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

Tue Jul 8 21:12:39 EDT 2014

It's still less expensive than the UK linux magazines at $15 an issue

jason

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Tom McArthur <ThomasMcA at live.com> wrote:

>  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
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> On 07/08/2014 05:54 PM, STeve Andre' wrote:
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> Thanks for this!  I'll subscribe this week...
>
> --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>
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>        *Linux Journal*: Awesome Tech Magazine or Extremist Forum?
>
>  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>
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