Re: source.
Hopefully I'm consistent, you can go back through my comment history. I was raided by the police a bit over two years ago. When I got my stuff back (8 months later, no charges) the lead detective said that there was evidence I'd downloaded things from Mega, and that this was "suspicious", amongst a couple of other things.
I got the feeling she thought I was still guilty and had somehow managed to get away with the distribution of which I was suspected (or it was some kind of retro justification for gross violation of my rights and she was taking a front foot stance to minimise the chances I'd see what legal avenues are available in such situations - turns out very few to none).
She specifically mentioned as suspicious:
- history of downloading from MEGA
- using virtual machines
- having "tor" installed.
Interesting combination of cluelessness (wait until they're introduced to containers!). MEGA somewhat stands out in that bunch, in that there are lots of similar services as far as I know. Makes me wonder if it's a honeypot (but maybe not, because then they'd know the only thing I downloaded from MEGA was android ROMs).
Other than being outspoken on certain topics online, my browsing history is as boring as the next guy's. So I really think they put some weight behind MEGA activity.
Does that mean usage of all file lockers are equally flagged as suspicious?
My memory gets a bit patchy here, but I'm pretty sure the detective said something along the lines of "MEGA is only ever used for <thing I was accused of>". Which struck me as blatantly false and indicative of either an agenda or incompetence.
And I tend to subscribe to Hanlon's razor:
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Hearsay, but I hear (and say) they basically got netflow and hell many ISPs are selling it and at least one firm exists re-correlating it back to users. Now mix networks are going to need to start being set to X GB/day and then uniformly emit traffic regardless if legit or padding. Also say goodbye to low latency.
I think Hyphanet or IPFS or the like with fixed and padded bandwidth links will be the next step in privacy. Again, there are consumer ISPs selling netflow data!
Seems like a terrible experience, especially the "use of virtual machines" being flagged as suspicious considering what a benign and widespread tool that is.
Re: source. Hopefully I'm consistent, you can go back through my comment history. I was raided by the police a bit over two years ago. When I got my stuff back (8 months later, no charges) the lead detective said that there was evidence I'd downloaded things from Mega, and that this was "suspicious", amongst a couple of other things.
I got the feeling she thought I was still guilty and had somehow managed to get away with the distribution of which I was suspected (or it was some kind of retro justification for gross violation of my rights and she was taking a front foot stance to minimise the chances I'd see what legal avenues are available in such situations - turns out very few to none).
She specifically mentioned as suspicious:
- history of downloading from MEGA
- using virtual machines
- having "tor" installed.
Interesting combination of cluelessness (wait until they're introduced to containers!). MEGA somewhat stands out in that bunch, in that there are lots of similar services as far as I know. Makes me wonder if it's a honeypot (but maybe not, because then they'd know the only thing I downloaded from MEGA was android ROMs).
Other than being outspoken on certain topics online, my browsing history is as boring as the next guy's. So I really think they put some weight behind MEGA activity.