#lazysecurity

“ At present ISPs need to see a warrant before logging what customers do online (for up to 12 months) and related logs are also extremely basic. By comparison the new law introduces a system that will require ISPs to store comparatively detailed Internet Connection Records (e.g. the websites / servers you’ve visited) for all their customers and this will also be accessible“

Without a warrant. Without probable cause. Every server and site someone in the UK connects to will be logged. They were previously hacking devices illegally to obtain information, they’ve also just made that legal.

“It’s also not just the security services that will have access to ICRs, with the Department for Transport / Health, HMRC, NHS, Food Standards Agency, Gambling Commission and various other public authorities also being able to request the data (see the full list);“

List includes: Department for Work and Pensions (oh you were looking at cat videos at midnight last night? Clearly you’re well enough to work) and pretty much every military, police, fire and ambulance service in the UK.

“[T]he only remaining step is a formality, which means getting the Queen to sign a piece of paper. For all intents and purposes this is now the Investigatory Powers Act.“ 

I’m not endorsing anything but software here. Just providing some lazy tech support. Feel free to ask if you need any help.

Reduce the amount your browser tells servers about you:

https://www.privacytools.io/

Tor:

https://www.torproject.org/

Secure chat:

Signal (Android)

Signal (iOS)

Tox (pretty much every platform)

VPN: Both of these accept paypal, prepaid credit cards and bitcoin:

NordVPN (My choice)

Windscribe

Others

2FA (two factor authentication):

Noble but worthless, if the government wants to read your email, they will. They don’t log in like you or me, they get access to the server or put a box in the rack that server lives in and listen to everything it sends and receives.

:edit: A great addition about securing the contents of your mail. 

Self destructing email: 10minutemail (recieve only) GuerrillaMail (allows send)

What the fuck are these things?