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If recent reports are to be believed, the National Security Agency has broad powers to capture private information about Americans. They know who were calling, they have access to our Gmail messages and AOL Instant Messenger chats, and its a safe bet that they have other interception capabilities that havent been publicly disclosed. Indeed, most mainstream communications technologies are vulnerable to government eavesdropping.
But all is not lost! The NSAs spying powers are vast, but there are still ways to thwart the agencys snooping. Here are five of them.
1. Browse anonymously with Tor
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been photographed with a Tor sticker on his laptop. Tor lets you use the Internet without revealing your IP address or other identifying information. The distributed network works by bouncing your traffic among several randomly selected proxy computers before sending it on to its real destination. Web sites will think youre coming from whichever node your traffic happens to bounce off of last, which might be on the other side of the world.
Tor is easy to use. You can download the Tor Browser Bundle, a version of the Firefox browser that automatically connects to the Tor network for anonymous web browsing.
2. Keep your chats private with OTR
If you use a conventional instant messaging service like those offered by Google, AOL, Yahoo or Microsoft, logs of your chats may be accessible to the NSA through the PRISM program. But a chat extension called OTR (for off the record) offers end-to-end encryption. The server only sees the encrypted version of your conversations, thwarting eavesdropping.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/10/five-ways-to-stop-the-nsa-from-spying-on-you/
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