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>Thank you for your response yes I would like to read the python book.

Here's the book. If you know where to look you can find it for free digitally but I won't link that.

>The vpn does protect me from prism right it’s just individually directed nsa targets that it doesn’t protect?

This is an interesting question wrt Proton specifically. If you use their Swiss servers only, in theory it should protect you from PRISM, because the NSA has no power in Switzerland and they're not a member of any intelligence sharing agreements (e.g. Five Eyes) either. So there's no reason to think the NSA is gonna be passively wiretapping over there.

If on the other hand you connect to a US server, I can pretty much guarantee you that whatever data centre the endpoint server is in, the NSA has access to it through some form or another.

The same is likely true on, say, a UK server because we know the UK is the major partner with the US in the Five Eyes. In fact the official name of the agreement is the UKUSA Agreement. This means they share intelligence very closely, so GCHQ will have a UK data centre tapped and share that info with the NSA.

Assume the same if you connect to any server in Europe as well. They're all part of intelligence sharing agreements with the US. Germany and the Netherlands are especially bad for this.

Oh and Canada yeah they have data sharing shit as well.

So if you really want the best chance of avoiding PRISM, use only Proton's own Swiss data centre.

>I just don’t want all my non criminal data being collected by the government or corporations. I’m not doing anything criminal.

Exactly. Or frankly things the crooked state calls criminal even though they need harm no one (e.g. smoking weed).

>Also what are your thoughts on solid and Inrupt?

Looks like another company's go at the same idea behind Swarm.

I like that so many projects for a decentralised internet exist. It shows there is a market and big interest from serious people.

However why is a for-profit company developing such a thing? That's the question I always ask myself with corporate backed projects like this. They realistically can't charge for access, which leaves some type of monetisation based on data. Otherwise where is the revenue coming from?

With the Ethereum project I mentioned there is no company, it's just a pure community open source project.

>I’m interested in these things to realease a platform or encryption software to sell, make a business as I think privacy is the new era of the internet.

Well they all have SDK's so you can develop on top of the platform. They're also open source so you can contribute directly to the development.

>However if VPNs don’t do that and Tim Berners lee is already developing a new internet it might just be a waste of time.

Really the current internet was not designed to become what it is today. The WWW will be replaced eventually. By who and with what are the big questions.

>Also have you heard of guardian firewall for the iPhone? Is it a waste of money?

Not worth their prices at all. I also question why they have a free VPN. A VPN is not free to run so again... where does the money come from?

If you want to block trackers and ads etc from your internet connection look at Pi Hole instead. I use this both locally on my WiFi, so anyone who connects automatically uses a local DNS server that blocks ads, trackers, malware, etc. You just need a spare computer or to buy a Raspberry Pi and set it up. Don't pay $9.99 every month. Pay $30 once and set it up yourself.

You can also use a VPS to set up the same thing in your own VPN that you control. It would cost you only $4 or so a month.