Leave everything up and running on a desktop safely inside your own home and connected to the internet 24/7.
Bring your own barebones laptop with nothing installed on it to COUNTRY_PARANOID_OF_EVERYTHING.
Using X11 forwarding, one must only remember the password to their home desktop in order to gain full access to it and all of it's graphical programs.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Secure_Shell#X11_forwar...
So far, the reaction on intrusion of privacy by the government from the people was to circumvent it, go underground. A reaction commonly expected from a country like Soviet Union where people had zero say on the rulings and had to be creative to avoid surveillance.
I'm saddened to see a similar attitude in the US.
> riot
~50% of people have already determined that voting isn't worth their time - wise up and get with the program. The jury box has been thoroughly pwned as well. Traditionally, the remaining step is the ammo box. But that lacks popular support because people are well fed, so we might as well try to turn things around this new fangled computational b0x before that stops being the case.
NSA/etc has been fucking with people's rights for so long and I'm surprised that their main building is not yet burned down.
Someone one time said "[..] by the people, for the people [..]".
If you think that your responsibility begins and ends with a simple vote, you're far away from reality. ;)
The last time someone attacked a federal office building it did not end well.
I mean, I agree with the idea that if a Constitutional law professor allows this stuff to happen on his watch, we're sunk. But I wouldn't describe it as "we tried electing a civil libertarian constitution scholar." We elected a "rock star" politician who happens to have taught Constitutional law in a past life, and paid lip service to liberty for his biggest supporters.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized"
Oh, and whats this assumption about running a safe PC from home? You have read the Snowden stuff, right? And even if you cant go with all that, if you are at the US border, while your PC is in , er, Berlin, who says that as you stand there spooks are at your house raiding all the data they like? You know, if you are of that much interest to the authorities. And if you are not, SD card type thing.
Lastly, if one is all doom and gloom (maybe a bit foil hat) about this stuff, like me, I'd assume the buggers had the data I was worried about anyway, if I at some point it had been on an electronic device with communications capabilities.
If your desktop was on 24/7 and you're the one who set it up, it would be trivial to determine if somebody other than yourself had physically accessed it. Applebaum's computer equipment was turned off when he left Berlin from what I understand.
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Encrypt files with a suitably long pass-phrase, upload to some random server somewhere, set home computer to keep over-writing its HD & memory/whatever data-destroying activity you favour.
Travel to other country, buy a laptop from a store selected by fair dice throw, download file and decrypt it.
c2.com/cgi/wiki?TheKenThompsonHack
Mentioned by Jacob Applebaum in "To Protect and Infect" from 30c3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vILAlhwUgIU
Trying to browse your photo collection over a 1Mbps connection ain't fun.
Perhaps he meant "...are NOT an issue." ???