Don’t ask for your privacy. Take it back. Today we #ResetTheNet to stop mass spying. Encrypt everything!
A year ago on June 5, 2013 the Guardian newspaper published the first of Edward Snowden's astounding revelations. The secret court order that conclusively showed that the US government was collecting data on millions of people around the world. It was the first of a continuous stream of stories that pointed out what we’ve suspected for a long time: that the world’s digital communications are being continuously spied upon by nation states with precious little oversight.
In Australia confidential documents obtained by Fairfax Media revealed the secret technology used to trawl Australians' telecommunications and internet data for analysis by ASIO, the ASD and law enforcement agencies. All Australian telecommunications and internet service providers by law must maintain interception and data-collection capabilities for government.
“Government spies have a weakness: they can hack anybody, but they can’t hack everybody,” the organizers behind the Reset the Net movement say in their video (above). “Folks like the NSA depend on collecting insecure data from tapped fiber. They depend on our mistakes, mistakes we can fix.”
To that end, the Reset the Net groups are calling on developers to add at least one NSA resistant feature to mobile apps, and on websites to add security features like SSL (Secure Socket Layer), HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security), and Perfect Forward Secrecy to better secure the communication of users and thwart government man-in-the-middle attacks.
To that end, the Reset the Net groups are calling on developers to add at least one NSA resistant feature to mobile apps, and on websites to add security features like SSL (Secure Socket Layer), HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security), and Perfect Forward Secrecy to better secure the communication of users and thwart government man-in-the-middle attacks.
Want to improve your privacy? Download the "Privacy Pack," a bundle of free software that includes private chat tools Adium and Pidgin, software for private SMS and voice calls Textsecure and Redphone, EFF's HTTPS Everywhere browser add-on, and GPGtools, Enigmail and TOR for more sophisticated users. The pack also includes tips on how to enable full disk encryption on your computers, phones, and tablets:
http://resetthenet.tumblr.com/post/84331967485/the-privacy-pack
https://tails.boum.org/download/index.en.html
http://vimeo.com/56881481
https://tails.boum.org/download/index.en.html
http://vimeo.com/56881481
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