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

"These design changes make the systems in question exploitable through Sigint collection … with foreknowledge of the modification. To the consumer and other adversaries, however, the systems' security remains intact."

Al-Qaida, Al-Shabab, Al-All-else and of course those vile consumers.

edit; I like the 'Bullrun' (crack major HTTPS, VOIP and SSL) slide requirement; 'Indoctrination required for access to secure COI'.

 

NSA surveillance: A guide to staying secure by Bruce Schneier.

-- Tom

 

NSA tracks Google ads to find Tor users.

Related:
Packet Staining.

NSA Informed on Tor by Roger Dingledine.

Secret NSA documents show campaign against Tor encrypted network.

-- Tom

 

Want to Evade NSA Spying? Don’t Connect to the Internet

Want to Evade NSA Spying? Don’t Connect to the Internet by Bruce Schneier.

Bruce gives 10 rules for achieving secure air gapping with your computers.

-- Tom

 

Re: Want to Evade NSA Spying? Don’t Connect to the Internet

Snowden is just a whole bunch of FUD imo. I don't care how much data the NSA gathers on me? What are they going to use it for? And there are a bunch or backdoors on Windows? So who cares? How are they going to use those backdoors against me?

 

Re: Want to Evade NSA Spying? Don’t Connect to the Internet

If you're saying this then yeah, you're not one of the people who should care. Don't worry.

 

Re: Want to Evade NSA Spying? Don’t Connect to the Internet

What kind of people would care about NSA spying? Just of curiosity.

 

Re: Want to Evade NSA Spying? Don’t Connect to the Internet

Mainly the people who want privacy and control over their machines.

Not caring about computational spying/backdoors and saying

is the same as saying

Who knows what the collected data is used for. My conspiracy theories tell me it's not for the greater good.

 

Re: Want to Evade NSA Spying? Don’t Connect to the Internet

Don't use telephones either, especially not cellphones

@ComputersRock

Here's a short list of people who should care about NSA spying:

• people who value their privacy, for whatever reason
• people developing patentable products
• companies that compete with US companies
• companies that compete with Five Eyes' companies
• public officials (all countries)
• non-US spies
• whistle-blowers in US and friends
• Tea Party activists in US
• people managing off-shore resources
• revolutionaries (Thanks, hawki.)
• those jerks who always appear in these lists

 

Re: Want to Evade NSA Spying? Don’t Connect to the Internet

If the British had NSA's capabilities the USA would not exist.

I care about that.

I also care about the chilling effect it has on people speaking their hearts and minds in emails and such. The knowledge that your communications are not private has a chilling effect on free speach.

You don't care about that?

 

Re: Want to Evade NSA Spying? Don’t Connect to the Internet

Are there any good crypto stories from the US revolution?

Indeed: Duckduckgo "cryptography US revolution"

Invisible ink: <-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_ink->

 

The NSA attempted to monitor Tor users by using security holes in the Firefox web browser, according to reports.....http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24429332

 

Yes, their major success (very limited) with Tor is acting like botnet hackers

Maybe they just hired them as consultants.

 

One question... i read in many articles that the NSA has the capabilities and the financial resources to target and find everyone they wants, even in the Tor network and honestly, i believe in this BUT my question comes out spontaneus...

If they could do it WHY the biggest fish of the darknet have been busted only due to their personal errors? The owner of freenxx entered his personal twitter while he was on Tor and the owner of Silk R ONLY used a VPN (if the article i read its true) and he got busted only after 2-3 years? And just because he used his personal gmail in some forums...

So my question is, if NSA really have these resources to broke Tor and catch a user whenever they want, and im sure they can, why they only got catched cause of their personal errors? Because its not really easy as they claim or because they want use their resources for even BIGGER fish of the darknet??

Im really curious about this

And now a really really stupid question guy... im new about all of this,im just trying to learn and im not american... so this question for you is stupid for sure but... the NSA is just an american federal agency? Or an international one? If a user doesnt live in USA could be considered more or less safe against them? Thank u guys

 

NSA inundated by FOIA requests after Snowden leaks.

Reference: NSA freedom of information requests up 1000% post-Snowden.

-- Tom

 

How the NSA might use Hotmail, Yahoo or other cookies to identify Tor users.

-- Tom

 

Re: Want to Evade NSA Spying? Don’t Connect to the Internet

Ok thanks for the info.

 

NSA's Massive Utah Datacenter Having Serious Electrical Problems: Has Already Had 10 Fiery Explosions

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...lems-wont-be-storing-your-data-just-yet.shtml

 

That's https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?p=2289052

 

NSA’s Own Hardware Backdoors May Still Be a “Problem from Hell”.

-- Tom

 

How The NSA Deploys Malware: An In-Depth Look at the New Revelations by EFF.

-- Tom

 

Good riddance. Good news for us all!!

 

The NSA Isn't Foiling Terrorist Plots.

-- Tom

 

NSA reforms threatened by 'business-as-usual brigade', Ron Wyden warns.

-- Tom

 

NSA's Keith Alexander Doubles Down On His Plan To Spy On Wall Street To 'Protect' Wall Street.

-- Tom