Stay Paranoid with Paranoid Linux

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Hi BC, and seasonal greetings.

I think that we still have the issue of "being different"........... like your ISP can monitor what you are doing, so you stand out from the herd?

Particularly in a repressive regime

Merry Christmas, Nihil (is that still politically correct to say?)

I think in many parts of the world, having one's own internet connection is still a bit of a luxury. I know internet cafes are popular and widespread in China, for instance. And also regulated and monitored. But it's probably no problem to walk into some of them, reboot a computer with a live CD or flip open a small laptop and swap network cables, and go. And then you got the lead time from when someone at the ISP or in law enforcement parses a log , and when "the man" shows up at the door. Law enforcement all over the world has problems keeping up with the volume of users and data they have to sift. I was struck by a stat I saw several years ago that 40% of some porn sites' traffic came from Arab countries, which are of course very repressive in that respect.

If you really want anonymity on the internet, and it is certain possible as demonstrated by the incredible volume of unsolved crime going on, the key is OPN's (other people's networks). If I wanted to do something funky on the internet, I'd simply pull out one of several rings of keys I've got, and go to town. Or barring that, do some wardriving and find a nice comfy parking spot to do the deed, whatever it may be. Just as computer security begins on the physical side, so does anonymity. IMHO.