I have no problems accessing the piratebay.org, or even tor, in fact I know the MOD get to monitor all internet access so they can even tell what you are looking at or buying on the darkweb!
However I do have great difficulty accessing rt.com I usually get ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED in MS Edge, like right now!
Why are they so scared of Russia? Has the Oligarch money run dry?
Now if its any endorsement for Kasperky AV Internet suite, it picked something up on my machine a few years back, so I booted from the supplied recovery ISO burnt to cd, and it needs to download the latest AV definitions. It was unable to connect to Kasperky's servers, in order to do an offline scan and removal, ergo I was unable to wipe the malware from my machine.
In the past, when I have had my systems so locked down so I can account for every packet of data coming in and going out, my internet connection just goes down so I cant get online. I've even had bios passwords reset locking me out of machines.
On the point of being worn down, it would seem shouting the loudest, or controlling the media outlets works [1]
A suggestion for @ tutanota.com, I've made this to other online email providers, but no one seems interested.
Having a delayed send from servers located around the world.
If anyone is aware of traffic shaping, and traffic profiling, they will know its possible to determine what type of data it is despite it being encrypted.
For example, youtube will send from multiple servers to your device in bursts, its not one continuous stream of data from one server. Obviously this also enables Google/Youtube to work out your exact physical location based on the time the different bursts of data arrives at the device and get reassembled.
Its also possible for the 5eyes+X (5EX) operators to work out if you are typing or reading an email, and when you click send, there is a very small window in which to work out where that email is going.
So if the email comes back into the UK, they will know what email server its being routed to. In time, its possible to work out more stuff which I wont elaborate on, but they can then carry out impersonation attacks on the entity in both directions in order to solicit more information.
Lets face it, how many people get to speak to the same person in a call centre? And do call centre staff remember and recognise their routine customers?
So could your email system have a delayed send built into it, perhaps something like X users from the UK, click send to send an email and these emails could be sent from some of your servers which would ideally be located around the globe?
eg. I log into your service by connecting to the German server, I click send after composing an email and the email is routed in a batch with other users to say the US server before it gets delivered, well after I've logged off and delivered in a randomly delayed timeframe, because most people dont need emails to hit other peoples inboxes straight away, they are busy doing other things. In fact being able to send now could be an opt in, like those times when on the phone to someone and you need to send them an email at the same time, because the 5EX workers will know you are already communicating with someone, and what can they gain from knowing about an email being sent at the same time?
With VPN's the easiest way to work out where VPN traffic is going, is slow down your targets VPN connection and the 5EX operators look for other encrypted VPN traffic that also slows down elsewhere. This is how the 5EX workers can work out what websites you are visiting.
Likewise a VPN that can also include Chaff [2] when the connection goes idle, will also get to hide the type of data passing over the VPN, again affording the user of VPN's some privacy, where currently there are no VPN's affording this. I know some do VPN tunnelling ie a vpn running inside a vpn for double encryption, but that still gives out the type of data and where its going to when you have an infrastructure overview of the internet in the 5EX countries.
And if the VPN service connects to a proxy server that can keep the 2nd and subsequent relays/legs still downloading, the VPN company gets to find out who the 5EX workers might be targeting. At the very least, it would reduce their existing level of intelligence, and expose what secret court orders might be in place with infrastructure company's like At&T's Room 641a[3]
All's fair in love and war!
I'll also point out the obvious, people tend to visit websites that are in their language, this then narrows down the websites and data centres to look at.
However if someone is multi lingual which would have been obtained by the state during the school and college years through lessons learnt and/or by association of being born or raised by parents who are not native speakers of the country they reside in, or are multi lingual, the scope for the websites that could be visited can increase, introducing more legal doubt.
Anyway an insight into 5EX internet surveillance, what GCHQ would call looking for the needle in the haystack, and example can be found here [4].
Its probably best to think of the internet like monitor vehicle movements, you can see trucks moving around, but you don't know what's in them initially, but over time, you can work it out, which is why the EU & UK have agreed the Windsor framework, namely Squid Game Green light Red light [5] customs between NI & GB.
> However I do have great difficulty accessing rt.com I usually get ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED in MS Edge, like right now!
> Why are they so scared of Russia?
This is a mystery for the ages! What reason could there possibly be, in 2023, for blocking a major Russian propaganda/state news outlet?
I mean, I could understand it if there was a war going on, with Russia desperately spreading propaganda specifically to try to get NATO states to see Russia's aggression as being totally understandable and actually our fault, so that we stop sending money and materiel to the people they are frantically trying to murder in order to get them to stop resisting their takeover of their entire country...
However I do have great difficulty accessing rt.com I usually get ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED in MS Edge, like right now!
Why are they so scared of Russia? Has the Oligarch money run dry?
Now if its any endorsement for Kasperky AV Internet suite, it picked something up on my machine a few years back, so I booted from the supplied recovery ISO burnt to cd, and it needs to download the latest AV definitions. It was unable to connect to Kasperky's servers, in order to do an offline scan and removal, ergo I was unable to wipe the malware from my machine.
In the past, when I have had my systems so locked down so I can account for every packet of data coming in and going out, my internet connection just goes down so I cant get online. I've even had bios passwords reset locking me out of machines.
On the point of being worn down, it would seem shouting the loudest, or controlling the media outlets works [1]
A suggestion for @ tutanota.com, I've made this to other online email providers, but no one seems interested.
Having a delayed send from servers located around the world.
If anyone is aware of traffic shaping, and traffic profiling, they will know its possible to determine what type of data it is despite it being encrypted.
For example, youtube will send from multiple servers to your device in bursts, its not one continuous stream of data from one server. Obviously this also enables Google/Youtube to work out your exact physical location based on the time the different bursts of data arrives at the device and get reassembled.
Its also possible for the 5eyes+X (5EX) operators to work out if you are typing or reading an email, and when you click send, there is a very small window in which to work out where that email is going.
So if the email comes back into the UK, they will know what email server its being routed to. In time, its possible to work out more stuff which I wont elaborate on, but they can then carry out impersonation attacks on the entity in both directions in order to solicit more information.
Lets face it, how many people get to speak to the same person in a call centre? And do call centre staff remember and recognise their routine customers?
So could your email system have a delayed send built into it, perhaps something like X users from the UK, click send to send an email and these emails could be sent from some of your servers which would ideally be located around the globe?
eg. I log into your service by connecting to the German server, I click send after composing an email and the email is routed in a batch with other users to say the US server before it gets delivered, well after I've logged off and delivered in a randomly delayed timeframe, because most people dont need emails to hit other peoples inboxes straight away, they are busy doing other things. In fact being able to send now could be an opt in, like those times when on the phone to someone and you need to send them an email at the same time, because the 5EX workers will know you are already communicating with someone, and what can they gain from knowing about an email being sent at the same time?
With VPN's the easiest way to work out where VPN traffic is going, is slow down your targets VPN connection and the 5EX operators look for other encrypted VPN traffic that also slows down elsewhere. This is how the 5EX workers can work out what websites you are visiting.
Likewise a VPN that can also include Chaff [2] when the connection goes idle, will also get to hide the type of data passing over the VPN, again affording the user of VPN's some privacy, where currently there are no VPN's affording this. I know some do VPN tunnelling ie a vpn running inside a vpn for double encryption, but that still gives out the type of data and where its going to when you have an infrastructure overview of the internet in the 5EX countries.
And if the VPN service connects to a proxy server that can keep the 2nd and subsequent relays/legs still downloading, the VPN company gets to find out who the 5EX workers might be targeting. At the very least, it would reduce their existing level of intelligence, and expose what secret court orders might be in place with infrastructure company's like At&T's Room 641a[3]
All's fair in love and war!
I'll also point out the obvious, people tend to visit websites that are in their language, this then narrows down the websites and data centres to look at.
However if someone is multi lingual which would have been obtained by the state during the school and college years through lessons learnt and/or by association of being born or raised by parents who are not native speakers of the country they reside in, or are multi lingual, the scope for the websites that could be visited can increase, introducing more legal doubt.
Anyway an insight into 5EX internet surveillance, what GCHQ would call looking for the needle in the haystack, and example can be found here [4].
Its probably best to think of the internet like monitor vehicle movements, you can see trucks moving around, but you don't know what's in them initially, but over time, you can work it out, which is why the EU & UK have agreed the Windsor framework, namely Squid Game Green light Red light [5] customs between NI & GB.
[1] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2333165/The-...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaff_(countermeasure)
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
[4] https://cryptome.org/2013-info/09/nsa-br-mx-2/nsa-br-mx-2.ht...
[5] https://youtu.be/sH4Y450PSVM?t=29