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Here's to the worst government in the world
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Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:51:55
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The UK government plans to store information about every telephone call, email, and internet visit made by anyone in the UK on a central database.



Details were disclosed by Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker earlier this month at a Commons committee to examine draft EU directives.



Not only that, their new plan....



Millions of Britons who use social networking websites such as Facebook could have details of everyone they correspond with monitored by the Government.



Under the proposals, the Home Office is considering making the sites keep data about their users' movements.



These details may then be saved on a "Big Brother" database.


The Home Office said the idea was to tackle criminals and terrorists who might use the websites to communicate.



He said the Government was considering acting on social networking sites because they were not covered by the latest proposals from Brussels.


"Social networking sites, such as MySpace or Bebo, are not covered by the directive," he said.


"That is one reason why the Government are looking at what we should do about the intercept modernisation programme because there are certain aspects of communications which are not covered by the directive."



ALL IN THE NAME OF SAVING US FROM TERRORISM



Like we haven't heard that shit before? Thanks very much. Oh wait, they are monitoring every internet visit, so they are probably reading this post right now. Great.



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Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:22:51
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I thought the US was trying something like that, but it just kind of disappeared.

To me, it looks like the UK will just continue going downhill until they step on the toes of everyone enough that they rebel. I don't know if it will take a violent revolution or what though. Not like you can do much without any knives or guns any more anyway though, is there Nyaa.

Hey, here's a thought to reduce terrorism... stop letting extremist muslims into your country, and make the ones who are already in SHUT UP OR GO HOME. They're easy enough to identify... they're the ones standing on the corner with signs that say "EUROPE IS THE CANCER, ISLAM IS THE ANSWER", "BEHEAD THOSE WHO INSULT ISLAM", and "KILL ALL JUICE". Guess what, muslims left their country for the UK because their homelands are backwards, batshit crazy, and in complete chaos. They left their country to come to a wealthy westernized country to live a peaceful convenient life. Well guess what, the problem isn't the country they are occupying.... the problem lies in the people themselves and their religion. Someone has to stand up and tell them (because it appears to government obviously won't, as now they are such a large proportion that their votes actually matter to politicians).... No, we won't enforce sharia law, no we won't ban alcohol, no we won't stone people to death for being raped. No, we won't give your stupid ideas and beliefs diplomatic immunity and allow it to become hate speech to call you out. STFU OR GTFO.
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Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:37:10
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Yeah its not like that here.

Tolerance for all and spying on everyone. Great.

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Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:18:43
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"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

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Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:04:58
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Have you ever seen a terrorist?

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Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:44:31
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I'm really starting to despise this labour government. They want to track 60 million people of every single phone call, email or website they visit, and monitor social networking sites?

What happened to civil liberties? We have no constitution here so this shit flies by easy as long as the turds in parliament agree.

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Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:16:31
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Move to Ireland!
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Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:08:30
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British National Party is looking pretty good.

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Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:35:08
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:shakes head:

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Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:51:54
So they want to log all your online traffic?

Might I suggest OpenDNS + Tor Anonymity Network + Privoxy

You draw a knife, I draw a gun...

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Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:49:59
You have to use them all for safety? Not just one?

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Sat, 28 Mar 2009 01:51:16
They have different purposes.  By default, you use your ISPs DNS servers.  By doing so, every DNS request (web address) passes through your ISPs servers which is who would have to be the one gathering info.  By using OpenDNS, you avoid this entirely.

Then there's deep packet inspection and monitoring of data across a stream.  Tor routes information through a serious of encrypted connections to prevent not just inspection, but pattern detection.

Privoxy filters data from your transaction to avoid things being traced back to you anyway.  The UK had an issue with ISPs using Phorm which is like a super-tracking cookie that is added to everything you do.  Privoxy can filter that kind of thing.

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Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:23:18
Sounds like Open DS is what I would use. It looks kinda tricky to implement though. If I do it and have problems later is there an easy way to go back to defaults?

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Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:01:09
The actual change on your system for OpenDNS is very simple, and should just be a single modification.

On your router, you should have the option of setting Static DNS addresses (your ISPs are dynamic).  Set those values and you're done; delete them to reset.

OpenDNS servers are,
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

Just setting to those will have the desired effect.  Everything else is a matter of your own settings and customization.

Following this works well.
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Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:38:29
Cool. Will try that. Hope I dont F*** it up.

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Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:32:15

"But if a guy can either walk into a restaurant and enjoy the food on offer, or dive into its dumpster and enjoy whatever he finds, I view that as worth noting (such a person is a guy I don't pay an attention to) but not really something to get upset about."

I'm saving this epic quote here for the Hobo Gourmet.


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