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How do Americans outsmart NSA spying? Oh wait,they cant.

• fredgrott 13y ago
  Think..the obvious one is become an IT contractor for NSA or CIA...:)
• smsm42 13y ago
  They can. Use strong point-to-point encryption. Of course, doing this over email/IM requires special setup that can be pretty clunky and certain habits which require discipline to maintain, and you can not rely on any third-party providers, but in principle that is possible. It's just inconvenient.
  • anaphor 13y ago
    Of course the NSA can just issue a NSL to the certificate authority and then all the encryption in the world won't help. Of course you can sign your own keys but then exchanging them becomes difficult.
    • smsm42 13y ago
      This assumes you use certificates generated by the third party. However this is not at all a requirement for cryptography, this is only a convenience to set up an easy key exchange. You can set it up in the hard way - i.e. meeting in pubs and exchange USB drives with keys, for example. May be more interesting but less convenient. That's exactly what I am saying - you can have stronger privacy, but you'll have to pay for it with convenience.
• azinman2 13y ago
  Not relevant here. The NSA isn't blocking you from reading political websites.