[governance] Opt out of PRISM

[Daniel Kalchev]

On 12.06.13 20:17, parminder wrote:
> "Opt out of PRISM, the NSA’s global data surveillance program. Stop 
> reporting your online activities to the American government with these 
> free alternatives to proprietary software."
> http://prism-break.org/
>
> Interesting!!
>

Yes, interesting. Interesting how people will believe anything, that 
they might think would solve their "problem".

The issue here is that NSA collects data in transit and at the server 
side. Not so much on your own computer. They don't have to, actually. So 
even if you use Linux, accessing Facebook, or even mailing to this 
mailing list (or any other mailing list that you believe is "closed") 
still gets intercepted and processed.

By avoiding Windows, you simply cut off Microsoft. By avoiding OS X you 
cut of Apple. But you never cut off NSA. You also hardly cut off Google 
significantly, as they already bribed millions of web site maintainers 
to include their spyware on their sites, in exchange of money.

If you need to do things securely, you need to understand the process 
and build your own tools and environment -- in the process "restricting" 
your possibilities. Then, you should be prepared to deal with all the 
intelligence and counter-intelligence that will get thrown at you.

In short, "normal people" can do very little "against" NSA spying on 
them, as this involves spending more than NSA spends. Which is hardly 
doable. Even for most governments.

Daniel


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