PGP und Tor
Juli 7, 2013
Im Zuge der NSA/Prism-Affäre wird empfohlen, für die E-Mails eine PGP-Verschlüsselung und für Bewegungen im Netz die Anonymisierung durch Tor zu verwenden.
Das hat offenbar gewisse Folgen, wie bei der Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) zu lesen ist:
„At EFF, we have long recommended anyone who cares about privacy should use tools such as PGP (“Pretty Good Privacy”) email encryption and Tor, which anonymizes your location. We still do, but are disturbed by the way the NSA treats such communications.
In the United States, it has long been held that there is a Constitutional right to anonymous speech, and exercising this right cannot be grounds for the government to invade your privacy. The NSA blows by all that by determining that, if the person is anonymous, thennecessarily the NSA is not intentionally targeting a US person, with a rare exception when they have „positively identified“ the user as an American. Thus, in the NSA’s view, if you use Tor, the protections for a US person simply do not apply.
More appallingly, the NSA is allowed to hold onto communications solely because you use encryption. Whether the communication is domestic or foreign, the NSA will hang on to the encrypted message forever, or at least until it is decrypted. And then at least five more years.“
Dessen sollte man sich bewusst sein.
castellvecchio 