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The National Security Agency’s attempts to keep track of people outside the US who use encryption and anonymization software from the Tor Project also apparently captured the traffic of anyone reading a wide range of articles on Linux Journal, according to documents published by the German public television broadcaster ARD and provided by security researchers (and Tor contributors) Jacob Appelbaum, Aaron Gibsom, and Leif Ryge. The documents—which include what appears to be search rules for the NSA’s XKeyscore Internet surveillance system, indicate that the NSA also gathered up data on visitors to articles on the Linux Journal website. arstechnica/security/2014/07/the-nsa-thinks-linux-journal-is-an-extremist-forum/ // START_DEFINITION /*These variables define terms and websites relating to the TAILs (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) software program, a comsec mechanism advocated by extremists on extremist forums. */ $TAILS_terms=word(tails or Amnesiac Incognito Live System) and word(linux or USB or CD or secure desktop or IRC or truecrypt or tor ); $TAILS_websites=(tails.boum.org/) or (linuxjournal/content/linux*); // END_DEFINITION LinuxJournals response: linuxjournal/content/nsa-linux-journal-extremist-forum-and-its-readers-get-flagged-extra-surveillance ~SW~
Posted on: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 18:32:52 +0000

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