How do I hide my Internet usage from an ISP?
Let's go beyond VPN and/or TOR alone, and roll up our sleeves. The best you can do without leaving home is to encrypt all of your DNS traffic (HTTP(S)/VoIP/XMPP/Skype/P2P/etc.), bind your IP traffic to an always-on 256-bit VPN tunnel hosted by an administrator and location that you trust, use TOR for browsing, block all tracking cookies and request that data-mining companies delete your profile, and potentially use protocol obfuscation and metadata scrambling (as with Proprietary Chameleon Technology - VyprVPN) for TCP traffic. You might also consider using Off-the-Record Messaging and Pretty Good Privacy for IM and email, if your interlocutors agree to it. If you don't trust the security of TOR exit nodes, you could further randomize your immediate destination addresses by sending it through high-anonymity SOCKS proxy servers while still binding all traffic to your VPN tunnel.The best you can do in general would include all of the above, while also SSHing to various remote Raspberry Pis or other small, hidden networked devices you've placed here and there in the world using free public Wi-Fi at locations with high volumes of casual Internet traffic. This is obviously more suspicious in the long run and you might contend with high packet loss from all the encryption and hops involved, but would help account for compromised TOR exit nodes.If you travel, but have a secure setup on a remote PC, you could also RDP into that remote PC using 256-bit encryption, provided that the clipboard is disabled and no screen-capture or key-logging software is running on the local PC. And make sure that wherever you are, your Skype traffic is transferred through a proxy server with the geolocated IP address you want others to believe matches your physical location.
How do I retrieve data from a deactivated SIM card?
Absolutely yes , you can retrieve data from a deactivated sim card.When I say data it is what got stored in that sim card's memory.Which includes generally contact details , messages etcbut not the details like call history or any network related details
Is there any way to delete/clear out all previous call records by any means (number portability etc.)?
No.ALSO, if you lose your phone with SIM in it, you should lodge an FIR immediately with the police and keep a copy for your protection so that your phone number does not come up in any false case.With terror up, it is mandatory for all service providers to keep the data for 3 years minimum. They’ll note down originating number, call connecting time, recipient number, call duration.If it gives any relief to you, only the call conversation is not recorded for everyone. It does happen if police, other govt or private organizations get an order from court. That’s different though, called tapping…If you haven’t done anything wrong, you need not be worried. It’s all just standard procedure.
I had uninstalled my WhatsApp almost 10 months ago, and now I am gonna install it again. Will I be able to receive all the messages that were sent to me over the past 10 months?
Assuming you haven't deactivated account, let me share my view.I am describing Whatsapp messaging mechanism in short.It uses user's data service either cell data connection or wifi to send message to its server. Then from server message is routed to recipient, provided recipient is online.If recipient is not online then undelivered message is held in server until it is delivered.If message is not delivered to recipient within 30 days, then it is deleted from server. Delivered messages are not stored at servers.Considering above mentioned points, you uninstalled Whatsapp means you were not online for 10 months. So my conclusion is, messages of 9 months will be deleted from server and you won't get those. You will get messages from only last 30 days. I would like to know what happens in your case.Points are compiled from: WhatsApp :: Legal
Does the telecom companies store/record the calls and SMS of all citizens in India?
Short Answer: No.Long Answer:Recording all incoming and outgoing calls of all the subscribers in their network places unnecessarily high demands on the service providers storage space. They would need millions more terabytes than they currently have to store all this information. And how long do they retain this information if they do happen to store it somewhere? The storage requirements mandate that they can't store it indefinitely. But, all service providers have the capability to record your conversation if they so wish. The process is relatively simple and legal. And in certain special cases, for example if you are a person of interest in a government investigation for example, then yes, your calls might very well be recorded, both incoming and outgoing. The fact that service providers (Airtel, Vodafone, Docomo et al) do not record your conversations is not out of respect for your privacy it's because it's not worth it when considering the bandwidth requirements it would place on them. EDIT: Well, with the really really cheap cloud storage is it still too expensive for billion dollar companies to just store everything? Right now it is. Let's take Vodafone as a use case. Their customer base in India is roughly 150,000,000. Lets assume each subscriber speaks for 5 minutes a day on average, which is a conservative estimate. A medium quality MP3 audio file would be ~5MB for around 5 minutes of audio. But for arguments sake lets consider the lowest possible bit rate encoding or AMR encoding - which would allow us to store 10 minutes of audio in 1MB. This means, (Number of subscribers * Average Minutes ) / 1024 = Number of GB required/day(150000000 * 5) / 1024 = ~75000 GB/day. If we can store all this in Amazon's glacier storage (the cheapest in the world?) at 0.01 $/ GB (This isn't available in India by the way). we'd still need around 750$ or 45000 Rs a day! On storing data which has no monetized usage as of now. Source: 6 years of engineering telecommunications networks.
Why can't I access 192.168.1.1? How can I solve this?
Switch off your router and wait for at least a minute before restarting it. Now try to connect to the gateway. If you have difficulty knowing your gateway try one of these:1. 192.168.0.1 2. 192.168.1.13. 192.168.2.1 If you are sure that yours is 192.168.1.1 then try the address a few times. Make sure your device is connected to your router. Go to 192.168.1.1 and RELOAD the page until you can access the login page.Easy way to find your router login page or default gateway is typing a command “ipconfig” for Windows OS or Open https://routerslogin.com to detect your router login IP address (automatically detect your router IP address).Sometimes it happened with my faulty router, I had to reload the page for 10 or more times before access was granted.