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Dilute PRISM – Use Open Source Alternatives

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Re: Dilute PRISM – Use Open Source Alternatives

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Post by jiggy2011 »

Does switching to Ubuntu really help you that much? Unless there are secret NSA backdoors in Windows/OS X. Hell even under Ubuntu they could just backdoor my nvidia drivers.

I would really struggle to recommend using Tor as a "daily driver" for web browsing as well. Unless we want to go back to the 56k web.

Most of the others (bitcoin,social networks) rely on network effects anyway.

Re: Dilute PRISM – Use Open Source Alternatives

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Post by gasull »

jiggy2011 wrote: post #4

Does switching to Ubuntu really help you that much? Unless there are secret NSA backdoors in Windows/OS X. Hell even under Ubuntu they could just backdoor my nvidia drivers. I would really struggle to recommend using Tor as a "daily driver" for web browsing as well. Unless we want to go back to the 56k web. Most of the others (bitcoin,social networks) rely on network effects anyway.

I'd recommend VPNs that route out of the US.

Re: Dilute PRISM – Use Open Source Alternatives

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Post by jiggy2011 »

gasull wrote: post #6
jiggy2011 wrote: post #4

Does switching to Ubuntu really help you that much? Unless there are secret NSA backdoors in Windows/OS X. Hell even under Ubuntu they could just backdoor my nvidia drivers. I would really struggle to recommend using Tor as a "daily driver" for web browsing as well. Unless we want to go back to the 56k web. Most of the others (bitcoin,social networks) rely on network effects anyway.

I'd recommend VPNs that route out of the US.

Depends how much you trust your VPS provider. I don't think it would be illegal for the NSA to just hand over a bundle of cash to $randomRussianVPSProvider in exchange for access to their logs.

Hell, for all we know half of these companies could be the NSA.

Re: Dilute PRISM – Use Open Source Alternatives

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Post by mpyne »

gasull wrote: post #7
arikfr wrote: post #3

How switching to Ubuntu will help me in this case? This makes no sense. PRISM probably monitors the network traffic that goes through the US. It makes no difference what OS you're using.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY

Which even Schneier has said is a conspiracy theory.

Re: Dilute PRISM – Use Open Source Alternatives

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Post by qubitsam »

Before recommending Ubuntu (when the issue is, to an extent, one of privacy), let's remember this: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/12/richar...

The discussion around it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4888851

Also, a better alternative to Skype would be Jitsi: https://jitsi.org/Main/Features

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