G+_K R Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 Hello KH Community, Will a VPN protect me from the Controversial Prism Project ? Open for ideas and thoughts on it ! Thank You KR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Cole Brodine Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 I VPN will NOT protect you from the Prism project. A VPN encrypts information from point A to point B. It works best in a scenario like a hotel or a coffee shop, preventing people from snooping on your traffic who are on that network with you. The service at the other end of the VPN (eg your ISP or workplace) will still be able to see exactly what you are doing. Prism is getting your information from your ISP or end use providers (Like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc). To protect yourself from Prism, you would need to encrypt the data itself. Consider using things like TOR for browsing and PGP for encrypting email. Don't store information on cloud services unless you have to, and encrypt the files you do store. I don't know if that will even "protect" you, but it is where you would probably want to start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Cole Brodine Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 Actually, another thing you can do it rely on services outside of the US who won't cooperate with the NSA. You are still at the mercy of the end use service provider, so I would still recommend encrypting your stuff. Just cause the NSA might not be getting stuff from overseas doesn't mean that the equivalent government entity for that country isn't getting it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Dwight E Howell Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 One thing that has sort of been forgotten is that email left on on a server for about 6 months has been declared to be abandoned like trash at the curb and subject to viewing without a warrant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Cole Brodine Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 Dwight E Howell - That is a good point. Even if the company protects your email, it eventually becomes up for grabs. Encrypting with PGP or something will help with that, but it isn't a fool proof method either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jimbo Schafer Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 I think there have been many great points made, garbage left on your own curb made by Dwight brings home how deep the evasion the PRISM is. The government can and is collecting all data they need or don't need, and they are using it in a fashion that is not for the betterment national security. They collect all this data because they know they can and no law exists to teach them them they shouldn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Max Heep Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 I just baffled why this NSA drama comes as a surprise to anyone. I tried to tell people about the Clipper chip and how both Republicans and Democrats supported it (sidenote-that shows their true colors. There really is only one Party and they aren't working for you). I gave up trying to explain Clipper. At first I chalked it up to being too technical for the average person browsing the " SuperInformation Highway" to understand (hell, I couldn't even get people to stop clicking on attachments!) Over the years I realized, most people really just don't care about their privacy. Hence Facebook. Now we have the NSA "guilty-until we clandestinely-decide your not debacle. Wired Magazine had an article way back in April of 2012 detailing how NSA was building a massive data warehouse that dwarfed anything previous. What data did you think they were going to store? I didn't see a word in the mainstream lapdog press. But then the Wired story was only on the cover.. Privacy didn't die of natural causes. We shot it in the head. And it is getting too late to resuscitate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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