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Hello fellow Soylentils. Colour me a nice Soylent Green Canadian who up until recently has only worried somewhat about security. I use linux (mostly Ubuntu) and in the past I have had time to work at config files and do google searches to solve my problems. Today i have far less time to do these things. My question is: can anyone (practically) hand me a good, easy, linux-friendly, and hopefully cheap VPN solution? Extra kudos to those with free options.
Canada seems to be heading in the direction of the United States and I am beginning to worry that my internet is being taken from me. Can anyone come up with a solution to keep my internetting private and my downloads from being pried into? (I've heard VPN is the way to go, but searching for solutions leaves me wondering if I'm getting scammed in the process.)
Thanks in advance for the help.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 14 2014, @06:18PM
Everybody should be aware of the dash spy feature and disable it:
"Unless you have opted out we will send your keystrokes to third parties including: Facebook, Twitter, BBC and Amazon." -- http://www.ubuntu.com/privacy-policy [ubuntu.com]
For the whole scary list of third parties, see http://www.ubuntu.com/privacy-policy/third-parties [ubuntu.com]
Here's a suggested workaround https://fixubuntu.com/ [fixubuntu.com]
(Score: 2) by buswolley on Monday April 14 2014, @06:26PM
damn.
subicular junctures
(Score: 2, Informative) by iWantToKeepAnon on Monday April 14 2014, @06:35PM
> "Unless you have opted out we will send your keystrokes to third parties including: Facebook, ...
Ummm, people voluntarily send their keystrokes to fb and 3rd parties.
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_te nse/2013/12/facebook_self_censorship_what_happens_ to_the_posts_you_don_t_publish.html [slate.com]
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." -- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday April 14 2014, @07:31PM
How many of those people are even aware that they send their keystrokes?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Joe Desertrat on Tuesday April 15 2014, @01:55AM
I wonder if this could be taken advantage of or abused by the end user. Typing in lists of expletives or bizarre forms of porn or long posts of Shakespeare or better yet, info you want to promote, like your website or even your store name, then erasing it. What happens to it then? Can you somehow skew Facebook's marketing and advertising?
(Score: 2) by bucc5062 on Monday April 14 2014, @06:57PM
Why does it seem like those two statements stand in complete conjunction with each other. 'We completely respect your privacy, but we will collect your private acts which has nothing to do with our operating system.'. That is corporate speak to the highest order.
The more things change, the more they look the same
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday April 15 2014, @09:13AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by bucc5062 on Tuesday April 15 2014, @01:35PM
you are correct. I had the idea in my head, but it got attached to the wrong word...(sigh)
The more things change, the more they look the same
(Score: 1) by Scruffy on Monday April 14 2014, @08:37PM
"When you enter a search term into the dash ... Unless you have opted out (see the "Online Search" section below), we will also send your keystrokes as a search term to productsearch.ubuntu.com and selected third parties so that we may complement your search results with online search results from such third parties including: Facebook, Twitter, BBC and Amazon."
This sounds similar to Google's instant search. Maybe that doesn't change anyone's mind about things but I found your quote a wee bit disingenuous and wanted to clarify the context.
1087 is a lucky prime.
(Score: 2, Informative) by bryan on Monday April 14 2014, @11:13PM
Or better yet, use one of these and forget about dash/unity: