11-01-2016, 03:23 PM
(10-30-2016, 04:54 PM)barq- Wrote: One thought about VPNs is that if I were the NSA, I'd want to tap all that traffic exiting the VPN server (at which point it is no longer protected by the VPN tunnel.
I'm not saying you shouldn't use VPN, and it hides your use from your ISP (which might be especially useful if using P2P or streaming video that is geolocked). But the agencies must focus on looking at what comes out of VPN servers. Some VPN services will now bounce your data around between their servers, so you connect to one in country A, and they pass it over to their server in country B. Like a VPN within a VPN. But like TOR, that does slow things up.
I think VPNs are excellent security in public places. I wouldn't log into my bank account from free coffee shop wifi without using a VPN!
Hah, of course not, your bank wants your real IP address. When I was still using Windows frequently, I had Bitdefender Antivirus suite...it's actually pretty good, Romanians are some of the best IT people (the product comes from Romania). It would have a seperate browser that was just a sandboxed browser for anything banking related.
Even having Mozilla Thunderbird in my notification area, managing all my email accounts, can be a problem when switching VPN server here and there, microsoft and google mail accounts will say people do bad things when it's all false positives and it's very annoying. I've made the problem go away, another great option for safety from snooping is using Sandboxie in Windows and Firejail in Linux. I use it for Firefox and Thunderbird, although Firejail-Tools detects VLC, Audacious and a few other programs it says it can run in a Sandbox, completely disconnected from your system. If in Firefox, it will only download to a sandboxed version of your Downloads folder and it will not let you save anything anywhere else.
Sandboxed browser is great, I first got to get it to work with Sandboxie in Windows XP x64....man I miss that one, best Windows there was...7 ultimate is close but is obviously more of a memory hog. Sandboxing is a good idea for those who do not want to mess with vpn's etc.
Anyway, about the topic at hand, Charon, you can definitely do like the other website I mention, you can see it when looking at "Source" in Firefox, and you can PM me and I'll tell you what forum it is, so you can have an idea how to get IOPlist off webcrawler's tentacles.