Posted on 06/11/2013 11:48:04 AM PDT by Nachum
PC World - Thursday afternoon, a bombshell dropped: Two leading reports claimed that the U.S. government has been spying on emails, searches, Skype calls, and other electronic communications used by Americans for the last several years, via a program known as PRISM.
[ALSO: Prism leaker steps forward]
According to the reports, the Web's largest names--AOL, Apple, Facebook,A Google, Microsoft, Skype, PalTalk, Yahoo, and YouTube--participated, perhaps unwittingly. (Dropbox will reportedly be added as well.) The report claims that the National Security Agency had "direct access" to servers owned by those companies. Most, if not all, of those companies have denied participating in PRISM, although it's unclear whether they were unaware of the NSA's spying, or simply turned a blind eye.
According toA The Guardian andA The Washington Post, the data covered included: "email, video and voice chat, videos, photos, voice-over-IP chats, file transfers, social networking details, and more."
If nothing else, however, the PRISM disclosure is worrying and deeply shocking. If the report is accurate, the government may simply listen in on virtually any electronic communication you've made, in the interests of national security. Is this something that should be encouraged to fight domestic terrorism, or is this sort of government intrusion something that should be deeply distrusted? For the purposes of this story, we're going to err on the side of the latter; whether you take advantage of our advice is up to you.
Note that there is absolutely no guarantee that our tips will make your PC PRISM proof. One of the generally held beliefs in the security world is that, with enough resources on the part of the attacker, any secrets that are known about can eventually be unearthed. But let's say that you support an "Arab Spring" movement in a country whose interests parallel those
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The #1 use for Skype is video sex.
Thus Obama has the blackmail goods on a WHOLE lotta people
Unplug it and throw it in the lake.
Disconnect from the internet, which is what I’ve done.
TOR over commercial VPN.
When any objection to a government program or action is likely to be considered an act of domestic terror (the regime is terrified that we will come to our senses and remove them), you bet it should be distrusted!
I’m wondering if they have a back door in all the firewalls and anti-virus software out there. I am sure there are some freepers who would be well informed on this.
If someone here can tell me how to improve the speed of TOR, I’d appreciate it.
Who invented TOR?
If you connect to the Internet they have you. There’s nothing you can do to stop them. They don’t even have to get into your computer. They’re piped straight into the servers. Anything that comes to you or you send to anywhere has to go past their listening programs.
They are reading this right now!
Unplug it.
As a software developer I have lamented to all about this cloud nonsense for years. No matter what you do, if you do not have physical control of your data it is not secure, period! Nothing will prevent a hacker or a lapse in simple security (like leaving a laptop laying around) from getting your data.
Tor was created by the Gov...they sure know how to break that.
Any computer connected to a network is subject to being compromised.
As for encrypting email? That’s pointless as the NSA has a budget to crack encryptions and they’ll spend billions to break encryptions while most people spend a few bucks to nothing at all (open source) to buy encryption.
The one-time cipher pad is still the single most reliable way to defeat spies. Book ciphers are simple and easy to use and are practically impenetrable especially if you use obscure books as your reference.
That’s exactly right...there’s nothing you can do if you have a computer or cell phone.
Actually they can even use these when you have them shut down.
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