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    Default Re: "Free" encrypted end to end communications over the internet

    Quote Originally Posted by JDA58 View Post
    You lost me at:This is a concept that I've been toying around with
    I did take that into account:

    The concept is simple (for me, maybe not for some of you over the age 60).
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    Default Re: "Free" encrypted end to end communications over the internet

    Two things:

    I found a list of lists lastnight for Pihole. I now have it setup to block 5.8M nasty domains. False positives are of course a problem, but those are easily whitelisted.

    Second, a concept that a friend and I came up with many years ago when FRS radios were still fairly new on the market. Back then we used a pair of FRS base stations that we picked up at Radio Shack, that also had Audio (mic/speaker) jacks on them. That fed into a PC running TeamSpeak in Vox mode. Basically an FRS to PC repeater so to speak. Building on that original concept from about 20 years ago, it would probably be possible to do the same thing using a Raspberry Pi running the mumble client. FRS/GMRS radios could then communicate on your LAN.
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    Default Re: "Free" encrypted end to end communications over the internet

    Major upgrade to Pihole was recently released, taking it from v4.4 to v5.0. Several new features, and it appears to have had major improvements made in operation. Previous version with it blocking 5.8M domains memory usage was at 55.6%. New version with the same domain list is now holding at 8.8%. I was also seeing DNS resolution failures, mostly related to the look up timing out before the client got a response back. I was able to tweak the settings to improve that as well.

    Someone on the forum has asked me to prepare a unit for them. It will be doing Pihole, PiVPN and Open Media Vault with an 8TB drive attached. Now if Amazon would actually deliver the items in a reasonable time frame, I'd be happy.
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    Default Re: "Free" encrypted end to end communications over the internet

    Quote Originally Posted by streaker69 View Post
    Any time you're behind a firewall using any of the normal private IP ranges, once you leave the firewall, your MAC address appears at the MAC of the router. The router keeps track of requests via a MAC table. The tracking involved would be on the router, not out on the internet. So the question is, does anyone really think these companies that are setting up free Wifi are taking the time to actually track every device in every location across the country? It would be an awfully expensive program, with very little reward. Can it be done, it surely can, but I doubt that the companies actually care to do so.

    I'm not sure I understand the point of going through a proxy when you don't actually know who owns it. Do you honestly believe that all these proxy hosts out there are owned by friendly freedom loving private citizens paying for the service out of their own pocket, or is it more likely they're own by governments? I'm sure some of them are former, but I bet more are the latter.
    I would bet it is a contract job and only a few companies actually do all the work. Probably a common implementation with no code scrutiny. Now who would be interested in doing that? Wahahaha! (Sinister laughing)
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