"Reset the Net" Anti-NSA campaign

B_Rabbit · 03-06-2014 10:22AM #1

https://www.resetthenet.org/

Basically sites worldwide are promoting and encouraging the use of privacy and encryption software and to prevent the ongoing NSA snooping.

Article: http://www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/item/37114-major-websites-launch/

A number of websites including Reddit, Imgur and Boing Boing have banded together to announce a day of action against NSA online spying activities in a campaign known as “Reset the Net”.
On Thursday 5 June, a splash page will appear on dozens of websites, with the incentive for more to sign up, that will encourage those visiting the site to install a range of privacy and encryption tools to prevent governmental organisations from snooping on un-suspecting users.

What is your opinion of this move?
I think it's fantastic to see the internet make some sort of effort to prevent the massive invasion of privacy.

Is this something Boards should participate in?

Ash.J.Williams · 03-06-2014 10:26AM

Absolutely ...block them at every possible location....they've stolen the internet.

comongethappy · 03-06-2014 10:28AM

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

Absolutely ...block them at every possible location....they've stolen the internet.

Who did they steal it from?

Czarcasm · 03-06-2014 10:32AM

B_Rabbit wrote: »

https://www.resetthenet.org/

Basically sites worldwide are promoting and encouraging the use of privacy and encryption software and to prevent the ongoing NSA snooping.

Article: http://www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/item/37114-major-websites-launch/

What is your opinion of this move?
I think it's fantastic to see the internet make some sort of effort to prevent the massive invasion of privacy.

Is this something Boards should participate in?

The move is completely redundant when these same sites will want a person to submit their Facebook login details to log into the site, and then encourages people to share articles, posts, etc from the site.

Privacy doesn't seem to concern people as much as it should, and I doubt this one will be near as popular as the SOPA campaign.

Manach · 03-06-2014 10:33AM

Privacy enhancing techologies are on the main a positive step for people to retain some cloak of anonymity on the Internet. But given the prevalence of who much personal information is shared on sites like facebook which can be data mined, then inspite of what opinion polls say on its importance, privacy would not be a likely social right that people would protest over.

Mr. Incognito · 03-06-2014 10:36AM

We can protect your privacy,

All you have to do is give us all your details

Riiiiiiiiight

mathie · 03-06-2014 10:52AM

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

We can protect your privacy,

All you have to do is give us all your details

Riiiiiiiiight

That's right Mr. Incognito, 1 Main St, Dublin.

Ash.J.Williams · 03-06-2014 10:53AM

comongethappy wrote: »

Who did they steal it from?

me

SeanW · 03-06-2014 10:55AM

comongethappy wrote: »

Who did they steal it from?

Al Gore.

hatrickpatrick · 03-06-2014 11:07AM

It's fantastic to see so many initiatives to push back against the NSA. Even though the organization has become a monstrous behemoth, citizens and sympathetic politicians are managing to find very creative ways of trying to hammer it as much as possible.
For example, the NSA is currently constructing its largest ever data centre, in Utah, which will contain both enough storage space to collect most internet traffic without having to filter it, and very powerful supercomputers designed to crack encryption, meaning that even HTTPS and SSL data streams will not be off limits. Local politicians and citizens, despite the unbelievable hugeness and power of the NSA, are disrupting the project through various means - including one recent move to cut off the centre's water supply, thereby rendering it unusable due to inability to keep its gigantic computer hardware cool.

It's a small thing, but with something vast like the NSA, which is supported by the mainstream political establishment, death by a thousand cuts is probably the only way to kill it.

darkpagandeath · 03-06-2014 11:21AM

Oh dear there is so much win in threads like this, NSA to build 1 data centre that is supposed to have the capacity to collect monitor search most data on the internet.... 1 data centre to monitor thousands of massive data centres. Lets put it this way the amount of data generated per day over the internet would be like that data centre is a small hosepipe and them hooking it up to Niagara falls. You want to stop being spied on stop using American companies that have backdoor rules in them.

Spear · 03-06-2014 11:23AM

Boards.ie doesn't support full HTTPS usage, and it's not exactly going to get added in the next 2 days, so boards.ie couldn't take part in this.

hatrickpatrick · 03-06-2014 11:35AM

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Oh dear there is so much win in threads like this, NSA to build 1 data centre that is supposed to have the capacity to collect monitor search most data on the internet.... 1 data centre to monitor thousands of massive data centres. Lets put it this way the amount of data generated per day over the internet would be like that data centre is a small hosepipe and them hooking it up to Niagara falls. You want to stop being spied on stop using American companies that have backdoor rules in them.

Nobody said they were going to store it all indefinitely. For instance, GCHQ's tempora program only stories content for three days while it's being analyzed by computers, but it does apparently store all content intercepted from the undersea cables it has access to, rather than making selections at the service provider level. This should concern anyone.

B_Rabbit · 03-06-2014 11:57AM

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Oh dear there is so much win in threads like this, NSA to build 1 data centre that is supposed to have the capacity to collect monitor search most data on the internet.... 1 data centre to monitor thousands of massive data centres. Lets put it this way the amount of data generated per day over the internet would be like that data centre is a small hosepipe and them hooking it up to Niagara falls. You want to stop being spied on stop using American companies that have backdoor rules in them.

The NSA has a reach that extends into Europe

Guy:Incognito · 03-06-2014 11:58AM

I'll email the nsa a transcript of my posts for the day and let them post it for me if they want. If spending their time looking at my boring life is what gets them off then best of luck to them. Hi agent Jones *waves*

darkpagandeath · 03-06-2014 12:15PM

I think alot of people have played COD Modern warfare series to much and think that's what they can do ...

Knasher · 03-06-2014 12:38PM

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

Nobody said they were going to store it all indefinitely.

I've heard that they store all encrypted traffic they intercept indefinitely, in case they ever find a way of decrypting it in the future. In the hopes that when things like heartbleed come along they might grab some SSL keys and decrypt some of it.

hatrickpatrick · 03-06-2014 12:40PM

darkpagandeath wrote: »

I think alot of people have played COD Modern warfare series to much and think that's what they can do ...

Or maybe they've just read the documents published from the Snowden cache over the last year and used those to draw conclusions on the NSA's (and its partners') capabilities?

Little CuChulainn · 03-06-2014 01:18PM

Reddit, where it's impossible to even change the title of a thread or delete a subreddit. Imgur, that seems to retain your images for life. I think companies should be looking at themselves when it comes to "resetting the net".

strobe · 03-06-2014 01:26PM

Didn't it come out in all the Snowdon stuff that the NSA have many of the companies that develop the encryption software etc deliberately building in ways for them to bypass it? How are you meant to know which are compromised and which aren't?

mike65 · 03-06-2014 01:31PM

Imagine for a moment if the net was indeed reset - everything wiped. The "man" would make sure next time it was in his control. Ergo - do not re-set the net. Its still semi-chaotic state is its best protection.

kowloon · 03-06-2014 02:59PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BZxLM3BpOk

hatrickpatrick · 04-06-2014 02:06AM

Knasher wrote: »

I've heard that they store all encrypted traffic they intercept indefinitely, in case they ever find a way of decrypting it in the future. In the hopes that when things like heartbleed come along they might grab some SSL keys and decrypt some of it.

strobe wrote: »

Didn't it come out in all the Snowdon stuff that the NSA have many of the companies that develop the encryption software etc deliberately building in ways for them to bypass it? How are you meant to know which are compromised and which aren't?

Both statements are true. The NSA is the body responsible for certifying encryption standards as secure, hence the alarm when it came out that they were deliberately tricking companies into weakening the standards under the guise of strengthening them.
To be honest, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to learn that the NSA was responsible for heartbleed, by advising SSL to make faulty changes to their algorithms.

renegademaster · 04-06-2014 07:20AM

mike65 wrote: »

Imagine for a moment if the net was indeed reset - everything wiped. The "man" would make sure next time it was in his control. Ergo - do not re-set the net. Its still semi-chaotic state is its best protection.

what are you on about, since day 1 the man has been in control of the net

gctest50 · 04-06-2014 07:28AM

strobe wrote: »

Didn't it come out in all the Snowdon stuff that the NSA have many of the companies that develop the encryption software etc deliberately building in ways for them to bypass it? How are you meant to know which are compromised and which aren't?

Hmm how about the hardware ?

Your shiny new i9 could have all sorts in it.

Fr_Dougal · 04-06-2014 07:30AM

If the merge the net with Airsoft, that should sort it out.

04-06-2014 08:01AM

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http://www.miraclesalad.com/webtools/md5.php

strobe · 05-06-2014 12:35AM

gctest50 wrote: »

Hmm how about the hardware ?

Your shiny new i9 could have all sorts in it.

That was actually in the Snowden stuff too, wasn't it? They were ensuring high end laptops and the like were rolling out to retailers and awaiting purchase riddled with surveilancey stuff embedded? Mad bunch of lads all together.

batistuta9 · 05-06-2014 01:40AM

the german goverment were using a program supposedly for wiretapping VoIP that also allowed them to upload & execute other programs + access microphones & webcams

"We were surprised and shocked by the lack of even elementary security in the code. Any attacker could assume control of a computer infiltrated by the German law enforcement authorities", commented a speaker of the CCC. "The security level this trojan leaves the infected systems in is comparable to it setting all passwords to '1234'".

http://ccc.de/en/updates/2011/staatstrojaner

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/10/10/german-government-r2d2-trojan-faq/

stacymichal · 05-06-2014 08:48AM

I guess we all have to to support this moment and have to join the cause for our rights. Many of organizations like reddit, mozilla, imgur & PureVPN join this moment, so shouldn't we?

"Reset the Net" Anti-NSA campaign

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