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[welcomedhappiness]

Farewell online privacy

[tikalgirl]

What happened?

[welcomedhappiness]

Trump happened.

[pizzaalle]

just get a VPN?

[earth-ruins]

You can’t just tell people to ‘get a VPN (Virtual Private Network)’. Buying a VPN is like buying a house. It’s very very important. Having no VPN or having a ‘wrong’ one can seriously damage your life. Especially for Americans because their privacy laws are garbage. I am going to try explain why you should get a VPN but bare with me, I am from Germany and my English is far from perfect. 

Let’s start with a simple test. Click this link here: https://whatismyipaddress.com/ It will tell your IP adres, your ISP (internet service provider), and your location. The location might not be very accurate, but then again, it’s just a simple website. Imagine what the government can do!

So basically, everyone can find out where you live. But there is more danger. Your ISP. Your ISP logs your every move online and they are required to keep it in case the government wants access to it (or if a 3rd party wants to buy your data (yikes). They have everything. What websites you visit. How long you stay on a website. What you download. Your search terms. European laws are more subtle on this but if you are from the US you are #@*#&, especially because Trump doesn’t support the open internet. It’s scary but maybe in the future you can’t get a job because the recruiter knows your searched on ‘how to deal with depression’ or anythings else that’s supposed to be private because it’s your f*cking right. Or you get a $100k fine because you pirated a movie 15 years ago. You need a VPN. You’re dumb for not using one. but what does a VPN do?

A VPN encrypts all your data so if it were be intercepted no one can ‘crack the code’ and damage your privacy. 

Usually being online goes like this (simplified): Your computer —-> ISP (—–> keeps data —–> sells it)

But with a VPN it goes like: Your computer —–> VPN (encrypts data)—–> ISP (ISP can’t see shit)

Furthermore, a VPN hides your IP address and location by giving you another IP address located in Spain for example (you can often choose from a list and change as many times as you want).  

Now that you know why you should get a VPN and what is does it is important to educate yourself because people often choose the wrong VPN. VPN providers are also businesses and have to obey the law. If you choose a VPN provider located in the US then you are throwing your money away because the laws in the US shits on your privacy. If the US gov wants the provider to give all their logs they have to obey.  The ISP  still can’t see what you are doing online and sell your data but the US gov can interfere with your VPN provider so NEVER CHOOSE A PROVIDER LOCATED IN THE US. 

I just wanted to make that very clear so my followers don’t buy false security.

There is still more danger!  Who says your VPN provider isn’t selling your data? You need to check their logging policy. Do they keep logs? If yes, what for? For how long do they keep them? Tip: Choose a provider who doesn’t keep logs

More about law  The US is part of the Five Eyes program (the worst):  

The Five Eyes, often abbreviated as FVEY, is an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. These countries are bound by the multilateral UKUSA Agreement, a treaty for joint cooperation in signals intelligence (source)

There is also a Nine Eyes (bit better) and Fourteen Eyes Program (better).  You don’t want a VPN provider who is located in one the Five Eyes countries.  If you had to choose go for a provider located in a country that’s part of the Fourteen Eyes Program or even better, go for a country that isn’t part of any program! 

I know this is a shitty explanation and please pardon my english but now it’s time to do your own research. Take your privacy seriously. Maybe WWIII breaks out and you get killed for liking the ‘wrong’ FB-page.  

Go to this website: https://thatoneprivacysite.net/simple-vpn-comparison-chart/

Make sure that your future VPN provider both has green boxes for Privacy Jurisdiction and Privacy Logging. 

I recommend ovpn.se and trust.zone. ovpn is located in Sweden so they are part of the 14 Eyes Program and they keep minimal logs. Their business ethics, however, are alright. 

Trustzone is located in the Seychelles. No country can interfere and their privacy jurisdiction is the best you can get. The US want your data but needs to get it from Trustzone? The Seychelles will simply give them the finger and wave them goodbye. However, this makes this provider very appealing for people who torrent and criminals because they keep no logs (and that is how it shoud be) Also,  there are almost no marketing efforts so this provider is one the cheapest)

Also, often providers such as ExpressVPN are being called ‘The Best’ on websites about VPNs but know that this is just marketing which also makes those provider more expensive (and they too shit on your privacy)

This must be the worst article you have ever read but please, please take your privacy very seriously.

EDIT: I got many people asking me which provider I use. For those who want to know, I use Trust Zone. They offer a free 3-day trial with no strings attached. But still do your own research! 

[writing-prompt-s]

I am also with Trustzone but I think you forgot to explain one of it’s most important features. It protects you when you are using someone else’s Wi-Fi. If you are at Starbucks and you use their Wi-Fi your privacy is at risk. Anyone with ill intentions could steal your information. Especially if you are using an unsecured Wi-Fi hotspot. With a VPN your data gets encrypted so no one can steal it. 

[rabbittiddy]

Wait, what’s going, on? Did trump destroy internet privacy with a bill or something? Where’s the news? Oh wait, why am I getting visions of Alex Jones and selling water purifiers?

[thecrystalfems]

He hasn’t yet but he says he wants to. And if he is serious about it it would be really easy to do. Since all our data is already recorded, as the person above explained.

[coltrer]

Trump wants more surveillance of Muslim Americans. This in a country where internet privacy is already close to non-existent. 

Trust.Zone has a free trial. Use it. 

btw this post only has 11k notes? That’s quite disappointing for something this important. 

Don’t reblog this post to save a life. Reblog this to protect an entire family!

[imthedoctor12]

@earth-ruins @writing-prompt-s Should I get trustzone for my mobile device?

[writing-prompt-s]

If you use public Wi-Fi, then yes. Which VPN you use is up to you, amigo. Take @earth-ruins advice. Do your own research first. 

[writing-prompt-s]

@elvesfromthedeep​ just brought the current situation in the US to my attention (March 30, 2017). 

Sources

Anger as US internet privacy law scrapped 

Congress just voted to let internet providers sell your browsing history 

To all my friends in the US, please read this entire post. Making everyone aware of VPNs is going to be my mission. Your privacy matters. Please reblog this post.

[greeneyespurpleheart]

Don’t tell me you just wanted to scroll past this. Stop looking at pictures of cats for a moment, okay? Don’t you realize how important this is? This is dangerous! ‘America, the best FREE country in the world’ my ass.

With this new law your ISP can sell your Internet history which could include passwords, usernames, religion, credit card numbers, race and much more to the highest bidder. So here is what I want you to do. You are going to read the whole thing and before you think ’this is so important. Let me reblog this real quick and go back to admiring cats again-’ NO! Don’t reblog this. Take action first. Then reblog. Sign up for a free trial! Trust.Zone offers one (here). Yes. It might be difficult to set up a VPN for some people. But is that going to stop you from protecting yourself and your family? 30 minutes. 30 minutes is all that it takes. 5 if you know how to install software. The problem with some of you is that you see ‘difficult’ as something negative. I want you to see difficult differently. I need you to push through this stuff. You are going to protect yourself. There is nothing negative about that. VPNs are fun and costsaving too! A VPN bypasses geographical restrictions so you can access websites you normally can’t or you could start Netflix’s one month free trial over and over again- forever. And it’s legal! (unless you use it to buy weapons etc.,) Don’t tell yourself that you are too tired and that you will do this tomorrow. Because that isn’t going to happen and you know it. You have to do this right now. You only have to click on it. Don’t let this/shit/life just happen to you. Take yourself seriously. Get a VPN.

Privacy is not a privilege, it’s a fundamental human right

[tthatonefangirl-deactivated2019]

Ok sorry that it’s so freaking long and also sorry for the language, but this is extremely important. Please reblog!

[li-ionsandtigersandbears]

Reblogging again bc this is important

[clementinn]

We have a VPN you should get one too

[theesirenofthevoid]

Please read.

[bae-in-maine]

Can you get them for your phones?

[kika-lei]

^ you can. & when you have a subscription you can use it on your phone and computer. no need for separate subs or purchases.

it is absolutely so important for safety. but one of my fave things to do with my vpn is access non-US netflix. I mean other places have all the new good place eps, all the ‘classic’ bggo eps…

[universalfanfic]

writing advice: never italicize words to show emphasis! if you’re writing well then the reader will know and you don’t need them!

me: oh really??? listen up, pal, you can just try an pull italics from my cold, dead fingers

[alyxrae]

I feel this on a spiritual level.

[masterofthelivingforce]

bringing back this great example.

I can and will italicize the fuck out of my writing, thank you very much.

[i-want-my-iwtv]

you can pry italics out of my cold dead hands

[williwrites-blog]

Killing Games (Chapter 1)

She took tentative steps forward, her gaze darting in every direction that she illuminated with the beam of her flashlight. Her other hand gripped the knife so tightly that if her knuckles could be seen, they would look as though they were turning white. At the slightest noise she would give a start and whip around to point the blade in the direction from which it came, refusing to relax even after confirming that there was nothing - or no one - there.

The voice had left much unsaid, but one thing was clear: someone - or something - was out to kill the twelve people here. That is, if the voice was to be trusted. Though she had no watch or other surefire method of keeping track of time, she guessed that nearly an hour had passed since she had woken up in this strange place, and still she had yet to stumble across anything or anyone that would provide some validity to the voice’s claims. Even so, what better choice did she have than to take them seriously? It didn’t help that she could barely remember anything from before she woke up; her memory was hazy at best, with nothing more than a brief recollection of a car, and she had no personal belongings other than the clothes she was wearing, which themselves did not provide any clues either.

Briefly she wondered who might have set up this game - the ‘Killing Game,’ as the voice called it - and why; there had to be some reason why someone would take the trouble to gather all of these people and force them into a life-or-death situation like this. Maybe it was an experiment. ‘Or,’ she thought, ‘maybe they’re just a sicko who enjoys watching people kill each other.’ Because they had to be watching. How else would they know what was going on within these walls? It wouldn’t be inconceivable that they had cameras installed in the room and were monitoring her and the other participants - after all, the voice had seemed to know when they were all awake.

She stopped walking as the flashlight illuminated a wall right in front of her. She waved it around, her eyes following its path as she tried to determine the best way to proceed. The light seemed to hit another patch of wall further away on her left, but the right path seemed to be clear, so she headed in that direction. She didn’t take more than a few steps before she stopped again; the flashlight revealed another wall a few feet in front of her, making it pointless for her to continue. She scanned the area around her, taking a few steps in each direction to be sure that there wouldn’t be a wall in her path before she made her choice. She finally decided to go left, wishing she had a string or some other way of marking where she had come from; she was beginning to get disoriented, and she had lost track of how long she had been walking and how far she had walked from where she first woke up. Maybe it was the nerves - she wasn’t necessarily afraid, but the prospect of coming across someone who might kill her, or who she might have to kill… That had her on edge. She needed to be ready for anything. Stumbling around in the dark- that wasn’t the priority. It was only a secondary concern.

A brief flash a few feet away caught her attention. She quickly switched off her flashlight and held her breath as she waited, trying to determine if it had just been her imagination. But then she saw it again, this time as a steady glow. She tensed, knowing that it meant she wasn’t alone. She crept towards the light, keeping her own flashlight turned off so as not to reveal her position; she didn’t know who she would find, or whether she could trust them given the circumstances. As she got closer, she kept her eyes trained on the shifting flashlight beam, and was able to vaguely make out the shape of the person holding it. Hardly daring to breathe, she raised her own flashlight, her thumb on the switch, and readied her knife. They turned slowly, the flashlight beam gradually sweeping in her direction. Just as the light was about to land on her, she took a step forward and-

“AGH!”

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So, has the killing begun? Keep an eye out for the next chapter to see what happened and what’s to come!

[williwrites-blog]

Killing Games (Chapter 0)

Three days before:

“Hey!”

I smiled and held the phone closer to my ear, identifying the voice on the other end as my best friend.

“Yo,” I greeted him casually as I picked up the box of cake that I had just bought. “What’s up?”

“You gonna be at the party soon?”

“Yup! I already have the cake.” I glanced down at the box as I walked down the street, turning the corner as he replied.

“Okay, sounds good. See you soon!”

“See ya!”

I ended the call and stuffed the phone in my pocket, checking my watch as I did so. It was no wonder he had called; I was about a minute away from being late. Looking around, I spotted a taxi close by and immediately made my way up to it.

“Excuse me,” I began as I approached, knocking slightly on the half-open window when I got there, “could I get a ride to XXXXXX Apartments?”

The driver grunted, the lower half of his face obscured by the newspaper he seemed to be immersed in. Taking that as a “yes,” I quickly opened the door and got into the backseat, keeping the cake on the seat next to me. As soon as I pulled the door closed, all the windows rolled shut and I heard a deep click, indicating that the driver had locked the car. I made myself comfortable, my gaze fixated on my phone as I typed a message to let my friends know that I was on my way, when I realized that the car still had not moved an inch. Glancing up, I noticed the driver pulling something onto his head, and before I could say anything, a purplish smoke began to emerge from the air conditioning vents.

“What- what’s going on?” I spluttered, banging on the windows and beginning to cough, “Hey! Let- let me- OUT!”

The driver turned to face me just as my movements became slower and I struggled to keep my eyes open. Briefly, I caught sight of a gas mask before my vision turned black.

[williwrites-blog]

So I finally decided to get off my lazy butt and start posting on this blog again since quarantine’s happening and anyway it’s been way too long... Also, I decided to take down some of the WIPs since I just couldn’t really figure out how I wanted to continue them and didn’t really have a whole lot of ideas... But, there will be more writing coming with some new stories, so be prepared! To those that have been keeping track of this blog, I’m really sorry about being gone for so long, but thank you so much for sticking around! :)

[williwrites-blog]

Killing Games (Prologue)

A blank space. That was what she woke up to. It was too large to be called just a “room,” and too colorless to be reminiscent of anything but a blank sheet of paper. Not even one blemish could be spotted on the impeccably white walls. The ceiling was composed of blinding fluorescent lights, which only seemed to get brighter the longer she looked at them. Looking down, she realized that the floor on which she sat was white as well. Where was she? She had no idea. There were no windows, no doors, just numerous feet of walls and tiled flooring. As she stood up, she heard a sound similar to that of a crackling intercom, followed by a voice resonating throughout the room.

“Welcome!” The automated voice began in what perhaps was supposed to be a cheery tone, “I see all of you are finally awake.”

The voice paused, as if waiting for something, then continued:

“You must have many questions. Where are you, what is this place, why are you here… All reasonable, but irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. More importantly, you will find some useful tools close to where you have woken up. I would advise that you take them.”

Another pause ensued, and heeding the voice’s instructions, she looked around her once more until her eyes fell on a small package. Reaching for it, she wondered why she had not spotted it before while she had been examining her surroundings. As she began to open the tightly sealed package, the voice began to speak once more.

“Let us think of this as a game, shall we? There are twelve of you. There is someone who shouldn’t be here… If you wish to win, and if you intend on leaving this place, find this person and eliminate them from the game.”

After struggling for a minute, she finally managed to open the package.

“If you don’t, you lose.”

She pulled out a flashlight.

“And if you lose, you will not leave here…”

She pulled out a knife.

“…alive.”

The walls surrounding her began to lower slowly, revealing rooms beyond them.

“Welcome to the Killing Game.”

In the distance she could see the ceiling begin to turn black, the room below darkening with it. A loud ‘thud’ echoed with each row of lights abruptly shutting off. The darkness was getting closer, when she finally pulled one last item out of the package. Finally, only the square of the room in which she sat was illuminated. A shriek pierced the brief silence, startling her as she unfurled the paper in her hand.

The voice chuckled. “Looks like it has already begun.”

The two words on the paper were the last thing she saw before the darkness engulfed her.

“Good luck.”

[catchymemes]

[link-the-feral-anon]

When you remember the anti-vax movement

[burger-prince]

[tatsutahimet]

I first reblogged this in January, and here my ass is in March 2020 self-quarantined at home.

[c-is-for-circinate]

THIS POST DID NOT AGE WELL

[fun-with-colors]

This post was prophetic

[red-white-black]

[jack-gourdon]

I think back to these memes everyday. And they did, indeed, not age well.

[nitholites]

[williwrites-blog]

Fanfic Masterlist

Works coming soon!

[stormwaterwitch]

Rabbits Rabbits Rabbits

Reblog this on the first of the month for good luck all month long!

[dumbbbunnnyy-deactivated2021021]

[yourdailyjackson]

[m00nk1ld]

@moonmangyu

[sehunicorne]

how to be lethally attractive while just talking: a guide by kim jongin

[95z]

his voice 😭

[kookmint]

hips don’t lie

[williwrites-blog]

Fake Texts Masterlist

BTS

-Groupchat Scenarios

You hype the boys up (*cough* fangirl *cough) after watching the ‘Idol’ mv

EXO (coming soon!)

Attack on Titan (coming soon!)

[williwrites-blog]

You hype the boys up (*cough* fangirl *cough*) after watching the ‘Idol’ mv 

This is my first attempt at fake texts :D I know a bunch of people have already done the ‘best friend reacts/hypes them up’ thing but I thought I might as well try... But I hope you guys like it and I’ll be doing more fake texts in the future so I’ll definitely try to improve :)

[bts-trans]

180829 BTS’ Tweet

얼쑤 #JIMIN #호비 #꾹 #URSOO #IDOL #IDOLCHALLENGE pic.twitter.com/crkANE5Pkl

Hurrah #JIMIN #Hobi #Kkook #URSOO #IDOL #IDOLCHALLENGE

(T/N: The phrase of ‘얼쑤’ is often used as a filler in Pansori - Korean folk entertainment performances. Romanized as “ursoo” here, it is also in IDOL’s lyrics.)

Video translations: JH: Please play it! S: Ah, wait. JH: Hey! JH: Hey you!

Trans cr; Mary @ bts-trans © TAKE OUT WITH FULL CREDITS

[jinspawss]

IM SCREAMING HES SO CUTE