[ale] OT fyi EFF petition to stop NSA spying

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

It keeps getting worse.  Steve Gibson mentioned this article in his recent Security Now Podcast

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/nsa-top-secret-program-online-data

Headline: XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'

Steve says they use Linux clusters to spy on us, but I didn't see that in this article by searching for the word linux.

Sincerely,

Ron



Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:

>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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