I thout this might be a good place to ask. Anyone know if experts can monitor you on the web even with VPN. jus asking.
I was thinking Private browsing DOES make a difference. When combined with a VPN and DoH or equivalent in a browser. Those cookies can be such a turd. But I won’t confuse you all. I am a pro more or less just wondering if any of you knew.
It would be terrible for us all to be monitored, but I am the most secure I believe.
Even though vpn servers are supposed to be secure, it wouldn’t surprise me if the Government is still monitoring their traffic.
@rogueone or someone else can you please remove the word turd. Thank you.
I suspect that all of your traffic being encrypted makes you stick out like a sore thumb. Also betting the govt has backdoor keys to most everything they need to. I know of a couple of email providers that had to shut down because they wouldn’t hand over decryption info.
Gov doesn’t have backdoor keys to encryption routines or it wouldn’t be encryption. The higher up orgs tapped the wire and might have an ssl exploit, use tor if you are paranoid, might get blocked on some sites using cloudflare. A vpn is ■■■■ you are basically dependent on one company not to keep logs of all your activity…
Why one should worry about being monitored unless you’re a criminal? The government even monitors these criminals. I read how they busted a mafia boss using his phone, they had access to the microphone 24/7 and even maybe the camera. The police recorded him 24/7 and then waited for the perfect moment to arrest him after listening to his meetings with other mafia bosses. They busted a lot of the mafia and many mafia bosses.
They even recorded him abroad when he went to Canada, he lives in Italy.
This is a dangerous attitude, don’t come crying to me when all your rights have been taken.
Why is that lol? Do you really think that the police will harm you dude? They wont post nude pictures of you, its the police. You’re just paranoid.
This is a dangerous position to take for anyone who cares about democratic values, such as free expression, freedom of political affiliation and the right to privacy. Evidence shows that mass surveillance erodes intellectual freedom and damages the social fabric of affected societies; it also opens the door to flawed and illegal profiling of individuals. Mass surveillance has also been shown to not prevent terrorist attacks.
Evidence shows that even the possibility of being under surveillance changes the way people think and act, causing them to avoid writing or talking about sensitive or controversial subjects—discussions that are necessary for the functioning of a free society. Beyond this ‘self-censorship’, the mass monitoring of citizens’ communications and movements achieves only one thing: the development of mutual mistrust between the individual and the state.
The police wont monitor you anyway unless they are suspucious but if they want to, they can.
You don’t think they (the NSA) can afford computers powerful enough to bust keys? If they can’t bust the keys they’ll bust the person holding them:
In any case, I don’t do anything interesting enough on the Net to warrant encryption other than paying for things by credit card. I’d personally prefer to stay off their radar, thanks.
Don’t worry, the police isn’t monitoring you unless they are suspucious and you did a serious crime.
Once I was downloading a video game illegally and my internet company sent me a a warning email that I can be sued bcz I am doing something illegal.
We have to make a stand against surveilance because it is a threat to democracy. Look at China. They are a one party state and have the most surveillance on earth in their country inculding cameras almost everywhere. Anyone who talk against the goverment dissapears. The same in Russia which is a fake democracy, just like belarus. They pretend to be democratic, but it’s just a lie. All the elections are rigged. And the list of countries that have similar politic situations is large.
The goverment will use surveillance for what it’s worth to suit their needs. We have to be sceptic about it, because the same things could happen even in our own country, although it might seem like a impossibility to many.
They even knew what I was downloading and the name of the torrent.
That’s interesting to know. Well…that’s just the tip of the iceberg…I’m afraid the future holds a much larger scale of surveilance.
I am sure they monitor the Darkweb even if you use linux, I read that they sell weapons, drugs, prostitutes etc there.
I didn’t speak about broken keys, just backdoors (ie a fault in the encryption algo to break it, security researcher find this and report it), they can hack into the cert authority and steal the private keys though.
But that they break the encryption with a supercomputer is plain false for example the key to sz.com is an 128 bit AES (weak encryption). Check this:
Let’s assume we can test as many keys as the current hashrate of the bitcoin network. There special purpose hardware is used and it’s for SHA-256, this makes it not directly usable, but it should be close. That means we could test approximately 5⋅1018≈262.117
encryptions per second. Regarding the type of hardware: For some years now bitcoins are mined mostly with ASICs, which are faster and more efficient than all of those options you listed. That’s special purpose hardware, which can’t be programmed to do anything else - but it’s the best we can do for speed.
That means, for the full key we need ≈2128/262.117=265.883
seconds. This is approximately:
68⋅1018
seconds
18.9⋅1015
hours
2.158⋅1012
years. Written as integer: 2,158,000,000,000
Since that number is still slightly hard to grasp, this is the age of the universe: 13.799⋅109=13,799,000,000
So a rough estimation would be 156.4
times the age of the universe for testing all keys. You can divide that number by 2 to get the average time to find the correct key.
Metadata is a much bigger problem, you can triangulate who is who and what they posted etc.
They also sell stolen credit cards info, stolen paypal accounts, stolen email accounts, etc I saw a documentary on french TV.