Author Topic: Internet and E-mail Privacy (Read 7667 times)

JohnAnthonyMarie · « **Reply #10 on:** November 30, 2015, 12:55:12 AM »

Quote from: Iuvenalis

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The payload data can be encrypted to some degree, but the public is generally prohibited from using any quality encryption. Now, if your clever, you can attempt some custom scheme to encrypt your data (i.e. bitshifting, hashing, symmetric and asymmetric, etc.), but I can guarantee there is literally no way to conceal what you are doing online.

This is false. True crypt can encrypt data at rest. PGP (email), Securedrop (file transfer), and SSH (shell etc) can encrypt data in transit.
Protonmail is a good anonymous email service. Hushmail is okay. Even gmail is fine if you don't associate the account with your name. All these assume use of TOR (and ideally Tails).

XKS.

I stand by what I say, and that is the last that I will say.

JohnAnthonyMarie · « **Reply #11 on:** November 30, 2015, 01:08:22 AM »

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/do-you-use-tor-care-about-online-privacy-beware-nsa-targeting-you-1455402

Iuvenalis · « **Reply #12 on:** November 30, 2015, 01:45:57 AM »

Quote from: JohnAnthonyMarie

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/do-you-use-tor-care-about-online-privacy-beware-nsa-targeting-you-1455402

TOR ia about obfuscating source and destination (source IP info)

Encryption, you said is of no use against intelligence agencies.
This is false.

They're two different things, which is why I broke up my reply.

If an intelligence gathering organization solves the TOR problem, they still haven't solved the encryption problem.

JohnAnthonyMarie · « **Reply #13 on:** November 30, 2015, 10:31:58 PM »

While I admire the trust you display, I think it is misplaced.

In my experience, the more you do to secure your online communications, the more attention you draw to yourself. Your MAC address uniquely identifies your computer's network interface. The ARP protocol links your MAC address to your IP address. When your online activity becomes suspicious, or the subject of inquiry, you can not hide from ARP tables and man-in-the-middle exploits, no matter what software you install on your computer. Seriously, if you want to tell your mother you love her without anyone else knowing, do it verbally, in a secure location, and with audible white noise in the background.

JohnAnthonyMarie · « **Reply #14 on:** November 30, 2015, 10:42:34 PM »

Inside, I once saw a poster that said, "In God we trust, everyone else we polygraph".
If there is one thing I've learned, trust is neither deserved or earned, rather, it is maintained.