[ale] OT fyi EFF petition to stop NSA spying

[Charles Shapiro]

And if you become a member of EFF, you get Stickers!

I 'specially like the "I do not consent to the search of this device" one.

-- CHS



On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Bob Toxen <transam at verysecurelinux.com>wrote:

> I encourage everyone to make a donation to
>
>   http://eff.org
>
> if you want to stop the criminal violation of Unconstitutional spying
> on YOU by our government.
>
> I'll be making another donation!
>
> Bob Toxen
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> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 12:01:27PM -0400, Michael Trausch wrote:
> > You can use Tor for browsing safely and an OpenVPN server to give
> yourself safe remote access to your home network. Then you're covered
> everywhere you go, at the cost of bouncing all connections through your
> home network.
> >
> > You can also do the same with IPsec combined with creative routing.
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On Jul 31, 2013, at 11:21 AM, "Ron Frazier (ALE)" <
> atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I know this topic has been discussed here, but I don't remember how
> much specific data has been shared.  (I know, I shared some of it myself.)
>  Anyway, I thought I'd pass this along.
> > >
> > > I don't know how much you've been following the NSA spying on citizens
> news.  I'm pretty upset that our own government is violating several of our
> constitutional rights by spying on it's own citizens, recording the data
> about every phone call we make, and sucking up every email and web browsing
> action that we do that they can.  The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
> has lots of info on it, and is a major player in trying to hold the govt
> accountable.  They have an electronic petition that half a million people
> have signed to try to put a stop to this unconstitutional spying.  I
> thought you'd like to know about it.
> > >
> > > https://optin.stopwatching.us/?r=eff#  -  this is the petition
> > >
> > > https://www.eff.org/  -  the EFF website
> > >
> > > https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying  -  EFF page about NSA spying
> > >
> > > I'm pondering ways to VPN and / or encrypt everything I do, at least
> to the point that I can.  In many cases, if the party on the other end of
> the communications isn't encrypting, there's not much you can do.
> > >
> > > Sincerely,
> > >
> > > Ron
> > >
> > >
> > > --
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> quickly.)
> > >
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