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Originally posted by Osborn F Enready,
The patriot act is a crime against all CITIZENS, perpetrated by BOTH MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES. |
Please explain.
If you're wondering, there are some ways to foil such eavesdropping attempts on your computer:
- An anonymous proxy, preferably elite (these delete logs the moment you close your browser), preferably with an anonymizer e.g. idmask.com that prevents even your own webmaster from knowing where you went.
- A good firewall, preferably on an OS that has fewer holes than a cubic meter of swiss cheese (i.e. not Windows).
- It's usually possible to discover when there's a password sniffer on your computer; in that case, you will want to access its logs and falsify certain areas, such as your email passwords.
- Encryption goes a long way to protect your emails and logs; PGP is okay, and GPG is even better because it's open source, but RSA is the best if your computer is fast enough for it (it takes months on a plethora of computers to crack 576 bits, so just think how long it'll take the FBI to crack 1024).
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| And I'd rather not have an open back door for the F.B.I. to just waltz in and capture all of my key strokes. However I'm in Canada, so for the time I'm all good. |
The FBI, I'm sorry to tell you, is spying on everyone, regardless of country. The Patriot Act simply legalized doing this to Americans, but Echelon dates to years before the PA.