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Snowden's Tough Advice For Guarding Privacy
While urging policy reform as more important than per-person safeguards, Edward Snowden had a few pieces of advice on maintaining online privacy for attendees at Saturday's New Yorker Festival. As reported by TechCrunch, Snowden's ideas for avoiding online intrusions (delivered via video link) sound simple enough, but may not be easy for anyone who relies on Google, Facebook, or Dropbox, since those are three companies he names as ones to drop. A small slice: He also suggested that while Facebook and Google have improved their security, they remain “dangerous services” that people should avoid. (Somewhat amusingly, anyone watching the interview via Google Hangout or YouTube saw a Google logo above Snowden’s face as he said this.) His final piece of advice on this front: Don’t send unencrypted text messages, but instead use services like RedPhone and Silent Circle. Earlier in the interview, Snowden dismissed claims that increased encryption on iOS will hurt crime-fighting efforts. Even with that encryption, he said law enforcement officials can still ask for warrants that will give them complete access to a suspect’s phone, which will include the key to the encrypted data. Plus, companies like Apple, AT&T, and Verizon can be subpoenaed for their data.
I send text messages to "myself" for fun. Keeps my crew on their toes.
Living without google would be hard. A lot of people use it for some app like gmail or playstore.
Google and Facebook make our lives easier in many ways. Just understand that what you say is not truly private and use common sense about what you post there.
Perhaps I'm mistaken, but Isn't the whole premise of Apple's new encryption scheme to essentially making 'giving the keys' essentially an impossible task since they would never have ownership of said keys in the first place?
Of course government can read my e-mail. All they have to be is waterboard me. Or install enough camera in public places to capture my unlock pattern. The question is what we allow the government to do, and in democracy we deserve what we get. No amount of encryption is going to solve this problem. We should have a direct popular vote for a commission of constitutional enforcement and then if majority of them rule that some secret agency is in violation, they will be able to disclose it legally.
and so big they are in the NSA's pocket.
Simply avoiding Facebook, Google and the rest isn't going to serve much. Because that makes you stand out, too. Use them. Fill them with enough goody-two-shoes garbage that you're uninteresting enough. Invent some innocent hobby or two for you to have so you can fill that page with something. Invite friends (whoever you run across will do, just make sure that they're not in some way "odd").
The important bit is just to keep your real life apart from your official one. And yes, before you ask, your work belongs on the "official" side. Along with your official family and everything else that can easily be connected to you with existing data. Don't try to hide what can be proven to belong to you.
And yes, 10 years ago I would have agreed that doing something like this means your tinfoil hat is sitting too tight. Today, I ain't so sure anymore...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
The problem Snowden needs to realize is that the "hurt crime-fighting efforts" is a red herring. Politicians do it all the time (and, yea, the head of the FBI is more a politician than a law enforcement officer). The say "think of the children". They say "it'll kill jobs". They say "it'll increase teen pregnancy"--not as much as that or the "turn you gay".
The answer is to acknowledge their red herring for what it is. "Sure, it'll hurt crime-fighting efforts just like the FBI's quest against drug cartels and hit men hurts the economy and kills jobs. Because, you know, the FBI whose consistently shown to abuse any lax protection of one's privacy, even if to violate that privacy is to violate the law, is really concerned about 'hurt crime-fighting efforts'. If you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you."
gpg, when you can.
To encrypt, but have the encrypted output be encoded as text (so can be put copy/paste into an email)
gpg --symmetric --cipher-algo AES256 --armor example.txt
(gpg will then ask for a passphrase, make it long, as random as possible, upper and lower case, a punctuation, and a number)
TO DECRYPT
gpg example.txt.gpg
Steve Gibson has a very cool Internet resource for helping people learn about password strength: https://www.grc.com/haystack.h...
Per the haystack page:
Example passphrase = search space size
64characters of hex = 4.13 x 10^99
63characters of hex, plus adding a punctuation symbol = 4.93 x 10^117
62characters of hex, plus adding a punctuation symbol, plus adding an upper case letter = 3.79 x 10^126
Uh, Linux geek since 1999.
On the device, the data that is encrypted uses a key derived from the password or pin. This is very similar to how you'd encrypt any local file. Anything you can still get to after forgetting your password and resetting it obviously was not encrypted with that forgotten password.
On their cloud, some things are technically encrypted, but the encryption isn't very effective. Anything you can access via their website or apps, including email and photos, they have access to. Email is a good example- their web site shows you the To, From, and Subject lines of the messages, so obviously their server has access to read the emails.
In general, encryption of live, working data on a server is _often_ largely security theatre. Sure, if a bad guy physically broke into the datacenter and walked out with the server, the encryption of the disk would make it hard for him to access the data. As long as the server is up and running, any data the server can access can also be accessed by a hacker with a presence on that server. In these cases, the key is for one of the server's disks, so it's generated by Apple and probably sitting on the same server where the data is. With tens of thousands of servers, you don't have human beings walking around typing in passwords, so the key needs to be on the server. If the hacker is in the server ...
The data is encrypted in transit via ssl/tls. For that time period, it's encrypted via tls/ ssl. First Apple's ssl key is used, then a per-connection key is generated.
Holes, where the data is not encrypted at all, and there is no key, occur at transition points. They web server takes the ssl encrypted data, decrypts it, and hands it off to the storage layer to be "encrypted" on disk. Quotes are on the disk encryption because as discussed above the encryption on disk is largely illusory. Similarly with the transition from your phone to the upload to the server. Your phone decrypts it with your key, encrypts it with the ssl key, and then sends it to the server.
Those transition points in which the data is unencrypted are vulnerable points which are targeted for attack. I've confirmed at least one case where I've seen the transition point on the server compromised. Fortunately, I _think_ I may the one who tapped the data and logged at it that point, for debugging and recovery purposes. I forgot to turn off the logging when we went into full production, I think.
Um, so what was the encryption for again?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Thanks Ed!
_ _ _ Go for the eyes Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!
Take a typical Android Tablet from Samsung, comes loaded with DSMLawmo, which can remotely take control of everything on the tablet and do anything from intercept phone calls, take pictures, read files, send SMS's, it can even modify words in the dictionary.
It runs by default on all Samsungs newest tablets and it cannot be disabled.
The claimed use for it is as a helpdesk app, but people are reporting it consuming lots of processing power, and those people are not calling Samsung's helpdesk.
So don't touch an Android tablet (and quite likely Windows tablets are the same), riddled with Spyware.
Keep your communications limited.
Only talk to people you need to talk to.
PGP, Encrypt, Key-pass, everything, I mean everything.
Hide it all from any networked service
Once a security hack that worked for his former employer, my take away from his recommendations are:
a. hide your cash in your mattress--then again cash has serial numbers (even bitcoin sort of...). Convert to gold.
b. put on your tin foil hat.
c. don't talk to anyone.
BUT what he's doesn't realize is... if you want to be apart of any society:
a. Communications is a 2 way street, I see you, you see me. There's no privacy, just trust. Big Data and the Internet just exposed what's been known by the affluent for what, 300 or so yrs.
b. "Security" in Snowden terms is a pipe dream, and stuff like PGP is nothing but security by obscurity [philosophically] via Math (it's a key no one knows...)--TRUST is the key factor in making communication work.
TRUST, TRUST, TRUST. If you don't have it the system WILL breakdown and no one's going to be happy.
c. what to be useful in society? talk to someone, anyone.
Just vote. And tell your congressman what you want. As for the non-US citizens voicing their opinion on here about how the US should handle their affairs, thank you and your opinions will be considered.
Every movie needs a PR angle--they obviously are playing the fiddle in TFA. Gotta love the Internet.
Windsong.
whoa
this one is making the plants wilt and the wallpaper fall off the walls
maybe if she weighed less than 800 pounds she would have a healthier and less smelly diet
64characters of hex = 4.13 x 10^99
63characters of hex, plus adding a punctuation symbol = 4.93 x 10^117
62characters of hex, plus adding a punctuation symbol, plus adding an upper case letter = 3.79 x 10^126
That is some very bad maths.
64 characters of hex is a much smaller (10+6+6)^64 search space.
And is one knows that at least one of the characters must be a punctuation character then that actually reduces the search space!
In general, forcing one or more of the characters to belong to some smaller character set (like punctuation) reduces the search space.
"No Google" from the guy who does seemingly every interview over Google Hangouts (and, yet, supposedly, we remain absolutely clueless of his whereabouts - oh my!).
The simple fact is that there is no security and there is no privacy. At best, we can take what we think are the wisest and most conservative precautions, but once something leaves our head or our mouth, there is no guarantee. There are only protocols and services and mechanisms which we do not yet know are compromised. If the last two years have taught us anything, it's that anything we rely on probably *actually is* compromised.
Hell, even anything in our head isn't confirmed safe, anymore. Not in a world where we have observation systems that determine your intention by your gait or your facial expression or your body's thermal signature. Not in a world where we're just starting to be able to visually represent actual thoughts from a brain, onto a screen. And not in a world where conclusions are drawn from assumptions of your collective data where you have far less control over it -- from borrowed library books to your database of grocery purchases to your Amazon shopping history and Netflix viewing history.
Worse, I don't see any indication that any truly guaranteed modes of encryption and security and privacy would not simply be outlawed. It is amazingly simple to coerce the American people into accepting any desired infringement upon their rights. If they're not willing to give them up "just because", then tell them that it'll help us protect ISIL from cutting off your head in your living room or will help protect your children from getting Ebola at school. Maybe get a few religious leaders on-board to help spread the propaganda that it's the "Christian/whatever thing to do".
The US does not have an extradition treaty with Saudi Arabia.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki...
The US treaty with Turkey is first limited to crimes which BOTH countries consider felonies. That requirement is on page 1.
Them there's another 20 pages of requirements for it to apply.
His advice is so stupid that I'm really beginning to wonder whether he is still working for the NSA. It's not only inconvenient, it actually puts you at a greater risk.
Computer security is really not that different from physical security: locking up everything from everybody is a lot of work, inconvenient, and expensive.
For most things, Google and Facebook are perfectly fine. Hysterical avoidance of them is not only inconvenient, but switching to supposedly more secure services will either make you appear suspicious, or you may simply be running into the open arms of some intelligence service that is using those services as a front.
Information you don't want to fall into the hands of criminals, you should encrypt; online storage may be fine for some if you are good about encryption and it's not that critical. For really critical information, use local USB drives or paper.
Is there information you don't want to fall into the hands of government? Yes, even if you are law-abiding. You want to avoid being a false positive on some witch hunt for terrorists or drug offenders, and you don't want to give corrupt prosecutors the ability to blackmail or pressure you into admitting things you didn't do. So, keep your Magic Pony gay porn collection off the Internet and encrypt it, keep your medical information on paper, and purchase your fertilizer and cold medication with cash when you can.
People have always been suspicious of people who were different. And people have always had to keep some things secret from their neighbors.
Despite all the beating of chests, I think we are probably better off today than ever before. Many things people used to be able to blackmail you with (homosexuality, extramarital affairs, illegitimate children, bankruptcy, atheism, whatever), people don't give a f*ck about anymore. Furthermore, none of the NSA or CIA bullshit is new, but finally, people are finding out about it and getting upset. I expect these agencies will face more serious restrictions on their operations than ever in their history.
Yes, we need to be vigilant and take action. No, the sky isn't falling.
So, any tried and tested apps for iPhone?
Everyone seems to be collecting data even /.. :(
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
Given the amount of data we can store on memory cards (now up to 512 GB), now would be a good time to standardize the one-time pad.
For example, Alice and Bob meet in person. They plug their credit-card-sized one-time pads into each other and exchange giga-Bytes of truely random numbers generated on-card. Then when Alice wishes to send Bob a message over an untrusted chanel (i.e. the internet), she adds a section of the random numbers to her message (modulo 256). Bob then decrypts with his matching set of numbers.
The used numbers are then deleted on both Alice and Bob's cards.
A single meeting between A & B would be enough to encrypt every text message they send for ever after. All that is needed is an international set of standards for doing this and the associated hardware. For example, you could take your OTPad to your bank and plug in into a socket and exchange random numbers, and use them for secure banking at home. No CA's required.
This is future-proof and unhackable (assuming A & B's computers are not compromised).
You could even exchange the random numbers over an untrusted chanel. Just make sure there's a huge number. If everyone does this, it would overwhelm the storage capacity of the NSA and friends.
It's trivially easy.
Of hell ya he's a hero, and fuck the government for not saying so. Come to think of it, just fuck the government in general because it's generally fucked up. Thanks for voting!
Is this where "the man" dangles a puppet in front of your eyes so you forget about everything else? Say I never used facebook, dropbox and google and steer clear. Now "they" only have phones, credit cards, bank statements, anything I get shipped, plane stubs, hotel reservations, car license plates, cell- and/or smartphones and a bazillion other things to know exactly what I ate last Tuesday and to violate my privacy which, judging by the attention wh**ing online, nobody cares all that much about anyway it seems.
"Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet." - Mark Twain
US extradition treaties only cover actions that are crimes in both countries, which means that the only crimes you could be extradited to Saudi and beheaded for are drug offenses.
Like it or not, there's no escape. We've chosen this way.
Given that I don't use two of those services, and occasionally use the other, that advice is not that tough.
That supply custom hosts file data: My FREE hosts program adds speed, security, reliability, & more, by doing more, more efficiently vs. addons + fixes DNS' issues:
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:
http://start64.com/index.php?o...
---
A.) Hosts do more than:
1.) AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... )
2.) Ghostery (Advertiser owned) - "Fox guards henhouse" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
3.) Request Policy -> http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
B.) Hosts add reliability vs. downed/redirected dns (& overcome site redirects e.g. /. beta).
C.) Hosts secure vs. malicious domains too -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... w/ less "moving parts" complexity
D.) Hosts files yield more:
1.) Speed (adblock & hardcodes fav sites - faster than remote dns)
2.) Security (vs. malicious domains serving malcontent + block spam/phish & trackers)
3.) Reliability (vs. downed or Kaminsky redirect vulnerable dns, 99% = unpatched vs. it & worst @ isp level + weak vs DGA, & Fastflux + dynDNS botnets)
4.) Anonymity (vs. dns request logs + dnsbl's).
---
* Hosts do more w/ less (1 file) @ faster levels (ring 0) vs redundant inefficient addons (slowing slower ring 3 browsers) via filtering 4 the IP stack (coded in C, loads w/ os, & 1st net resolver queried w\ 45++ yrs.of optimization).
* Addons = more complex + slow browsers in messagepassing (use a few concurrently & see) & are nullified by native browser methods - It's how Clarityray's destroying Adblock.
* Addons slowup slower usermode browsers layering on more - & bloat RAM consumption + excessive cpu use too (4++gb extra in FireFox https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth...)
Instead, work w/ a native kernelmode part - hosts (An integrated part of the ip stack)
APK
P.S.=> "The premise is quite simple: Take something designed by nature & reprogram it to make it work for the body rather than against it..." - Dr. Alice Krippen: "I am legend"
...apk
Can adblock do these 15 things hosts files can for more speed, security, reliability, & more:
1.) Secure you vs. known malicious sites/servers (beyond malicious adbanners - see 2 thru 6 below next)
2.) Secure you vs. downed DNS servers aiding reliability
3.) Secure you vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns servers
4.) Protect you vs. fastflux using botnet attacks and stop their communications back to their C&C servers
5.) Protect you vs. dynamic dns using botnet attacks and stop their communications back to their C&C servers
6.) Protect you vs. domain generation algorithm using botnet attacks and stop their communications back to their C&C servers
7.) Speed you up for websurfing not only by adblocking but also hardcoding favorite sites
8.) Get you past a dnsbl you may not agree with
9.) Keep you off dns request logs
10.) Do all of those things and block ads (better than adblock) more efficiently in cpu cycles and memory usage
11.) Work on ANY webbound application (think stand-alone email programs, for example).
12.) Give you direct, easily notepad/texteditor controlled data for all of the above
13.) Block out trackers
14.) Block spam mails sources
15.) Block phishing mails sources
"?"
* Simple YES or NO answers will do for repliers to this - that's all.
APK
P.S.=> The ANSWER ="NO" to each enumerated item above as far as "Almost ALL Ads Blocked" (crippled by default & 'souled-out' defeating it's very base purpose) is concerned -> http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/...
So, *IF* you feel like doing things LESS efficiently as well -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... ontop of doing less than hosts do (by far) with more complexity + from a slower mode of operations (usermode with more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode, also starting up w/ the IP stack itself, before REDUNDANT inefficient addons even BEGIN to operate, & as the 1st resolver queried by the OS as well)?
That'd be illogical: I can lead a horse to water, but I can't make them drink!
... apk
W. Palant wrote me by email 1st saying "hosts are a shitty solution" to which I replied:
"Show us adblock can do more for added speed, security, reliability, & anonymity than hosts can, + that adblock does it more efficiently than hosts"
Which on my latter 'point-in-challenge' on efficiency AdBlock's proven by research to be MASSIVELY inefficient -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... & adblock does FAR less than hosts (especially crippled by default).
I sent Wladimir Palant that challenge in response to his statement from 2 different email addresses I use!
Result = Still no answer from him in regard to my challenge put to him to this very day MONTHS later - that tell you anything? It did me!
He knows his addon is less efficient & features laden by FAR vs. hosts - Wladimir Palant RAN like a scared rabbit!
ClarityRay's also DESTROYING AdBlock - via native browser methods to DUMP what addons you use (it can't DO THAT to hosts files).
I only tell it how it is on hosts' superiority vs. AdBlock - Funny part is, Wladimir Palant running does too!
Especially considering "Almost ALL Ads Blocked" has 'souled-out' -> Google And Others Reportedly Pay Adblock Plus To Show You Ads Anyway: http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
APK
P.S.=> Bottom-Line: Hosts = a superior solution that also fixes DNS redirect security issues (vs. browser addons & their inefficiencies + messagepassing overheads as well as myriad lack of abilities hosts have from 1 file that's part of the IP stack itself - faster, more efficient, & less redundant as well, since TCP/IP has 45++ yrs. of refinement & optimization in it, & runs in a higher CPU serviced ring of privelege & operations in kernelmode vs. slower usermode layering over browsers slowing them more, & hosts = 1st resolver queried by the OS itself also)... apk
Living without [a google account] is certainly possible. I've been doing it for years. I would agree that "app" developers seem obsessed with publishing their offerings through a single medium, that takes 30%, and requires their users to buy into the google/apple ecosystem. However, I blame this on the typical "app" developer being a mindless dullard, addicted to the status quo. The entire IT spectrum has been infested with these types of late. It's been frustrating.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
New Zealand does have an extradition treaty with the US, and recognizes money laundering and racketeering as felonies.
The precise opposite set of facts vs GGP's imagination.
I don't think committing the crime in the US is grounds for extradition.
People use Gmail because it is generally reliable, they abstract them from whatever ISP they may have at the moment, and appear to be free. But mostly because they appear to be free, because the other two can be had elsewhere. But we all know it isn't free. They have your data. I personally don't believe they don't mine your data. The cost is your personal information not really being personal. But cash money is a powerful thing. And with new job creation tending towards "would you like fries with that," saving cash is more important to most than saving privacy.
-- I ignore anonymous replies to my comments and postings.
Seriously, these are two massive choke points. Easy to focus on and intercept. If you think using these makes you secure, lol, you lose.
We don't need no stinkin' warrants!
My FREE hosts program adds speed, security, reliability, & more, by doing more, more efficiently vs. addons + fixes DNS' issues:
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:
http://start64.com/index.php?o...
---
A.) Hosts do more than:
1.) AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... )
2.) Ghostery (Advertiser owned) - "Fox guards henhouse" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
3.) Request Policy -> http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
B.) Hosts add reliability vs. downed/redirected dns (& overcome site redirects e.g. /. beta).
C.) Hosts secure vs. malicious domains too -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... w/ less "moving parts" complexity
D.) Hosts files yield more:
1.) Speed (adblock & hardcodes fav sites - faster than remote dns)
2.) Security (vs. malicious domains serving malcontent + block spam/phish & trackers)
3.) Reliability (vs. downed or Kaminsky redirect vulnerable dns, 99% = unpatched vs. it & worst @ isp level + weak vs DGA, & Fastflux + dynDNS botnets)
4.) Anonymity (vs. dns request logs + dnsbl's).
---
* Hosts do more w/ less (1 file) @ faster levels (ring 0) vs redundant inefficient addons (slowing slower ring 3 browsers) via filtering 4 the IP stack (coded in C, loads w/ os, & 1st net resolver queried w\ 45++ yrs.of optimization).
* Addons = more complex + slow browsers in messagepassing (use a few concurrently & see) & are nullified by native browser methods - It's how Clarityray's destroying Adblock.
* Addons slowup slower usermode browsers layering on more - & bloat RAM consumption + excessive cpu use too (4++gb extra in FireFox https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth...)
Instead, work w/ a native kernelmode part - hosts (An integrated part of the ip stack)
APK
P.S.=> "The premise is quite simple: Take something designed by nature & reprogram it to make it work for the body rather than against it..." - Dr. Alice Krippen: "I am legend"
...apk
Can adblock do these 15 things hosts files can for more speed, security, reliability, & more:
1.) Secure you vs. known malicious sites/servers (beyond malicious adbanners - see 2 thru 6 below next)
2.) Secure you vs. downed DNS servers aiding reliability
3.) Secure you vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns servers
4.) Protect you vs. fastflux using botnet attacks and stop their communications back to their C&C servers
5.) Protect you vs. dynamic dns using botnet attacks and stop their communications back to their C&C servers
6.) Protect you vs. domain generation algorithm using botnet attacks and stop their communications back to their C&C servers
7.) Speed you up for websurfing not only by adblocking but also hardcoding favorite sites
8.) Get you past a dnsbl you may not agree with
9.) Keep you off dns request logs
10.) Do all of those things and block ads (better than adblock) more efficiently in cpu cycles and memory usage
11.) Work on ANY webbound application (think stand-alone email programs, for example).
12.) Give you direct, easily notepad/texteditor controlled data for all of the above
13.) Block out trackers
14.) Block spam mails sources
15.) Block phishing mails sources
"?"
* Simple YES or NO answers will do for repliers to this - that's all.
APK
P.S.=> The ANSWER ="NO" to each enumerated item above as far as "Almost ALL Ads Blocked" (crippled by default & 'souled-out' defeating it's very base purpose) is concerned -> http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/...
So, *IF* you feel like doing things LESS efficiently as well -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... ontop of doing less than hosts do (by far) with more complexity + from a slower mode of operations (usermode with more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode, also starting up w/ the IP stack itself, before REDUNDANT inefficient addons even BEGIN to operate, & as the 1st resolver queried by the OS as well)?
That'd be illogical: I can lead a horse to water, but I can't make them drink!
... apk
W. Palant wrote me by email 1st saying "hosts are a shitty solution" to which I replied:
"Show us adblock can do more for added speed, security, reliability, & anonymity than hosts can, + that adblock does it more efficiently than hosts"
Which on my latter 'point-in-challenge' on efficiency AdBlock's proven by research to be MASSIVELY inefficient -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... & adblock does FAR less than hosts (especially crippled by default).
I sent Wladimir Palant that challenge in response to his statement from 2 different email addresses I use!
Result = Still no answer from him in regard to my challenge put to him to this very day MONTHS later - that tell you anything? It did me!
He knows his addon is less efficient & features laden by FAR vs. hosts - Wladimir Palant RAN like a scared rabbit!
ClarityRay's also DESTROYING AdBlock - via native browser methods to DUMP what addons you use (it can't DO THAT to hosts files).
I only tell it how it is on hosts' superiority vs. AdBlock - Funny part is, Wladimir Palant running does too!
Especially considering "Almost ALL Ads Blocked" has 'souled-out' -> Google And Others Reportedly Pay Adblock Plus To Show You Ads Anyway: http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
APK
P.S.=> Bottom-Line: Hosts = a superior solution that also fixes DNS redirect security issues (vs. browser addons & their inefficiencies + messagepassing overheads as well as myriad lack of abilities hosts have from 1 file that's part of the IP stack itself - faster, more efficient, & less redundant as well, since TCP/IP has 45++ yrs. of refinement & optimization in it, & runs in a higher CPU serviced ring of privelege & operations in kernelmode vs. slower usermode layering over browsers slowing them more, & hosts = 1st resolver queried by the OS itself also)... apk
Subject says it all. You want to listen to enemies of our country trying to take Russia back to the Soviet Union? Be my guest.
The problem is text is decrypted back to plain text looking for advertising on the free email services after they offer their free new https all the way.
The message is then seen as classic random numbers and is then flagged at some stage as using encryption and further sorting by gov/mil.
The gov/mil does not care what is in your message but the slightest hint that any person is using crpyto like numbers or letters in bulk would ensure any ip, user, isp is noted.
That message glows.
Expect 3-4 level of hops to all other communications to be looked at retroactively and users listed for future tracking. Friends of friends going back. "Collect it all" gets it all and can then be given a sorting task.
The good news is the one time pad works. The fun part is getting the format to look very normal and be machine readable for advertizing.
The bad news is random numbers stand out, the path of the message stands out and will ensure a lot of interest from gov/mil with global reach and years of storage.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Cybercriminals and terrorists are bad guys. I want 'the gummit' to find them. The question for me is, is it better for law enforcement to find them, or to hide the fact that I've been searching online for viagra?
I choose the former. They are welcome to my data, if having access will help them dig these shit fucking assholes (who make my online or rw experience so fucking dangerous) out of the mud they live in.