Got a PRISM and Boundless Informant problem? Whisper and Tor can help

LinuxBSDos ^ | 11 June 2013 | Unknown

[ShadowAce]

[schm0e]

Don’t you just love names like that.

I liked "Echelon" better.

[schm0e]

I meant, "I liked Echelon better."

Carry on.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

Tor is a bit slow, but I understand that's because it is routing through another IP address, anywhere from the U.S. to Netherlands, to Holland to Iceland.

Thanks for posting this. Helpful stuff.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

Oh yeah and, too bad our gubmint is so obsessed with tracking down pro-Israel groups that it allowed the Boston bombings to happen.

[brandon24]

http://prism-break.org/

[Salgak]

IT still doesn’t solve the problem of emails.

For that, you can go commercial (PGP Desktop Professional) or Open-Source (Gnu Privacy Guard) PGP is easier to set up, GPG is free. . .

[brandon24]

Secure Calling and Instant Messaging for iOS and Android devices. https://mocana.com/for-device-manufacturers/keytone/

[Army Air Corps]

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[OneWingedShark]

Has PGP been cracked though? — That is the question.
Were I the NSA (or other GovAgency) and it was, that would be one secret that I’d kill to preserve — indeed, a ‘scare’ flocking people into using the perceived-secure encryption would be a good thing (from the warped GovAgency perspective).

[null and void]

You mean like we didn't tell Germany and Japan that we cracked Enigma and Purple?

OTOH The NYT and our own senators couldn't wait to tell the muzzies how we were tracking and killing them...

[corkoman]

After I started using TOR no longer do directed advertisements show up on the browser. It was creepy how advertisements for things I searched for creeped up on me.

TOR is slow but Im not that much in a rush.

[nomad]

I heard this suggestion somewhere on-line and was wondering what any techies out there would think.

His idea was: What if everyone in the country, or those that believe the NSA is out of control, were to have a send a naughty word day? Or a naughty word week?

Don`t these systems still use keyword identification software? So in theory, they only need to include certain keywords into their communications for that day.

As that blogger mused, "I wonder how the system would cope with millions or billions of e-messages in one day or week that all raised flags?"

[Sergio]

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[ShadowAce]

Hmm—do you trust everyone else to do the same on the same day you do it?

[adorno]

“I wonder how the system would cope with millions or billions of e-messages in one day or week that all raised flags?”

Fact is that, if millions knew of the “word of the day or week”, that the government would also know about it, and disregard it as just an inconvenience.

If what the NSA says is true, it’s the pattern of communications that they’re after, and not some gimmick by someone to send them off track. A one day intrusion into the system is not a pattern for a one suspect or a suspicious group.

[slouper]

WOW! The Netherlands and Holland, both. That’s pretty good.

[OldNewYork]

So it’s come to this.

[nomad]

You don`t have to use the same word, in theory, any word that kicks the system into gear would work, two or more in the same message would be even better.