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posted by takyon on Friday July 17 2015, @06:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the instant-paranoia dept.

When you pick up the phone and call someone, or send a text message, or write an email, or send a Facebook message, or chat using Google Hangouts, other people find out what you're saying, who you're talking to, and where you're located. Such private data might only be available to the service provider brokering your conversation, but it might also be visible to the telecom companies carrying your Internet packets, to spy and law enforcement agencies, and even to some nearby teenagers monitoring your Wi-Fi network with Wireshark.

But if you take careful steps to protect yourself, it's possible to communicate online in a way that's private, secret and anonymous. Today I'm going to explain in precise terms how to do that. I'll take techniques NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden used when contacting me two and a half years ago and boil them down to the essentials. In a nutshell, I'll show you how to create anonymous real-time chat accounts and how to chat over those accounts using an encryption protocol called Off-the-Record Messaging, or OTR.


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2015, @09:24PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2015, @09:24PM (#210606)

    Insanity is the inability to observe what is in front of you, to properly process information based on what it actually is, not what it appears to be and not being able to tell the difference while carrying out a good handling. Moving the chair out of the way just right, for example. Throwing the chair out the window would be a not very sane action if all you needed was to be able to get past it.

    Insanity is like having a calculator with one of the keys pressed screwing up the result giving you false information to operate with.

    Insantity exists on any subject in any situation large or small. Verbal communication for example is insane in as much as it is gone once spoken. You can't replay it unless there is a accurate recording. Insanity can be walking out into thin air thinking you can walk on air.

    Being emotional is not automatically insane, having a proper response to something is sane.

    Sanity is a gradient scale where something which aids in your survival without damaging others is quite good while damaging more than it helps is not very good sanity.

    People are at a rapidly increasing rate having a problem with people having emotions. Something must be wrong and they have to be controlled and subdued is not neccessarily a sane reaction. It easily becomes very poor control. Many people hate control because they only experience bad control. Good control is however needed or your life would fall apart. You simply need to have good control. For example if you are trying to eat dinner and your control of the fork is out then you might not eat.

    Applying force beyond what is needed to get someones attention, may it be physical or verbal, is bad control. Good control is an optimum action that is just right to get the job done.

    Society will go under unless people get comfortable with others and the fact that we are all different. Some more than others, but if you cannot deal with your own security, much less others you won't be much good to yourself nor others.

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