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NSA policies are simply insane and/or lazily thought out. I mean we even learned a while ago that not using Facebook makes you "suspicious" - Seriously? Or mayb

NSA policies are simply insane and/or lazily thought out. I mean we even learned a while ago that not using Facebook makes you "suspicious" - Seriously? Or maybe watching a certain type of Youtube videos. My point is I wouldn't single out just Tor here. They probably have dozens of other such idiotic policies that lead to abuses and putting people on "lists" that then they can take revenge on, such as through adding them to no-fly lists and so on, with very little to no recourse for the people affected (if they even ever find out about if or why they're put there, since it all tends to be secret). What happened to innocent until proven guilty? The NSA is simply out of control and needs to be reined in, otherwise expect abuses against people that haven't even heard of Tor.

Shish2k 12y ago
> we even learned a while ago that not using Facebook makes you "suspicious" I tried googling for evidence of this ("nsa not using facebook suspicious"), and this comment (posted 56 minutes ago as of my writing) is the top google hit, with others being irrelevant o_O Do you have a link to support this? At this point I am wondering if it's safe to assume all conspiracy theories are true by default, and lack of evidence is evidence of conspiracy to cover it up...
- haswell 12y ago
  Remove "nsa" from your query, and you'll find a long list of relevant results. There was quite a bit of coverage around the web a year or two back about this topic, but never in the context of the NSA as far as I know.
jdong 12y ago
NSA uses several different parameters to identify potential targets. E.g a Tor user with no Facebook profile who recently spent two months in Syria, sound suspicious? The fact that someone doesn't make a Facebook profile stands out, the fact that someone is using Tor stands out and the fact that someone is taking regular trips to Syria stands out. Nobody's getting arrested for using Tor, or not having a Facebook profile. But those are things used in evaluating people.

Shish2k 12y ago

> we even learned a while ago that not using Facebook makes you "suspicious" I tried googling for evidence of this ("nsa not using facebook suspicious"), and this comment (posted 56 minutes ago as of my writing) is the top google hit, with others being irrelevant o_O Do you have a link to support this? At this point I am wondering if it's safe to assume all conspiracy theories are true by default, and lack of evidence is evidence of conspiracy to cover it up...

haswell 12y ago
Remove "nsa" from your query, and you'll find a long list of relevant results. There was quite a bit of coverage around the web a year or two back about this topic, but never in the context of the NSA as far as I know.

jdong 12y ago

NSA uses several different parameters to identify potential targets. E.g a Tor user with no Facebook profile who recently spent two months in Syria, sound suspicious? The fact that someone doesn't make a Facebook profile stands out, the fact that someone is using Tor stands out and the fact that someone is taking regular trips to Syria stands out. Nobody's getting arrested for using Tor, or not having a Facebook profile. But those are things used in evaluating people.