etc... or just don't know/care.
If that wasn't the case, then legislation like this wouldn't get passed - and people wouldn't vote for the kind of politicians who promise to pass it.
Statistically, ~0% of the population even knows what SSH is, let alone using SSH tunneling for everything. Thinking otherwise is, sadly, just a comforting fantasy.
I think the people who don't care about such draconian laws have very little knowledge of history, and even less ability to extrapolate from that knowledge.
The problem is not knowing what to hide. Will I be investigated for visiting stackexchange websites? Will I be deported for using google docs? Where is the blurry line which separates police state from common sense?
Meaning the mental state of all UK residents knowing that police is "sensing" all of their actions - physical or virtual (but not the actual URL/page, just the domain, yeah right).
I've been using a commercial VPN (more likely for the general population than SSH tunnels).
More and more sites and intermediaries are identifying this (via IP address and/or whatever else) and treating it differentially, in the past year. Not just Netflix, Amazon, et al., but also Cloudflare, archive.is, etc., etc.
As this increases, where do you buy your exit point, and how well does it work for you?
The Internet is less "flat" than ever. It's being parceled up, and user are being ever more boxed in -- tunneling notwithstanding.
P.S. I forgot to mention increasing payment tracking and control. What happens when Visa et al. stop processing payments from the UK for such services? Banks block and even report attempted payment transfers. Paypal "suspends" you for an "illegal" type of payment?
The increased monitoring we all face also enables more and more effective real-time control over what we do. Including tunneling.
Wow. Browsing history available to police without a warrant. Personally, I'm not in the UK, but the fact that this is happening in a democracy means I'm suddenly really serious about figuring out how to set up a VPN hosted in a country with privacy laws I can trust. Which, I'm sure, is probably no real country, but at least enough to make it hard for Big Brother to look over my shoulder.
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[ 0.28 ms ] story [ 36.5 ms ] threadSounds like something right out of 1984. Who is Oceania at war with again?
Crimestop comrade, crimestop!
Never mind the fact that such surveillance has never stopped or even mitigated a terrorist attack. Nevertheless, this security theatre continues, at the expense of everyone's civil rights.
It's sad and scary.
If that wasn't the case, then legislation like this wouldn't get passed - and people wouldn't vote for the kind of politicians who promise to pass it.
Statistically, ~0% of the population even knows what SSH is, let alone using SSH tunneling for everything. Thinking otherwise is, sadly, just a comforting fantasy.
If you have nothing to hide, what are you worried about?
Welcome to freedom! Papers please!
Meaning the mental state of all UK residents knowing that police is "sensing" all of their actions - physical or virtual (but not the actual URL/page, just the domain, yeah right).
More and more sites and intermediaries are identifying this (via IP address and/or whatever else) and treating it differentially, in the past year. Not just Netflix, Amazon, et al., but also Cloudflare, archive.is, etc., etc.
As this increases, where do you buy your exit point, and how well does it work for you?
The Internet is less "flat" than ever. It's being parceled up, and user are being ever more boxed in -- tunneling notwithstanding.
P.S. I forgot to mention increasing payment tracking and control. What happens when Visa et al. stop processing payments from the UK for such services? Banks block and even report attempted payment transfers. Paypal "suspends" you for an "illegal" type of payment?
The increased monitoring we all face also enables more and more effective real-time control over what we do. Including tunneling.