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Have you changed any of your internet habits since this NSA thing?

  • 04-10-2013 02:46AM
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    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 13,444 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    I'm sure some helpful boardsie will inform us all that the CT thread is that way ----> but I think this is a better representation of the Irish population than there.

    So, I know a few people who have taped over their web cams when not using them and at last one person who has a computer exclusively for smut, ie. no logging into any sights or checking email, smut only.

    Any of you lot at anything like setting up Tor or whatever?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭lahalane


    Little to no bestiality pornography for me these days.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,892 ✭✭✭bizmark


    I stopped calculating all my fertilizer bomb ingredients and yeilds on google documents.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,260 ✭✭✭Elessar


    I've started using a logless VPN to access the net. Well it was a special in bargain alerts, but nonetheless I'm using it now. Don't like the idea of being spied on and additionally everything you do on the net is stored for a few years under EU legislation.

    We wouldn't accept that kind of behaviour in the real world, so why accept it on the net?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭ringadingding


    I always presumed it was being monitored, and to be honest I'm pretty shocked more people didn't.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭Sunglasses Ron


    Yes I have.

    For you see, I am an idiot. I had no idea that the USA had been monitoring worldwide internet and telephone traffic since at the very least the late 1990's. I don't watch the news, read current affairs books, or watch documentaries. I only found out 9/11 happened last year.

    God bless Edward Snowden for showing us all what a nefarious snoopy dog Obama is.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭Sunglasses Ron


    I always presumed it was being monitored, and to be honest I'm pretty shocked more people didn't.

    People are morons. Most of them think the whole thing is an Obama invented scheme. It ties in with the masses suddenly deciding he is no longer cool. Mainly because he looks a bit more physically drained and doesn't have as much va va voom as he had as a hip young thing back in 2008. The general public are a fickle and not particularly bright bunch. Nobody gave a ****e when he attacked Libya but Syria suddenly makes him a war monger. I honestly reckon it is because Irish Joe Public associates Gaddafi with the Lockerbie bombing, and the UK Joe Public associates him with Lockerbie AND IRA gun and Semtex supplying, so he was fairer game to attack than some Syrian who has never really bothered our part of the world.

    KONY 2012! OCCUPY WORLD CITIES FOR THE SAKE OF IT! **** THE NSA! FREE JULIAN ASSANGE! FREE BRADLEY MANNING AND LET'S CALL HIM A LADY BECAUSE HE WANTS TO BE CALLED ONE!

    I am trying to predict what the next flavour of the month cause will be.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,407 ✭✭✭lkionm


    A laptop purely for porn?

    He must be into some weird weird stuff


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    I hardly ever look at porn and only download the odd bit of music plus to be honest, I'm nowhere near conceited enough to actually believe that my surfing habits are subversive enough to stand out from millions of other people.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,485 ✭✭✭SweetCaliber


    iamstop wrote: »
    I'm sure some helpful boardsie will inform us all that the CT thread is that way ----> but I think this is a better representation of the Irish population than there.

    So, I know a few people who have taped over their web cams when not using them and at last one person who has a computer exclusively for smut, ie. no logging into any sights or checking email, smut only.

    Any of you lot at anything like setting up Tor or whatever?

    It's been going on for a while now, Got rid of my webcam ages ago and use a VPN for everything now.

    Better be safe than sorry! Not that I'm doing anything wrong, just don't like people looking over my shoulder tbh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    I built a custom tinfoil hat for my router.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,639 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    I don't know what you're on about to be honest.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,359 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Doubt they'll notice you unless you type in Airplane and Bombs.




    Ooops.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,610 ✭✭✭jaykay74


    I downloaded the whole internet locally so do all my browsing offline these days.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,086 ✭✭✭Peter B




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,878 ✭✭✭Hoop66


    I think you have to be either naive or uninformed not to realise that everything you do online has been being stored somewhere for a long, long time.

    So, you either get all secret squirrel about it and congratulate yourself on outwitting the man, or you realise that you just don't matter and cease to give a fúck.

    SEMTEX NUKES OBAMA ASSASSINATION you can have that for free.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,478 ✭✭✭wexie


    Nope, haven't changed a thing.

    The amounts of data gathered through internet monitoring are of such absolutely staggering proportions that it is absolutely, completely and utterly impossible to actively do anything with. As such you will never ever be the cause of any NSA scrutiny unless you've already somehow gotten the attention of any government agencies.

    I seriously doubt that the NSA would be interested in my browsing habits or my particular perversions. From what I've seen in the darker corners of the interweb I'm really not that unusual.

    And anybody who thinks that the NSA might have an interest in hacking their webcam is either more than slightly paranoid, or up to some seriously nefarious stuff. Trust me, it's most unlikely anybody in Washington has any interest in what you get up to with your laptop.**

    ** unless of course it's for the giant archive of amateur internet porn they keep in the secret vaults in Maryland, also known as the Clinton Presidential Library


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    I'm now looking at more illegal stuff than ever - just to spite them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    Haven't changed anything since I'm not doing anything illegal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    It's driven people soft and given conspiracy theorists ammo, that a G-man is in an office detailing their specific online habit for something incredibly sinister.

    I have people who won't even allow remote connection through something like Teamviewer in case the NSA "tap the line" or a woman who refuses to use any "big corporation" service like Gmail, Hotmail, Facebook, etc, in case the government from her home country are watching and use things against her.

    I'm done trying to talk sense and logic to these people.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭Sunglasses Ron


    wexie wrote: »
    Nope, haven't changed a thing.

    The amounts of data gathered through internet monitoring are of such absolutely staggering proportions that it is absolutely, completely and utterly impossible to actively do anything with. As such you will never ever be the cause of any NSA scrutiny unless you've already somehow gotten the attention of any government agencies.

    I can't recall the exact figure but there is a six figure amount of people working in Homeland Security, many of them in outsourced call centres, tasked with listening and reviewing god knows how many millions and billions of emails, Facebook pages, message board postings and so on.

    There are 7 billion people in the world. The combined figure for people who own devices for access to internet, mobiles, landlines, let's just call it four billion (I don't know if that is true, let's just say so for the sake)

    Over 12 years of heightened monitoring, I would reckon it is highly likely most of us have, at least once, had our FB looked at, had a call auto recorded because we used some innocuous term the voice recognition software red flagged, and so on. A few hundred thousand staff, let's just say 300,000, have responsibility for monitoring four billion people. That is just over 10,000 per staff member. In twelve years there is a good chance most of us have been "reviewed" a few times.

    But what do I care!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,070 ✭✭✭Birroc


    iamstop wrote: »
    I'm sure some helpful boardsie will inform us all that the CT thread is that way ----> but I think this is a better representation of the Irish population than there.

    So, I know a few people who have taped over their web cams when not using them and at last one person who has a computer exclusively for smut, ie. no logging into any sights or checking email, smut only.

    Any of you lot at anything like setting up Tor or whatever?

    NSA? CT? What are you on about?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,359 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    I can't recall the exact figure but there is a six figure amount of people working in Homeland Security, many of them in outsourced call centres, tasked with listening and reviewing god knows how many millions and billions of emails, Facebook pages, message board postings and so on.

    There are 7 billion people in the world. The combined figure for people who own devices for access to internet, mobiles, landlines, let's just call it four billion (I don't know if that is true, let's just say so for the sake)

    Over 12 years of heightened monitoring, I would reckon it is highly likely most of us have, at least once, had our FB looked at, had a call auto recorded because we used some innocuous term the voice recognition software red flagged, and so on. A few hundred thousand staff, let's just say 300,000, have responsibility for monitoring four billion people. That is just over 10,000 per staff member. In twelve years there is a good chance most of us have been "reviewed" a few times.


    But what do I care!

    What difference would it make if you were "reviewed"?or is it the principle you don't like?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    I've changed a few things:

    I'm using OTR to encrypt online chat. I've stopped using skype to send sensitive data (like passwords and the like). I encrypt email to some people (I wish this was easier). I've started using startpage.com for my googling. That's about it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,284 ✭✭✭StewartGriffin


    I write long sizzling love letters to the head of the CIA. No replies yet. Fingers crossed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    Khannie wrote: »
    I've changed a few things:

    I'm using OTR to encrypt online chat. I've stopped using skype to send sensitive data (like passwords and the like). I encrypt email to some people (I wish this was easier). I've started using startpage.com for my googling. That's about it.

    Oh yes, I've started using a tool called keepass to store my passwords. This is a flippin' epic tool. Everyone should use it. It auto-generates ridiculously complex passwords for sites for you then remembers them.

    There is an online version called lastpass, but I couldn't trust that they weren't leaking passwords, tbh.

    It took a little effort to switch over, but there's an android client and so on so it works on my phone too. Super piece of kit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,949 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    I write long sizzling love letters to the head of the CIA. No replies yet. Fingers crossed.

    Perhaps try putting some powdered sugar in the letter? I hear he has a sweet tooth.


  • Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I didn't care what people saw before and I don't really care now. Don't deal with any sensitive information, but if I did, I'd follow the right procedures.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,433 ✭✭✭wandatowell


    Infairness it would be so cool working for the NSA.




    They got all the best toys


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,634 ✭✭✭Aint Eazy Being Cheezy


    Nah. I've always been in the habit of looking for NSA on the internet.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    Infairness it would be so cool working for the NSA.




    They got all the best toys

    I'd say it would be cool and I bet they do. I also genuinely believe that they believe they're doing the right thing and I don't think I could fault them for it - "Not our citizens - spy like f*ck, sure why wouldn't ye?". I also bet they understand why I don't want them doing it. :D


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