Re:Ask HN: What has the NSA changed about your daily life?
by Karunamon on Thursday August 22, 2013 @03:01PM
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Hmm..
* I quit using Facebook (didn't delete it.. that data's already out there), and if family really wants to get ahold of me, the messages point at a disposable email address which itself points at one of my real ones.
* I quite using Chrome, not out of any Google animus, but because Firefox has a better plugin ecosystem wrt. privacy.
* Noscript, donottrack.me, adblock, HTTPS everywhere, the whole nine yards.
* I'm in the process of quitting all cloud services I comfortably can. I purchased a HP microserver and a static IP from my ISP, I no longer need most Google services or Dropbox (Owncloud is amazing), soon I'll have my own email locally too and I can quit using them for anything but searches.
* I've started using PGP to communicate with everyone I can convince to set up the software, and always always use it if I have the option.
* I'm still looking for a way to encrypt VoIP in a reasonably palatable way. Skype is right out, but most of its alternatives are terrible for one reason or another.
* I quit using Facebook (didn't delete it.. that data's already out there), and if family really wants to get ahold of me, the messages point at a disposable email address which itself points at one of my real ones.
* I quite using Chrome, not out of any Google animus, but because Firefox has a better plugin ecosystem wrt. privacy.
* Noscript, donottrack.me, adblock, HTTPS everywhere, the whole nine yards.
* I'm in the process of quitting all cloud services I comfortably can. I purchased a HP microserver and a static IP from my ISP, I no longer need most Google services or Dropbox (Owncloud is amazing), soon I'll have my own email locally too and I can quit using them for anything but searches.
* I've started using PGP to communicate with everyone I can convince to set up the software, and always always use it if I have the option.
* I'm still looking for a way to encrypt VoIP in a reasonably palatable way. Skype is right out, but most of its alternatives are terrible for one reason or another.