NSA has direct access to tech giants' systems for user data, secret files reveal

Re: ACLU: FBI has '20 separate records' for every adult and child in the USA

I suppose it depends on what one person believes is a police state vs. another. Some would say we are already a police state, others would be skeptical until all the evidence is in.

-- Tom

 

Edward Snowden’s E-Mail Provider Defied FBI Demands to Turn Over Crypto Keys, Documents Show.

Unsealed Lavabit docs show that Feds demanded SSL keys.

-- Tom

 

Re: ACLU: FBI has '20 separate records' for every adult and child in the USA

Yet others are gonna deny it even when they are being hit with police baton.

 

What more evidence would they need?

Theres none so blind as those who wont see. (the obvious)

 

Re: ACLU: FBI has '20 separate records' for every adult and child in the USA

It's not prudent to expect anything from politics.

The best shot for privacy is good technology, and good operational security.

 

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/28/nsa-surveillance-too-many-documents-classified

 

NSA reveals more about its spying efforts at home.

-- Tom

 

Re: ACLU: FBI has '20 separate records' for every adult and child in the USA

Truth: There IS no privacy. Get over it...

 

Lavabit Tried Giving The Feds Its SSL Key In 11 Pages Of 4-Point Type; Feds Complained That It Was Illegible

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...e-feds-complained-that-it-was-illegible.shtml

 

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/03/gchq-legal-challenge-europe-privacy-surveillance

 

hi

Maybe is it time for some people to put their data/hard disk in No Surveillance Area where the NSA can not recover them
http://www.spiegel.de/static/360grad/kamtschatka/


As all have not been said, rendez-vous ten years after on this thread...


rgds

 

What you do is split your data, and put pieces is various places. Something as simple as creating a Truecrypt volume and using splits does the job. Tahoe-LAFS is far more elegant and usable.

Yes, time will tell

 

How a purse snatching led to the legal justification for NSA domestic spying.

-- Tom

 

Wow.

However, it is prudent to assume that records will be kept of all information provided to third parties.

 

yes

no

 

Actually that can't be true by definition (unless they can read your mind wherever you are), tired of generalizations.

 

I'm cool with that

We have as much privacy as we can create. The Internet is our best shot in centuries.

 

'Tor Stinks' presentation – read the full document. (apparently NSA presentation published by The Guardian)

-- Tom

 

Loved that presentation. Thank you very much. I will start using Tor.

 

Interesting presentation, though it strikes me as deliberately understating their abilities. It does raise several points that Tor users should take note of with compromised nodes and various types of leakage topping that list.

 

NSA repeatedly tries to unpeel Tor anonymity and spy on users, memos show.

-- Tom

 

mind reading site

http://www.fal.maghsad.com/

 

How the NSA Thinks About Secrecy and Risk by Bruce Schneier.

-- Tom

 

Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security.

-- Tom

 

At the risk of being boring, FOXACID demonstrates the crucial importance of compartmentalizing activities. At bare minimum, every pseudonym should have its own VM, and its own Internet-access setup (different VPN chains, Tor, etc). Further, each risk level for each pseudonym should be firewalled off. It's also prudent to use diskless LiveCD VMs as much as possible, especially for critical work.