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Old 09-26-2015, 05:52 AM  
rowan
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Originally Posted by shiraz9944 View Post
Or how about this, just use a VPN all day every day? the speed is the same and you are protected. It takes the NSA 2-3 days to brute force a 10 digit password, make it at least 20 characters and change it every so often, store your cloud data at tresorit, msg with wickr or textsecure and use redphone or rokacom. This isn't rocket science guys. There is no magical mystical all knowing NSA/FBI that knows everything you are doing LOL.
A VPN does not protect you from 'big data'. It may hide your IP, but if your connections go anywhere near (including transiting) the USA, UK etc there's still plenty that can be deduced from the captured data.

Example, logging into GFY, which is not encrypted, reveals your username and password. If either or both of those are unique, and you use them anywhere else, it's a cinch to tie them together.
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