Censorship | VPNs and Privacy | Find Someone by IP Address

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• Indeed. Using VPN and privacy apps to protect your info on net, as we do with blinds on windows, is good.
  But if you break laws and become a person of interest, then you can't hide from NSA. If it wants to find you, it can. No one is going to hide you at all.
  Snowden's leaks have taught this as much.

• Thanks great video. I did have a little chuckle when you made a negative comment about ''overseas' VPN. You don't seem to be aware that over here in Europe Americn based services are viewed as much more vulnerable to state intervention, FBI, ICE etc than one's based in the EU..
  My majot security concern is that Microsoft and Google store passwords in my browser and I can't stop that. I don't mean the browser password manager. Even Brave stores passwords for Google and I cannot stop it doing so. So my PC get's stolen…
  Thanks for another great video.

• VPN is great for by passing local regional restrictions. For example using PayPal and Google services while in China.

• Don't save your passwords on your computer, and no one can access them from there. I know it's convenient to do that, but convenience has a price.

• Netscape Navigator

• Can Google, Facebook, or the NSA etc, identify you online by your hardware ID, with or without a VPN?

• Just host you own vpn server on your friends pc lol…

• You would also need to be a person of interest. The more people use a VPN the harder it is to find someone. It becomes like hiding in a crowd of 10,000. And the fact the NSA has a department dedicated to breaking VPN encryption shows they have issues with them. Plus they are pushing for a law to make VPN use in the USA illegal.

• Only lies needs the protection of censorship and laws. I do not talk about kiddie porn , but eg. WW2 and 911. Duckduckgo censors too. Yandex.com is better

• Why the hell do i get vegan commercials!!! Only total morons go totally vegan.

• I am confused. If everything is traceable. How do foreign entities get away with scams in the U.S.?

• Regarding tracking
  :How Feds brought Ddwn Russian Megacarder
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Chp12sEnWk

• I believe venzuelaanalysis.com is being blocked

• Article 13 and Article 11 approved by European Parliament

  What do you think about the new EU laws on Internet freedom?
  The European Parliament has voted in favour of Article 13 and Article 11 in the final vote on the controversial EU directive today. The vote passed with a majority of 348 votes to 274.
  Julia Reda, a highly outspoken opponent to the directive and German MEP for the Pirate Party said it was a "dark day for internet freedom".

• Amen Brother 🙂 Been relaying these facts for years, amazing how little ppl listen 😉 Great vid 🙂

• Hell they didn't even make an effort to find my car when it was stolen. Don't get your hopes up .

• You claim that Tor doesn't actually protect your privacy, but you don't go into why. I mean, it was created (if what I'm told is true) by the US government as a way for their employees to communicate and navigate the internet securely and privately from anywhere in the world, so you'd assume it was pretty damn secure. The only reason (again, so I'm told) they released it to the public is because it becomes more secure the more people are using it, in as much as, no-one can look at the traffic and go "Ah-ha! Tor packets. Must be a government employee." The only reasons I can think of NOT to use it are because it's so darned slow and because every damn "normal" (i.e. not .onion) website you visit thinks you're a robot and plagues you with CAPTCHAs all the time. [edit: removed bit about VPNs because you covered it already :-)]

• back in the day ..i had duel 56k modem set up "2 phone lines" and my buddy's dad took away his ISP … so i used my 2nd modem to beige him to the internet or "early VPN" because my isp was long-distance and my house was not to play games on udp "diablo 1 , counter strike 1.3 myth" and some game like star craft would let us play 2v2 games off 1 56k connection ….. i can see that working today to cover up your activities …. i was doing it before everyone as a 10 – year old on mac OS-7 & win98 …

• Have you made a VPN from scratch?
  P.S Congratulations on almost 10K subs

• Hey Chris one thing… reply if you want to hear it, I have a good joke about GNU/Linux.

• It's funny that I got a VPN ad to watch this video. 😉

• 7:00 ~ I started to study computers & IT at a tertiary level, as an adult student, in 1995. We learned to program 386s in assembler, using the DOS Debug, and stepping through the code… A fellow student asked about computer security, and just how secret and secure computers are, and how secure they can be. The answer we got, from a 50 something year old lecturer was interesting, and nearly a quarter of a century later, what he said is still right.
  "A computer is a bit like a house or a business, a building or a premises. If you bring home a dirty pictures magazine and only open it it your bedroom, and you don't upset anyone, then you're probably safe enough that way. But if you have a million dollars on your coffee table, or let's say a hundred million, then you start to think about security.
  You can buy new locks for your windows, you can buy two more barrel locks for your front door, and what was a house a passing prowler / burglar may have got into before, becomes much harder to get into. You can make the business of casual burglary much more difficult. But if you start building a 20 ft high cyclone wire fence, with guard towers at the 4 corners, you're telling the world that you're up to something in there…
  If your government thinks you are abducting children, or making bombs to blow up christians, they will get a warrant and then break into your house. The harder it is to get in, the more careful they will be to do it, and search the wreckage, because obviously they were right – nobody who is innocent & has nothing to hide, has a front door made of 3 inch thick high carbon armoured steel….
  The only way to make a computer completely secure, is never go near it. Anything you search online, can be spotted and traced back to you. Anything you say online, can be found or recovered and traced back to you. Almost anything you enter into a keyboard and manipulate with a computer, can be extracted and presented later to a court. If you are accused of something serious, (say abduction and r@pe + murder of children) then there are no boundaries they won't cross & no resources they won't use.
  But, if you're not a serial murderer, and you simply live in the house…. Make sure you have one normal front door lock, and that it is fairly new & in fully working condition. Make sure the basic tools of home security are there and work, and then pay attention to the way you use them. Don't open the front door wide and leave it that way, so the whole street can see the illegal casino or bar in your front room. Don't do things that draw attention to you and mark you as interesting. And if you have anything you feel nervous or guilty about, don't ever talk about it online, or research it, or take pictures of it with a digital camera… If you're doing anything you'd rather not tell your mother, your local priest, or the sergeant of Police, then don't ever mention it or research it or do anything related to it online.
  The way to make a computer secure, is to never once say or do anything near it, that you don't want the world to know. And don't behave like a criminal, because that in itself, makes you a person of interest….
  If I was a senior cop, in charge of child safety, then I'd be watching who downloads TOR, and who downloads Tails…. Perhaps Kali. Then I'd be seeing if any of those names appear on the sex-offenders list….
  Your normal house is fairly secure, as long as you remember to lock the doors, but it won't stop a SWAT team with a door-ram. The trick is to not rely on your front door to save you from a SWAT team. The trick is to make sure a SWAT team never finds out where you live, or has a reason to pay you a visit….
  The definition of a "secret" is a piece of information that has never been anywhere near a computer.

• While many VPN services do log data, Private Internet Access was not able to give the FBI any useful data when they were subpoenaed because of a court case. That would give me a little more confidence in them vs. another company when it comes to privacy – https://torrentfreak.com/vpn-providers-no-logging-claims-tested-in-fbi-case-160312/

• Agreed. Only way the stay 100% secure is to never using a computer/smartphone and getting rid of any ability to log on to the internet. Obviously not really practical in this day and age, but it's the truth. Like you say VPNs help, but all it really means is that someone just has to put in a little more effort tracking you. Good video. I think it's good letting people know that just because they might use a VPN, that they shouldn't get complacent. Thanks man:)

• Great video Chris!! Yes if your stupid enough to think that you can hack one of the NSA's servers (or any important companies server for that matter) and you won't be caught because your going through your VPN then your an idiot. This happened recently to "Vincent Geritz" when the Department of homeland security requested info from IPVanish about an ip they caught downloading child pornography. IPVanish was a "No Log" VPN. Even though it took two requests and the first response was (we don't keep logs) they caved on the 2nd response & gave him up. Granted i'm not sad because he should have been caught. Of course IPVanish has been acquired by a "new" company which promises they no longer store logs :). But as you stated VPNs do have their uses. For example i just use it so my ISP & cell carrier don't sell my info which they are allowed to do. Verizon/Comcast :(. I do use Nord & love their services but they do give you a false sense of security with some of their feature (we'll not only send your traffic through one of our nodes but two of them so its really anonymized or well send i though tor).

• As @Walter Bishop said tor is less evil as you said. Actually I think you should use tor and in fact everybody should do to keep those people covered who need to use it because their lives are in danger for example. Also, the dark net is said to be about 50% legal. I am not a lawyer, but as I understood, you should even be allowed to access the illegal sites, as long as you are not doing something illegal. Case in point: Silkroad. Combining that with the fact that you usually know what kind of site you are about to see, you are mostly safe, even if you are spied on during your surf. However, keep away from the sites which are loading something illegal onto your PC just by visiting.

• Another point about tracking people, if one buys something (goods or service) on a site money is exchanged and if goods are shipped a delivery address must be provided. Once a physical shipment is made there are many organizations who will be handling it who are either the government (postal service) or a delivery company (UPS/FedEX). If the delivery company gets suspicious of the package they will report it to the local authorities and possibly higher up the police food chain. If money is exchanged (bitcoin or otherwise) there are financial records made debiting and crediting accounts kept. So there are more points where information can leak. Now if one is buying a desk lamp on Amazon, the authorities are not going to care about the shipment or the associated financial transaction.

  An often overlooked point is many crimes are discovered by third parties who just doing their jobs and any transaction is going to involve third parties.

• Nobody can not break into my OS (Linux)…. well, Linux is more secure than Windows.
  I do use a Static IP Address on my Linux Laptop though and I also use Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 on all my WiFi connections. OH, And I use a custom HOSTS File to block Session Replay and Malware and Rogue Advertisements.
   
  I recommend StartPage.com, its Google without the tracking.

• Yeah! VPNs are the most misunderstood technology. A VPN is nothing more than a secure connection from one network to another. People seem to think its an encrypted tunnel EVERYWHERE.

  With a VPN:
  User = [Encrypted tunnel] = VPN = (unencrypted connection) = website.

  Without a VPN:
  User = (unencrypted connection) = website

  My problem with VPNs is that you're using connecting to a server, made and managed by someone else, to connect to a server used by someone else. The only difference, in laymen terms, between using/not using a VPN is you end up paying more for the same. Obviously, using a VPN CAN help. The ideal purpose for a VPN is to access files, services located ON said VPN; this way ALL your traffic is encrypted.

  Ideal purpose for VPN:
  User = [Encrypted tunnel] = VPN

• you should use just a vpn, you must use a chain of vpns so is much more difficult to track you back

• Extensions I like, from easy to laborious to use:
  ublock origin (disable for creators you want to support) + https everywhere (denying http requests enabled) + privacy badger + noScript + uMatrix (replaces privacy badger)
  WPA3 will be amazing for public Wi-Fi.
  Most YouTubers that are sponsored by VPNs are lying about what a VPN actually does, it annoys me.

• so how are you're standing on Snowden then? since you said everyone slips up I don't think he has yet he might but do.

• Really glad you’re addressing these issues! Thanks!

• Your opinion on VPNs is correct for the most part. Although you got a wrong idea about the 'darknet'. The Guardian, the Washington Post and many other media outlets rely on TOR to get information out of firwalled countries. Also the 'darknet' makes up less than 10% traffic of the TOR net. Maybe I'm able to find the video at 35C3 from the CCC on TOR network traffic. It's not as evil as you make it out to be.

• Nice sunday !!

• Are you planning releasing your videos on LBRY? There is a program that automatically sends your new youtube videos to LBRY. We don't like Google!

• I use duck duck go in brave on my android

• You prefer Brave over Firefox which makes me wonder if it is so much better.

  My guess is, a VPN alone won't do much but mixing it with Tor, a VM and other things can help.

• Thanks Chris. I verified my DNS is going through PIA. Also, thanks for all of the videos on switching to Linux. The only computers I'll have with Windows on them will be the one I use for school by the end of the weekend. I spend so much time on school and coffee shop WiFi the extra protection of VPN will hopefully make someone look elsewhere. Kind of like having a firewall and AV.

• That’s for the info. I’ll definitely look into managing the DNS. I just started using NordVPN, besides that one issue that you had listed, would you still suggest this provider compared to others

• I like Startpage for my default search engine.

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