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General Category => Everything Else => Topic started by: vh on June 11, 2013, 03:14:31 AM
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surprised there hasn't been a topic on this yet.
there are millions of articles on http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/ (http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/)
A person named Edward Snowden leaked multiple slides about PRISM, a surveillance program which can monitor yahoo, google, microsoft, and other large internet companies. If any of your internet usage passes through any of their servers, the NSA can see it, even if you're outside of the US. Along with a program named Boundless Informant, it's possible to 'wiretap' nearly any computer in the world. According to Snowden it's impossible to protect against the surveillance. Even encryption is useless because the NSA have easily gotten the CA to hand over the keys silently. In addition, the NSA is building a large center in Utah to store and process all of the information, so even if you've manually encrypted email, in time, the NSA may be able to crack it. This isn't all new knowledge, instead of the selective surveillance used before, the NSA is now attempting to watch the entire internet.
In other news Edward Snowden is in Hong Kong looking for political asylum but i don't know why that's so interesting to the media.
Of course i guess reddit is somewhat of a biased source.
ABUSAID: bb caught me bmbin a US embassy. Like dis pic for justice.
RAMZAN: we gon execute some US foren wrkers tmrrw Abby?
ABUSAID: fo sho. gon lite 'm up like ramadan in mecca homez.
RAMZAN: HOLLA ATCHU NSA!
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i thought stuff like this has always been happening
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It has been for years but only just now has been spilled.
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Also read about it recently on news pages, just so tired of information like that.... It's frustrating, but it seems like there's just no realistic way to do anything about it really.
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There was something about it on imgur, a link to a video Obama going through his policies back when he was running for president. It was a section about security, how America has gotten too paranoid, with random wire tapping and seemingly warrant-less searches and spying, and that his policies were to stop those things from happening.
Welp.
Then he goes onto mention that you can't have 100% security without 100% privacy, which is stupid because you can't have 100% security, full stop; always someone somewhere will be doing something that compromises some sort of security no matter how big or small. Not to mention, that his wording implies that he will readily throw away some rights and needs the people need.
Whatever, most powerful man in the world, right?
Oh, also the UK agencies have been suckling off the NSA's tit to freely exchange info that the NSA have been getting using their system, so basically they's been doing the UK's dirty work too.
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You can guarantee that this will blow over with minimal changes.
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start a new internet
seriously
a red one
can't be that hard
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new internet? like/me confused
wouldn't that cost a lotta money
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start a new internet
seriously
a red one
can't be that hard
Go ahead kol
I tried to kookol for red internetz but all I got was videos of Lenin's animated beard.
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the leninet
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Some news articles about PRISM, in Danish.
USA's police moniters you on the internet (http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Viden/Tech/2013/06/07/Amerikansk_overvaagningsskandale_vokser.htm)
Internet giants want to disclose details about surveillance (http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Viden/Tech/2013/06/12/090847.htm)
How you protect yourself against American spies (http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Viden/Tech/2013/06/10/Saadan_beskytter_du_dig_mod_amerikanske_spioner.htm)
Contains some tips and links, including:
Anti-tracking tools:
https://www.abine.com/dntdetail.php (https://www.abine.com/dntdetail.php)
http://www.ghostery.com/ (http://www.ghostery.com/)
Encryption (mostly for logins I think):
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere (https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere)
Virtual private networks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_network (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_network)):
https://pandapow.co/ (https://pandapow.co/)
https://www.overplay.net/ (https://www.overplay.net/)
http://hidemyass.com/ (http://hidemyass.com/)
Those are not free.
Service which makes it very hard to track you on the internet:
https://www.torproject.org/ (https://www.torproject.org/)
Other suggestions:
- Use pseudonyms and multiple ones (multiple identities)
- Use multiple browsers
- Don't share stuff you don't want to be public (wow)
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(http://i.imgur.com/zhi8YF1.png)
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kolkip
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well today i switched to tor, the browser is almost as good as chrome and so is the search. truecrypt is nice i guess, but a bit cumbersome because of the memory it takes up.
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As always an Avaaz petition.
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/stop_prism_global/?byygAbb&v=25872
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lol win
http://stockman.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/stockman-requests-subpoena-of-nsa-s-white-house-irs-phone-logs (http://stockman.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/stockman-requests-subpoena-of-nsa-s-white-house-irs-phone-logs)
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News: Edward Snowden accuses NSA of hacking more than 61,000 systems, against China and Hong Kong, among other things. This is not backed up by internal documents unlike the PRISM accusations.
Source: http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Viden/Tech/2013/06/13/105519.htm (http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Viden/Tech/2013/06/13/105519.htm)
This means I may have to delete Edward Snowden's identity.
Meanwhile in Berlin
(http://www.dr.dk/imagescaler/?file=%2FNR%2Frdonlyres%2FAF72208E-72C5-499D-817C-A500765EAD5C%2F5228629%2F02c795882abb46faa5d4cca7cb50d7b9_ObamaBerlin2.jpg&w=620&h=349&scaleAfter=crop)
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snowden probably has body guards by now
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Snowden leaks documents which say NSA has been able to monitor Skype's more than 600 million users' video and audio calls. Microsoft was one of the first corporations which became a part of the monitoring system in 2007, has helped NSA access people's SkyDrive and helped them crack the encryption on Outlook, according to the documents.
http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Viden/Tech/2013/07/12/092335.htm (http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Viden/Tech/2013/07/12/092335.htm)
Creepy.
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This site has some interesting claims about XKeyscore NSA.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/nsa-top-secret-program-online-data (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/nsa-top-secret-program-online-data)
"The NSA documents assert that by 2008, 300 terrorists had been captured using intelligence from XKeyscore."
Also this is supposed to be an alternate search engine which doesn't spy on you I read:
https://duckduckgo.com/ (https://duckduckgo.com/)
Some other suggested things:
http://disconnect.me/ (http://disconnect.me/)
Encryption:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Encrypt-your-Gmail-Email/ (http://www.instructables.com/id/Encrypt-your-Gmail-Email/)
https://secure.comodo.com/products/frontpage?area=SecureEmailCertificate (https://secure.comodo.com/products/frontpage?area=SecureEmailCertificate)
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I've set up a tor proxy and installed an extension that forces https on webpages. I don't know if ill be able to not use chrome or google products because they just happen to be so decent. :(
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Same here with the Google products kol. And just how could I possibly move from Microsoft mail when I have registered 9001 sites with it and I have 90019001 mails stored in it.
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kol
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"The Obama administration referred all questions for this article to John DeLong, the NSA’s director of compliance, who answered questions freely in a 90-minute interview. DeLong and members of the NSA communications staff said he could be quoted “by name and title” on some of his answers after an unspecified internal review. The Post said it would not permit the editing of quotes. Two days later, White House and NSA spokesmen said that none of DeLong’s comments could be quoted on the record and sent instead a prepared statement in his name."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-statements-to-the-post/2013/08/15/f40dd2c4-05d6-11e3-a07f-49ddc7417125_story.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-statements-to-the-post/2013/08/15/f40dd2c4-05d6-11e3-a07f-49ddc7417125_story.html)
Fail.
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NSA admits that it has illegally monitored citizens of USA.
It has monitored up to 56,000 emails of people inside USA without permission. NSA has capacity to monitor up to 75% of all internet communication in USA.
Source: http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Udland/2013/08/22/0822012557.htm (http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Udland/2013/08/22/0822012557.htm)
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I wonder what happens now
Edit: what the hell langugage google translate doesn't work on phone
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Danish.
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About USA's intelligence service funding.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/black-budget/ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/black-budget/)
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Well tried.
http://www.dailydot.com/lol/calling-nsa-email-deleted-prank/ (http://www.dailydot.com/lol/calling-nsa-email-deleted-prank/)
Calling NSA (part 1) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qrlDGhoI1Q#)
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More potentially useful tools:
http://occupyhere.org/ (http://occupyhere.org/)
http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/bittorrent-chat.html? (http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/bittorrent-chat.html?)
Source: http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Viden/Tech/2013/10/01/114342.htm (http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Viden/Tech/2013/10/01/114342.htm)
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More leaks from Snowden: NSA has attempted to infiltrate World of Warcraft, Second Live and Xbox Live because they suspected that potential terrorists would use the games as platform for communication.
Source:
http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Viden/Tech/2013/12/10/102032.htm (http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Viden/Tech/2013/12/10/102032.htm)
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Avaaz petition to make Brazil grant asylum to Snowden.
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/send_snowden_home_loc/
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This isn't exactly PRISM-related (...probably) but still sounds like an important internet safety issue. The "Heartbleed bug" means that it's officially recommended to change password on Google, Facebook, Dropbox and many other places, because there was a hole in the OpenSSL encryption.
Lists of sites:
http://www.cnet.com/how-to/which-sites-have-patched-the-heartbleed-bug/
http://mashable.com/2014/04/09/heartbleed-bug-websites-affected/
This site tests a site for the Heartbleed bug:
http://filippo.io/Heartbleed/
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don't change it yet though -- if you change it before they patch the bug they'll just get your new password.
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Many sites have already patched it, so it would be a good idea to change it on those sites. The lists of sites I linked to show whether sites have patched it or not.
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not do to with prism that much but
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/05/yahoo-is-the-latest-company-ignoring-web-users-requests-for-privacy/
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This looks cool:
https://protonmail.ch/
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https://securelist.com/files/2015/02/Equation_group_questions_and_answers.pdf
tldr kaspersky discovers elite hacking group (confirmed by other sources to be the NSA, though they won't admit it), which has a bunch of powerful exploits
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tangentially related
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/04/lawyer-representing-whistle-blowers-finds-malware-on-drive-supplied-by-cops/
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This looks cool:
https://protonmail.ch/
This is out of beta and publicly available now
https://protonmail.com/