Use Tor, Get Targeted By the NSA

An anonymous reader sends this news from Ars Technica: "Using online anonymity services such as Tor or sending encrypted e-mail and instant messages are grounds for U.S.-based communications to be retained by the National Security Agency, even when they're collected inadvertently, according to a secret government document published Thursday. ...The memos outline procedures NSA analysts must follow to ensure they stay within the mandate of minimizing data collected on U.S. citizens and residents. While the documents make clear that data collection and interception must cease immediately once it's determined a target is within the U.S., they still provide analysts with a fair amount of leeway. And that leeway seems to work to the disadvantage of people who take steps to protect their Internet communications from prying eyes. For instance, a person whose physical location is unknown—which more often than not is the case when someone uses anonymity software from the Tor Project—"will not be treated as a United States person, unless such person can be positively identified as such, or the nature or circumstances of the person's communications give rise to a reasonable belief that such person is a United States person," the secret document stated.'"

Comments

Good for the economy.

[nospam007]

So we just need to write a Spam Generator that sends out billions of encrypted stuff to US-citizens to create government jobs?

Nice!

Re:Good for the economy.

[drfred79]

I'm intending to write BOMB a script that will add random Red Flag words to my emails OBAMA at random intervals in bold so NUKE everyone can continue to read my emails normally TERRORIST but the government will start getting inundated with my AL QAEDA schemes.

Re:Good for the economy.

[Anonymous Coward]

So we just need to write a Spam Generator that sends out billions of encrypted stuff to US-citizens to create government jobs?

Nice!

As noble as that might seem, you will be undermining national security and wasting your own tax money.

As if I could EVER fuck that up more than the current regime. Try again, 'cause that bullshit sure as hell ain't a deterrent for our government.

Re:Good for the economy.

[ArcadeX]

you forgot the truly evil words like REDUCE TAXES, CIVILIAN OVERSIGHT, BALANCED BUDGET, NEW IDEAS, and everything else that scares the gooberment

Re:Good for the economy.

[TheCarp]

Have you seen this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4z09el30f8

Personally, I think that is the bomb. It would be great to see that blow up, like semtex in Times Square delivering the wrath of God down upon the heads of the apostate and infidels.

Praise be to God and His prophet who has now shown us the way in these dark times; and let us hope that this knowledge engulfs washington, like a great fireball!

Re:Good for the economy.

[roc97007]

The flaw in my cunning plan is that there would need to be recipients for this to work. I may have to label it as porn.

Then that really would make you criminal.

Hm. I guess it could actually *be* porn, but I'd need some to torrent... Where does one find porn on the internet?

encryption

[Anonymous Coward]

use TOR to send copies of 1984

Greetings NSA Overlords

[HalcyonBlue]

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It moves me to verse

[jfengel]

A torrentor who Tor'd some torrent
Tried to tutor two torrentors to Tor
Said the two to the tutor
Is it harder to Tor
Than to torrent two torrents over Tor?