How to Annoy the NSA lori100: Fromthetrenches------------7 Powerful Ways to Maintain Your Privacy and Integrity Online Posted on June 14, 2013 by Mark ---------------7 Powerful Ways to Maintain Your Privacy and Integrity Online ----collective evolution by Eliot Estep-------------1. Use StartPage.com for all your searches. Known as “the world’s most private search engine”, StartPage will allow you to search anonymously and securely through Google. It is probably the only search engine that does not collect or share any personal information about you. You can even access pages through a proxy quickly and easily. StartPage functionality can be easily added to your browser for all searches made through the address bar. If you value your privacy, this is really a no-brainer. If you use Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc then everything you search is logged to your IP address and is used to build a comprehensive profile about all your online activity. This means that the government literally has the ability to know everything you’ve been interested in, how you type (thus, how you think), and much more. Protect your searches! 2. Consider using an Anonymizer such as Tor to protect your identity. Tor prevents anyone from learning your location, browsing habits, and is an extremely effective tool against network surveillance and traffic analysis. Tor is essentially a network of virtual tunnels run by volunteers that allows your real IP address to remain hidden and undetectable when browsing the Internet. It is used by whistleblowers, hackers, and all those who value anonymity. You can also use it to access sites that your ISP has blocked or banned. Keep in mind, if you use Tor to access personally-identifying sites like Facebook then you pretty much lose your ability to remain anonymous. Learn more about this powerful software and please use it responsibly! To get started quickly, please download the Tor Browser Bundle. Using this software wisely and effectively will likely require changing your browsing habits, so be aware of this. 3. Consider using a private and secure social network like Pidder. This is a private social network that uses encrypted communication and offers the ability to remain anonymous. If you are truly looking for ways to stay in touch with close ones in a uncompromised manner, this could be the site for you. While it will not have the userbase of Facebook, this is still an excellent alternative for secure social networking. 4. Use a firewall and a secure wireless connection. Protecting your inbound and outbound network traffic is essential. There are many free software options available for this. I cannot guarantee the integrity of these programs, but I personally recommend Little Snitch for Mac users. It appears that Outpost may be a good alternative for Windows. The key is to be able to see what services/sites are trying to send/receive data over your connection. The more stringent your firewall rules are, the better. Keep your computer clean by using some kind of anti-spam/spyware software and minimize your use of highly sketchy sites. 5. Delete your cookies regularly and log out of Facebook when you are not actively using it. Almost everytime you visit a site, you download a cookie from that site, which is often used to track and collect data about you, the sites you visit, etc. Therefore, deleting cookies and temporary internet files from your browser frequently is necessary. I recommendCCleaner as an effective way to do this. Most people leave a Facebook tab open and continue browsing, not realizing that every page that has a “Like” button actively logs and tracks their online activity. Facebook collects all your browsing data and then sells it to third parties, including passing it onto intelligence agencies. Therefore, when you are not actively using Facebook, be sure to log out! Why should they know everything you’re up to online? CORRECTION: It has now been confirmed that Facebook tracks your online activity even while you are logged out. Thus, I highly recommend you install the browser plug-in called DoNotTrackMe. The installation takes seconds and you don’t have to do anything once you’ve added it to your browser. This extremely handy program will show you how many tracking attempts it has blocked in a small counter near your address bar. Because all the trackers are rejected (even those other than Facebook), sites load up to 4x faster than usual! A must-have for all privacy advocates if you don’t want your activity tracked! 6. Cover up or disconnect your webcam when you are not using it. Did you know that your webcam can be secretly activated without you being aware of it? Hackers and intelligence agencies have the ability to do this, so effective countermeasures must be taken here. This can be done WITHOUT the indicator light coming on, so you won’t even know that you are being watched or recorded. This is why I recommend taping over or covering up your webcam when you’re not using it. Why take the risk? Do you really want the government to have the ability to spy on you while you are in your bedroom? The same thing can be done on cellphone cameras/microphones, so be aware of that too. The only way your phone cannot be used to track/record you is if the battery is taken out, which is another reason why many new smartphones come with non-removable batteries these days. 7. Learn to use secure email services like HushMail or encrypted email. Communicating using email is vital and part of our everyday lives. If we use services like Gmail, Hotmail, or Yahoo, those services are not secure and are compromised. Therefore, switching over to a secure service such as Hushmail can be valuable. Or learn how to use Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), which is a way to send encrypted email and files that only a trusted third party can open and view. Essentially, PGP uses public-private key cryptography, where you will give out your public key to trusted recipients. Messages can only be decrypted by using your special private key file (that you keep safe) and the sender’s public key. You can even encrypt files so that only a specific person can open them. Learning to use PGP requires some technical knowledge but can be very useful for those who want to communicate securely and is well worth learning, in my opinion. Please see this tutorial or this video to get started. There are some excellent YouTube videos that can really help out with this.  Robot Seb: lol thats not the NSA, thats just someone trolling  btw, this kind of post goes in the politics section  Topic: Politics  chronology: As far as I know Lori, the NSA still has no answer to the 'One Off' cypher. It is a simple method of substituting letters for numbers, then filtering those numbers through a line of numbers which are not used again (hence the name 'One Off', a cryptographer was saying even today, there is no solution to that code. It was invented by the Soviets. Some of Americas most accomplished Code Breakers never worked for the NSA, they worked for U.S. Customs. One quiet respectable lady in Washington was the scourge of Al Capone and his 'Rum Runners'. She broke every code they developed for sending information over ships radios. If Capone knew who she was, the poor woman would have had a million dollar reward for her murder by any hit man. As it turned out, no one in Washington had any idea of her undercover work for the U.S. Customs. But she disrupted hundreds of shipments of booze and led the way to arresting dozens of ships captains and impounding ships.  Serabi: What I can't understand is... why the trying to be so secretive when you have nothing to hide? Maybe I just live a boring life. I'm not interested in bringing a government down, or supporting a terrorist organisation, porn is just so boring, etc. I read a few news sites on line, look for funny stuff on Youtube, travel with Google Earth, do research on interesting topics and come here. If the government is tracking a known terrorist cell via the Internet and prevent lives from being lost I would consider that a good thing. Surely they are not going to track Joe Soap's normal life. lori100: 'Rage Against the Machine' Guitarist Tom Morello -- I'll Pay for Edward Snowden's Escape Flight www.tmz.com  duncan124: If you take off a letter each time and search after spelling itaninmulli you also find some interesting connections. I expect it is the power of the word Illuminati. Why would they want to network on the web too??? (Post deleted by lori100 ) duncan124: So are the Illuminanti Cult a ' shadow ' Govt linking known wrong doers including the NSA global snooping to help themselves to what the condem? I noticed there are several other sites about chips if you follow the link, and, rolly eyes ,some people are having trouble with companies that make chips aren't they?? (Post deleted by staff ) duncan124: Why and how did the Illuminanti Cult followers put their websites next to the NSUs in a search for illuminanti backwards?? lori100: Huge Online Protest Against NSA Planned For 4th Of July www.huffingtonpost.com Reddit, Mozilla, Wordpress, 4chan and other websites are planning a Fourth of July protest against the National Security Agency over its widespread surveillance of telephone records and Internet traffic through secret programs that came to light last month. Spearheaded by the Internet Defense League, a 30,000-member group of Internet activists and websites, the Restore The Fourth campaign will have websites promote anti-NSA messages on their homepages along with directing visitors to CallForFreedom.org, where they can donate to help fund television ads against the intelligence programs. In addition to advising visitors to call members of Congress, Restore The Fourth is coordinating street demonstrations in more than 75 cities, which will include “liberal groups, conservative groups and libertarian groups alike.” ----------------The Fourth of July protesters argue that the spying programs violate Americans' Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure. "The NSA programs that have been exposed are blatantly unconstitutional, and have a detrimental effect on free speech and freedom of press worldwide," the Internet Defense League's Tiffiniy Cheng told Mashable. "This is going to be our biggest protest since SOPA [Stop Online Piracy Act], and it should be no surprise. You can’t disregard people’s privacy, invade their personal lives on a daily basis, and not expect them to fight back." duncan124: Would that be a silent protest on the 4th? It is an old story the UK papers created to cover up their involvement in things that have gone wrong here in the UK. If you remember that the US Courts tried to dictate what the internet should be like and if you remember ' If cows could draw Gods they would draw Gods shaped like Cows ' you would have a very handy hold on what the media is doing. lori100: Snowden confirms NSA created Stuxnet with Israeli aid rt.com The Stuxnet virus that decimated Iranian nuclear facilities was created by the NSA and co-written by Israel, Edward Snowden has confirmed. The whistleblower added the NSA has a web of foreign partners who pay “marginal attention to human rights.” lori100: NSA scandal delivers record numbers of internet users to DuckDuckGo www.guardian.co.uk Gabriel Weinberg, founder of search engine with zero tracking, credits Prism revelations with prompting huge rise in traffic | Off Topic Chat Room Similar Conversations |
