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gaijinpunch wrote:... I guess right now it's up between StrongVPN and Hide My Ass Pro.
Taro Toporific wrote:BTW: What ever happened to the Japanese government crackdown with criminal penalties that was scheduled for September? I was expecting a few showcase busts to be showing up in the press by now.
Taro Toporific wrote:BTW: What ever happened to the Japanese government crackdown with criminal penalties that was scheduled for September? I was expecting a few showcase busts to be showing up in the press by now.
Taro Toporific wrote:gaijinpunch wrote:... I guess right now it's up between StrongVPN and Hide My Ass Pro.
.. Hide My Ass is known for enthusiastically complying with any request for information about their users.
slashdot wrote:Via Slashdot
Most anonymizing and/or VPN services flat out state in their TOS that they will respond accordingly to all legal requests for information.
Some VPNs claim there IS NO information if the authorities come calling. See:
http://torrentfreak.com/which-vpn-providers-really-take-anonymity-seriously-111007/
FG Lurker wrote:StrongVPN is a great service for quasi-legal purposes such as streaming US-based services like Hulu or Netflix or UK services like the BBC. They *do* log however and will provide logs to the authorities should they come knocking. I have one of their $55/year PPTP accounts and feel it's great value.
Taro Toporific wrote:As said before, "with a typical Japanese 100Mbps fiber connections, Hide My Ass Pro averages a little less than 100Kbps." How badly does StrongVPN slow down your connection?
FG Lurker wrote:
If you are looking to, cough, "share" things online there are better options than a VPN which I won't go into here due to forum rules.
Coligny wrote:FG Lurker wrote:
If you are looking to, cough, "share" things online there are better options than a VPN which I won't go into here due to forum rules.
Pass the schpliff... seems the rules are not back in effect yet...
Coligny wrote:Pass the schpliff... seems the rules are not back in effect yet...
It's not worth it for them to stand up to the law.
Coligny wrote:One aspect we might as usual underestimate...
With prosecutor love for high scores... If they arrest you but get nothing to put you in jail, they can search illicitly downloaded batman movies and manage to get you in the slammer for this...
FG Lurker wrote:Coligny wrote:One aspect we might as usual underestimate...
With prosecutor love for high scores... If they arrest you but get nothing to put you in jail, they can search illicitly downloaded batman movies and manage to get you in the slammer for this...
People who are worried about this should use disk encryption in a way that is not visible. Details here:
http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=hidden-volume
Coligny wrote:One aspect we might as usual underestimate...
With prosecutor love for high scores... If they arrest you but get nothing to put you in jail, they cansearchcopy into your seized computer illicitly downloaded batman movies then modify the file creation time and manage to get you in the slammer for this...
cstaylor wrote:Coligny wrote:One aspect we might as usual underestimate...
With prosecutor love for high scores... If they arrest you but get nothing to put you in jail, they cansearchcopy into your seized computer illicitly downloaded batman movies then modify the file creation time and manage to get you in the slammer for this...
FTFY.
Paranoia? I think not.
FG Lurker wrote:> I think one thing worth asking is how will the J-authorities go about it.
It doesn't matter as all they can see is a strongly encrypted link heading out of Japan. Even China can't stop this sort of thing so I don't have much hope that Japan will be able to.
Of course if they get a warrant and seize your PC that's a different matter. They would need some sort of reason to do so, and seeing an encrypted link doesn't seem likely to be enough. (...at least under current law.)
Paranoia? I think not.
gaijinpunch wrote: I thought they should cut their balls off (and I'm anti-capital punishment).
Sorry to be so fucking pedantic (and that doesn't mean I want to fuck little children).
FG Lurker wrote:Coligny wrote:One aspect we might as usual underestimate...
With prosecutor love for high scores... If they arrest you but get nothing to put you in jail, they can search illicitly downloaded batman movies and manage to get you in the slammer for this...
People who are worried about this should use disk encryption in a way that is not visible. Details here:
http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=hidden-volume
gaijinpunch wrote:In that case, what are you baby sitting rates?
gaijinpunch wrote:Back on topic, the easiest way for this to work if you're using a Roku (which cannot have a static IP set... yes... for real)
gaijinpunch wrote:is to get a router that allows real routing (noble that, eh?) or a router that can be hacked to run DD-WRT (open source Linux firmware). I'm doing the latter, in the form of a 2000 yen (used -- 12,000 yen new from Amazon ) router which should arrive in a few days.
FG Lurker wrote:All the cheap routers run linux. DD-WRT, Tomato, et al just provide more services and a better management interface. The actual routing though is exactly the same.
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