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 axa
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Because emails last forever, here are some tips for customers and vendors.

1) Don’t use email accounts from Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. They store everything.

2) Do use an anonymizing email service like i2pmail.org. Tormail is no longer recommended due to Freedom Hosting being compromised by the FB!. Don’t leave messages on the server. Either delete after reading or download and store in an encrypted volume.

3) Always use PGP encryption for sensitive email.

IMO to protect their customers vendors should always use an anonymous email service (other than Tormail) and post their PGP public key.



   
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 FSU
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TBH with what the government has worked up recently and the NSA building that’s being built, nothing and I mean nothing will be private. Basically nothing now is but at least they dont’ LOG everything like they will later this year.  You can try to hide yourself all you want but this is the internet, you can and will be found lol  Plus anything electronic now will be logged period, tormail,etc won’t stop the NSA Utah Data Center from logging all electronic data…




   
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 axa
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TBH with what the government has worked up recently and the NSA building that’s being built, nothing and I mean nothing will be private. Basically nothing now is but at least they dont’ LOG everything like they will later this year.  You can try to hide yourself all you want but this is the internet, you can and will be found lol  Plus anything electronic now will be logged period, tormail,etc won’t stop the NSA Utah Data Center from logging all electronic data…

So put the odds in your favor, always use strong PGP encryption for sensitive email and follow my suggestions. Make yourself less of a target.



   
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 FSU
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I did forget to mention that your ideas are good. I just got on that rant about utah data center lol  can’t stand that they’re doing that shit lol    Hell even this convos are being logged  =(




   
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I did forget to mention that your ideas are good. I just got on that rant about utah data center lol  can’t stand that they’re doing that shit lol    Hell even this convos are being logged  =(

Government logging really pisses me off. We’re loosing all our privacy and hardly anybody gives a fuck.
Is that only going to log Utah or the whole country?



   
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 FSU
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http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/04/12/nsa-data-center-front-and-center-in-debate-over-liberty-security-and-privacy/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fscitech+(Internal+-+SciTech+-+Mixed)

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The Utah Data Center will gather data from intercepted satellite communications and underwater ocean cables. Analysts will analyze, decipher, and store the information for the purpose of spotting potential national security threats. The facility will be heavily fortified with backup generators and powerful equipment to keep the vast computer network cool.

The Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center, also known as the Utah Data Center, is a data storage facility being built for the United States National Security Agency and Director of National Intelligence that is designed to be a primary storage resource capable of storing data on the scale of yottabytes.[1][2] Though its precise mission is secret, its purpose — as the name implies — is to support the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI).[3]

It is alleged to capture "all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Internet searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital ‘pocket litter’."

[1] According to the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, the federal government is legally prohibited from collecting, storing, analyzing, or disseminating the content of the communications of US persons, whether inside or outside of the United States, unless authorized by an individual warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.[4]

The planned structure is 1 million or 1.5 million square feet[2][5][6] and it is projected to cost from $1.5 billion[7][8][9] to $2 billion when finished in September 2013.[1][2] One report suggested that it will cost another $2 billion for hardware, software, and maintenance.[2] The completed facility is expected to have a power demand of 65 megawatts, costing about $40 million per year.[1][2] It is located on Camp Williams, near Bluffdale, Utah.




   
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(@bradnowell)
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I fucking hate those two words, "National Security".  What a joke.



   
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(@dashneo)
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Though its precise mission is secret, its purpose — as the name implies — is to support the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI).[3]

you know what that means, it’s also being used to track citizens of the united states using the excuse of national security. And that’s bullshit.



   
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 FSU
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Yeah that’s why I don’t buy it. We all know the NSA is kinda it’s own thing outside the gov…They were tracking those "terrorists" months before they came to the US(9/11).  Plus we should all realize by now the US gov are masters at deceiving and manipulation.




   
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Ya know what?

"I’m from the government and I’m here to help you"

Thanks benevolent government entity, but no thanks!


Sail and grow
Deep inside
The brave align
Green we stay

-Boss Keloid Lung Valley


   
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PGP is almost impossible to break, even with brute force computing.  If you go to the trouble of 64 bit encryption, it would take almost forever to break the encryption even with dedicated supercomputing.  It really is that secure.



   
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PGP is almost impossible to break, even with brute force computing.  If you go to the trouble of 64 bit encryption, it would take almost forever to break the encryption even with dedicated supercomputing.  It really is that secure.

Unfortunately, the heavier the security, the more inconvenient the technology is to the end user. You have to know what you’re doing if you’re going to use strong encryption.



   
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 axa
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Startpage.com is reporting NSA and the FBI have been tapping directly into the servers of nine US service providers, including Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Yahoo, YouTube, AOL and Skype, and began this surveillance program at least seven years ago: https://startpage.com/eng/prism-program-exposed.html

Everyone needs to start using tormail and encrypting emails routinely. If you can cut and paste you can PGP encrypt emails using gpg4usb, here is a guide: how to encrypt email.



   
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 R
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good post



   
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