How NSA’s Prism affects you, and how to protect yourself from being spied on

Re:How NSA’s Prism affects you, and how to protect yourself ... by stack0v3erfl0w on Saturday June 29, 2013 @08:35AM (#5962200)

Why?

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Re:How NSA’s Prism affects you, and how to protect yourself ... by ronaldx on Saturday June 29, 2013 @05:06PM (#5963721)

I dislike it particularly because of the implication of stupidity: "I believe only stupid people won't know this, but I'm going to tell you anyway".

In general it's poor form to assume readers know anything - consider (for example) a future lay-reader who is trying to find out this information.

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Re:How NSA’s Prism affects you, and how to protect yourself ... by khairul on Saturday June 29, 2013 @08:48AM (#5962231)

Because it's a tired, overabused cliche.

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Re:How NSA’s Prism affects you, and how to protect yourself ... by agilebyte on Saturday June 29, 2013 @09:02AM (#5962258)

But we are not grading an English essay are we? The content of the article was quite good for a "normal" non-tech person.

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Re:How NSA’s Prism affects you, and how to protect yourself ... by herghost on Saturday June 29, 2013 @09:58AM (#5962393)

I don't think the content of the article was particularly good.

The advice on how to protect yourself from being spied on is essentially:

"stop using the internet; or use HTTPS - which is probably compromised anyway; or encrypt - which is probably compromised anyway; or use a VPN - which I will say next to nothing about"

It's just a rehash of points and opinions already better expressed elsewhere.

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Re:How NSA’s Prism affects you, and how to protect yourself ... by lttlrck on Saturday June 29, 2013 @10:15AM (#5962438)

We don't wan to read an English essay either.

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