Countermeasures against the UK Communications Data Bill
Frank | 16.11.2008 22:32 | Technology
Every email within, or coming into or out of the UK will be time stamped and logged (email content not included, at this stage), and websites will be tracked so that the ayone that the UK government believes could be interested in your private data will be granted access to it.
Countermeasures:
1) Never use your British ISP to send email, use webmail instead and make sure it is not a British webmail provider, use SSL in all your email communications, for extra security from eavesdroppers, illegal wihout a court order, but you never know what a government obssessed with controlling its citizens is capable of doing.
2) Change your computer MAC address every week, you can use a free utility called Technitium MAC Address Changer for this. It will make locating your computer more difficult, ISPs log your MAC address when you connect to them.
3) Only browse the internet through an pseudoanonymous VPN that will stop your ISP from logging any website you visit, like for example the paid for Steganos VPN that claims not to keep any logs, they dont have to because they are not an ISP, or use a proxy like tor safer than a VPN and free but very slow for downloading data.
4) Dont use your phone for making calls, use your favourite voice over IP utility with Zphone instead, VoIP will not record your calls like phone companies have to do, and Zphone is a free an open source utility that will encrypt the content of your calls to stop Jacqui Smith from watching and listening your private calls.
5) Wear a cap when you walk through the British streets, if you believe Jacqui Smith is after you, you need to know that some British CCTV have automatic facial face recognision installed, (at the moment mainly at airports), you probably dont want them to see you going into that SexShop a cap will make it difficult for CCTV located above you to recognise your face due to the shadow.
http://www.privacylover.com/other-personal-privacy/countermeasures-against-the-uk-communications-data-bill/
1) Never use your British ISP to send email, use webmail instead and make sure it is not a British webmail provider, use SSL in all your email communications, for extra security from eavesdroppers, illegal wihout a court order, but you never know what a government obssessed with controlling its citizens is capable of doing.
2) Change your computer MAC address every week, you can use a free utility called Technitium MAC Address Changer for this. It will make locating your computer more difficult, ISPs log your MAC address when you connect to them.
3) Only browse the internet through an pseudoanonymous VPN that will stop your ISP from logging any website you visit, like for example the paid for Steganos VPN that claims not to keep any logs, they dont have to because they are not an ISP, or use a proxy like tor safer than a VPN and free but very slow for downloading data.
4) Dont use your phone for making calls, use your favourite voice over IP utility with Zphone instead, VoIP will not record your calls like phone companies have to do, and Zphone is a free an open source utility that will encrypt the content of your calls to stop Jacqui Smith from watching and listening your private calls.
5) Wear a cap when you walk through the British streets, if you believe Jacqui Smith is after you, you need to know that some British CCTV have automatic facial face recognision installed, (at the moment mainly at airports), you probably dont want them to see you going into that SexShop a cap will make it difficult for CCTV located above you to recognise your face due to the shadow.
http://www.privacylover.com/other-personal-privacy/countermeasures-against-the-uk-communications-data-bill/
Frank
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Different take
17.11.2008 20:01
The biggest hinderance to this intrusive legislation would be for everyone to start encrypting even trivial emails. Trouble is few people know how to and few of them bother to. Many of us have slightly encrypted email accounts for talking to other people with similar, but that just makes us less likely to encourage full and universal encryption. Those of you who can encrypt should do so, and should keep teaching others to until a critical mass is reached.
Here is a recent introduction for Windows users :
Next best thing you can do is to strongly encrypt all your drives, and save your sensitive stuff in differently encrypted 'free space'. Better security is to image your system partition and restore it every time it restarts while saving your data to a DVD. You can snap a DVD faster than you can overwite any partition - and when the police do come every second counts.
NightOwl