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The Intercept's Interview with Edward Snowden and His Recommendations on Reclaiming Privacy

posted by n1 on Thursday November 19 2015, @07:37AM   
from the _-is-stupid dept.

arslan writes:

Micah Lee from The Intercept sat down with Edward Snowden in Moscow last week to talk about privacy. Some of the responses from Snowden sound like good advice and is not too technical that most laymen would be unable to understand and adopt with a little research. What does the Soylent community think about his advice? Are there any poor recommendations there that should be called out or additional things that people should think about?

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• Recommendations... Recommendations... (Score: 5, Insightful) by frojack on Thursday November 19 2015, @09:11AM

  by frojack (1554) on Thursday November 19 2015, @09:11AM (#265293) Journal

  encrypt hard disk - CHECK
  password manager - CHECK
  two-factor authentication - CHECK
  use tor - SOMETIMES
  use adblock - CHECK
  encrypt phone calls - Ah, no.

  About the only people I talk to on the phone are my customers, and I can't very well ask them to install Signal just to keep the conversation from being recorded. Nobody I know uses Signal. I might install it just to see how well it works.

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• Re:Recommendations... (Score: 3, Insightful) by kadal on Thursday November 19 2015, @02:54PM

  by kadal (4731) on Thursday November 19 2015, @02:54PM (#265347)

  Ask your family to use it.

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