(Aug 15, 2018 10:33 PM)sirru5h Wrote:  Yes it is big time, even with a VPN according to released documents the NSA has effective attacks against VPN's.

https://theintercept.com/2018/08/15/nsa-vpn-hack-al-jazeera-sidtoday/
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/how-the-nsa-can-break-trillions-of-encrypted-web-and-vpn-connections/

Apparently the thought of "collect it all so we know it all" is alive and well

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2018/08/15/to-catch-a-robber-the-fbi-attempted-an-unprecendeted-grab-for-google-location-data/#3930d32b741d

Tell the average citizen "We need this law to prevent %insert threat here%" and they don't care. Then look at Tempora in the UK maybe EU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora

Here is Germany, which was the focus of https://hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=5858506 ( Forensics Workshop 2)

https://www.zdnet.com/article/german-police-hacking-hit-by-volley-of-complaints-can-state-trojan-law-survive/

I tend to take not just my privacy seriously but others privacy, by the average citizen just allowing whatever with no thoughts of how it can impact them in the future. Meanwhile actual threats understand the measures deployed and avoid detection. Like when the NCA post, it's basically public feel good stories, meanwhile what about the members of parliment who were hacked by a bruteforce attack? Meh that just too hard, and the admin was busy didn't see 100's of alerts.

(Aug 15, 2018 10:40 PM)Mr.Noodle Wrote:  this guy is right, no privacy. one time my webcam light turned on when i was wankin the weasel

(Oct 22, 2018 12:58 AM)xuzum Wrote:  Of course it's a myth. That's why I don't even bother with the bullshit people write nowadays about how websites are evil and selling all of your shit. It really doesn't matter what you do. You can use Tor behind 8 proxies all you want; it still won't make it a difference.