I just use way more machine than I need.
Disabling HT doesnāt completely protect against Meltdown or Spectre, but it would for some of the others like TLBleed and L1TF.
Still leaving it off for the additional power saving!
With that in mind - do you have a suggestion for an alternative VPN?
Oh, anyone hear if PIA has got Pwned at all?
Coz I use that, and will be a sad panda when someone tells me Iāve been ccāing my porn browsing to all and sundryā¦
I know PIA gets a bad rap for being US based and therefore susceptible to NSA, but theyāve proved themselves in court. Iād go with them.
Iām happy with their service and I honestly donāt use a VPN unless Iām trying to break out of a restricted network, so the super cheap $2/mo is perfect for me.
I donāt think so. Checking double my sources now.
Everybody is gonna get hacked. Donāt focus on that.
I donāt like PIA due to their hiring Mark Karpeles. Doesnāt make a ton of sense to trust a security service run by a criminal.
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Interesting - Iāve actually been using PIA for the last 3 years
ā¦ you only hear about the unsucessful onesā¦ 
Thatās just how it goes in the finance biz.
Trust me, the shit Iāve seen would make you pull out all your investments.
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Iāve started to use one because I donāt need to use one.
But If I develop a need, I wouldnāt want to change in behavior.
And I live in UK.
Our Gov is getting itchy at the thought of creepy general spyingā¦
Not qute as bad as Oz, but still
Thatās enough justification to use one. You donāt want to get no-knocked by the glow-in-the-dark boys for saying something like ātraps are gayā or watching a certain meme-lordās pug video.
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FISA courts? Pretty sure they can smack a āmuh spiesā on literally anything and it goes to a secret court you canāt tell anyone about, and donāt get to see the evidence against you, and the judge sits there in a kabuki mask and sentences you to inane shit.
Maybe not the mask, but Iām almost certain the rest of this happens.
No way to know.
Point is they canāt give over data they donāt have.
Theyāve proven time and time again they donāt have it.
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Fair point.
Now, itās a different story if theyāre ordered to work with the glowey boys on an operation or something. I could definitely see that happening, but Iām likely not the target at that point.
If they wanna know what sort porn Iām into, or which servers I need to break out of a network to access, just ask me.
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Quite a typical problem with this type of servers. Almost every large or smaller dedicated server provider has similar things on their conscience. Lease a server that you will never see in your life and never touch with your hand has many potential threats, unfortunately. And in the case of such businesses as commercial vpn and a whole mass of servers located around the world, supplied from a whole bunch of companies, finding black sheep is only a matter of time. Whether due to incompetence or deliberate action or the request of the NSA / FSB and other ā¦
Even if you have your own servers in colocation in a data center, a certain vector of attack is still possible.
Remote machine security is a difficult topic much more than some people think.
At the end of the day, you entrust someone with a percentage of trust. If it is a server lease or a collocation of your own hardware to some DC.
Anyway, I saw a lot of interesting situations in DC which have many certificates and good opinions and are considered very professional and sometimes they do such ridiculous things that up to ā¦ Once a certain dc killed a lot of hdd in clientās servers because they started the gas fire system. As it turned out, working hdd really do not like such radical temperature changes and like to go wrong. The technician only had to do a dry test of the system. But he was an inexperienced new employee, and he was alone on a shift without supervision, and instead of testing he launched a active system. Fortunately, only in one room, but the damage was significant and it turned out that the lighting was poorly made and the expanding gas literally pulled it out of the ceiling.
Can confirm - as an Aussie our list of geoblocked websites gets longer every year, in addition to the rampant spying.
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Speaking of VPNs, I recommend reading about the latest situation in Avast.
coincidenceā¦?
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