If you care about online privacy, then the NSA cares about you…about
spying on you. At least that is the gist of a story that privacy experts
believe originated from a second NSA leaker. You may not have the
required "balls of steel to operate a Tor exit node,"
but a new report based on a NSA-flavored leak shows that using Tor at
all, or simply visiting privacy-related websites like the Tor Project (The Onion Router), Tails (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) and the Linux Journal paints a bull’s-eye on your back and marks you as a “target” for surveillance.
Thanks to Edward Snowden, we know the NSA program XKeyscore is devoted
to collecting “nearly everything a user does on the Internet.” But now XKeyscore rules
have been leaked, “top secret NSA source code” rules that decide who
gets targeted for indefinite surveillance….and that means you if you
care about online privacy. The story by Jacob Appelbaum, John Goetz,
Lena Kampf first appeared in German on Tagesschau, but researchers then did an English version write-up about the investigation into the NSA targeting the privacy-conscious:
read full article at ComputerWorld
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