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by sureglymop 678 days ago
The app "Rethink: DNS + Firewall + VPN" has similar features.
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I really like Rethink DNS. I have learned many things from watching it (such as I think Signal is compromised by some five-eyes "crossing the border" fuckery.)
I agree with the first sentence. I cannot even begin to comprehend what semantics you were trying to convey with the second sentence however. I am also lacking all context to be able to understand (compromised in what sense, by whom and to what degree? which border? what is "fuckery" defined as?).

I appreciate you trying to add to the discussion but in this case you leave me with way more questions than I started out with which I personally perceive as an unwanted mental overhead.

Sorry I don't check HN very often these days.

What I mean is by watching the IPs, I see a lot of cross-border ingress/egress when it shouldn't be necessary. It's not proof, but an indicator of probability to me, that echelon style mechanisms are being used.

If you are unaware of echelon and related programs, essentially, since it's illegal for the US (officially at least) to spy on it's own citizens without a warrant, instead they let an "ally" country like the UK spy on Americans and then "share the data", essentially another abuse of third party doctrine.

I hope that helps clarify.

> such as I think Signal is compromised by some five-eyes "crossing the border" fuckery

Would you mind elaborating?

TrackerControl is great too. Both are FOSS and can be used in the backgroud for using a custom DNS server and blocking certain categories of domains.