Tucker Carlson Spied on by NSA

originally posted by: Nunyabizisit

originally posted by: JBurns
a reply to: Nunyabizisit

PGP is very secure and the best option most of us have

Sure you can use Truecrypt but that involves exchanging passwords

But if you don't trust it, use the one time pad in conjunction with PGP

PGP is perfect for most types of communications.

Very few have buildings full of modern super computers.

PGP must be avoided if worried about a nation-state (or similar).

Key is unimportant to this.

Only a Speedbump without.

Didn't mean to imply anything else.

What can be done??

You have me interested If theres a better method

I like ticking NSA types off with this kind of stuff

originally posted by: JBurns

originally posted by: Nunyabizisit

originally posted by: JBurns
a reply to: Nunyabizisit

PGP is very secure and the best option most of us have

Sure you can use Truecrypt but that involves exchanging passwords

But if you don't trust it, use the one time pad in conjunction with PGP

PGP is perfect for most types of communications.

Very few have buildings full of modern super computers.

PGP must be avoided if worried about a nation-state (or similar).

Key is unimportant to this.

Only a Speedbump without.

Didn't mean to imply anything else.

What can be done??

You have me interested If theres a better method

I like ticking NSA types off with this kind of stuff

Longest keys are still king.

But NOTHING will stop the few largest groups from unencrypting anything they want, whenever they want, wherever they want, if willing to dedicate their limited resources to same.

Is rarely even challenging.


Think about the few bits of public info available about U.S. capabilities in other countries...

Very small % is known.

Even easier to do at home.

But rarely necessary.

Or done.

PGP is perfectly good unless you are terrorist hiding from U.S. or something similar.

But if you are their target, PGP is nearly useless.

a reply to: JBurns


Very improbable that you could ever get NSA attention for anything you would be willing to do.

They have more important things to do.

a reply to: Nunyabizisit

Thank you for the details explanations Nunyabizisit

Had me worried there for a minute, I save all kinds of backed up files with PGP and some of them have SSN, payment info, that sort of thing glad to hear it hasn't been widely broken or anything along those lines

Does this usually happen against a single message or possible to work on a bunch of messages at once? Assuming you have the super computers available to do it with

a reply to: Nunyabizisit

I am pleased to hear this

I do enjoy playing around with encryption technology. Even have some of those hardware drives you buy, AES Aegis or something along those lines. Iron Keys too. Pretty interesting stuff there

originally posted by: JBurns
a reply to: Nunyabizisit

Thank you for the details explanations Nunyabizisit

Had me worried there for a minute, I save all kinds of backed up files with PGP and some of them have SSN, payment info, that sort of thing glad to hear it hasn't been widely broken or anything along those lines

Does this usually happen against a single message or possible to work on a bunch of messages at once? Assuming you have the super computers available to do it with

When I say 'limited' resources, I mean limited by other related workload and available staff.

They can do just about anything they want on anything.

Determining what is a target is the only real challenge, and sometimes not even that.

And again, unless you are a REALLY, REALLY bad guy, or democrats get illegal fisa on you, these guys will never know you exist.

originally posted by: JBurns
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10th amendment makes clear the federal government is not to infringe on the states right to self govern except where authorized by Constitutional authority invested exclusively to the fed government
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Can someone remind me of what exactly makes the States 'united' again?

Crazy how for a single country every state acts like it's own nation.

I mean here in Australia each state and territory is it's own thing (and equally just as stupid to me where and when they differ) but over all Australians and most laws are identical from one coast to the other.
Going from Queensland to Western Australia is just like going from one suburb to the next, but from what I see going from new York to Texas you may as well be going from Spain to China.

Even crazier is most people seem to be happy they're not unified and their 'state' is different to their fellow country men's 'state'

I dunno, maybe less problems in the world if more humans were actually more united than we currently are.

a reply to: CautiouslyOptimus

hannity is too

a reply to: xuenchen

That picture is cool, but weird. Is that a ghost-cigarette? It leaves no shadow, is unaffected by the light, it's not attached to anything and doesn't fall (unaffected by gravity), etc.

Why is there such a cigarette in that picture, when it's obviously not part of the original photo? Who added it and why? Is it an FBI ploy? There's something fishy about it.. it looks PLANTED to me, definitely planted!

a reply to: mamabeth

You are right!

I think they spy on everybody though. Scoop up data anyway.

originally posted by: vonclod
I think they spy on everybody though. Scoop up data anyway.

Surprised nobody has started spying on them.

Shouldn't be too hard, and exposing them would be far more risky to their safety. Its a feature not a bug.