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EFF Launches Surveillance Self-Defense Site
justin.foell writes "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has created a Surveillance Self-Defense site. Created with the help of the Open Society Institute, the site intends to serve as a how-to guide for protecting your private data against government spying. From their press release, they 'aim to educate Americans about the law and technology of communications surveillance and computer searches and seizures, and to provide the information and tools necessary to keep their private data out of the government's hands.'"
Then the government will just request the access logs from this site to see who should they spy. :-)
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Nice site, has thorough and accessible explanations of things that the non-geek-yet-somewhat-paranoid digital populace really need to get clued up. The section on FISA, particularly the Beyond FISA page, is a must read. That Fourth Amendment sure was nice while it lasted....
In other news, astrophysicists have announced that they now know what all that dark matter is: it's stupidity.
Wouldn't that NSA Linux distro have this kinda stuff enabled out of the box?
This would be a great marketing scheme - the "Paranoid PC" with all kinds of anti-snooping and security software good to go.
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Yes, i hope you enjoy your laptop / hard drive being stolen along with your private information, including your login for here.
There are legitimate reasons for encryption.
EVERYONE has something to hide.
My father was an attorney. People use to call him and say things like, "they can't put me in jail".
My father would ask, "where you calling from"?
They would say, "jail".
Guess they can put you jail.
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Why would you think the only way to monitor traffic is through DNS logs?
Every single packet that goes over their network has a destination IP address header. Just flag and save anything that's destined for 216.187.103.169.
The site uses virtual hosting, so sure it'll end up with lots of false positives, but those will be people who did something else wrong, so we might as well watch them, anyway.
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"City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......
gah, if you have nothing to hide then you shouldnt have any problem with the government seeing what your doing on the internet. The only people who want to hide what their doing are the ones who have something to hide
My problem isn't with the government "seeing" what I am doing on the Internet, it is with them looking for no particular reason. Suppose the government starts looking at your online posts and discovers that you said unflattering things about a member of Congress and now you get an IRS audit. You didn't do anything wrong either in your post or in filing your taxes, but a tax audit is still a royal pain.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison
why people talk about privacy in relation to anything that happens on the internet
i'm not talking about government policy, i'm talking philosophical reality
if you put something on a wire, beyond your control, its no longer private. beginning and ending of discussion
but since most of what gets put on the net is willingly understood by most people as not private, since it just is detritus of their lives, not vital life-altering information, this is not a big deal
if you want privacy, take an airplane, and take a walk on a beach with the other person so the crashing surf drowns out the conversation beyond 2 meters
anything else, especially on the internet, can be spied on, and not just by the government. if you bound the government to draconian privacy laws in 72 bold font written in the blood of a virgin, they would still spy if they thought it important enough, and we aren't even beginning to examine other culprits: IT personnel, hackers, cable/ phone infrastructure employees, competing business interests, random busybodies, etc
and guess what? this arrangement is perfectly fine for all non paranoid schizophrenics, since most of what is put on the internet can be easily compromised without compromising your life
that's the real issue with privacy on the internet: give it up when you hit click
once you put it on a wire, its beyond your control, and beyond the philosphical realm of privacy
why does the concept of privacy even figure in with that arrangement in some people's minds?
you are communicating, across the wires of a corporate interest, across international boundaries often, with governments keen to mine data, usually involving destinations who want to sell you advertising via profiling, which you found with a search engine which keeps tabs on you...
abnd you want to talk about even the possibility of privacy in this realm?
really?
why isn't it just understood that privacy is forfeit on the internet?
and this is FINE. if its really important to you, KEEP IT OFF THE NET. there: a surefire personal privacy policy
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
See, you had a serious misunderstanding, spying on citizens is only bad when Republicans do it. When Democrats do it it is good. Just like not paying taxes is bad when Republicans do it and is reason to not get confirmed to a Cabinet post, but when a Democrat does it, "No big deal".
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison