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avaistheone1

(14,626 posts)
Wed Jun 12, 2013, 01:35 PM Jun 2013

Five ways to stop the NSA from spying on you

If recent reports are to be believed, the National Security Agency has broad powers to capture private information about Americans. They know who we’re calling, they have access to our Gmail messages and AOL Instant Messenger chats, and it’s a safe bet that they have other interception capabilities that haven’t been publicly disclosed. Indeed, most mainstream communications technologies are vulnerable to government eavesdropping.

But all is not lost! The NSA’s spying powers are vast, but there are still ways to thwart the agency’s snooping. Here are five of them.

1. Browse anonymously with Tor
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been photographed with a Tor sticker on his laptop. Tor lets you use the Internet without revealing your IP address or other identifying information. The distributed network works by bouncing your traffic among several randomly selected proxy computers before sending it on to its real destination. Web sites will think you’re coming from whichever node your traffic happens to bounce off of last, which might be on the other side of the world.

Tor is easy to use. You can download the Tor Browser Bundle, a version of the Firefox browser that automatically connects to the Tor network for anonymous web browsing.

2. Keep your chats private with OTR
If you use a conventional instant messaging service like those offered by Google, AOL, Yahoo or Microsoft, logs of your chats may be accessible to the NSA through the PRISM program. But a chat extension called OTR (for “off the record”) offers “end-to-end” encryption. The server only sees the encrypted version of your conversations, thwarting eavesdropping.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/10/five-ways-to-stop-the-nsa-from-spying-on-you/

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Five ways to stop the NSA from spying on you (Original Post) avaistheone1 Jun 2013 OP
Wow, never heard of Redphone. Sounds cool! Poll_Blind Jun 2013 #1
Jeez, I'd rather just let them hear I have a boring life and move on. JaneyVee Jun 2013 #2
6. Wrap yourself in a space blanket and wear one of those prop glasses Dash87 Jun 2013 #3

Dash87

(3,220 posts)
3. 6. Wrap yourself in a space blanket and wear one of those prop glasses
Wed Jun 12, 2013, 01:43 PM
Jun 2013

with the big nose.

"Hi my namesh Kelvin!"

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