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AnonTechie [soylentnews.org] writes:

SUPPORT GROUPS HELP cult and gang members break free of their former lives. Alcoholics and Narcotics Anonymous help addicts overcome their dependencies. And now one group of privacy campaigners wants to offer its target audience an escape route for what it sees as a equally insidious trap: Their jobs working for intelligence agencies like the NSA.

On Monday, a group of Berlin-based anti-surveillance activists launched Intelexit [intelexit.org], a campaign to encourage employees of the NSA and British spy agency GCHQ to reconsider the morality of their spy work and to persuade them to quit. They planned to kick the project off with a series of billboards strategically posted near intelligence agency buildings around the world.

One, reading “listen to your heart, not to private phone calls,” was to be installed next to the Dagger Complex, a military base and NSA outpost in Darmstadt, Germany, the group told WIRED. Another, with the text “the intelligence community needs a backdoor,” will appear outside GCHQ’s Cheltenham, UK headquarters, playing on the UK and US governments’ demands for a “backdoor” system to allow the decryption of citizens’ encrypted communications. A third sign, pictured above, is meant to be affixed to a van patrolling the area around the NSA’s Fort Meade, Maryland, headquarters, where the activists today plan to hand out fliers to employees with information on where they can get support and counselling if they choose to leave the agency.

http://www.wired.com/2015/09/campaign-help-surveillance-agents-quit-nsa-gchq/ [wired.com]

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