>-----Original Message----- >From: Michael <confabul...@kintzios.com> >Sent: Saturday, August 6, 2022 1:32 AM >To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] About to have fiber internet and need VPN info > >On Saturday, 6 August 2022 07:07:26 BST Dale wrote: >> Michael wrote: >> > All connections to banks are encrypted end-to-end for decades now >> > and the encryption has becoming stronger over the years. >> >> That is likely true. I still remember Snowden tho. We don't know >> what backdoors are in use even for bank encryption. > >It's safer to assume state actors have full access to bank information. The >hope is bad guys don't get access too! ;-) >
They have no reason to bother. At least not in the USA. US courts ruled decades ago that as soon as you give information to a third party you lose all expectation of privacy (yes, even if the third party promised privacy in the contract you have with them.) Phone voice data and U.S. Mail are specifically protected legally, as are privileged communications with a lawyer, priest, or doctor (although that last category is so riddled with exceptions as to barely count). Otherwise, anybody you do any business with at all can be forced to give up any and all records they have about you, no warrant required, and can be ordered not to tell you it's been done. So government level actors spying on your banking just go to the bank. And they've been getting more nosey in recent years. Last I heard, any transaction over $600 gets automatically reported to them, and they keep talking about lowering that threshold. LMP
