[GLLUG] Fwd: Linux Journal: Awesome Tech Magazine or Extremist Forum?

STeve Andre' andres at msu.edu
Tue Jul 8 17:54:28 EDT 2014


Thanks for this!  I'll subscribe this week...

--STeve Andre'

On 07/08/14 17:26, Stan Mortel wrote:
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> Subject: 	Linux Journal: Awesome Tech Magazine or Extremist Forum?
> Date: 	Tue, 8 Jul 2014 07:00:47 -0500 (CDT)
> From: 	Linux Journal <LinuxJournalservices at linuxjournalservices.com>
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> Extreme Linux
> /Linux Journal/: Awesome Tech Magazine or Extremist Forum?
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>   NSA: Linux Journal is an "extremist forum" and its readers get
>   flagged for extra surveillance
>   <http://linuxjournalservices.com/portal/wts/uemc%7Cy-e4kqqefyOvL%7CTrc%5EL%7CNFeDb>
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> *by Kyle Rankin*
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> A new story published on the German site Tagesschau 
> <http://linuxjournalservices.com/portal/wts/uemc%7Cy-e4kqqefyOvL%7CTrcva%7CNFeDb> 
> and followed up by BoingBoing 
> <http://linuxjournalservices.com/portal/wts/uemc%7Cy-e4kqqefyOvL%7CTrcvq%7CNFeDb> 
> and DasErste.de 
> <http://linuxjournalservices.com/portal/wts/uemc%7Cy-e4kqqefyOvL%7CTrcv6%7CNFeDb> 
> has uncovered some shocking details about who the NSA targets for 
> surveillance including visitors to /Linux Journal/ itself.
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> 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 /Linux Journal/ 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 /Linux Journal/ readers have read our Tor 
> and Tails coverage in the magazine, that alone would flag quite a few 
> innocent people as extremist.
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> 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 source code 
> <http://linuxjournalservices.com/portal/wts/uemc%7Cy-e4kqqefyOvL%7CTrcvL%7CNFeDb>, 
> 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 DasErste.de 
> <http://linuxjournalservices.com/portal/wts/uemc%7Cy-e4kqqefyOvL%7CTrcwa%7CNFeDb>, 
> the NSA considers /Linux Journal/ an "extremist forum". This means 
> that merely looking for any Linux content on /Linux Journal/, not just 
> content about anonymizing software or encryption, is considered 
> suspicious and means your Internet traffic may be stored indefinitely.
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> One of the biggest questions these new revelations raise is why. Up 
> until this point, I would imagine most /Linux Journal/ 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 /Linux Journal/ 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.
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> 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 /Linux Journal/ (and the rest of the Internet) in private.
>
> Read this and other privacy-related stories at LinuxJournal.com.
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>   * A Bundle of Tor
>     <http://linuxjournalservices.com/portal/wts/uemc%7Cy-e4kqqefyOvL%7CTrcwq%7CNFeDb>
>   * Tails above the Rest: the Installation
>     <http://linuxjournalservices.com/portal/wts/uemc%7Cy-e4kqqefyOvL%7CTrcw6%7CNFeDb>
>   * Tails above the Rest, Part II
>     <http://linuxjournalservices.com/portal/wts/uemc%7Cy-e4kqqefyOvL%7CTrcyq%7CNFeDb>
>   * Are you an extremist?
>     <http://linuxjournalservices.com/portal/wts/uemc%7Cy-e4kqqefyOvL%7CTrcy6%7CNFeDb>
>   * Dolphins in the NSA Dragnet
>     <http://linuxjournalservices.com/portal/wts/uemc%7Cy-e4kqqefyOvL%7CTrcyL%7CNFeDb>
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>     Are you an extremist?
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