Friday, August 3, 2012

How to slip through the Internet surveillance?

In response to revelations about the Prism program, which allows the U.S. government to spy on Internet users' personal data through the cooperation of new Web giants - Microsoft, Yahoo!, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube and Apple - an article by France TV Info explains step by step "how to get (almost) fully prism, even sacrificing your comfort and your habits."

Mobile: better to avoid smartphones, including the operating system is almost always provided by Google (Android), Apple (iPhone) and Microsoft (Windows Phone).
Mail: prefer Gmail, Hotmail (Outlook), Yahoo! Mail, and AOL mail services for Apple as other messaging Voila.fr (France Telecom), The Poste.net, Zoho Mail, or software open sourceThunderbird mail. Paying, it is also possible to configure an email address on its own website (just buy a domain name and hosting).
Internet browsers: Chrome instead (Google), Internet Explorer (Microsoft) and Safari (Apple), which still represent 80% of the market, opt for Opera or Firefox. Or, better, use a proxy server to hide his IP address, as the Tor network (see explanation in the article FTVI). Or, better yet, a virtual private network (VPN), which allows you to connect anonymously to the Internet.
Research online: again, escape domination Google Search, Yahoo! and Bing (Microsoft) - 98% of the market in three of them - for the French engine, the latest Qwant, scientific Wolfram Alpha, the ancient Alta Vista, or the rigorous DuckDuckGo, only to offer anonymous requests.
Social Networking: Facebook and Google+ if opened up to the NSA, Twitter escapes meanwhile the supervision of the U.S. Agency even though tweets public are "carefully stored since 2010 at the U.S. Library of Congress," recalls FTVI. The austere Reddit is a safe solution.
Other: are also concerned by the potential of the NSA monitoring services that have emerged in our daily lives, such as Google Maps, YouTube and Skype (preferred Dailymotion and Vimeo).
For completeness, the site-Prism Break identifies him as browsers, messaging and other services that allow you to escape the Web giants included in the Prism program

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