Leaked NSA Documents Reveal The Best Way To Stay Anonymous Online

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Leaked NSA Documents Reveal The Best Way To Stay Anonymous Online
By James Cook | Business Insider – 6 hours ago - December 30, 2014

Snowden 'Citizenfour' NSA leaker Edward Snowden. It's not easy to be truly anonymous online. Sure, there are plenty of chat apps and secret-sharing sites that claim to offer you privacy, but it's tricky to know whether US intelligence agencies have a backdoor to access them.

The best way to stay anonymous online has been to use Tor, a special kind of web browser developed to help US government employees hide their tracks online.

But if you want to be properly anonymous, you need a combination of extra services and websites on top of Tor to avoid detection. Plenty of online guides offer advice on the subject, but it's always been hit and miss.

Now, leaked NSA documents provide a big clue on how to remain hidden. They show that the agency has trouble breaking certain methods of encryption.

Der Spiegel published a collection of documents that detail what systems the NSA has troubling decrypting. Previous documents have focused mainly on what the NSA is good at, not what it finds difficult.

The documents reveal that the NSA ranks targets according to how difficult they are to decrypt. There are five internal levels: One to five. Level one is known as "trivial," meaning it's pretty easy for the NSA to track targets or decrypt messages. But level five is "catastrophic," which essentially means that the NSA can't break the encryption.

The NSA says that reading someone's Facebook message is a level two "minor" task. And monitoring people using Tor is tricky, with the NSA classing that as a "major" level four problem.

So any level of anonymity classed as level five, known as "catastrophic," means that the NSA will find it nearly impossible to break.

The NSA identifies one anonymity method that it warns is virtually impossible to break. Here's the method outlined in the leaked documents:

Tor
VPN
CSpace
ZRTP

Let's break that down.

Tor is the special kind of web browser that helps people stay anonymous online by encrypting their web traffic.

A VPN is a service that makes an internet connection more secure, using proxy servers to hide their real-world location.

CSpace is a kind of anonymous internet chat service that uses heavy encryption to protect any files sent over its network.

ZRTP, the last part of the method, is a kind of encryption for voice calls and text chats.

Combine the above stack of services together, using multiple kind of encryption, a special web browser, and a service to hide your location, and the NSA says in its internal documents that it probably won't be able to read your messages. The leaked NSA document says that the encryption method results in a "near-total loss/lack of insight to target communications, presence."

[Lifebringer]

Why bother? I mean, if this is about revealing them more the secrets are kept behind encryption, the less viral they can become, if someone is trying to read it? Won't that lead to a trail when you try to encrypt? Like a video game their persuit is to track the hard to read, so get lost in the billions of people that are level one or two, and save the file until another time to read it, then keep opening tabs to other sites to read them and confuse them. They are a pretty lazy bunch, to read all the junk mails, eh? Keep them busy with distractions, and it's harder to trace the links and where they are coming from. Sometimes I just pass the links through a blog, instead of headlining, (a couple of times with various posters concerned with the same stuff. We find others around the nation and world. Never stick to just a blue, red, green or media site too long or all the time, for all have to be awakened, and sometimes it takes a conversation on a blog to awaken them/ring a bell. Just asking about encryption. Hide in plain site, is my motto. Everyone is a witness to it and follows the bread crumbs of knowledge.

[Limor Wolf]

Here we are at times when we are 'offered' advice on how to hide ourselves, to do the 'cat and mouse' games - A condition which is well desired as a general state of mind. 'Document leaked from NSA', Mmm, yeh right.. More accurate - written by NSA for us and delivered by their customary channels. The above is Bullocks (excuse my french, and certainly not directed towards Chancy), and a point to remebmer is that we did nothing that justifies hiding. We haven't done anything wrong. But now, slowly, we are being 'adjusted' to hide. For what reason? expressing yourselves on the net was not a crime untill not so long ago

This is not aimed in reference to certain whistleblowers with sensitive information, but to the honest person who would like to express their opinion and share it.

Once upon a time - Citizens of this world used to think that the various security institutions were in their favor and protect them (some still do!), and so the hiding shouldn't be from the side of the honest people, quite the oppsite, actually.