Have you made efforts to privatize your email

[skieur]

I have email privacy/security partly because my service is OUTSIDE the US (and North America for that matter) and not subject to US law. It cannot provide data to anyone legal or not because it does NOT record data, does NOT record ISP numbers and uses a far stronger encryption system than Lavabit.
Moreover it cannot provide any encryption keys because it does not have any.

Once you send an email... its not private any more. Have you ever done a 'traceroute' to see all the points your data visits?

Certainly, but you encrypt the email as well as the keys using a customized version of NTRU, strip off the ISP and send it through a VPN.

 

[TheLost]

Tor projects are funded by the department of defense, so word around is that a back door way around the encryption was inserted into the program. That seemed to be confirmed when the FBI with a bulk warrant seized a very large amount of TOR data.

Whether this sort of snooping concerns you or not is another matter.

Nothing you can do when the gov is downloading the entire net.

Sure there is. Only STORED personal information can be downloaded or hacked. Get rid of your STORED personal information on the the Internet and avoid adding to it and you keep your privacy and secure your credit and banking use.

hahaha... so not true. Put me on your network for a few hours and i can re-assemble all your network traffic (emails, web browsing.. anything you do online) into a nice little presentation for you.

 

[skieur]

Nothing you can do when the gov is downloading the entire net.

Sure there is. Only STORED personal information can be downloaded or hacked. Get rid of your STORED personal information on the the Internet and avoid adding to it and you keep your privacy and secure your credit and banking use.

hahaha... so not true. Put me on your network for a few hours and i can re-assemble all your network traffic (emails, web browsing.. anything you do online) into a nice little presentation for you.

I doubt that, IF all cookies, web bugs, temporary files, indexes, and the thousands of tracks routinely put on computers by one's activity have been routinely erased by specialized software. Then the use of VPNs and encryption scrambles things even more.

 

[skieur]

I have email privacy/security partly because my service is OUTSIDE the US (and North America for that matter) and not subject to US law. It cannot provide data to anyone legal or not because it does NOT record data, does NOT record ISP numbers and uses a far stronger encryption system than Lavabit.
Moreover it cannot provide any encryption keys because it does not have any.

Once you send an email... its not private any more. Have you ever done a 'traceroute' to see all the points your data visits?


Note to any government official reading this: I 100% support your efforts! And if you are hiring Sr. Software Developers (aka.. Spy's) to work at the Bumblehive i would love an Interview! PM me for my contact information

I tend to suspect that they are looking more for the "creative" mindset of successful hackers rather than software developers.

 

[skieur]

Let me apologize for some the computer jargon that some readers may not have understood.

Bottom line is that it is possible to use free software to get totally private and totally secure email free from snooping from advertisers, hackers, or the government.

As far as why anyone should be concerned, well relating the terrorism SPIN as the reason, to the reality of the abuse of powers, between 2009 and 2012 computer snooping was used in England on 500 occasions to investigate dog foulers and violators of the smoking ban. If people keep casually giving up their rights to privacy, they won't have any privacy or any freedom.

 

[Josh66]

If people keep casually giving up their rights to privacy, they won't have any privacy or any freedom.

And then we will have nothing left to worry about, so instead of looking over our shoulder all the time, we'll finally be able to get on with our lives and trust our benevolent (or is that malevolent?) government to keep us safe.

 

[Josh66]

I do trust open source software a lot more for this sort of thing though. I do pretty much only use open source software though, so I admit that I'm biased.

 

[EIngerson]

Let me apologize for some the computer jargon that some readers may not have understood. Bottom line is that it is possible to use free software to get totally private and totally secure email free from snooping from advertisers, hackers, or the government. As far as why anyone should be concerned, well relating the terrorism SPIN as the reason, to the reality of the abuse of powers, between 2009 and 2012 computer snooping was used in England on 500 occasions to investigate dog foulers and violators of the smoking ban. If people keep casually giving up their rights to privacy, they won't have any privacy or any freedom.

China is reading this and laughing. Lol.

 

[skieur]

If people keep casually giving up their rights to privacy, they won't have any privacy or any freedom.

And then we will have nothing left to worry about, so instead of looking over our shoulder all the time, we'll finally be able to get on with our lives and trust our benevolent (or is that malevolent?) government to keep us safe.

Given the nature of present governments anywhere, I would not trust any of them.:thumbdown:

 

[skieur]

Let me apologize for some the computer jargon that some readers may not have understood. Bottom line is that it is possible to use free software to get totally private and totally secure email free from snooping from advertisers, hackers, or the government. As far as why anyone should be concerned, well relating the terrorism SPIN as the reason, to the reality of the abuse of powers, between 2009 and 2012 computer snooping was used in England on 500 occasions to investigate dog foulers and violators of the smoking ban. If people keep casually giving up their rights to privacy, they won't have any privacy or any freedom.

China is reading this and laughing. Lol.

Point is that the reason for snooping has nothing to do with terrorism or giving the police more controls to deal with the declining crime rate. It has more to do with power, control, and potential intimidation. In the Ukraine, they used the GPS on the cellphones of the protestors to locate them in the square and sent them text messages indicating that they were being put in effect on an enemies list.

Moreover I am sure that the Chinese are laughing at the ready acceptance of a lot of Americans of their loss of privacy and freedom to supposedly provide safety from terrorism.

 

[Josh66]

[...] even better is use www.startpage.com instead of Google [...]

I've used that before. I seem to remember it being the default search engine for some browser I was using at one point. Maybe Iceweasle (Debian project compliant version of Firefox), not sure. Probably something else though, since iceweasle is more-or-less the same as Firefox.

 

[EIngerson]

Point is that the reason for snooping has nothing to do with terrorism or giving the police more controls to deal with the declining crime rate. It has more to do with power, control, and potential intimidation. In the Ukraine, they used the GPS on the cellphones of the protestors to locate them in the square and sent them text messages indicating that they were being put in effect on an enemies list. Moreover I am sure that the Chinese are laughing at the ready acceptance of a lot of Americans of their loss of privacy and freedom to supposedly provide safety from terrorism.

I get what your trying to educate people on. But in doing so, you've gone from internet privacy to operational security. Jon Smith the the normal guy's personal information is not the target for international data collectors. No self respecting terrorist is going to waste their time and energy getting that data when all they need is a flight itinerary or the complacency of your everyday mall security guard. I'm sorry but a random text from Sammy the terrorist saying I'm on the "enemies list" doesn't strike fear In my heart. I know I'm on his enemy list, I'm an infidel. I joined that side of the fight willingly. My point is, I'm not in the Ukraine protesting. I'm sure when things are that bad in my country, cell phone privacy will be the least of my worries. And here's a fun fact. If there's a guy getting rich coming up with ways to keep you private, there are ten guys getting twice as rich invading that privacy. So stop trying to convince people they are in control. Right about now I consider that spam. Lol.

 

[EIngerson]

Wow, I typed that on my phone. I apologize to everyone for how painful that was to read.

 

[skieur]

I do trust open source software a lot more for this sort of thing though. I do pretty much only use open source software though, so I admit that I'm biased.

The approach of net security people is to take open source encryption and related software and then modify it to strengthen it's power.

 

[Josh66]

I do trust open source software a lot more for this sort of thing though. I do pretty much only use open source software though, so I admit that I'm biased.

The approach of net security people is to take open source encryption and related software and then modify it to strengthen it's power.

And if they do not release the source code for their modified version, they would be in violation of the license (usually).