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Lashdots writes:
Electronic surveillance has raised concerns among Americans and pushed an estimated 30% of them to protect their privacy in some form.
Artist Curtis Wallen has taken that effort to dramatic lengths, documenting how to create a "clandestine communications network" using pre-paid phones, Tor, Twitter, and encryption.
The approach, which attempts to conceal any encryption that could raise suspicions, is "very passive" says Wallen, so "there's hardly any trace that an interaction even happened."
This is not easy, of course. In fact, as he discovered while researching faulty CIA security practices, it's really, comically hard. "If the CIA can't even keep from getting betrayed by their cell phones, what chance do we have?" he says.
Still, he believes his system could theoretically keep users' activities hidden, and while it's hard, it's not impossible.
Lashdots writes:
Electronic surveillance has raised concerns among Americans and pushed an estimated 30% of them to protect their privacy in some form.
Artist Curtis Wallen has taken that effort to dramatic lengths, documenting how to create a "clandestine communications network" using pre-paid phones, Tor, Twitter, and encryption.
The approach, which attempts to conceal any encryption that could raise suspicions, is "very passive" says Wallen, so "there's hardly any trace that an interaction even happened."
This is not easy, of course. In fact, as he discovered while researching faulty CIA security practices, it's really, comically hard. "If the CIA can't even keep from getting betrayed by their cell phones, what chance do we have?" he says.
Still, he believes his system could theoretically keep users' activities hidden, and while it's hard, it's not impossible.