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

Tue Jul 8 21:04:52 EDT 2014

I was going to subscribe, but $29.50 for 12 digital issues is highway 
robbery. With so many free resources available online, I can't justify 
$30 for something I don't have time to read.

Oh well, I guess the NSA will just have to find a different way to 
harass me.

Tom

On 07/08/2014 05:54 PM, STeve Andre' wrote:
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> Thanks for this!  I'll subscribe this week...
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> --STeve Andre'
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> On 07/08/14 17:26, Stan Mortel wrote:
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>> -------- Original Message --------
>> 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>
>> Reply-To: 	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>
>>
>> *by Kyle Rankin*
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>   * 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>
>>
>>
>>     Are you an extremist?
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