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UK's new internet laws, are we going to lose our anonymity, and become as heavily censored and monitored as China, North Korea, Russia etc?

FWIW, Apple have already updated their OS to block any and all sites designated “adult”. Even using a VPN doesn’t get around it cos the block is at the OS level.

This, sadly, is only going to be the beginning of the shift to full-on surveillance imo :|
 
I can now see exactly how AI is going to be used in all of this surveillance.

Previously there would not have been enough man hours in the world for the state to monitor every single citizen.

Now that won't be an issue.

I guess AI detects any 'suspicious breaches', collects all of them, and maybe lists them for follow up by a human. Or in even more dystopian scenarios, AI will also be the prosecution, judge, jury and executioner.

And will be too blinkered and rigid to listen to appeals and reason etc.

I really did not see this coming tbh, especially the way that everything is happening incredibly quickly.
 
Bleaney said:
I heard that Windscribe was raided recently, in an operation to seize their servers, on account of a legal investigation into the activities of a certain individual. However, the moment the servers were seized, and disconnected from the power, all memory was instantly wiped.

This is because Windscribe operates entirely through RAM memory, which will be completely wiped the instant the power is disconnected.

I'm not sure if logs are getting written to RAM, as I believe the company has a total no logs policy.
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this is why it's key to use a VPN that handles logging correctly, and also why picking the location of the servers is important, Mullvad is a Swedish company and SWE has a much tougher privacy environment.

There shouldn't be any logging done at all even in RAM, except for higher level aggregate tracking to ensure service stability.

Seizing servers for LE is standard practice and requires a court order which the lack of logging should therefore protect.

however.....that isn't going to stop the 3LAs, they will just send someone to compromise the systems, they operate outside the law and do what the fuck they like.

Shambles said:
FWIW, Apple have already updated their OS to block any and all sites designated “adult”. Even using a VPN doesn’t get around it cos the block is at the OS level.

This, sadly, is only going to be the beginning of the shift to full-on surveillance imo :|
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hmm, just had a quick read about this and it's embedded in the apple networking stack and is effectively a URL white/black list.

part of the apple ecosystem is that it forces all apps to use the apple "webkit" where this is implemented, so it effects all browsers and HTTPS - bit naughty if you ask me but on brand for a closed ecosystem platform.

I don't know anything about appleOS, but in principle this should be easily by passable, though it might need the device to be rooted, then just use VPN with encrypted DNS via VPN.

it's also optional via "OS Content Filter", though given the tech exists it's another easy win for LE to use it!

Bleaney said:
I guess AI detects any 'suspicious breaches', collects all of them, and maybe lists them for follow up by a human. Or in even more dystopian scenarios, AI will also be the prosecution, judge, jury and executioner.
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Automatic AI generated punishment, welcome to China
 
Shambles said:
FWIW, Apple have already updated their OS to block any and all sites designated “adult”. Even using a VPN doesn’t get around it cos the block is at the OS level.

This, sadly, is only going to be the beginning of the shift to full-on surveillance imo :|
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Latest iPhone, latest update. VPN on.



 
great!

EDIT: oh, seems they're not the same thing

"Sensitive Content Warning is an on-device safety feature for adults to blur unwanted explicit images. Content Filtering (found in Screen Time) consists of parental controls that block access to entire websites, explicit apps, and mature media."

though sensitive content warning appears to be working very well for you :ROFLMAO::LOL:
 
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Although I've not set my VPN to Iran, that is where the internet currently seems to believe I'm located, whenever I have it switched on.

"Ironic" isn't a strong enough word to use, to express the ridiculous and worrying reality that I have much more freedom on the internet, whilst it 'thinks' I'm in Iran, as opposed to being in the UK. :cry:

Outside of a few privacy / free speech focused channels on YouTube, the British public at large doesn't even seem to give a fuck, with most of them apparently swallowing the reasons that everything is being done for the protection of the children.

And there's no protests being reported about any of this, it's quite unbelievable.

Meanwhile, the banning of VPNs has been ruled out, so at least for now, the concern is theoretical.

Although my VPN subscription renewal time may be telling, I can't remember the way it was done. I think it may just have been a bank transfer, but even if my account could be traced in such a way, apparently it has been established that my provider genuinely does not keep any logs.

Again, most of my privacy concerns are about things I post openly on places like this. But it is my own free choice to do that. And I'm sure if the internet surveillance branch wanted to find out who I am, they could do so easily enough.

If they haven't done so already, but I doubt if I'm going to be of much interest to them though really, as the 'naughtiest' things I do are pretty much limited to buying my benzos online.

I would hope that the internet surveillance police have better or more important and interesting things to focus on.

But using the VPN doesn't make things as simple for the 'authorities' as simply reading the logs of my internet activities that my ISP could otherwise send on, if requested to do so. I would imagine that all of the initial monitoring is automated and done by AI, and only gets picked up by actual human agents, if the things being reported are serious or interesting enough.....

Who knows though, with the way things are going, and the speed at which they are going, I can easily imagine a dystopian future, not too far away, where AI gathers any evidence of any 'wrong doing', and also performs the role of judge, jury, and executioner. All without any humans in authority ever being involved.
 
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