Things are becoming bad in both our countries, with leaders and followers trying to isolate themselves in a world economy. Too bad Hillary Clinton sucked so much.
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President Trump Signs Repeal of U.S. Broadband Privacy Rules
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Hmm, which ISP will I choose? The one that's going to sell my data or the one that's going to sell my data...
Oh my yes, that's why I've renewed my passport and moved all my money abroad. Just playing the waiting game now.
I hate Trump too but come on. If the American people have the chance to impeach the idiot, they would have. They will. But sadly, it's not up to them. It's up to the Republicans themselves, the House and Senate.
The Americans had their chance though. To vote for Clinton. Most didn't (and I mean the ones who DIDN'T vote).
I wish I even had two to choose from. I just have one that drops my packets. I'd be happy if they delivered my packets, even if it meant selling my data. I'm not doing anything secret; I just want my packets delivered FFS. Maybe Comcast will finally have an incentive to load my search results!
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It's up to him to do something that warrants it. So far, he hasn't, and it doesn't look like he will, no matter how much the Democrats falsely accuse him of random stuff. He's going to just stay in office and probably eff up our country, and the Democrats are partially to blame for creating this situation.
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You don't seem to understand how the Internet works. You shouldn't comment on things you don't know about.
At the very least, you shouldn't get your news from right-wing sources. You should only get your news from left-wing sources, since right-wing media is designed to prey on the fears of the ignorant. That's because conservatives generally have a brain designed around fear, instead of rationality. Right-wing media sources know that, and so they constantly inject you with fear-driven paranoia. This is why you probably think Muslims are more dangerous than white gun owners. Or why you think government should spend more money to stop terrorism than cancer & heart disease, even though no one dies from terrorism, and 600,000 people die from cancer and heart disease each year.
Getting all your news from one kind of source is a terrible idea and turns people stupid. There's nothing wrong, to say the least, with getting both sides of a story. For example, I'm not a fan of Fox News, but they report facts that MSNBC actively ignores and present opinions that MSNBC actively silences, and vice versa.
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so you're hacking up a furball over Brietbart but no comment on the claim in the article? Hmmmmm
Bold: It will.
But, there are problems with VPN:
1. Most people don't even know what a VPN is.
2. Virtual Private Network, Virtual what most people will say!
3. Many people don't even know how to install software.
4. Setting up a VPN is possible without Software (on a Mac) but that's even more difficult.
5. When the VPN disconnects you are still connected to the internet, not secure anymore.
6. On a Mac you could use Little Snitch to disable all traffic if disconnected from VPN but that's even harder to setup.
7. Choosing a good VPN is also not that easy, some of them keep logs for instance.
If, and only if OS's make it much easier to connect to a VPN only then lots more people are going to use it, and people should be educated about security a lot more than what they know about it now.
Actually, I think it should be mandatory for the ISP's to use VPN, but that I think is a dream.
This article is confusing...so will they legalise selling your info or not?
Plus, this is not the issue, the issue is that the ISP should not be logging or monitoring your traffic. This is like saying AT&T is allowed to eavesdrop on your conversations or your security company is allowed to watch you around the house through the installed cameras.
Plus, this is not the issue, the issue is that the ISP should not be logging or monitoring your traffic. This is like saying AT&T is allowed to eavesdrop on your conversations or your security company is allowed to watch you around the house through the installed cameras.
All excellent points. My big issue is #7. I'm still not sure who to trust. I've been using PIA for a while, and they seem fairly decent. But, there's always a small part of my brain saying, "Can you trust the VPN?"
#4: Yep. OS X supports VPN out of the box, but all these VPN services for some reason make you install some stupid software instead of just giving you the L2TP credentials. Ticks me off. (BTW, not trying to do anything illegal, just wanted to have a virtual LAN for connecting computers across the Internet.)
#7: Why would anyone trust any VPN more than an ISP? It's a really flawed model; you just take your trust out of the ISP and put it all into the VPN! It's even worse because they have a user base purely of people who seem to have something to hide, vs an ISP that's serving tons of mostly innocent data that's hard to sift through real-time. Easy to see who has what incentives here. And, if anything, the VPN service can more easily get away with screwing you over somehow... or letting hackers screw you over, keeping in mind you're on a virtual LAN with them. Well, this goes back to #1.
Your best bet if you're doing anything illegal (but not illegal enough to draw too much attention) is probably an onion router like Tor.
P.S. Illegal doesn't always mean bad. It's illegal to speak your mind, depending on what you have to say, in some countries, including what seems to be most of Europe.
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This would be great, and I personally would opt for the cheaper one that sells my data. Only thing is it's much easier said than done.
*But we will sell anonymised data because that is not individual/personal.
Minnesota did already. And someone has collected over $100,000 to buy the web history of all politicians involved in this, in order to publish it.
Written permission if I remember correctly. I hope that would mean a written letter with a stamp on it.
When Trump does something outrageously bad, claiming that Obama did something almost as bad is NOT a good argument. Do you want a president that is not much worse than Obama?
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I can see how some people might find that. I have found reliability results depend entirely on content of the words, rather than the quantity.
AT&T might have to shave a little off the top by having the regs there, but the regs do a bigger service by protecting their underbelly from smaller, more noble competition. AT&T is barely manageable behemoth, a lot of weak points and the government has literally provided armed protection.
What I find really weird, isn't that people believe government regulation is benevolent (ok, I lied a little there), but can't believe how anyone would believe government regulation is even barely competent. Its not a broken concept, it's delusional.
'Progressives/hippies' and Exxon are both totally for maintaining strict gov regulatory authority, yet it's the former that dismisses the inherent cognitive dissonance. Explain? They not only have the barriers from regulation, protecting their huge markets, guaranteeing a massive, reliable stream of lobbying cash to control the political influence over the regulation. All this process does is drown out the political influence of the little businesses, but all the medium businesses too.
The Washington D.C. area is the richest in the country, yet there is no comparitively significant industry in the area. The canary in the coal mine has literally choked on regulated industry lobbying cash. But sure, bang up job... loving that Comcast! LOVING that AT&T! OMG... EXXON!
There were some really great original regulations in the original Constitution, and one glaring error. Instead of just fixing the error, we've broken those regulations, and now both sides argue over ad nauseam how to keep it broken. Almost everyone has forgotten who needs the regulation, and now reward the beast with non-stop progressive fool's gold and Trump steaks.
Work for Apple to do then. If they want to do this, I'd suggest setting up servers all around the USA, and letting all MacOS and iOS users automatically use VPN to connect to the nearest available server, if they don't want to compete with traditional VPN providers that have more features. And then extending it to other countries. Until VPN becomes illegal, as it is already in some countries.
There are two kinds of VPN providers: Those that keep logs, and those that lie.
No, Trump is a big ******, who only breaks down what previous administration have build. The only idea from him was the travel ban and that got shot down twice. Just waiting how long this joker is going to last in the White House. The USA is embarrassing itself with this guy as a president.
No, it allows companies to do whatever they want without consequences. The previous president inherited the Great Recession cause by the same greed based policies. The key is the super rich will not be affected because they have more than they or anyone in their family can ever spend.