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esbonsa··on Email Self-Defense – a guide to fighting surveillance with GnuPG
This doesn't appear to solve the metadata problem which is what the NSA seem to think is the most valuable (or at least that they have the least difficulties to get and process).
esbonsa··on Amazon Launch Event
You don't need any add-ons to selectively block flash nowadays on Firefox... Menu - Add-ons - Plugins - Flash "Ask to activate" instead of "Always activate"
esbonsa··on Electric car with massive range in demo by Phinergy, Alcoa
"... and a big part of the advantage with electric cars is that they use less energy in every step of the process except initial manufacturing."

The most important part for me for electric cars is the simpler power-train system which is less likely to break... which is why i would never buy an hybrid that has both systems.

esbonsa··on German foreign intelligence agency wants to access social media in realtime
of course not but I was hoping someone would be able to contradict me
esbonsa··on Sprint and T-Mobile Agree on Terms of $32B Deal
I've had both carriers on different devices on a recent car trip across eastern USA and Sprint had much better coverage. Hopefully this would help T-Mobile.
esbonsa··on German foreign intelligence agency wants to access social media in realtime
For example, if Person_1 from a country besides USA calls an American (Person_2), it makes it ok for the NSA to spy on everyone Person_2 calls (lets call them People_3), and everyone People_3 calls (People_4) and everyone People_4 calls... I assume they follow the same rules for internet traffic so they basically get all internet data even if they are technically not allowed to spy on Americans...

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/you-ma...

esbonsa··on German foreign intelligence agency wants to access social media in realtime
I am not blaming you, but by you commenting here, you make it ok for the NSA to target all Americans who replied to this thread and all Americans that replied to threads that these Americans replied to in the past and all Americans that replied to threads that these Americans replied to in the past (since the NSA use 3 degree of separation rule).
esbonsa··on Peter Sunde arrested in Sweden
Google usually finds the right one (https://www.google.com/search?q=piratebay)... but of course that could change.
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