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Date: March 13, 2014 at 13:34:43
From: Akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: fyi - Encryption Works: How to Protect Your Privacy... |
URL: Freedom of the Press Foundation |
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never know when you might need it..
Encryption Works: How to Protect Your Privacy in the Age of NSA Surveillance
" Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is so terrifically weak that NSA can frequently find ways around it.
The NSA is the biggest, best funded spy agency the world has ever seen. They spend billions upon billions of dollars each year doing everything they can to vacuum up the digital communications of most humans on this planet that have access to the Internet and and the phone network. And as the recent reports in the Guardian and Washington Post show, even domestic American communications are not safe from their net.
Defending yourself against the NSA, or any other government intelligence agency, is not simple, and it's not something that can be solved just by downloading an app. But thanks to the dedicated work of civilian cryptographers and the free and open source software community, it's still possible to have privacy on the Internet, and the software to do it is freely available to everyone. This is especially important for journalists communicating with sources online.
Table of Contents
Threat Model
Crypto Systems
Software You Can Trust
Anonymize Your Location with Tor
Off-the-Record (OTR) Chat
"Pretty Good Privacy" (PGP) Email Encryption
Tails: The Amnesic Incognito Live System
A Fighting Chance"
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"About Freedom of the Press Foundation
Our Mission
Freedom of the Press Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to helping support and defend public-interest journalism focused on exposing mismanagement, corruption, and law-breaking in government. We accept tax-deductible donations to a variety of journalism organizations that push for transparency and accountability, and we work to preserve and strengthen the rights guaranteed to the press under the First Amendment.
Freedom of the Press Foundation is built on the recognition that this kind of transparency journalism — from publishing the Pentagon Papers and exposing Watergate, to uncovering the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program and CIA secret prisons — doesn’t just happen. It requires dogged work by journalists, and often, the courage of whistleblowers and others who work to ensure that the public actually learns what it has a right to know.
Crowd-Funding
In a changing economic and technological age, media organizations are increasingly susceptible to corporate or government pressure. This can lead to watered-down or compromised coverage, or worse: censorship.
Increasingly, non-profit media and transparency organizations are emerging as a critical component of the journalism landscape. Leveraging the power of the Internet, these organizations are helping to reinvent and reimagine independent watchdog reporting.
Right now, too many of those organizations are struggling for funding, relying on a few large foundations or competing for donors. Our goal is to broaden the financial base of these types of institutions—both start-ups and established non-profit organizations — by crowd-sourcing funding and making it easy for people to support the best journalism from an array of organizations all in one place.
Using the same networked, collaborative approach, the Freedom of the Press Foundation will also provide support for organizations and individuals that have been unjustly censored or cut off from funding for doing their job as journalists. Given the variety of corporate and government pressures on journalism outlets around the world, the need has never been greater.
How It Works:..."
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Date: March 13, 2014 at 17:01:18
From: Nasirah, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: fyi - Encryption Works: How to Protect Your Privacy... |
URL: https://supporters.eff.org/shop/laptop-camera-cover-set |
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NSA uses a plug-in called GUMFISH to take over cameras on infected
machines and snap photos.
Another NSA plug-in called CAPTIVATEDAUDIENCE hijacks the microphone
on targeted computers to record conversations.
So buy specialized camera blocking hardware from the link below and
when your computer is ever turned on even if you are not using it have a
radio turned up loud to block microphone eavesdropping.
Or if you are really paranoid throwaway your computer and communicate
using snail mail and research using library books.
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Date: March 14, 2014 at 05:37:10
From: Akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: fyi - Encryption Works: How to Protect Your Privacy... |
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no need to go crazy, there's always ducktape. lol
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