Use of Tor and e-mail crypto could increase chances that NSA keeps your data
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#2...but that's what they would say, isn't it?
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#4I think I'll start sending random PGP encrypted messages from my email address, along with my normal messages. Should be simple with a little Jenkins job.
Good luck, have fun NSA. You liberty hating anti-American bastards.
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#5If one uses Tor, the article states that the person will not be treated as a United States person unless "proven" otherwise. If that's the case, all the traffic from a Tor exit node will be considered as traffic from non U.S. persons and all data will be stored. Doesn't make sense to me because if you are using Tor right, then requests cannot be traced back to you. How does that help?
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#6This is somewhat unrelated, but I was listening to "Leo Laporte The Tech Guy" on the local talk radio with my dad (who is a big fan, but less into tech than I) and he started describing GPG and PGP to non-tech enthusiasts.
This whole NSA scandal may really push forward the use of encryption of securer communication methods.
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#7This is fairly obvious. From the NSA's perspective, people that act like people who have something to hide are more likely to be hiding something. I'd be surprised if they didn't take it into account.
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#8How about steganography? We all fire off so many pictures and attachments that there has to be an avenue here.
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#9Since I (and the majority of global internet users) are not "US persons", they're claiming they're entitled to intercept and store all my communications anyway - so my personal reaction to this is going to be to increase the use of tor and crypto for random everyday stuff. I'll start GPG encrypting email to anybody I know will be able ro deal with it. I might even start randomly mailing GPG encrypted mail for no reason except to thwart traffic analysis (perhaps I'll automate mailing randomly chosen chunks of 1984 and Brave New World to randomly chosen public keys/emails from public keyservers - perhaps some faceless NSA analyst might one day have burned countless cpu-years decrypting my 2048bit GPG mail, only to be Rickrolled with a 70 year old cautionary tale about themself…)
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#10This shouldn't be a surprise at all. Using Tor hides your location, so they assume you are foreign unless proven otherwise. If I were to agree with the law that allows all of the snooping that the NSA does, I'd say this is pretty reasonable.
As a European, what I find more disturbing about all the news about PRISM and related programs, is how US centric the reports about it are and how little other western governments are objecting to all of this. We are always told how the USA is the EU's biggest ally, yet US politicians try to legitimize everything by saying it's only non-US citizens they spy on, and say it like then it's suddenly okay.
I get that some spying is a necessary evil and 100% freedom and privacy is not feasible, especially if there are nations that are less than friendly towards you. But that's a whole different thing than recording as much data as possible, especially from friendly nations.
I don't think many friendships would survive if it turned out your best friend has been hiring private investigators with the goal to records as much of your life as possible.