For the last few weeks, the planet has been watching the circus that has been created by Edward Snowden and his leaks about the NSA and their spying activities. For German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich, the fact that the NSA spies on Internet traffic has got his attention. Thus, he offers this advice:
“whoever fears their communication is being intercepted in any way should use services that don’t go through American servers.”
Good luck with that. When you do anything on the Internet, your traffic can go through any number of routes regardless of what service you’re using or where the service is hosted. So there is always a chance that your traffic can go through a place that the NSA monitors. Mr. Friedrich’s comments also don’t factor in the possibility that some other agency might be monitoring what you’re doing. So simply avoiding Facebook, Google, and Twitter will not get you very far. A more realistic response should be to assume that everything that you do online is being monitored. Thus you have to govern yourself accordingly.
In the meantime, perhaps Mr. Friedrich needs to rethink his comments.
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German Security Chief Says To Ditch American Services To Avoid NSA Spying…. #Fail
For the last few weeks, the planet has been watching the circus that has been created by Edward Snowden and his leaks about the NSA and their spying activities. For German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich, the fact that the NSA spies on Internet traffic has got his attention. Thus, he offers this advice:
“whoever fears their communication is being intercepted in any way should use services that don’t go through American servers.”
Good luck with that. When you do anything on the Internet, your traffic can go through any number of routes regardless of what service you’re using or where the service is hosted. So there is always a chance that your traffic can go through a place that the NSA monitors. Mr. Friedrich’s comments also don’t factor in the possibility that some other agency might be monitoring what you’re doing. So simply avoiding Facebook, Google, and Twitter will not get you very far. A more realistic response should be to assume that everything that you do online is being monitored. Thus you have to govern yourself accordingly.
In the meantime, perhaps Mr. Friedrich needs to rethink his comments.
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