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Comment by azalemeth | Hacker News Reader

Many, if not most, nations have similar provisions to this. I think it's wrong and just over the top. However, encrypting everything and using multi-hop routing wherever possible at least will add noise to this sort of dragnet surveillance. Personally, I've taken steps to obsfucate my traffic since similar legislation was introduced in the UK.

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Snowden released his trove back in 2013. At that point it became obvious that anyone with power to surveil would use it.

I suppose the news here is that the response was so relaxed that governments started doing it publicly and explaining the tech.

It was obvious before Snowden.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

This started in the 60s! I remember hearing about it in the mid 90s on random internet forums.

Could you possibly share the tools you use to obfuscate your traffic?

I did start with Yacy. First I would bould something thet search a list on Google or so and the just follow links forever. Finally I just found Yacy a P2P search. I did run it for a couple of years.

https://yacy.net/

I would guess Tor, I2P, Freenet, GNUNet.

But also configuring or avoiding certain other software: https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/index.html

It is most often old people scraming at the cloud/internet. I hope the next generation is more aware about the severely negative foundations the current generation gifts to us in their cynicism shortly before their end of life.

But seriously, to me this is a sign that a state is never the friend of its people. There are no sensible security arguments without also looking at the dangers of dragnet surveillance. The US isn't different, the EU isn't different.

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