Preparing for Orwell’s Internet | TechSNAP 114
Posted on: June 13, 2013

We’ve got a bunch of options to protect your privacy online, things to consider before you self host.
Plus: With a little planning ahead, you can protect yourself from compelled disclosure, we’ll share the details. Then your questions our answers, and much much more!
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- How to protect yourself from laws that allow the government to force you to give up your encryption keys
- Use many short-lived sub-keys
- Decrypt encrypted emails, re-encrypt them with a long term storage key, and destroy the original key. If your encrypted email was intercepted as it passed over the insecure internet, the only key that can decrypt it has now been securely destroyed
- Use a separate key for each item, so when they force you to give up the key, it does not disclose any additional information
- use Steganographic File Systems to disclose only non sensitive data
- ZFS TRIM has been in 10-current since 2012–09–23
- ZFS will TRIM/initialize new devices when they are first added to the zpool unless the sysctl is turned off, this may cause new devices to take a while to add
- Also supports TRIM on the L2ARC
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How do you retain some semblance of privacy on the Internet?
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Tales From Tech Support – Thx to Drumm in the TechSNAP subreddit
- Timeline of NSA Domestic Spying
- Sweden bans all Public Sector entities from using Google Apps over Privacy concerns
- The most sophisticated Android Trojan
- Iphone’s still open to old WiFi attack
- NSA Snooping Was Only the Beginning. Meet the Spy Chief Leading Us Into Cyberwar
- Oracle has reversed a previous decision to stop offering timezone definition updates for Java, a support contract is no longer required
- Google uncovers phishing campaign targeting Iranians
- Pictures of the NSA’s new data center in Utah
- NSA also building new data center in Maryland
Security against compelled disclosure
ZFS TRIM supported merged in to FreeBSD 9-stable, enabled by default
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