Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Monday, March 31, 2014

The Changes in Government Snooping Are Just Eyewash for the Unwashed

So holds Bruce Schneier.

The government certainly doesn't want to make it harder for them to snoop on you. And neither do the major Internet players: Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, etc., etc.

I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of email correspondents that I have who have adopted encryption. It's easy enough to do, just download GNU Privacy Guard, or GPG4Win or pay for PGP, if you must. Thunderbird Email supports an addon called Enigmail that will run encryption.

But hardly anyone does it, trusting in security by anonymity, I guess.

If you want to communicate with some degree of anonymity, either use encryption or buy yourself one of these:

2 comments:

bob said...

And even if you are going to use a pen encryption is still a good idea.

Sevesteen said...

I'd update that to "use open source software with encryption". While the NSA may have corrupted Linux, they probably have corrupted most commercial software and encryption.