{"id":25942,"date":"2013-09-06T10:22:59","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T16:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/?p=25942"},"modified":"2013-09-06T10:22:59","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T16:22:59","slug":"staying-off-nsa-radar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/2013\/09\/06\/staying-off-nsa-radar\/","title":{"rendered":"Staying off NSA radar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/sep\/05\/nsa-how-to-remain-secure-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">At the U.K Guardian, Bruce Schneier<\/a> offers five pieces strategies for staying off the NSA radar.  Excellent article with real advice, including caveats  Here are a few excerpts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1) Hide in the network. <\/p>\n<p>2) Encrypt your communications. Use TLS. Use IPsec.<\/p>\n<p>3) Assume that while your computer can be compromised, it would take work and risk on the part of the NSA \u2013 so it probably isn&#8217;t. If you have something really important, use an air gap. <\/p>\n<p>4) Be suspicious of commercial encryption software, especially from large vendors. My guess is that most encryption products from large US companies have NSA-friendly back doors, and many foreign ones probably do as well. <\/p>\n<p>5) Try to use public-domain encryption that has to be compatible with other implementations. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/sep\/05\/nsa-how-to-remain-secure-surveillance\">At the U.K Guardian, Bruce Schneier<\/a> offers five pieces strategies for staying off the NSA radar.  Excellent article with real advice, including caveats  Here are a few excerpts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1) Hide in the network. <\/p>\n<p>2) Encrypt your communications. Use TLS. Use IPsec.<\/p>\n<p>3) Assume that while your computer can be compromised, it would take work and risk on the part of the NSA \u2013 so it probably isn&#8217;t. If you have something really important, use an air gap. <\/p>\n<p>4) Be suspicious of commercial encryption software, especially from large vendors. My guess is that most encryption products from large US companies have NSA-friendly back doors, and many foreign ones probably do as well. <\/p>\n<p>5) Try to use public-domain encryption that has to be compatible with other implementations. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5653,6023,6195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privacy-communication","category-secrecy-communication","category-spying-communication","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}