LEARN To Stay OFF THE GRID & Be ANONYMOUS From The GOVERNMENT- Technological Privacy
How to Evade Government Surveillance and Stay Anonymous Online
Why
stay anonymous online? In today's society there are people and
automated devices that are recording your deepest, most private thoughts
and activities. Each day we voluntarily divulge the most intimate
details of our lives through social networking accounts, email, banking
apps, online games and more. In addition, governments and corporations
can censor and block our traffic based on whatever standards are in
place that day.
Government agencies, hackers and sophisticated
bot networks are capturing every piece of digital data that we transmit
through all of our Internet-connected gadgets. Smartphones, Smart TVs,
computers, tablets, and so much more...they are all vulnerable, nothing
is safe these days. Even your old clam-shell phone isn't safe. This is
because many phone providers route your calls over media using the
Internet Protocol at some point within their network. For example, long
distance providers transfer calls over VoIP all the time.
Whether
you're browsing the Web, signing up for a new online game, or simply
checking your email, you are constantly leaving tracks and giving away
information to anyone with access and the knowledge to analyze the
traffic. Once the data is compiled the attacker can build an incredibly
accurate profile of not only your online life but your real-world life
as well.
So, the big question is, how can you stay anonymous
online? Free from government censorship and potential eavesdropping from
some hacker or three-letter government agency that wants to invade your
privacy while you use your computer. In comes Whonix, the Anonymous
Operating System!
Use Whonix, The Anonymous Operating System, Stay Anonymous Online
Whonix
is a free, general purpose computer operating system based on Virtual
Box, Linux and Tor. The purpose of Whonix is to allow Internet users the
ability to stay anonymous online. This is most beneficial to users in
regimes that censor and monitor access to the Internet, but it can also
be used by anyone who values their privacy, or doesn't want their
activities tracked online.
By design, IP address leaks are meant
to be impossible while using Whonix. The developers claim even malware
with admin privileges can't find the Whonix Workstation's real IP
address or location. This is because Whonix consists of two (virtual)
computers. One machine acts as a gateway or router and runs only Tor, a
sophisticated anonymity software. This machine is called the
Whonix-Gateway. The other machine, which called the Whonix-Workstation,
is on a completely isolated network that only allows Internet
connections to be routed through the Whonix-Gateway.
Prism NSA FBI
Apple,
Facebook and Google were among nine tech firms named as having
participated (wittingly or unwittingly) in the controversial NSA PRISM
we surveillance programme. The 41-page presentation was given in April
this year and made public by the Washington Post.
The Apple
statement, although it reveals the number of requests Cupertino complied
with, it continues to deny allowing gov bods to access its servers,
stating: "We first heard of the government's 'Prism' program when news
organizations asked us about it on June 6."
Since the exposure of
the programme through the actions of former CIA contractor Edward
Snowden, US tech firms have been lobbying the government to allow them
to provide more details to their customers on the extent to which they
have helped the authorities with their inquiries. Spy chiefs were
against this disclosure but politicians appear to have overruled them
and allowed tech giants to provide more details on wiretap requests than
had been permitted with previous transparency reports from the likes of
Google and Microsoft.
This move is clearly designed, at least in
part, to reassure businesses and consumers that data held by US
technology firms is not subject to dragnet surveillance, a concern that
might prompt enterprises and international consumers to look for
alternatives to US-based services.
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