[dba-Tech] protecting our privacy

US and UK spy agencies defeat privacy and security on the internet
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security

"...the National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have 
broadly compromised the guarantees that internet companies have given 
consumers to reassure them that their communications, online banking and 
medical records would be indecipherable to criminals or governments.

Those methods include covert measures to ensure NSA control over setting 
of international encryption standards, the use of supercomputers to 
break encryption with "brute force", and – the most closely guarded 
secret of all – collaboration with technology companies and internet 
service providers themselves.

Through these covert partnerships, the agencies have inserted secret 
vulnerabilities – known as backdoors or trapdoors – into commercial 
encryption software."

Sigint – how the NSA collaborates with technology companies
http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/sep/05/sigint-nsa-collaborates-technology-companies

The US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/05/government-betrayed-internet-nsa-spying
1) Hide in the network eg with Tor, 2) Encrypt communication with TLS or 
IPsec, 3) isolate sensitive documents with sneakernet, 4) for encryption 
use ony open source software,

PB