Oddbean new post about login | logout Good morning! In Spain they want to implement digital identification to access social networks and the Internet. All parties agree For those who don't know, months ago they did it with porn. #Nostr
Nice to know, I'll expect this shit happening in Italy as well very soon.
Then strong people will create mesh networks, outside of "their controlled internet".
This the way.
I wonder how are they planning to cut access to the internet of the Spanish citizens. IPS? What will happen to the public WiFi’s? Or the data SIMs from other countries? Or TOR? or the VPNs? I’d like to see them try Anyway #nostrOnly.
Privacy in Spain is not a thing. I recently stayed in a Hotel in Spain and they want to scan your ID (illegal) to send the details to the police (it's a law). But nobody cares. Tourist happily hand over their IDs and wait 2 hrs to get it back. So better don't use Hotel WiFi's, even if you connect via a VPN. Better use WiFi's at a restaurant or bar, waiters usually tell you the password, most of the time it's 12345678 or the name of the bar 😉 .
In my opinion most of the #VPN services are #honeypots. Assuming you have decent one (maybe your own): What would be the problem when your ID is connected to your room connection if all the traffic goes through the VPN
Because IP address can still leak. Each time you connect to the internet, your ip is blasted all over the place. You can not be sure that your vpn app handles reconnects etc safely. Safest is to use a mobile router with always on VPN that blocks internet when VPN doesn't connect. Might be overkill but if you are an activist (I'm not) you would need to be super cautious.
This is just to "protect the children" 🤡, isn't it? Technocracy Switzerland recently also passed an online identification law. The referendum against the law had too few supporters. https://www.admin.ch/gov/de/start/dokumentation/medienmitteilungen.msg-id-95691.html
Spain has become very socialist. A vacant house can be occupied after 6 months and the owner cannot sue freely. Socialists do not recognise ownership, not even of one's own body. Property can be expropriated for the alleged common good until no-one is able to do anything more.
Of course they want. They need to control the message at all costs during the planned demolition of the financial system.
What are the alternatives if this gets implemented at the ISP level? Wouldn’t the online anonymity dead?
Build strong local communication networks now, for when you need to stop using the internet in the country. Build a stash and relationships with alternative monies in case you need to stop using your bank accounts. Prepare to stop using anything digital. Educate others to use the tools available.
#tor drills tunnels through most censorship. Using a snowflake proxy, your ISP will just see a websockets connection to some innocent site outside your borders. The Great Firewall of China is far most sophisticated than anything an EU government could hope to build, and tor can still penetrate it most of the time.
For quite sometime now I have been thinking that the way they're going to nullify tools like Tor (and potentially Bitcoin) is not blocking, but whitelisting. Your ISP will simply not allow that connection to to an "innocent site outside your borders". I lack the specific technical knowledge to know how exactly that will work but that's the route I would have my scientists explore if I were one of these totalitarian pieces of shit in power. My intuition is that AI + increased processing power + measures like this one extending KYC-AML to everything that online, indicate that's what their thinking too actually.
That would work, and I'm worried about that, too. They would HAVE to go all-in on it, because a single proxy "inside" grants access to everything outside (as I was fond of showing my high school friends). But for a country that doesn't value / actively hates new business startups, restricting all packets to a whitelist is doable. Economically damaging, yes, but much much less than a full "grid down" order like we've seen in recent years in Kashmir, Tigray, Gaza etc
In Spain people lapped up the Covid Propaganda. The roll out was easy and people were locked in their houses without very much resistance. Nightly applauding the circus show on their balconies. A digital ID roll out wouldn’t have little push back.
How about in Texas where they are passing similar laws?
The same agenda is getting pushed in the US. #DigitalID #Privacy https://reclaimthenet.org/texas-is-sued-over-attempts-to-end-online-anonymity
GM☕️☕️💜🌅The walls are closing in. What a shame. Will VPN help here?
We too now have digital ID for government portals. As for whole Internet, is still not been able to implement yet, it need all parties to agree.
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Age verification by the provider, in the case of porn, is absolutely a completely moronic idea because it shouldn't happen at the server side, at all. There should simply be an HTML attribute (or something of the sort) that marks adult content. Blocking can happen on the client side trough parental control software or browser settings. It would be easier and more efficient from a technical point of view, it would work better and be more accurate and it would preserve privacy for users.