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Post by sedelen on Aug 10, 2016 19:31:55 GMT -5
The DEA, Drug Enforcement Agency is playing a pretty big role these days, especially here in Colombia. They are tracking all internet traffic in Colombia. So, maybe you've experienced slow internet, it's no wonder why. colombiareports.com/dea-intercepting-all-internet-traffic-in-colombia-hacked-email/Now they are monitoring travel records, seizing millions. Quite lucrative I think. I have met people that stashed some cash in their bags as an alternative way to get the money here from the States without a great deal of expense or hassle. I'm not sure what the maximum is you can bring here and not declare it, but I bet it's less than $10,000.00. Seems like if the DEA doesn't like your answers as to why you have it, or it's fishy, they just take it. www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/dea-regularly-mines-americans-travel-records-to-seize-millions-in-cash/ar-BBvtMex?li=BBnbcA1I for one am not against the DEA, and I support the job their doing. It's really good for me to know their watching out for our general welfare. Some of their undercover activities here in Colombia have received a great deal of attention. sputniknews.com/us/20150421/1021196558.html
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Post by gallito on Aug 10, 2016 20:18:19 GMT -5
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Post by gallito on Aug 10, 2016 20:22:44 GMT -5
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Post by livinginmedellin on Aug 10, 2016 20:44:23 GMT -5
That's why you should use a VPN, which will encrypt your Internet traffic and change your IP address so you can't be tracked. I use a VPN with 256bit encryption - ExpressVPN. You also need a VPN to access some websites from Colombia as the VPN can give you an IP address in the US.
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Post by sedelen on Aug 10, 2016 21:08:41 GMT -5
That's why you should use a VPN, which will encrypt your Internet traffic and change your IP address so you can't be tracked. I use a VPN with 256bit encryption - ExpressVPN. You also need a VPN to access some websites from Colombia as the VPN can give you an IP address in the US. Someday, I'll get to the same page your at, with the high tech and the taxes, I really don't have anything to hide, but the privacy and added security is enticing.
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Post by mudd on Aug 10, 2016 22:12:18 GMT -5
if you have to change your IP address, your prob doing something you know you shouldn't be doing,
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Post by livinginmedellin on Aug 11, 2016 1:48:32 GMT -5
if you have to change your IP address, your prob doing something you know you shouldn't be doing, Not true! For example, my company's payroll system they used to use wouldn't work with a Colombian IP address. So I switched to an IP address in the US using my VPN and it worked fine. There is tons of geo-blocked content out there like Netflix and many others in the US, some in Europe like BBC-iPlayer that permits you to watch BBC channels and some elsewhere. Try buying videos or music on some sites with a Colombian IP address and you'll run into problems on some. Try accessing some sports. Torrent sites are cheap and easy....so much for trying to be honest and actually pay artists for their videos/music. There are also some financial websites that you will run into problems with an IP address in Colombia. Geo-blocking is discrimination based on territory. I'm a linguistic minority here in Colombia and would like access to more English language content. I also want to watch some sports that aren't available here in Colombia. The solution is VPNs that many expats use living in foreign countries.
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Post by scumbuster on Aug 11, 2016 5:52:12 GMT -5
if you have to change your IP address, your prob doing something you know you shouldn't be doing, That's completely untrue. I had to use a VPN when I was in Colombia just to renew my Magic Jack. My CC company was good with the transaction, It was Magic Jack that kept declining the transaction because it was a out of country IP. When you live there for any length of time you will find things you need a US IP address for. Plus I don't believe they have the right to be reading peoples emails and gathering information without having a warrant. This indiscriminant scooping up every bit of data from everyone under the guise of security is just big brother stuff.
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Post by colombiana on Aug 11, 2016 9:19:35 GMT -5
Yes you need a VPN to change your IP address. I use Netflix and if you have a IP address in Colombia the movies and shows available are different than in the US. So to get the US version of Netflix you need a US IP address.
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Post by papitohead on Aug 11, 2016 10:07:52 GMT -5
I don't have VPN but will shortly. I also have nothing to hide but will need it to watch my android tv box in Colombia.
... btw, did Hillary have a VPN account? lol.
I have talked many times about bitcoin. The safest way to take money with you anywhere in the world. And yes, all the money you want. Billions if you want and no one would know nothing. Colombia may tax my social security but not my billions I have hidden, lol.
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Post by sedelen on Aug 11, 2016 10:25:28 GMT -5
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Post by papitohead on Aug 11, 2016 10:51:03 GMT -5
@seleden, lol. nope, really not even in COP I have a billion. But they do not know exactly when they got hacked, they say from the 9th to the 12th. Rule of thumb, keep your bitcoin account in an old computer you never use. Keep it off line until you do a transfer or sell. That will take less than one minute. But if you leave your account open online, you are a target for hackers.
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Post by sedelen on Aug 12, 2016 14:47:01 GMT -5
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Post by billyb on Aug 12, 2016 16:39:06 GMT -5
I have a feeling if the NSA, or any other sophisticated surveillance agency wanted to monitor you really badly, they could still do so regardless of any counter measures you might take. Not that I have anything of interest to anybody, but I just go on the general assumption that anything I email, post, or say on the phone is monitored. They record everything that goes over the air (i believe it is called Echelon, or maybe a succesor project). They don't have a human listen to every word everybody is saying, but have algorythims that are set off by keywords or phrases which alert for a more close monitoring up to the point of having a human start listening or viewing communication.
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Post by scumbuster on Aug 12, 2016 16:53:27 GMT -5
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Post by sedelen on Aug 12, 2016 17:45:59 GMT -5
After looking at that list, I'm sure the government knows me pretty well. But is it enough to make a difference? Why, their probably reading what I'm writing right now, they must be bored to tears.
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Post by barrumundi on Aug 12, 2016 18:18:07 GMT -5
One of the words on that 'Lifehacker' list is 'Colombia'. I'm sure that we already have a few spooks on our member list (Hi guys!) "COLOMBIA CONNECTIONS" probably rang a few alarm bells when scumbuster first opened this site.
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Post by livinginmedellin on Aug 12, 2016 18:38:51 GMT -5
I'm sick in Colombia possibly with the flu that is probably due to exposure to someone from the Southwest border in Mexico with an infection that is taking an antiviral drug. That's 10 words in one sentence -- think the DEA, DHS, CIA or FBI will now read this (now 14)?
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Post by sedelen on Aug 12, 2016 18:47:27 GMT -5
One of the words on that 'Lifehacker' list is 'Colombia'. I'm sure that we already have a few spooks on our member list (Hi guys!) "COLOMBIA CONNECTIONS" probably rang a few alarm bells when scumbuster first opened this site. That's just one department I believe it mentions, we all know there are other intelligence gathering agencies who have their own lists also. If you're active on the computer, on-line, facebook, e-mails, etc, it's going to be hard not use all those words. Everyone thinks there's some guy in a back room monitoring all the E-mails and what not. But it just can't be, imagine the manpower it would take to do that, 24/7? So they just let computers bring them the prospective targets by focusing on key words and phrases, and go from there. Still, it's an uncomfortable feeling knowing others could be watching you.
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Post by livinginmedellin on Aug 12, 2016 20:30:29 GMT -5
One of the words on that 'Lifehacker' list is 'Colombia'. I'm sure that we already have a few spooks on our member list (Hi guys!) "COLOMBIA CONNECTIONS" probably rang a few alarm bells when scumbuster first opened this site. That's just one department I believe it mentions, we all know there are other intelligence gathering agencies who have their own lists also. If you're active on the computer, on-line, facebook, e-mails, etc, it's going to be hard not use all those words. Everyone thinks there's some guy in a back room monitoring all the E-mails and what not. But it just can't be, imagine the manpower it would take to do that, 24/7? So they just let computers bring them the prospective targets by focusing on key words and phrases, and go from there. Still, it's an uncomfortable feeling knowing others could be watching you. That's why NSA built a massive $1.5 billion data center in Utah to house all the computers and disk drives for a "massive data repository" to cope with the vast increases in digital data they have to process. It's reportedly estimated as the first facility in the world that can house a yottabyte (one septillion bytes) or more See: nsa.gov1.info/utah-data-center/
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Post by flynnflanagan on Aug 12, 2016 21:04:35 GMT -5
VPN is not 100% secure at all times and under all circumstances. It's a long story with many villeins. One of them is a new technology that has been under development for some time. It's called WebRTC along with other names. It can compromise your VPN. VPNs have value, but be careful BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU. His excuse is that he is keeping you safe. Use this web site to check your VPN. If you see the little green ball, you are good to go for what you are doing at that particular moment. ipleak.net/Better to just not do anything illegal. Privacy is one thing, criminal activity is another. google is not your friend. DuckDuckgo is a better choice.
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Post by livinginmedellin on Aug 12, 2016 21:28:45 GMT -5
VPN is not 100% secure at all times and under all circumstances. It's a long story with many villeins. One of them is a new technology that has been under development for some time. It's called WebRTC along with other names. It can compromise your VPN. VPNs have value, but be careful BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU. His excuse is that he is keeping you safe. Use this web site to check your VPN. If you see the little green ball, you are good to go for what you are doing at that particular moment. ipleak.net/Better to just not do anything illegal. Privacy is one thing, criminal activity is another. google is not your friend. DuckDuckgo is a better choice. WebRTC is a browser "feature" that permits websites to detect your real IP address, even when using a VPN! But you can easily reconfigure your browser to fix the WebRTC VPN "Bug" - it's very easy, see: www.bestvpn.com/blog/31048/the-webrtc-vpn-bug-and-how-to-fix-it/, which shows how to do this for each browser type.
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Post by billyb on Aug 12, 2016 23:40:08 GMT -5
Going to have to refer to Colombia as Nueva Granada from now on.
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Post by scumbuster on Aug 13, 2016 8:52:45 GMT -5
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Post by flynnflanagan on Aug 13, 2016 9:23:57 GMT -5
I believe that if you do some research you will find that Safari and IE are either in the process or have incorporated WebRTC.
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