[ale] OT fyi EFF petition to stop NSA spying

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

Hi Mike T,

I'm going to have to look into Tor.  I've heard about it but haven't used it.

Bouncing through my home network won't work if they're tapping into Comcast.  I think I'd rather use a commercial vpn with exit points in other areas.  The problem is doing that for all my pc's without paying a fortune.  Maybe I could bounce to my home then to the commercial vpn.  I'm so confused 8-).  I think JD mentioned using a custom router firmware as an vpn endpoint.  I haven't had time to mess with this in any detail.

Other things I've heard say the spooks target YOUR data for scrutiny even more if you're using tor or the data is encrypted.  I think they particularly like to focus on tor exit nodes.  They may even be running some.

Steve requoted a tweet that he got - "I have nothing to hide from people I trust."

I totally trust that the NSA is working to protect our national security.  However, I don't trust that they did or will exercise proper restraint in protecting the rights of the "innocent until proven guilty".

Sincerely,

Ron



Michael Trausch <mbt at naunetcorp.com> 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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