Ghostery is my friend. It can be your friend too.
Surely āHAPPYFOOTā should have targeted Linux systems. The Geek is weak in the NSA.
How come Bullrun and Edgehill are both named after major Civil War battles? I thought codenames were selected randomly to avoid giving away any info about the named projected. Bullrun and Edgehill imply a similarity of purpose.
Who is to say that it isnāt compromised too? I use it, but I doubt that it is a rock solid shield against spying, since it is an add-on to a browser.
Look, if thereās anything weāve learned, itās that nothing can stop the instrument of the state from intruding into your affairs but the vigilance of the people. At the end of the day, I accept that for all of my skills and tools, Iām no match for the immense resources of the NSA. Thatās what I call the scary part. Itās not unreasonable, however, to provide people with tools that may (and itās always been āmayā long before NSA-gate) help them.
Hereās the thing, and say it with me, āThere is no rock-solid shield against spying.ā Never has been, never will be. It doesnāt make it right, but it is the reality of the world in which we live. Donāt like it? By all means, fight the good fight- lord knows Iāll back you up.
Yeah, I know what youāre saying. I guess one day Iād like it if someone could prove me wrong with a program that actually protects privacy.
Hereās a better idea: someone at Google needs to post the NSLs and force the government to prosecute. Only when NSLs are tried in court can they be overturned on 1st Amendment grounds. I hope there is someone brave enough. And Google needs to use every legal resource they have as a multi-billion dollar corporation to obfuscate and interfere with this program. They need to intentionally give corrupted data. They need to delay giving information. They need to be a nuisance in every aspect possible (tow the cars of NSA employees, give the data in font too small to read, āloseā the NSLs and request copies in rooms with streaming webcams, etc.).
These are rather internal project names no one outside the Stasi NSA should ever stumble upon than code names for operations involving outside communications that might get compromised.
Also, the guy who makes up the cool acronyms was sick.
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