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I like GPG - open source less likely to have a backdoor and extremely unlikely to be succeptible to brute force breaking. If 5% of all emails were encrypted with this, then there would not be enough NSA analysts to examine the metadata reports on the activity.
Have a prearranged set of common sounding code words.
If you do not use terms that are being looked for they won’t look at you
Or, lead a normal life and don’t fret about a breach of you privacy that is not going to happen.
NSA doesn’t give a damn about you and me.
Irony. The UK Guardian, a Leftist pub, posting articles against the Obama.
Even the left is turning against Obama.
Actually I was thinking less about hiding anything. WE have the right to free speech ....take a page from their own playbook ...and overwhelm the system.
How ‘bout just have nothing to do with Facebook. I mean, just a few years ago wasn’t it possible to have a life without social media & tweets & whatnot?
Of course, FReepers are already on some gubmint s***list. We know that, don’t we?
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I’m trying to figure out how the NSA can spy on hand-written ciphered/coded notes or coded ham radio comms.
When technology gets too complicated to get the upper hand, baffle it with ancient methods.
If you’re not coding your PC and software from the ground up (think BIOS, chipset, etc) anything you do is just an annoyance, and doesn’t protect your communications. If you’re communicating digitally, assume it is compromised, or could be with minimal effort.
Since I started working with Snowden's documents, I have been using GPG, Silent Circle, Tails, OTR, TrueCrypt, BleachBit, and a few other things I'm not going to write about. There's an undocumented encryption feature in my Password Safe program from the command line); I've been using that as well.
I understand that most of this is impossible for the typical internet user. Even I don't use all these tools for most everything I am working on. And I'm still primarily on Windows, unfortunately. Linux would be safer.
The NSA has turned the fabric of the internet into a vast surveillance platform, but they are not magical. They're limited by the same economic realities as the rest of us, and our best defense is to make surveillance of us as expensive as possible.
Trust the math. Encryption is your friend. Use it well, and do your best to ensure that nothing can compromise it. That's how you can remain secure even in the face of the NSA.
I think it's largely the government's fault that solid crypto isn't already deployed routinely in the majority of your internet activity.