How many germans do you need to change a lightbulb?

One. We are efficient and have no humour.

My local post office did the same. All letters and packages are now sent open so staff can read and see the contents. /s

Somehow everyone has forgotten about parental controls that have been apart of consumer grade home routers for years.

Parental controls are there specifically to help parents. These settings allow a parent to block everything online only allowing access to approved lists of websites, generaly done through a whitelist or approved websites.

What is missing at a government level is a “curation effort” of websites, similar to Libraries that classify books by genres and appropriate age levels.

I would propose a government fund where Librarians or similar organizations can start this effort, and make these lists easily accessible within routers for non tech individuals, together with local initiatives and programs for parents that have a interest to learn more.

For power users lists like these already exists curated by public individuals very similar to pihole block lists and whitelists.

This concept would be the most privacy respectful IMO giving parents the most power to parent, while respecting everyone else’s privacy online including children.

But somehow we all know this is not about “protecting the children”, but really about mass surveillance for the public at all age groups, and yet this topic keeps coming up.

People should be fighting to oppose this more then trying to figure out ways to circumvent this at the moment.

If I were to send a physical letter written in code that can only be decrypted with a cipher would I now be breaking the law?

What about radio or telephone conversations in code?

Can I still password protect my zip files or encrypt my NAS or PC before boot?

When it was offline it was working correctly

Edit: Never mind, I thought the flock cameras themselves were offline.

Yup, have you ever noticed for example if you are using a maps app like Google maps with wifi off you location tends to jump around a lot. With wifi on its general more accurate.

Personally I run VMware with windows on it.

This VM is disconnected from internet access and put on a separate VLAN on my network but has access to one share folder on my NAS.

Its overkill but fits my needs when I want to roll back the VM or save multiple sessions of it.

Wise is a option as well. They provide a virtual credit card so you can use it online, though you only get one virtual card at a time.

It does require ID and information as its close to being a bank

I been running a virtualized pfsense on a PC using Proxmox. It’s been serving me well for the last 2-3 years.

https://imgur.com/a/zUD0jx2

The benefits of running it on proxmox gives me the option to virtualize a few more servers on the same hardware.

And as a few people have pointed out in the comments, it’s not the hardware that’s providing the security per say, it’s the software you are running.

A PC running OpenWRT vs a modem running OpenWRT are more or less the same.

How can you ban a VPN (virtual private network)?

I have a VPN setup at home and at my parents home, I can connect either as if I was at either location physically. My office has VPNs for connecting between offices and connecting from remote locations. And dont get me started about being and to purchase a VPS in any country you want, and run a VPN on it.

Does this mean people and companies can no longer setup their own VPN’s.

If this is about privacy and anonymity, evey bowsers on any device has a unique identifying fingerprint that allows it to be identifiable even using a VPN. So what is this ban even targeting?

The Hidden Tracking Method Your VPN Can’t Block - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJOpHSPkWMo

Pretty much, BTW you also want to disable WiFi and Bluetooth when entering big box stores.

They are notorious for tracking your phone, and by extension you and your shopping habbits when you step into one if their stores.

Second hand sales and flee markets, no cameras (mostly true) and you can pay cash.

If I run WireGuard at home as a personal VPN does it provide the same sort of QUIC obfuscation? Or is there something that I can implement similar?

Yup Facebook can and does scrap other websites.

Those log in with Facebook buttons tracking you all over the web even if you don’t log in with them.

My guess maybe a website like LinkedIn for example had your middle name and facebook used that to build your full name on your deleted account (that’s still floating around out there by the long last of it)

Imagine getting a request to have a government official access your self-hosted Nextcloud instance that you might be running behind a self-hosted VPN.

I doubt it would be 100% completely possible, it was more of a hypothetical thought in its self.

Knowing most services are reliant on the internet now, such a POS (point of sale) devices in stores, home phones, condo intercoms, buying airline tickets.

Its would definitely be easier to just stay away or block enshitified parts at the firewall level. Though in some cases even then I find myself using Facebook for its Marketplace only as a example.

Inshitification of the Internet, who would have thought.

I wonder what it would take now to ditch the internet like one would do when ditching Facebook for example.

Check out Aves Libre on F-Droid

I had to ditch Google Photos app because of my paranoia, about this exact same thing that happened to you.