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Tag Archives: Privacy
Is the NSA Really Abuse-Proof?
President Obama, General Alexander (the Director of the NSA), and Senator Dianne Feinstein (Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence) have all assured us that we needn’t worry about NSA snooping on Americans because the NSA has several systems … Continue reading
Implementing Prism Break
A while ago I wrote about Prism Break, a site dedicated to helping you choose private and secure alternatives to many popular proprietary systems and programs. Now Laurent Eschenauer has posted a description of his personal Prism Break. Some of … Continue reading
Your Last Warning
I’ve been writing a lot about the NSA, government snooping, and what it all means for us. I’m an American and my writing has reflected that by viewing the events through the lens of what it means to America and … Continue reading
Schneier Gives Tech Firms Some Advice
Bruce Schneier has an excellent article in The Atlantic entitled The NSA Is Commandeering the Internet. This is a great read and I urge you to take a look if you haven’t already. The title is a little misleading, however. … Continue reading
Google and Gmail Privacy
The Internet is ablaze with reports of a Google lawsuit filing claiming that Gmail users have no expectation of privacy. After all the pixels I’ve spilled lately bloviating about privacy and the misdeeds of large Internet companies, including Google, you’d … Continue reading
The Lighter Side of NSA Surveillance
Actually, there is no lighter side to what the NSA is doing. One thing that every politician knows is that they’re in trouble when the late night comics start making them the butt of their jokes. That’s already happening with … Continue reading
Mega Mail
There is so much to love in this announcement. Kim Dotcom’s Mega.co.nz is going to offer secure, encrypted email and house the server out of the reach of the illegal snooping of the NSA. Not content to make the US … Continue reading
A Bit More On Lavabit
Forbes has a bit more information on the closing of Lavabit. They provide additional clues that Ladar Levison of Lavabit was indeed asked to monitor users’ logins in order to capture their keys. Among other things, we learn that Levison … Continue reading
The Price of Integrity
Those of you who who follow Irreal daily know that I recently migrated the email that was going to my Gmail account to Lavabit. All of that mail was from technical mailing lists so it didn’t really matter much except … Continue reading
No Exceptions
Personally, I think the only thing to do is to go back to the original sense of the Fourth Amendment and say, no warrantless wiretapping, no general warrants, no surveillance without specific probable cause, no exceptions, ever. There shouldn’t even … Continue reading