NSA Files Decoded: “We Can’t Just Take Anybody off the Street and Tell them What’s Happening” … “Nothing Less than the Defence of Democracy in the Digital Age”.
Sunday, November 3, 2013 3:19
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If you are using Gmail or any other common-cloud based email service provider you have been compromised.
Period.
All of these companies will bend over backwards to hand over your data as soon as any Man from the Department shows up, without a warrant or probable cause… Rumors abound, but even Hushmail, that offers ”Free Email with Privacy”, has been proven to be not so private, as in the cases where they have handed over “cleartext copies of private e-mail messages at the request of law enforcement agencies. They also,just as the other big online email services, record your IP address(and thus location) every time you log in to check your email.
“If you are interested in security, supposedly “truescript” works well
at the moment, (until it is broken,) and for browsing, “Tor Browser”
obscures your click stream, while “Duck Duck Go” does not track
your searches” – from the technical supplement in the UK Observer