kommie...you're telling more fiction about touring Thailand with a447, why are we arguing about your location?Originally Posted by kommentariat
fiction = fiction.
Surfcrest
kommie...you're telling more fiction about touring Thailand with a447, why are we arguing about your location?
fiction = fiction.
Surfcrest
Ah, so fiction is the polite word for lies now then is it ?
Now then children, here's something you can try at home without Mummy and Daddy worrying about the nasty things you can come across on the Internet (like SGT). Open up a browser and look for the Ookla Speed Test site - it's http://www.speedtest.net/ (what a surprise)
When you press the big box that says "Begin Test" it will show you a map of the other servers surrounding where the server is that's giving you your unique IP address, that Mr Oookla is going to "ping" to help with the speed test. An IP address is what the Internet uses to identify you so all those bits and bytes whizzing around know where to find you. When you log on to SGT, it's what the SGT server uses to serve up to your browser what you have selected to view
As you can see, the nearest servers to the one I'm logged onto (the one I've been using the entire time I've been in Thailand) is in South Brisbane. No, no, that's wrong. That's what Mr Surfcrest and his 6-bit programmer are telling you. The map clearly shows my server is in Northern Europe, which is not what Mr Surfcrest and his 6-bit programmer are telling you:
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And, children, even more exciting is that Mr Ookla then tells you where your server is located. My server is located here:
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And what's that word down the bottom in the right hand corner? It's the beginning of a word, really. "Lon". Could that be London? Gosh isn't this exciting
I actually logged in with the "dante" account yesterday to take a quick look. Geez kommie, do you really need that many IP addresses? I only checked a handful, but the ones I did check were all proxies / VPNs. I could be wrong, but they don't appear to be Tor exit nodes either, so you're actively purchasing these VPNs.
What are you hiding from? Surfcrest is welcome to check my IP again, and it'll still be a residential 3BB IP. Just to warn you, if you're hiding from law enforcement or the government for some reason, then using VPNs is this fasion is totally fucken useless. Surfcrest may not have the tools available to track you down, but law enforcement definitely does.
You may believe you're being really witty and intelligent, but trust me, you're nowhere near as anonymous as you probably think you are. That's why I don't even bother with VPNs. What's the point? To trip up people like Surfcrest? And if I ever piss off the cops, using a VPN isn't going to help me. You do know all the data you're sending & receiving hits the ISP before it enters the VPN, right? It's not very difficul for the ISP to capture that data stream if they want to.
Which of them located me in South Brisbane, Matt?
You don't say?!! :ymdevil:
Didn't see one from South Brisbane. Again, I only checked a few though, because well... I don't give a shit about you enough to waste more than 30 seconds of my life on you.
You're life, feel free to do what you want. Again, just as a warning... there's a chance you're under the impression VPNs keep you more anonymous than they actually do. Up to you.
Again, that's why I don't even bother with them. It's not like I can just anonymously buy a VPN subscription with my bitcoin, then run around acting like an asshole on the internet. I would expect to be in a cell pretty quickly if I did that, and a VPN isn't going to help me.
Really?! :ymdevil:(
=))
It seems you're not quite up to date about commercial (formal) VPN services. All of the best services offer exit servers in multiple countries for a miniscule monthly cost. Taking one simply at random from a Lifehacker article, the provider Private Internet Access offers 1000+ exit servers in 10 different countries at a cost of a cup of coffee a month (even in Nakhon Nowhere). Of course I'm going to have dozens and dozens of IP addresses
You appear to be basing some of your cost assumptions on the informal private networks that are provided to me by Kommie's Boys in various far-flung corners of the globe (none, sadly, in South Brisbane). In those cases I simply log on as a user to their server, which then logs into SGT (or somewhere else). However, the cost to me is zero rather than the sort of figures your hyperactive imagination has come up with
Nevertheless I shall as always treasure your thoughts on VPNs, and store these latest ones alongside your earlier comments that any bank, detecting a user logging on to Internet banking via a VPN, will immediately suspend their access
I know all about VPNs Kommie. Personally, I enjoy https://nordvpn.com/ -- they have various servers across the world, excellent support & documentation, cheap prices, and they even accept bitcoin so I don't have to punch in my credit card number.
Again, I could personally care less, but just warning you. Sure, a VPN may allow you to evade folks like Surfcrest and myself, but if you believe you're evading law enforcement for whatever reason (eg. Thai pornography laws), then you're sadly mistaken. If law enforcement ever takes an interest in you, then a VPN isn't going to help you at all. Whether or not you want to believe me is up to you. I really don't give a shit.
Surely no one really believes a vpn will hide you from a government do they. Most governments have the capability to switch them on and off at a whim. Whatever you think (say for example, the UK government) is capable of doing electronically they're actually capable of doing a whole lot more. The technology available to them is years ahead of that available to ordinary consumers. Ever heard of Bletchley Park?
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