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Linux Journal is
an "extremist
forum" and its
readers get
flagged for extra
surveillance</a></h1>
<strong>by Kyle Rankin</strong>
<p> A new story
published on the
German site <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://linuxjournalservices.com/portal/wts/uemc%7Cy-e4kqqefyOvL%7CTrcva%7CNFeDb">Tagesschau</a>
and followed up by <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://linuxjournalservices.com/portal/wts/uemc%7Cy-e4kqqefyOvL%7CTrcvq%7CNFeDb">BoingBoing</a>
and <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://linuxjournalservices.com/portal/wts/uemc%7Cy-e4kqqefyOvL%7CTrcv6%7CNFeDb">DasErste.de</a>
has uncovered some
shocking details
about who the NSA
targets for
surveillance
including visitors
to <em>Linux
Journal</em>
itself.</p>
<p> While it has been
revealed before that
the NSA captures
just about all
Internet traffic for
a short time, the
Tagesschau story
provides new details
about how the NSA's
XKEYSCORE program
decides which
traffic to keep
indefinitely.
XKEYSCORE uses
specific selectors
to flag traffic, and
the article reveals
that Web searches
for Tor and
Tails--software I've
covered here in <em>Linux
Journal</em> that
helps to protect a
user's anonymity and
privacy on the
Internet--are among
the selectors that
will flag you as
"extremist" and
targeted for further
surveillance. If you
just consider how
many <em>Linux
Journal</em>
readers have read
our Tor and Tails
coverage in the
magazine, that alone
would flag quite a
few innocent people
as extremist.</p>
<p> While that is
troubling in itself,
even more troubling
to readers on this
site is that
linuxjournal.com has
been flagged as a
selector!
DasErste.de has
published the
relevant XKEYSCORE <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://linuxjournalservices.com/portal/wts/uemc%7Cy-e4kqqefyOvL%7CTrcvL%7CNFeDb">source
code</a>, and if
you look closely at
the rule
definitions, you
will see
linuxjournal.com/content/linux*
listed alongside
Tails and Tor.
According to an
article on <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://linuxjournalservices.com/portal/wts/uemc%7Cy-e4kqqefyOvL%7CTrcwa%7CNFeDb">DasErste.de</a>,
the NSA considers <em>Linux
Journal</em> an
"extremist forum".
This means that
merely looking for
any Linux content on
<em>Linux Journal</em>,
not just content
about anonymizing
software or
encryption, is
considered
suspicious and means
your Internet
traffic may be
stored indefinitely.</p>
<p> One of the biggest
questions these new
revelations raise is
why. Up until this
point, I would
imagine most <em>Linux
Journal</em>
readers had
considered the NSA
revelations as
troubling but
figured the NSA
would never be
interested in them
personally. Now we
know that just
visiting this site
makes you a target.
While we may never
know for sure what
it is about <em>Linux
Journal</em> in
particular, the
Boing Boing article
speculates that it
might be to separate
out people on the
Internet who know
how to be private
from those who don't
so it can capture
communications from
everyone with
privacy know-how. If
that's true, it
seems to go much
further to target
anyone with Linux
know-how.</p>
<p> It's bad news to
all of us who use
and read about Linux
on a daily basis,
but fortunately we
aren't completely
helpless. Earlier in
the year I started a
series on security,
privacy and
anonymity in my Hack
and / column that
included articles on
how to use the Tor
browser bundle and
Tails. With either
piece of software in
place, you can
browse <em>Linux
Journal</em> (and
the rest of the
Internet) in
private.</p>
<p> Read this and
other
privacy-related
stories at
LinuxJournal.com.</p>
<ul>
<li> <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://linuxjournalservices.com/portal/wts/uemc%7Cy-e4kqqefyOvL%7CTrcwq%7CNFeDb">A
Bundle of Tor</a></li>
<li> <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://linuxjournalservices.com/portal/wts/uemc%7Cy-e4kqqefyOvL%7CTrcw6%7CNFeDb">Tails
above the Rest:
the Installation</a></li>
<li> <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://linuxjournalservices.com/portal/wts/uemc%7Cy-e4kqqefyOvL%7CTrcyq%7CNFeDb">Tails
above the Rest,
Part II</a></li>
<li> <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://linuxjournalservices.com/portal/wts/uemc%7Cy-e4kqqefyOvL%7CTrcy6%7CNFeDb">Are
you an
extremist?</a></li>
<li> <a
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href="http://linuxjournalservices.com/portal/wts/uemc%7Cy-e4kqqefyOvL%7CTrcyL%7CNFeDb">Dolphins
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