How to stick a middle finger at NSA and GCHQ for spying on us?

[Kenshin]

I have been thinking, I will stop using all US brand of electronic, service and pc. Such as Apple, Cisco, Facebook, Microsoft, and so on.

And start using more Chinese brands such as Lenovo, Huawei, Asus, Acer, and other Japanese and Korean brands.

I will also use more open source softwares, and tor. Also stop using Google and Gmail. And start using more startpage.com and other email providers which are not in the US.

Any other ideas?

[hilariousandco]

I have been thinking, I will stop using all US brand of electronic, service and pc. Such as Apple, Cisco, Facebook, Microsoft, and so on.

And start using more Chinese brands such as Lenovo, Huawei, Asus, Acer, and other Japanese and Korean brands.

I will also use more open source softwares, and tor. Also stop using Google and Gmail. And start using more startpage.com and other email providers which are not in the US.

Any other ideas?

Fly a plane into the White House?

Now only if we can get the rest of humanity to boycott America we should be alright  .

[railzand]

You don't think the Asian powers are spying on you?

[BurtW]

I will stop using all US brand of electronic, service and pc. Such as Apple, Cisco, ...

So you are boycotting stuff made in China?

[pedrog]

Here you go: https://prism-break.org/en/

[Lethn]

I remember people chatting on this forum about this awhile back and people concluded that the best way would be to send lots and lots of useless encrypted data back and forth on the internet just to fuck with them, because then they'd spend all that time trying to crack is and find a silly .jpeg or something in it instead.

To do that though you would need to be good at programming and skilled at encryption.

[BurtW]

I remember people chatting on this forum about this awhile back and people concluded that the best way would be to send lots and lots of useless encrypted data back and forth on the internet just to fuck with them, because then they'd spend all that time trying to crack is and find a silly .jpeg or something in it instead.

To do that though you would need to be good at programming and skilled at encryption.

You already do this every time you use SSL at some silly web site, like this one for example.

[Lethn]

..... Note to self: Pay for SSL subscription on both my websites when I get rich to piss off the NSA

[practicaldreamer]

I will also use more open source softwares, and tor. Also stop using Google and Gmail.

Yes - I've been doing the same. But tor is a pain in the backside when you have to manually enter every bloody password for every site (or am I missing something ?) - also, I can't play Youtube videos over it (any (safe) solution to that ?)

    Re. email. I want to ditch gmail also - went through using Tormail, then it disappeared. What email provider are those in the know using for security/anonymity and reliability ?
    When Twister becomes available (at least for idiots like me) I can see me using that. I would use Bitmessage but I don't know anyone else that has a Bitmessage address  

[MaxwellsDemon]

Throw some fun keywords into your emails:

http://nsa.motherboard.tv

[Kenshin]

I will also use more open source softwares, and tor. Also stop using Google and Gmail.

Yes - I've been doing the same. But tor is a pain in the backside when you have to manually enter every bloody password for every site (or am I missing something ?) - also, I can't play Youtube videos over it (any (safe) solution to that ?)

    Re. email. I want to ditch gmail also - went through using Tormail, then it disappeared. What email provider are those in the know using for security/anonymity and reliability ?
    When Twister becomes available (at least for idiots like me) I can see me using that. I would use Bitmessage but I don't know anyone else that has a Bitmessage address  

mykolab.com is good, they also accept bitcoin. 

[Kenshin]

Fly a plane into the White House?

Now only if we can get the rest of humanity to boycott America we should be alright  .

That is a bit extreme, I am not a terrorist. 

You don't think the Asian powers are spying on you?

That is the point, why will Asian powers spy on me. The information will be useless to them, unless we are anti China, Japan, or who ever.

Also China only give a crap if you say bad things about their government. Which I don't do anyway. I live in the UK, so GCHQ so give a shit about collecting data on me, and they have some use for this.

I will stop using all US brand of electronic, service and pc. Such as Apple, Cisco, ...

So you are boycotting stuff made in China?

Well, Huawei, Sony, Samsung and many other Asian brands are partly made in China anyway. It is not about boycotting China, it is about boycotting US and the UK. During the manufacture process, the NSA and GCHQ will put in some chips which they can snoop on us. Now I know why GCHQ was so scared when British Telecom uses Huawei now, because if it is Cisco, they can snoop on us. 

[Kenshin]

Here you go: https://prism-break.org/en/

Throw some fun keywords into your emails:

http://nsa.motherboard.tv

Cool, we should check them out, so we can stick our middle finger to them. 

[hilariousandco]

Fly a plane into the White House?

Now only if we can get the rest of humanity to boycott America we should be alright  .

That is a bit extreme, I am not a terrorist. 

 

No, but the USG is. Fight terror with terror, right?

And I bet I'm on some NSA watchlist now  .

[Kenshin]

Fly a plane into the White House?

Now only if we can get the rest of humanity to boycott America we should be alright  .

That is a bit extreme, I am not a terrorist. 

 

No, but the USG is. Fight terror with terror, right?

And I bet I'm on some NSA watchlist now  .

You probably is now. Fight terror against terrorist (NSA & GCHQ) is not a bad idea, but I am sure that are other ways. I mean the US government fly the planes into the Twin Tower on 9/11, just so that they can go to war with Iraq.

[Spendulus]

I have been thinking, I will stop using all US brand of electronic, service and pc. Such as Apple, Cisco, Facebook, Microsoft, and so on.

And start using more Chinese brands such as Lenovo, Huawei, Asus, Acer, and other Japanese and Korean brands.

I will also use more open source softwares, and tor. Also stop using Google and Gmail. And start using more startpage.com and other email providers which are not in the US.

Any other ideas?

I'd be a bit more concerned about the way that the commercial companies use your data than the governments.  Maybe this is a subject for discussion, but my opinion is....

If you secure your data and communications from private companies, you've also done a pretty good job of securing it from government snoops.

[Kenshin]

I have been thinking, I will stop using all US brand of electronic, service and pc. Such as Apple, Cisco, Facebook, Microsoft, and so on.

And start using more Chinese brands such as Lenovo, Huawei, Asus, Acer, and other Japanese and Korean brands.

I will also use more open source softwares, and tor. Also stop using Google and Gmail. And start using more startpage.com and other email providers which are not in the US.

Any other ideas?

I'd be a bit more concerned about the way that the commercial companies use your data than the governments.  Maybe this is a subject for discussion, but my opinion is....

If you secure your data and communications from private companies, you've also done a pretty good job of securing it from government snoops.

I have uninstalled my Ubuntu to Arch Linux now, because of privacy, also I have sign up for VPN paying with bitcoin, also email account hosted and encrypted in Swiss. 

[Nik1ab]

I will also use more open source softwares, and tor. Also stop using Google and Gmail.

Yes - I've been doing the same. But tor is a pain in the backside when you have to manually enter every bloody password for every site (or am I missing something ?) - also, I can't play Youtube videos over it (any (safe) solution to that ?)

    Re. email. I want to ditch gmail also - went through using Tormail, then it disappeared. What email provider are those in the know using for security/anonymity and reliability ?
    When Twister becomes available (at least for idiots like me) I can see me using that. I would use Bitmessage but I don't know anyone else that has a Bitmessage address 

That's the price of privacy. Just do it and stop complaining.

I have been thinking, I will stop using all US brand of electronic, service and pc. Such as Apple, Cisco, Facebook, Microsoft, and so on.

And start using more Chinese brands such as Lenovo, Huawei, Asus, Acer, and other Japanese and Korean brands.

I will also use more open source softwares, and tor. Also stop using Google and Gmail. And start using more startpage.com and other email providers which are not in the US.

Any other ideas?

You get this idea now? I stopped buying US products since PRISM came out.

[bored]

I have been thinking, I will stop using all US brand of electronic, service and pc. Such as Apple, Cisco, Facebook, Microsoft, and so on.

And start using more Chinese brands such as Lenovo, Huawei, Asus, Acer, and other Japanese and Korean brands.

I will also use more open source softwares, and tor. Also stop using Google and Gmail. And start using more startpage.com and other email providers which are not in the US.

Any other ideas?

1. Move to Siberia
2. Stop using the internet
3. Live off the land

[jcoin200]

I think one of the biggest things is to talk with others about it.  The average person is fairly clueless as to how broad and intrusive the NSA spying has become.  Most people I've talked to about it just say "oh I have nothing to hide."  Neither do I, but I think everyone deserves privacy, and also everyone deserves to have their constitutional rights kept in tact.

I'd also recommend writing a letter (yes a real letter) to your local congressman/woman.  Only if the majority of citizens start to stand up to the NSA will things start to change.  Obama has not called for an end to anything, only playing word games in his speeches about how the data should be maintained.