Revelations of N.S.A. Spying Cost U.S. Tech Companies

Re:Revelations of N.S.A. Spying Cost U.S. Tech Companies by sixothree on Friday March 21, 2014 @01:43PM (#7443588)

Personally I've been using fewer Google and other hosted services simply because they make me feel 'icky'. More and more I use startpage for general searches and tor for anything personal like medical information that I don't want in my permanent record.

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Re:Revelations of N.S.A. Spying Cost U.S. Tech Companies by cottonseed on Friday March 21, 2014 @01:53PM (#7443648)

Same here. I'm almost completely off Google products. If you do keep using Google products, make sure you disable location and web tracking. I deleted my Facebook account. I switched back to Firefox. I use startpage and DuckDuckGo. I switched my phone to CyanogenMod. I send everything through a VPN. I have Thunderbird, instant messaging apps go through Tor, basically anything that is asynchronous (although I don't use Tor for everday browsing -- it's just too painful). I use TextSecure for SMS. Basically the same user exerience, but I feel better.

I'm using Dropbox for now, but looking for alternatives. I wish there was a better alternative to email.

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Re:Revelations of N.S.A. Spying Cost U.S. Tech Companies by danieldk on Friday March 21, 2014 @02:00PM (#7443694)

I'm using Dropbox for now, but looking for alternatives.

My wife and I have switched to Bittorrent sync. It's fast and you have the amount of storage that your computers have. We have one very low-power machine that is always on to assure that we can always sync.

Folders with important data are backed up using tarsnap.

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Re:Revelations of N.S.A. Spying Cost U.S. Tech Companies by miclill on Friday March 21, 2014 @05:11PM (#7444945)

If you want Dropbox with clientside encryption: https://www.wuala.com/en/learn/technology

I use seafile on a raspberry pi: http://www.seafile.com/en/home/

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Re:Revelations of N.S.A. Spying Cost U.S. Tech Companies by mark_l_watson on Friday March 21, 2014 @05:23PM (#7445006)

+1 for mentioning medical information. Right now with the Affordable Health Care Act, no penalty for preexisting conditions, but get a republican controlled congress and white house, and that might go away.

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Re:Revelations of N.S.A. Spying Cost U.S. Tech Companies by kawliga on Friday March 21, 2014 @07:01PM (#7445531)

Oh... you must watch The Daily Show, with all of that political prowess... and stuff.

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