arccy 2 days ago

careful not to mail them from close to home, or have any handwriting, or leave any fingerprints

  • staticelf 2 days ago

    Doesn't matter if you use Windows / Mac because it will ping their services before you jump on the VPN and it will know the before IP and the IP after. :)

    • switch007 2 days ago

      Well, the 'after IP' is an IP shared with tends or hundreds of thousands of other people.

      But yes the use case for a VPN is pretty narrow. E.g. not wanting your ISP to mess with your traffic and decreasing chances of detection of torrenting

    • hirvi74 2 days ago

      My boy, Tim Cook, ain't a snitch though. (At least, I hope not).

      • Imustaskforhelp 2 days ago

        You can't prove it. Apple isn't open source.

        And with the recent Debacle of Snooper's Law apple e2ee backdoor.

        Let me tell you something. A company is asked for a backdoor and they are forced to not tell anybody about it.

        The only reason why it was leaked was because of whistleblower. And so , who knows if they have already signed such thing with the NSA or UK already but for their mac's and other devices

      • Imustaskforhelp 2 days ago

        Also I had read somewhere about a really strange conspiracy theory which really made me question if we can really be against government and big tech (since "lobbying" is made official) but if 5 eyes (the billionaires?) really wanted (heck only if UK + australia wanted , australia police is given the ability to remotely plant data in nation's interest and uk also is getting apple to force data to be leaked in the apple ecosystem and who knows what else. Its only a matter of time that they put 2+2 together (or they have?) and use it to plant CSAM (yes NSA has distributed CSAM for the purposes of catching people , so I wonder if such 5 eyes also have these , please hackernews moderators just because I have mentioned CSAM , don't remove this comment I suppose)

        and carrying CSAM is a serious offense and you will get into jail for it. and the jail prisoners aren't kind to CSAM convicted prisoners and they would bully them immensely , maybe even cause them to suicide or just make their life hell.