Posts by JR555

British politicians sign off on surveillance law, now it's over to the Queen

Re: VPN

Yes it would.

Your connection gets encrypted all the way to the VPN providers server.

E.g. citizenvpn.com which is located outside EU/UK/USA so don't have to log anything (which they mention on their site). I use this and it is fast and always work. Basically you can't trust any VPN that is hq'ed inside the US or UK or EU. The US has f.ex secret courts (FEMA) that can secretly demand VPN providers to log information and ban them from disclosing that they are even doing it(!) Seriously. There was also a scandal some years ago with hma who are hq'ed in the UK and they turned over one of their users to the government, so much for the name then...

BBC shuts off iPlayer to UK VPNs, cutting access to overseas fans

Mine still works..

www.citizenvpn.com works!

Microsoft offers to PAY YOU to trade in your old computer for a Windows 10 device

Hmm. 4 black chicks, 1 white guy and 1 unknown, all a bit overweight. Now, I'm sure the famous multi-million M$ marketing-machine is not choosing these actors by mistake... so what signal are they sending here? Are they saying that mostly black people are stupid enough to buy into their $hit?

China 'upgrades' Great Firewall. Oh SNAP! There goes VPN access

CitizenVPN can connect with openvpn on port 53 to most countries so it appears as DNS traffic and gets around even blockages on port 80/443...

Watchdog slaps American Apparel's youthful naked arse

16? so what?

Most girls have their sexual debut around 13-15.

In some countries age of consent is 14.

In England it is 16.

So if she appears to be 16 she is legit on the meat market...

If you are 50 and looking 'that way' at a 16 y.o. some might consider you a perv.

But what if you are 18? or 17? or 19?

If the ad is targeting youth anyway, then I see nothing wrong with using sexual references. In fact, it doesn't matter who they're targeting, she's over 16 (20 even!) and legit...

'Speargun' program is fantasy, says cable operator

Easy

The best time to tap such a cable is obviously as it is being laid and before it is taken into operation...

Other than that there have probably been several planned outages (for upgrades etc.) that could have been a great time to splice into it.

Finally, if no such planned outages are available they could simply cause some ddos attack that appears to be comming from f.ex Russia and while sysadmins are busy fighting that they will make their splice. Or they could use one of their backdoors into one of the (probably) Cisco routers in one end of the cable to brick the router, then while sysadmins are busy replacing it they splice into the cable...

Etc. etc.

I'm sure there are many more ways....

Afaik the US has a specially converted submarine they have been using since the 80's to tap into such cables... they used it extensively in the cold war.

When will Microsoft next run out of US IPv4 addresses for Azure?

Goes to show..

..that content-providers/websites should NEVER rely purely on IP address to tell them about location of a user or anything else (like if that user should be blocked etc.). Even more so since s single IP can have 100s of actual users behind it.

Euro cops on free Wi-Fi not-so-hotspots: For pity's sake, don't use them for email

Re: How insecure is HTTPS over a public Wi-Fi hot spot?

HTTPS is secure enough to guard against your average snoop, but not really if the snoops are the government.

However, you have to be carefull, because a lot of HTTPS pages have content embedded that is NOT secured with HTTPS. You can spot this by looking at the padlock in the address bar.

Also relying on HTTPS alone is dangerous because while surfing you might forget to check it and find yourself logged in someeher without https (and then it's too late).

So your best bet is to ALWAYS use a VPN (especially when on a wifi hotspot).

Panasonic: We'll save Earth by turning CO2 into booze

just plant some trees

If these machines are just as efficient as plants, then why not just plant some trees next to the factories instead?

Trees take care of themselves and require hardly any maintenance.

The machines store the co2 as ethanol.

Trees store the co2 as wood.

I'd rather have a pile of wood lying around than big storage tanks of flamable ethanol.

Also, trees are prettier, nicer and create oxygen as well.

France again threatens Google with link tax

Re: Hotlinking - not 'linking'

"no, Google is not hotlinking..."

You're splitting hairs. The point is that they take content from some site and display that content on their own site. The way they do it technically hardly matters.

"And seriously, pirated content?"

Yes seriously. It's beyond 'fair-use' because it's possible to browse google news without ever leaving it and get a meaningfull idea of what's going on in the world. They copy images, headline and exerpt. They server ads. They make money on others content.

It is only because google is so big that the news sites don't dare go against them because then google will just de-index them from their search engine. It's basically blackmail.

"find such an uninformed comment as yours on a tech site like ElReg,"

Do you write this epitaph to every comment you make? If everybody had the same opinion as yourself there would hardly be a discussion, now would there? Oh I forgot, your entire comment is just a typical hive-mind mentality. I bet you carry the latest iPhone as well.

HideMyAss defends role in LulzSec hack arrest

Not all in EU are bad..

You can still use CitizenVPN.com a Danish service that delivers the service out of The Bahamas and therefore do not have to comply with the EU logging. Even if they got subpoenaed by a Bahamas court there wouldn't be any logs to deliver...

But you're otherwise right. Be careful when using a EU or American VPN provider and read the TOS. Generally if a specific VPN provider in the EU don't write on their site if they log, then they do log. All American VPN services are not to be trusted.