Well i know you`ll mess up another search engine
but here is one from the netherlands
https://www.ixquick.com/
And what about the anti-phorm-tools/plugins for your browser.
Wayback they had the slogan:"if you can`t convince `em - confuse `em!"
(...the troll)
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#192With systems like Tempora https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora in place and the main goal of intelligence organizations (probably around the whole world) being to "know all information", the only way to be safe from losing your secrets is not to disclose them in any electronic form on the net. Simple as that.
And with your "secrets", I mean any piece of information you don't want them to know: email, websites you visit, mobile phone calls (and locations)...
Since Echelon/PRISM/Tempora/etc is practically public knowledge at this point, I would imagine that most "real terrorists" have also deduced the above facts and are living by them, making the whole exercise a fishing expedition paid with regular Joe's privacy and tax money...
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#193Tor should NOT be on here. It has little to do with "breaking" PRISM. PRISM is a voluntary program wherein a handful of endpoints have chosen to submit copies of their database to the NSA. Regardless of the mechanism or browser used to access Facebook, the reality is that all of that data gets uploaded to the NSA anyway, so who cares? People aren't interested in the real solution to PRISM, which is "Don't use service…
When you`ll take alook at the Financial Reports at Torproject.org.. In 2009, 72% of their refunds were payed by the US-Goverment. In 2009 it was about 1 Million US Dollar.
And there were News years ago that tor must have a backdoor for the german BND, by law.
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#194Several of these suggestions seem somewhat disingenuous - e.g. many of them to be about free software more than actual concerns about tracking, as reflected in the labels "Proprietary" and "Free alternatives". In particular: - None of the proprietary browsers will track you - well, beyond what's specified in the privacy policy. Two of the alternatives are Tor applications, but the other two are Firefox (which provide…
> None of the proprietary browsers will track you. Can you elaborate a bit on this, how do you know they won't? My default assumption is that anything I can't see the source code of and compile myself is compromised.
Do you inspect every single line of code? Or at least grep the file list to see if you find a suspicious looking name? Don't think so. Your default assumption should thus be 'everything is compromised' since you did not verify it :]
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#195Would like to see a mention of alternatives to commercial mobile networks.
OpenBTS :)
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#196Interesting, I learned about the Autistici/Inventati collective only from this link, even though they seem to already be a large (>1k users) organization and in existence for a decade now. Useful info.
Same here, I have an account now.
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#197While I understand and sympathise with the compulsion to resist surveillance in this practical, technological way, I think it might be the wrong reaction to the information. It's typical of techie people to seek technical solutions to social problems, and this is one such case. It may well be possible to mitigate their ability to watch you by wearing enough tin-foil hats. Even if you succeed, all you've achieved is t…
> your incentive to actually act on what they're doing will be diminished.
Because you already have acted on it, they attempted to violate your privacy and you solved the problem, there's no point wasting time with useless political solutions that are largely ignored. That is the route which could more fairly be described as "not actually acting on what they're doing"
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#198While I understand and sympathise with the compulsion to resist surveillance in this practical, technological way, I think it might be the wrong reaction to the information. It's typical of techie people to seek technical solutions to social problems, and this is one such case. It may well be possible to mitigate their ability to watch you by wearing enough tin-foil hats. Even if you succeed, all you've achieved is t…
> If you live in the UK, write to your MP
I tried that, but, perhaps unsurprisingly, got no reply. I suspect that is because the main parties share one policy here.
> Support PPUK
Potentially, also, the green party:
http://greenparty.org.uk/news/2013/07/05/eu-has-an-obligatio...
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#199While I understand and sympathise with the compulsion to resist surveillance in this practical, technological way, I think it might be the wrong reaction to the information. It's typical of techie people to seek technical solutions to social problems, and this is one such case. It may well be possible to mitigate their ability to watch you by wearing enough tin-foil hats. Even if you succeed, all you've achieved is t…
I'm starting to think people should begin to create "crypto-selves". I've seen a lot of talk saying essentially "get off facebook! get off gmail!" But that's a lot of persistent effort even for fairly technical people. Plus even in secure, anonymous environment interacting with your real life friends, purchasing your favorite books on amazon etc will reveal who you are anyway. In non-web life we have private and publ…
> Separate usernames, interests, tones of voice, etc in this private space.
I'm a big fan of this approach, as it allows people to explore different facets of their personality. Unfortunately, for the past year the big players, led by google, have been waging a war on it.
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've never heard the term "frequency-modulate" applied to software, and Wikipedia only knows about the radio kind of modulation. Can you please explain what this is?
This is an interesting idea. I assume by "frequency modulation" of data, he means adjusting the timing of the transmissions to create an out-of-band channel that might be more difficult to notice when packet sniffing. As a crude example, if I uploaded War and Peace to you, not as a steady stream of traffic, but as bursts of dots and dashes, I could send "The Magic Words are Squeamish Ossifrage" in Morse code. (Althou…
That is exactly what I meant :).