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Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: ukgimp on August 15, 2017, 05:37:05 PM

Title: US Justice Department Wants To Know Identities Of 1.3 Million Anti-Trump Web Use
Post by: ukgimp on August 15, 2017, 05:37:05 PM
http://www.iflscience.com/technology/justice-department-know-identities-million-antitrump-web-users/
Title: Re: US Justice Department Wants To Know Identities Of 1.3 Million Anti-Trump Web Use
Post by: ergophobe on August 15, 2017, 06:12:36 PM
This is a "holy sh##!" moment.

https://www.dreamhost.com/blog/we-fight-for-the-users/

Despite the horrid revelations regarding surveillance under Bush and Obama, I honestly did not think that even under Trump we would so quickly enter a world where Americans involved in dissenting, yet by all appearances legal, activities would have to consider using anonymizing proxies when surfing the web in order to avoid being caught in massive government dragnets.
Title: Re: US Justice Department Wants To Know Identities Of 1.3 Million Anti-Trump Web Use
Post by: littleman on August 15, 2017, 06:26:07 PM
I have so much to say on all this, but its the wrong venue.
Title: Re: US Justice Department Wants To Know Identities Of 1.3 Million Anti-Trump Web Use
Post by: rcjordan on August 15, 2017, 06:31:58 PM
>wrong venue

You could say that about anywhere within reach of the USDOJ right now.
Title: Re: US Justice Department Wants To Know Identities Of 1.3 Million Anti-Trump Web Use
Post by: littleman on August 15, 2017, 06:46:02 PM
I'm trying to avoid someone lighting a match during a gas leak.

If you all feel like you could handle the politics, let it rip.
Title: Re: US Justice Department Wants To Know Identities Of 1.3 Million Anti-Trump Web Use
Post by: ergophobe on August 15, 2017, 07:09:54 PM
Quote from: littleman on August 15, 2017, 06:46:02 PM
I'm trying to avoid someone lighting a match during a gas leak.

If you all feel like you could handle the politics, let it rip.

Could go bad. But I have to say that one of the things I really like about The Core is that it's a place where reasonable people have reasonable opinions that disagree with my (hopefully) reasonable opinions without ever getting into name calling.
Title: Re: US Justice Department Wants To Know Identities Of 1.3 Million Anti-Trump Web Use
Post by: Brad on August 15, 2017, 09:20:01 PM
Not a sure cure but wouldn't a VPN help with this sort of thing?
Title: Re: US Justice Department Wants To Know Identities Of 1.3 Million Anti-Trump Web Use
Post by: Travoli on August 15, 2017, 11:17:11 PM
http://th3core.com/talk/hardware-technology/vpn-shopping/