StartPage, Ixquick, Encryption

StartPage and Ixquick Deploy Newest Encryption Standards against Mass Surveillance: "SSL encryption has been proven to be an effective tool for protecting sensitive online traffic from eavesdropping and surveillance. However, security researchers now worry that SSL encryption may not provide adequate protection if Government agencies are scooping up large amounts of encrypted traffic and storing it for later decryption. With SSL alone, if a target website's "private key" can be obtained once in the future - perhaps through court order, social engineering, attack against the website, or cryptanalysis - that same key can then be used to unlock all other historical traffic of the affected website. For larger Internet services, that could expose the private data of millions of people. StartPage and Ixquick have now deployed a defense against this known as "Perfect Forward Secrecy," or PFS." (read more at link above)

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What It Means to Be An NSA Target

What It Means to Be An NSA "Target": New Information Shows Why We Need Immediate FISA Amendments Act Reform | Electronic Frontier Foundation: "We’ve written before about the word games the government plays in describing its surveillance practices: “acquire,” “collect,” and “content” are all old government favorites. The New York Times report proves Feinstein statement is false, and it's clear it’s time to add “target” to the list of word games as well."

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