Friday, February 3, 2012
Email encryption, anonymous surfing?
A flyer designed by the FBI and the Department of Justice to promote suspicious activity reporting in internet cafes lists basic tools used for online privacy as potential signs of terrorist activity.
The document, part of a program called “Communities Against Terrorism”, lists the use of “anonymizers, portals, or other means to shield IP address” as a sign that a person could be engaged in or supporting terrorist activity. The use of encryption is also listed as a suspicious activity along with steganography, the practice of using “software to hide encrypted data in digital photos” or other media. In fact, the flyer recommends that anyone “overly concerned about privacy” or attempting to “shield the screen from view of others” should be considered suspicious and potentially engaged in terrorist activities.
The above quote comes from:
http://www.publicintelligence.net/do-you-like-online-privacy-you-may-be-a-terrorist
This is just one more reason why I do not encrypt emails or surf anonymously. Either can sometimes raise a red flag.
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According To The FBI, Internet Privacy Is Now Considered To Be Suspicious Activity
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Do you recommend avoiding internet cafes all together? If using your own computer at a wifi hotspot do you use a VPN? (Noticed that one was listed not in name, but via disguising IP and encryption.)
ReplyDeleteAlso, "People Who...Always pay cash or use credit card(s) in different name(s)," made me chuckle and think about your writings. I guess we can't always keep the FBI happy.
I still use encryption for files and emails. I value keeping my data and communications to myself. The good news about this report from the Fedarlies is that it is getting to the point where EVERYTHING raises a red flag, which really means that nothing raises the flag. Since everything is considered suspicious by our out of control government than there is probably way too much data coming in to chase down every single person doing some of these things because pretty soon that will be everybody!
ReplyDeleteI agree with Anonymous 5:00 PM - USE encryption. Nobody's looking, and if they are it will cost them A. LOT. of time and money to read the most mundane junk.
ReplyDeleteLaw enforcement needs to tell the public to suck it up while they focus on (read profile)the real threats. Whining about political correctness should not be tolerated.
Profiling works, it is logical, and it is smart.
If EVERYONE encrypts most if not all of what they do - what will law enforcement have? The logical option is all that will exist. Focus on the bad actors, not the rest of us!
Isn't this how Stalin and Hitler got started, telling people to fink on others? The govt seems to think everyone is a bad apple.
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