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      "body": "![Image of HM Gov](http://www.alecshelbrooke.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/HMG.png)\n\n\nThe UK government has done it again: another idea poorly considered is doing the rounds in the media as we speak. This new law aims for hosts of online pornography to verify the age of its users before allowing them access to their content. \n\nIt comes after the Conservatives having made the pledge for our teeny-tiny island to be the safest place in the world to go online. A noble idea, I'll give them that, but not necessarily a *good* one. Careful consideration must be applied, and along that must go truth. And the truth is that whenever people are pushed they resist; they seek ways to circumvent new law for ease of access.\n\nNow while I do have some reservations about the Age ID software MindGeek - the company that owns many online porn services - plan to use for this, my bigger concerns relate to the mental wellbeing of the children this new law is potentially pushing our young teenagers to seek out. \n\nThe truth is brutal: government are not the sole holders of responsibility over the safety of our children. *Parents* are.\n\n<h1>\n# Current Protections\n![Image of InternetMatters](https://www.dragonsandfairydust.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/page-0.jpg)\n\n\nISPs already include safeguards into their broadband services. For instance, my ISP, Virgin Media, offers F-Secure SAFE and Web Safe. Also they boast about something all ISPs have launched called Internet Matters (internetmatters.org). Why are the solutions offered by ISPs disregarded by parents so often? 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As for the former, though, they are not always cheap and easy to come by. \n\nSo by doing this quick equation we can decide that we want something that costs nothing, has no restrictions on time and that is safe (relatively speaking). Unfortunately the solution exists: the most secure way to skirt online censorship is hidden services such as Tor. Free, hidden, portions of the public internet that have been made freely closed off to everybody else. And while the creation of these networks was done so with the best of intentions - to hide from government snooping, etc - they also provide safe havens for the most illegal of online content such as child pornography, snuff movies and gosh knows what else. All of which is free. There was a big case a while back about an Australian man called Peter Scully who was involved in this sort of online material.\n\nAnd if you thought that accessing these hidden services was difficult they are surprisingly easy now. And if you were to find minor obstacles, there are plenty of easy-to-follow guides on how to gain access to these networks. Then it's just a matter of doing a quick google search to find a link to the websites you want - another task made easy by public \"link lists\" webpages like this one: https://thehiddenwiki.org/. Somewhere down that list you will find an entry for a website called \"PedoEmpire\".\n\nThere are sources of \"safer\" porn on these networks - not every bit of this data is malicious, but they are almost all illegal: they are also used to host pirated content by the the industry's professional studios like Bang Bros. The problem is that those Onion sites are still going to be littered with more malicious content - you could be watching these usually-paid-for videos when suddenly you come across something you never wanted to see. It does happen.\n\nThe whole idea of this new law is to protect children. 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And now this new law may jeopardise the lives of their children in ways they could not have expected. Imagine a world where children will be coming into contact with child porn. Then who will be to blame?\n\nSo we are at the point now where the best protection is the protection their parents can give them. And as we have seen during these few years of our Digital Age, age ratings are often flippantly disregarded. Children playing Call of Duty are naturally going to ask the question, \"What's wrong with us watching porn, with the same age restriction of 18, if I can play Call of Duty or watch movies like It and Saw?\" and so they will seek to do just that.\n\n\nYou may already know what Tor and its alternatives are and think to yourself how unlikely this is. Let's not forget that access to these hidden services are as simple as a smartphone app.\n\n\nI admit that this solution is a worst case scenario. 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More so now than it did &nbsp;ten years ago - and certainly even more so than it did twenty years &nbsp;ago.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\nBut twenty-six years on, the internet has transformed &nbsp;our lives into, what i call the, inter-device-connected culture that we &nbsp;enjoy daily. From snaps of our dogs to reminding our loved ones we have &nbsp;them in mind over Facebook. Memes spreading around Twitter like wild &nbsp;fire; discussions on web forums. Wherever you look, you will see some &nbsp;crucial piece of information leave our fingertips and arrive on the web. And it's all thanks to the thousands of cables connecting our countries across the seven seas. <br>\n</p>\n<p><br>\nAnd that's &nbsp;where the controversy lies. Because as our technology has continued to &nbsp;evolve - and will continue to do so forevermore - we have also seen a &nbsp;rise in the anti-technology deployed by the sinister governments to spy &nbsp;on the innocent until they can prove one way or another of a person's &nbsp;guilt. I took a look around the net a short while ago and saw just how &nbsp;large the lists grow when it comes to intelligence gathering devices &nbsp;these agencies use: boxes that mimic a radio tower to eavesdrop on a &nbsp;person; software that activates a powered off phone and make use of its &nbsp;camera and microphones; aggressive stripping of encrypted internet packets as the information leaves our computers and traverses the &nbsp;world-wide-web; intruding on the traversal of all internet packets via the cables themselves as they leave our fair countries. The list is horrifyingly endless. And it makes me &nbsp;wonder: why are we still using the internet?<br>\n</p>\n<p><br>\nOf &nbsp;course, no one can argue that it's done some good. Information sharing &nbsp;has been its topmost advancement for our culture. Then we arrive to &nbsp;things like online entertainment and even things like online health &nbsp;assessments and banking and an even bigger list. But that's not my &nbsp;concern. My concern is the internet itself.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\n<br>\nFor a start every issue about the internet and its supported protocols that are indefensible.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><strong>DDOS&nbsp;</strong></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/778039311082070016/ZGGWBshr.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"/><br>\n<br>\nBack &nbsp;in October, 2016, we witnessed the largest ever DDOS attack on Dyn, a &nbsp;company who controls a significant portion of the internet's DNS &nbsp;infrastructure. The attack was composed of a botnet of around &nbsp;one-hundred-thousand internet-connected devices from PCs to IoT &nbsp;technologies. More importantly, however, the attack was estimated by Dyn &nbsp;to have transmitted around 1.2 terrabytes of flood packets. That's &nbsp;1,200 gigabytes! It was extraordinary in its execution.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\nObviously, &nbsp;though, there would be no way to deny an attack of this magnitude from &nbsp;succeeding. But it's a start to the argument. Not many people realise &nbsp;but DDOS was, back in the 90s at least, a secret tool used by government &nbsp;intelligence. Nobody had even ever heard of it. Then suddenly sixteen &nbsp;year olds from all around the world using pictures of Guy Fawkes as &nbsp;their social media profile pictures started to make use of scripts that &nbsp;would do just this to online services such as the Playstation Network &nbsp;and Xbox Live. They didn't stop there either. Visa, Mastercard, Paypal &nbsp;and other financial services were targeted all because they withdrew &nbsp;funding from WikiLeaks - <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Payback\">Operation Payback</a>. DDOS mitigation is by far one of the biggest weaknesses of the internet. <br>\n</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><strong>Big Brother</strong></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/6/21/1371830464333/Access-to-the-future-3-010.jpg?w=620&amp;q=55&amp;auto=format&amp;usm=12&amp;fit=max&amp;s=94c4b987f6a7ea16712ab83246f03122\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\"/><br>\nThen &nbsp;we arrive to the biggest threat facing not only the internet but to &nbsp;personal privacy too: government spying. Internet-of-Things (IoT) &nbsp;technology is on the rise now more than ever. From Raspberry Pi boards - &nbsp;miniaturised computer components - all the way down to children's toys, &nbsp;televisions, gaming consoles and even television remotes. Anything that &nbsp;is connected to the internet can be used not only for our entertainment &nbsp;but also to be the eyes and ears in a bid to curb the effect encryption &nbsp;is having on information retention, a threat GCHQ and the NSA sincerely &nbsp;regret. Hence my cleverly coined term: anti-technology.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\nBut &nbsp;this information retention is an interesting topic. We take things like &nbsp;SSL for granted at times but the truth is that it protects the &nbsp;information we transmit across the web. What can be read by humans as &nbsp;simple glyphs and letters, making words and sentences, enters a tunnel &nbsp;in which this text is turned into complete gibberish. It does the job. &nbsp;Only not so much anymore. I say this because agencies are now starting &nbsp;to tackle the problem of encryption by a process of \"backdooring\" the &nbsp;encryption codes, meaning they are able to decrypt packets sent via our &nbsp;Internet Service Providers (ISPs) on-the-fly. Even <a href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31619907\">GCHQ and the NSA were linked to hacking Gemalto</a>, a large SIM card manufacturer, in an effort to obtain the encryption keys for millions of SIM cards. Not only that but by gaining physical access to the cables that compose the internet, the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora\">UK GCHQ's Tempora</a> system is able to monitor just about everything that leaves any UK citizen's devices.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><br>\nHow do we respond in order to keep our information secure? We turn to services like Tor, <a href=\"https://www.versionone.online/the-horrific-truth-about-the-tor-network/\">which in some rare circumstances is dangerous to say the least</a>. 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      "body": "Big Brother watching us as we leave our home, log into Twitter and send nudies to our BFFs. Are we safe?\n<br><br>\nIt’s a topic we have all definitely read about in the past, or at the very least, allowed to fly over our heads as we take seat to watch the last ten minutes of the eight-o’clock news before Googlebox. The government spy agencies watching every byte of information leave our devices, to fall under the wrath of their scrutiny, creating the paranoid, inter-device-connected culture we all try to enjoy daily.\n<br>\n\nWhat we see now is a huge amount of people worrying about whether they are being watched.\n<br>\nI remember about two years ago whilst playing Red Dead Redemption, I found myself curious about what the acronym TNT meant. So I looked it up. And whilst reading through its wiki page I soon became curious about how explosives work in general. So I googled that too. 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      "body": "Hi @garryke , please fire away - am happy for you to do so and thank you for the integrity you show in even asking! Many people would simply C&P!\nAnything which can add value to the equitable remuneration of artists in this environment is great!\nI have just checked and edited Image Credits - cheetah pinged me for 'similar' content!\nAnyway, you are good to go.\nNamaste!",
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