Bruce Schneier: How to Stay Secure Against the NSA

[eridani]

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/424-national-security/19279-how-to-stay-secure-against-the-nsa

ow that we have enough details about how the NSA eavesdrops on the internet, including today's disclosures of the NSA's deliberate weakening of cryptographic systems, we can finally start to figure out how to protect ourselves.

For the past two weeks, I have been working with the Guardian on NSA stories, and have read hundreds of top-secret NSA documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden. I wasn't part of today's story - it was in process well before I showed up - but everything I read confirms what the Guardian is reporting.

At this point, I feel I can provide some advice for keeping secure against such an adversary.

The primary way the NSA eavesdrops on internet communications is in the network. That's where their capabilities best scale. They have invested in enormous programs to automatically collect and analyze network traffic. Anything that requires them to attack individual endpoint computers is significantly more costly and risky for them, and they will do those things carefully and sparingly.

[backscatter712]

1. K&R! This is good information. n/t

[Jesus Malverde]

2. We need to modify the NSA'S behavior not our own...nt