Ask HN: A service that takes you “off the grid”?

3 pointskarlcoelho12 comments

Ever since news broke out about the NSA and other organizations tracking the public on the internet, I thought there would be a major rise in services that protect you from being tracked, in other words, be taking "off the grid". i.e. snapchat

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You may have missed the point.

Signing up for more services would be exactly the opposite of getting off the grid.

Instead, do things like hosting your own email, use an OpenPGP card to access any Linux servers you run, stop using Facebook and Gmail, etc.

In what way is Snapchat "off the grid"?

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