/tags/surveillance/ Recent content in Surveillance on zoph.me https://zoph.me/posts/resources/images/code-social.png https://zoph.me/posts/resources/images/code-social.png Hugo -- 0.148.2 en-us Tue, 29 Sep 2020 13:37:00 +0200 /posts/2020-09-19-levelup-your-data-privacy-using-pgp/ Tue, 29 Sep 2020 13:37:00 +0200 /posts/2020-09-19-levelup-your-data-privacy-using-pgp/ <h3 id="tldr">TL;DR</h3> <blockquote> <p>I&rsquo;m now using PGP for archive file encryption.</p></blockquote> <h2 id="the-trigger">The trigger</h2> <p>This summer, I read <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Permanent-Record-Edward-Snowden-audiobook/dp/B07VZWH6NB/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;qid=1600524366&amp;refinements=p_27%3AEdward+Snowden&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1">Permanent Record</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden">Edward Snowden</a>, &ldquo;Ed&rdquo; for those in the know. I was pretty impressed at how a government organization with a multi-billion dollar budget can organize a mass surveillance program at a worldwide scale in only a few decades.</p> <blockquote> <p>“Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is so terrifically weak that NSA can frequently find ways around it.”</p>