Leaked NSA Documents Reveal How To Hide From The NSA

Huffington Post via MSN ^ | 1/01/15 | Damon Beres

[Libloather]

If you want a truly anonymous life, then maybe it's time you learned about Tor, CSpace and ZRTP.

These three technologies could help people hide their activities from the National Security Agency, according to NSA documents newly obtained from the archive of former contractor Edward Snowden by the German magazine Der Spiegel.

The combination of Tor, CSpace and ZRTP (plus another anonymizing technology for good measure) results in levels of protection that the NSA deems "catastrophic" -- meaning the organization has "near-total loss/lack of insight to target communications," according to Der Spiegel.

"Although the documents are around two years old, experts consider it unlikely the agency's digital spies have made much progress in cracking these technologies," Spiegel's staff wrote.

[indthkr]

Paranoid government bump for later...

[82nd Bragger]

“Seriously, the way to evade the NSA is to not use electronic communications. If you think about this at all, you will realize that you don’t have to use such means of communication if you don’t want to.

The voyeurs can’t leer at you unless you leave your blinds open”.

The problem with this logic is - beyond the local (or community) level, how would you coordinate a resistance movement without secure communications and the ability to mask FLIR? No doubt, the government has plenty of drones with FLIR that could be used against us in a SHTF scenario.

[bgill]

Bingo!

[freeangel]

Love it

[USCG SimTech]

Seriously, the way to evade the NSA is to not use electronic communications. If you think about this at all, you will realize that you don’t have to use such means of communication if you don’t want to.

True and actual govt security of data is that there are no electronic connections to anything analog or digital. If there is a site with a facade demonstrating "secret" or "TS" it's bait to find you.

[FourPeas]

I do

[SunkenCiv]

The combination of Tor, CSpace and ZRTP (plus another anonymizing technology for good measure) results in levels of protection that the NSA deems "near-total loss/lack of insight to target communications," according to Der Spiegel.

Of course, if the paranoid using all three loses the Post-It with the instructions on how to use his or her own data, the NSA could be the least of their worries.

[trebb]

I used it for a while, but didn’t really have a compelling need. At the time, Tor came packaged with Firefox which was already configured to be as transparent as possible.

[CutePuppy]

Maybe the NSA just needs to develop the best, most secure anonymizers and invite people to use them... or maybe they already have < /conspiracy mode>

Tor / "onion routing" anonymizing network was actually originally developed by NRL/Navy and NSA (and funded by CIA, DoD and some other agencies) for use in the field by CIA, Navy, DIA, FBI and some state police investigative branches.

CSpace and ZRTP are simply encrypted IMS and Real Time Protocol based mostly on enhanced public-private key exchange protocols, first implemented in free open-sourced PGP by Phil Zimmerman.

[GOPJ]

interesting...

[AFPhys]

I keep forgetting to check out this Tor browser and other software...

[GOPJ]

This is like that old story about the bodies in the river, and the city finding ways to organize rescue etc. But nobody asked what was going on upriver. Instead of finding ways to protect ourselves from government surveillance, we should be focused on how to root out the people doing the surveillance. If the government views us an enemy, how should we then view them?

Good point.

[null and void]

The biggest killer of mankind

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

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[Nifster]

I’m from the government. I’m here to help

Worst line ever