How to Keep Your Conversations Private from the NSA – UPDATED

Victory Girls ^ | June 8, 2013 | KIT

[1rudeboy]

We get it, Joe Citizen. You want your privacy. You want to be able to talk on the internet without everyone and their mother at the InsertAlphabetAgencyHere looking at it. You’re mad about the NSA snooping. You aren’t advocating a violent overthrow of the government. You’re not running a domestic terrorism group (well, there are those new DHS criteria…). You’re not even sending around emails about what a dismal failure President Obama’s administration is (THIS hour, anyway). You just want to be able to chat with friends, conduct your financial business, and argue with your spouse without Big Daddy Gummint all up in your biz. Believe it or not, that’s your right. Harry “Who Cares” Reid may blow it off and say the government’s been “doing that stuff for years,” but we’ve got a news flash for Harry: just because you’ve been doing it a while doesn’t make it any more okay. Ask Ted Bundy…oh, wait.

Victory Girls gets it—partly because we value our privacy too. So, because we are all about free speech here—and private speech, too, now that I think about it—here’s a list of ways you can circumvent the government privacy leeches. Granted, this list isn’t all-inclusive, and let’s face it, I’m not an uber-geek. I do, however, read a lot of uber-geek stuff, and so I’m pretty confident with the list I’m about to show you. Keep in mind that you will need to change some of your habits if you decide you really want to keep your personal stuff private. Most people are too lazy…but if you’re not, here’s the list from the guys over at Wired, as well as a few other nooks and crannies I find things in....

[1rudeboy]

Yeah, I excerpted. Deal with it.

[PieterCasparzen]

Turn over your phone bill every month to the NSA.

[fwdude]

Learn Greek, and then get a very long string between your Dixie cups.

[tx_eggman]

Borrowing from someones post earlier in the day ... If you don’t want anyone listening to your conversations, have them on MSNBC

[chesty_puller]

I don’t care if they watch me, it’s watching all of us that bugs the hell out me. Orwell was just a few years off.

[UCANSEE2]

"How to Keep Your Conversations Private from the NSA "

[EQAndyBuzz]

I hear Esperanto is making a comeback.

[Cyman]

Thanks for the laugh!

[davius]

If they want to listen to everything, then give them something to listen to. Mine your everyday conversations with casual references to pen and paper as weapons of mass destruction, name your dog Sarin, call your home alarm system; homeland security, inform your wife when you're passing over a bridge on your way to a skyscraper in a heavily populated area.

I wondered why obama wasted time on the civil discourse lectures. It makes sense now as he hoped to target speech that might neutralize the data collection process. If enough citizens did this, the entire enterprise could implode and plunge to earth in a fireball of wreckage (see what I did there?). Civil discourse, my a$$!

[SilverMine]

What about TOR? is it safe?

[I want the USA back]

You can’t. If they place you in a ‘terrorist’ group they will do whatever they want.

‘terrorist’ does not mean the religion of peace. It means Catholics, Baptists, tea party people, and ex military men.

[cynwoody]

I hear Esperanto is making a comeback.

Navajo would work better. Until the NSA hires a contractor to build Navajo voice to text well-indexed.

[UCANSEE2]

I hear Esperanto is making a comeback.

Is that anything like 'pig Latin'?

[Average Al]

We might actually have to talk to each other in person...

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Is that anything like ‘pig Latin’?”

Esyay tiyay siyay.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Won’t work. You do know they have people now that can read your thoughts.

No where to go. No where to hide. No way to communicate.

THEY”RE HERE!

[JimRed]

You aren’t advocating a violent overthrow of the government...YET.

[UCANSEE2]

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[cynwoody]

What about TOR? is it safe?

There was a discussion about that yesterday over on Hacker News. E.g., VexXtreme asked, "What happens if NSA starts operating a number of Tor exit nodes and eavesdropping on the outgoing traffic?"

[UCANSEE2]

We might actually have to talk to each other in person...

Wouldn't that lead to the complete breakdown of society ?

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