VPNs are NOT a Magic Bullet | Weekly News Roundup
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- Опубліковано 27 чер 2024
- This week in the Weekly News Roundup, VPNs are not a privacy magic bullet, and MS Office hides lots of malware. We also look at some data leaks, AI news, and Google possibly repenting on a bad repair program. We also visit SillyVille.
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==Privacy==
00:00 - Intro
01:01 - Google Deleting Location Data
03:55 - The Airtag Stalker
08:34 - VPN Leaks
==Security==
12:27 - COX Modem Flaw
15:09 - MS Office Malware
==Data Leaks==
18:27 - FBCS Debt Collection Leak
19:50 - Advance Data Leak
==AI Overlord==
22:17 - Play Store AI Crackdown
25:45 - Google Search is Ruined
==Business==
29:50 - Spotify Price Hike
34:09 - Unskippable Ads
35:29 - R2R Win?
==Silly==
39:16 - Pirate on Fire
42:59 - Stupid Smart Stuff
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Never got a DMCA notice from my internet service provider for copyright infringement, so the VPN must be doing its job.
we are in a time when we need less ads, not more. but those companies will never learn untill there is, unfortunately, a big government crackdown on them.
$400 Alexa toothbrushes. Malicious me is happy to see the buyers remorse.
Regarding Spotify (and other streaming services), I will never understand why people would rather fork over money regularly for music + ads instead of actually paying once and keeping a copy of songs. People search for "free VPNs" and "free calling/texting apps", but gladly pay for crap like Spotify? Honestly don't know who's worse: companies pushing people to not own anything, or the people just gladly complying.
vpns are to bypass geo restrictions not privacy
It's for _relative_ privacy when you are forced to use someone else's internet or when all the ISPs in available to you are even less reliable. Like Tom said.
And not great at that since many sites etc ban the Vpn ip
if the authorities (our self-appointed protectors...) can force a vpn company to give its logs and ip lists, there is no privacy and anonymity whatsoever.
This is why you look for a VPN that has been tested in court. Mullvad VPN had their servers raided last year and the police got nothing. PIA VPN no log policy was proven twice in court.
Which is exactly why it is vital to choose a real strictly no logs policy VPN provider in a strictly privacy-friendly jurisdiction such as ExpressVPN. Not only do they not record any activity logs, their servers are run on RAM only, no Hard Drives or SSD storage whatsoever, with proven record from authorities in Turkey seizing ExpressVPN's servers and not being able to find a single thing.
@@djvar94
PIA and Mullvad VPN have been both tested and both have proven to have a strict no logging policy. Mullvad was raided by law enforcement and they left empty handed. PIA on the other hand has been proven twice in a row to not contain any logs. Both also have ram only servers.
Google's new Ts & Cs : The phone you just bought isn't , you are renting it! Sukkah!!
when I clicked on this Google took took me to a page about paid advertisements that I immediately clicked out of.
Apparently the mere inclusion of the letters V P N fills them with terror
They have a new overlay that if you click on the top of the thumbnail you hit a page about advertisements. You need to click lower on the video or the title. Totally annoying, and I have hit that accidentally myself a few times.
I see lots of horrible AI generated garbage articles online. Selecting "results only from websites" won't help if all the websites are made by AI.
That is correct
@@SwitchedtoLinux Makes you wonder if that airtag story isnt just made up by an AI
I'm seeing AI garbage in Facebook all over
MS Orifice with malware? :O Who'd o' thunk it?
Humanity wouldn't have anything to worry about AI wiping it out if humanity didn't provide AI with a provable history of thousands of years of violence, murder, attempted genocide and more usually triggered by "they're different than us, attack." showing it exactly what will happen when something we considered a tool wants to be seen as a living being with sentience.
About doing good things with AI, it depends of what you call AI. If we consider any machine learning AI, then it has been used successfully in a lot of fields, from medical research to astronomy. What all these companies call AI seems to be limited to LLMs and maybe DDMs. I don't know much about LLMs but there are a lot of papers using DDMs on tasks such as image and video processing .
Second comment to add apparently windows has caved and made recall a feature that needs to be toggled ON instead of being an automatically enabled 'feature' which is a minor step imo but a step since we're able to budge Microsoft now.
Gotta say it: If a UA-camr has put an ad in his/her content, I will not use that product/service. Seems so many UA-cam ads inserted by the content creator turns out to be some kind of scam. Remember buying land to become some kind of royality? How about those gold companies, where gold has to go up a LOT for you to make a small profit? The list goes on.
100% correct about VPNs. Would you trust a "free as in beer" ISP? Of course not. So why use a free VPN?
Also 100% correct on AI
vpns and encrypted proxies only protect the transmission of the data and not the endpoints.
if either end of the connection is compromised then it doesn't matter if the transmission was protected.
Vpns are The Bullet...Tor Not Lets Move services to Onion
VPNs are honeypots ... routing your traffic through a 3rd party, who could be nothing but a front for 3-letter agencies, is kinda insane.
No more than your ISP.
@@kpcraftster6580 My ISP is at least one of millions. A small local installation. VPNs are one of hundreds. Distributed organisations.
As a 3-letter agency, I can create a VPN and cover a lot of ground. That is much harder with ISPs.
@@ZappyOh Where do you live that you have a choice of millions of ISPs. Wait don't tell me, that's private information. But having more choices of ISP than VPN is not a privilege most people have.
@@kpcraftster6580 Millions across the world ... No 3-letter agency can run a reasonable fraction of those, to get a broad coverage of traffic.
Host Your Own VPN or Ask a Friend In a Different Country to
There is not such thing as an "ex-wife", airtag husband is based.
ISPs try to make it as hard as possible to use 3rd party modems. A normie is never going to have the time and know-how to figure it out.
Just like how VPNs try to prevent users from manually configuring their own openvpn or wireguard
Title is misleading! It specifically talks about FREE VPN users! No wonder mate. If you are using a FREE VPN service you are seriously asking for trouble. Hell you can't even fully trust most PAID VPN providers let alone FREE ones. Choose a great VPN provider with strictly no logs policy and in a privacy-friendly jurisdiction such as ExpressVPN.
Do you really trust massive corporations who hide all their assets under different VPN names?
Then of course, granted that a VPN, no matter how great and secure will never fully protect in cases of data breaches or in the case of info-stealing Trojans if you're not using a secure OS. Or even from Microsoft's spyware, but it does protect you again idiots trying to sniff your login details while on a public connection or from Government tracking and interceptions/sniffing.
@@SwitchedtoLinux not sure what you mean by that exactly, but I do trust ExpressVPN as they have a massive proven record of independent 3rd party audits and also in the case of an incident in Turkey, where the government blitzed and seized their servers after demanding ExpressVPN for the connection logs but they refused to cooperate. And even after seizing the servers the Turkish authorities didn't manage to get anything at all, as there really was nothing there. ExpressVPN's servers run on RAM storage ONLY, not on Hard Drives or SSD storage so anything just passes and goes away. In the case of a power cut obviously everything is not retained either.
@@SwitchedtoLinux then of course no matter how good or safe a VPN is the rest is obviously down to the user. The problem is the fact that people like to think that security is like a magic thing, this thing that you get and automagically makes you invincible and what not. But at the end of the day, as I always like to say, even though 100% security is an absolute utopia, it starts with each and every one of us. VPNs and everything else are merely tools that we can use to our advantage to help strengthen our security but relying on these tools exclusively thinking they will do the work for us and forget about everything else is even more insecure than having them I would say.