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As a result of recent (Snowden, etc.) security revelations, I am:

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Making no changes at all to what I do online (Score: 3, Insightful)

by koen@pipedot.org on 2014-06-16 10:19 (#23Z)

(1) The Snowden revelations informed the public at large what is going on. We (formers readers of /. and I suppose current readers of |. as well) knew already in general what was going on, Snowden merely confirmed what we knew and provided more details.

(2) If we start to self-censor, they win.

Re: Making no changes at all to what I do online (Score: 2, Interesting)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-06-16 10:49 (#240)

You're probably better informed than I was. I consider reasonably tech savvy, but I didn't understand - or even suspect - the scale of the surveillance state. Things like intercepts at cross-continent cables, prying open the content of unencrypted data going among data centers, and the like. I was astonished.

I was never on Facebook, post only non-personal stuff to G+ (and am seriously reconsidering Android and Google's ecosystem entirely), and no longer entrust PGP encryption since we now know it's hackable. I'm tempted to go back to POP mail and take all my mail offline. I'm more depressed than ever.

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