![]() If you are using facebook and "rah rah-ing" about Obama or the latest political fever you probably are at very little current risk of long term data retention. To the point of encryption, as noted by the NSA (inclusive of present revelations), it actually makes you a target for state surveillance. The stasi (or other pernicious organizations organized to carry out state censorship) could easily have someone smeared in the press, dismissed from their job, or many other means short of official imprisonment. ![]() Although this was noted by Mitnick in his "hacking" (which generally was just clever social engineering), it is equally true when governments are targeting you. If you're transmitting any data that could be illegal, your safest bet is to use some kind of encryption that would take longer than the statute of limitations for whichever crime you're committing to break (you'd probably also have to factor Moore's law into your calculation and pray that quantum computing doesn't become viable in the next x years).Īdditionally, it is worth noting that the weakest target is very often the human element. Not to get all tin-foily, but I would assume that any undertaking that ambitious would have government agents working from the inside. This is why ideas like Raspberry Pis on balloons have been proposed as true "alternative" internets. The entire issue with the government surveillance of today is that they're (allegedly) storing all data, even the encrypted data, and holding it to either brute-force crack, waiting until whichever cipher/protocol gets broken, or waiting until computing power is abundant enough to crack the encryption-du-jour in a reasonable amount of time. (assuming that an alternative internet would be a variation on the IP protocol). ![]() directly gathering information from the wire).Ī true "alternative internet" would, at this point, require its own infrastructure due to the routers and switches of the Internet using the TCP/IP stack. Since I know the skill gap on HN is pretty wide, I just wanted to chime in to say that if this is some kind of counter-intelligence measure, it's not really going to work considering that the US government is collecting information at layer 1 (i.e. ![]()
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