Invading Your Privacy

[desertrat]

How To Hide Passwords in an Encrypted Drive Even the FBI Can’t Get Into
I'm in favor of anything that keeps the idiots in charge from poking their noses into the private lives of us ordinary citizens. We have a right to privacy and they have a duty to keep the heck out of our business. I'm tired of the fascist tendency to invent excuses to invade our privacy in the name of safety and security. That's all a bunch of BS to convince the sheeple that we should give up our privacy so that the powers that be can become even more powerful!

And for the skeptics that are curious about the “FBI” claim in our headline, you can read up on Operation Satyagraha, where money launderer Daniel Dantas has successfully encrypted his data and kept the FBI at bay for as long as a year with the very tools we’re going to use today.

LINK: http://www.howtogeek.com/114155/how-to-hide-your-passwords-in-an-encrypted-drive-even-the-fbi-cant-get-into/

[a2z]

The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)
My new word for the day: YOTTABYTE
(A yottabyte is a septillion bytes—so large that no one has yet coined a term for the next higher magnitude.)

There is still one technology preventing untrammeled government access to private digital data: strong encryption. Anyone—from terrorists and weapons dealers to corporations, financial institutions, and ordinary email senders—can use it to seal their messages, plans, photos, and documents in hardened data shells. For years, one of the hardest shells has been the Advanced Encryption Standard, one of several algorithms used by much of the world to encrypt data. Available in three different strengths—128 bits, 192 bits, and 256 bits—it’s incorporated in most commercial email programs and web browsers and is considered so strong that the NSA has even approved its use for top-secret US government communications. Most experts say that a so-called brute-force computer attack on the algorithm—trying one combination after another to unlock the encryption—would likely take longer than the age of the universe. For a 128-bit cipher, the number of trial-and-error attempts would be 340 undecillion (1036).

Breaking into those complex mathematical shells like the AES is one of the key reasons for the construction going on in Bluffdale. That kind of cryptanalysis requires two major ingredients: super-fast computers to conduct brute-force attacks on encrypted messages and a massive number of those messages for the computers to analyze.

LINK: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1

Is The Government Spying On You? FISA Continues
The Utah data center is mentioned in this report.

[BallaratBob]

TrapWire: Spying On YOU?
It would be nice to see the government actually crack down on companies that invade our privacy. It should be the government and us against the corporations, not the corporations and the government against us!!!

[cactuspete]

High-Tech Spying Loophole
It may be a breach of etiquette to spy on people you live with, but apparently it's not illegal! (At least not everywhere in the USA.)