[–] aileron_ron 2 points 1 point 3 points (+3|-2) ago
And yet the CIA and NAS said they never spy on Americans. Oh and did not spy on Trupm.
[–] WakkoWarner 1 point 10 points 11 points (+11|-1) ago
It is really amazing how many stupids are in position to take very dangerous decisions like this one. Who is the stupid judge/court members that agreed with this? Did he go to a special school for handicapped persons? Who is responsible to have given him/her such power? Weren't there checks in place to avoid a stupid like this one to get so much power?
[–] 8Hz_WAN_IP 0 points 9 points 9 points (+9|-0) ago (edited ago)
I believe this is the retard in question
[–] greenfascist ago
I think the short term solution until there is a distributed internet rather than a point to point is things like piratebox.cc loaded up with information that improves people.
for instance I am loading one up to hide in public that contains 20 gigs of khan academy.
[–] greenfascist ago
right now your computer has an ip address and it accesses another computer that has an ip address. there is a record of this contact when you make it. your internet service provider knows, and so does the server on the far side. Even if you are using encryption.
so when you connect to voat, your ISP and voat know bare minumum.
I raw dog it (dont hide my ip using a VPN) on voat and the chans from time to time. hence I am probably on a list because the government definitely knows which websites I have been to.
piratebox.cc is a way to configure a computer offline to act like a wifi access point. instead of connecting to the internet, the server hosts local content. many users can connect to the access point (just like your router at home connects to a lot of devices). these local users can interact and share messages and files.
I am going to preload one of these things and hide it in a public place. Preferably somewhere where poor people who dont want to max out their data plans on their phone are likely to frequent.
then i will label the access point name as "free connection" or something.
when they connect it force guides them to the page to share messages and files, but does not connect them to the internet.
This way, if I host material on the box (or users upload material) it can be shared without the government, google, the police, or anyone knowing about it.
the server keeps no logs and no usernames are used it's all anonymous.
I could see how people might upload subversive stuff on it. I don't care.
I am going to preload it with content that will help people and isn't (((Hollywood))) celebrity gossip. or (((porn))).
[–] djsumdog 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
This was posted in Hackernews a week ago. So the title is very misleading. The police are not asking for all the results of every search from the city. They're asking for all the searches for a specific person, from IP addresses geographically located in and around the city, along with tons of insane information Google probably doesn't have. They're requesting it to help solve an identity theft case that cost a man thousands of dollars.
Just from the description there, it sounds no different to "this credit card has been compromised, where else was it used?"
If the guy lives in city A and they're asking about searches from his logged-in accounts originating from IPs in city B, then that sounds like a good way to narrow down where the culprit might be. There's a fair chance it's happening with the consent of the guy whose data's being requested, too, which changes the situation considerably.
[–] VillaLopez 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
All this is telling me is that a smart person would use a public internet access point and not do this from home.
[–] greyhunter4 ago
Anyone remember when aol searches got leaked and there was a woman searching for hitmen and ways to kill her husband? As much of a privacy invasion it is a lot of bad shit could be found if it was open to everyone. Need autist investigators, not big gov. I bet it would do wonders for pizzagate.
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[–] purgatory 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Unplug, burn, never return.
[–] go1dfish 0 points 17 points 17 points (+17|-0) ago
Good crypto doesn't care about their laws.
It's their guns you have to worry about. The violence of the state is what keeps us insecure.
[–] 8471127? 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago
I don't understand how Google had better search algorithms 15 years ago than DDG has now. I try switching every year or so, but goddamn their search just sucks. It shits the bed if you give it a query that requires even mild parsing and grouping of terms. God help you if you're looking for information that isn't common knowledge or is a deep query into an API, SDK, or aspect of an engineering discipline.
[–] purgatory 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
You're probably fucked with google on all of those fronts these days as well since, you know, they're a pathetic excuse compared to what and how they offered 15 years ago as well.
[–] raw 2 points 9 points 11 points (+11|-2) ago
There exists. It's called startpage.com It uses Google search but keeps you anonymous. You request data from startpage, they request the same data from Google and deliver via their server. With millions of search from different users, it's not possible to single out a particular user. It is even the default search engine in Tor browser.
[–] anonnynonny 0 points 8 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago
You're still required to give inherent trust to the proxy service. You have no guarantee that you aren't being logged. So you're actually doubling the amount of blind trust you have to hand out... first to the man in the middle startpage, then to google.
It's a workaround, not a solution.
[–] superesper ago (edited ago)
Half the reason Google is shit is that it filters your results. Goign to another site to get Google results is missing the point. Searx is a good private search.
[–] throughtheblack 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago (edited ago)
It may be worth looking into YaCy. It is a decentralized P2P open source search engine you run on your own computer. It doesn't store searches and they cannot be censored. I don't think it is anywhere near as fast and refined as google yet, but I think something like this may be the best option for replacing google in the future. There is no central server for the government to control.
[–] whatisbestinlife 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
this would be good in those local intranet wifi boxes they were planning on voat or a chan. sounds like we might have a patchy pirate mesh network in the near future