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This is total horseshit.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/27/technology/iphone-locks-out-the-nsa-signaling-a-post-snowden-era-.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=LedeSum&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

The passcode is a six character alphanum string. Assuming you can add punctuation complexity, 6 character mixed case alphanum + punctutation strings can be broken in 52 seconds, at 4 billion attempts per second.

https://howsecureismypassword.net/

4 billion attempts per second is feasible for an offline encryption screen (less so for online brute force attacks, as the online auth will shut down that many attempts).

I think they are attempting to get you to feel safer than you are. There is nothing so valuable to intelligence communities as a data repository that you trust that isn't really, because obviously you will put the most sensitive information in just a place and not use other methods of evasion.

Couldn't a court order force them to change the code encrypting the mailbox ? Isn't all metadata available at the datacenter level ? Couldn't a court order just shut it down ?

Come see https://protonmail.com, it's hosted in a much safer legal framework.

Also mentioned in this post from shadowbrokers

>TheEquationGroup is having spies inside Microsoft and other U.S. technology companies.

Also, a gentlemans agreement where the agency will monitor the usage of said vulnerability and "authorize" the patch if needs be is very likely. It's like keeping a door unlocked to check who might be coming through (and providing a better lock when we want to close it).

Yes but you can break the link between your real name and address (which your ISP has) and your browsing with a VPN. A bunch take Bitcoin and require no email. Mullvad takes cash through the mail. Again, not perfect but a measure.

<em>Update 2: As pointed out by a commenter below, Anonymous doesn’t always have the best track record here – these docs are publicly available on the DoD website.</em>

I don't quite follow your logic in the first sentence.

IIRC, Breitbart died suddenly of a supposed heart attack while walking away from drinking and fraternizing at a bar after work, he was relatively young (43), had no history of heart disease and allegedly he was in possession of embarrassing information for someone big in DC at the time.

Here's some words about it:

• https://duckduckgo.com/?q=breitbart+death+conspiracy

Utter BS. Alternative view:

> BlackBerry fundamentally crumbled not because of its encryption efforts, but because it failed to keep up with consumer demand in the face of Apple and Google, and it botched any efforts to compete.

Ebony Magazine Oct 1984

I don't think I've heard anything about Snowden himself recommending any other messaging apps.

Personally, I still think Signal is the best right now, but there are some interesting newer projects which I've been keeping an eye on.

Briar is a messenger that which implements a bluetooth mesh network. Useful in unstable locations (politically or otherwise), it can route messages through the network independent of internet outages.

Session is a Signal fork which removes the need to use your phone number and employs a decentralised message-routing system. It uses their blockchain in the background (you don't need to know about it to use the app) to route messages through "nodes" similar to the tor network.

I'm not looking to argue but I do know what I'm talking about. If the OP just wants to use Tor to visit normal websites with some anonymity then it will work and should be enough. If they want to visit darknet markets or they live in a country with an oppressive government that has strict censorship and surveillance laws I would not recommend they use Tor alone. Also, on the Tor browser home page it literally says that Tor does not completely anonymize the user while surfing the web.

Using Tor with a VPN (that's not based out of one of the 5 eyes) will give you an extra layer of protection. The VPN encryption will prevent the Tor entry node from seeing your IP address. Governments and other attackers have used compromised Tor entry/exit nodes to break Tor's anonymity in the past and people have been arrested because of this. If you're using Tor you're either a concerned citizen who wants to keep your privacy, you're a journalist or citizen in a country with strict censorship, privacy, and surveillance laws, you're browsing dark nets to buy drugs, etc.

The controversy or disagreement in using Tor with a VPN is in how it's implemented and configured. Do you go with Tor over VPN or VPN over Tor? Some argue that VPN over Tor is better because even if the VPN keeps logs they will not have the real IP address to hand over. When I used to use Tor I used AirVPN. This method is more difficult and you will have to go into the Tor settings to configure it.

>certain VPN's are a scam.

Well I guess my rebuttle to that is that there are people who have work VPN's, you can configure OpenVPN on a virtual hosted server and configure your own AS on it that you rent by way of Monero. There are a bunch of ways in which VPN's aren't always the quick and easy "IPVanish" trash, imo at least but yea this is a big argument that has been gone through over and over on other subs, not sure about here.

So I guess I'm saying yes you're right but in other ways you could be wrong either way it's nice to know you're not sending all of your data through a "VPN" connection that is ran by a Googlized OS.

Setup pihole and see how much your Android and Windows OS's phone home. It blew me away they literally are constantly connecting and transmitting who knows what. Getting anything else on there is a good idea imo.

Either way in the end, who knows? Privacy has been ravaged especially the last 5 years. Anywho, sorry so long, have good one!

I bought it in a little bookshop in my hometown in France.

The book is actually avaible on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Permanent-Record-Edward-Snowden/dp/1250237238 I let you know what amazon will do with your puchase data ahha !

its not all VPN's, its Private Internet Access, the one I used and its pool of IP's. I noticed that some IP's from the pool are fine, but more and more the IP's are being identified and blocked. Maybe PIA should constantly use renewed ones or something.

>5. Use a VPN

>Since NSA tracks records of your e-mails, chat (video, voice), photos, videos, stored data, VoIP, file transfers, video conferencing, notifications of target activity, social networking details and more, the best solution to go for is a VPN. There are a number of VPNs in the market that can provide you the features you need to be secure during your online sessions However, if you want an all-in-one solution, go for PureVPN. Some of the many features PureVPN offers is complete privacy and anonymity with 44,000+ IPs, 5 multi-logins, high-grade encryption, SmartDNS etc.

purevpn logs everything by default for law enforcement