Messa cos , rispetto ad uno stringato lavoro obbligatorio per i profughi , suona meglio ? s , suona meglio , ma poi nei fatti torniamo al lavoro obbligatorio per i profughi che cerchino asilo in italia . <| sep |> I ' ve honestly just stopped talking about the gym because she thinks her home work outs are enough to give her what she wants . <| sep |> Lets hope not <| sep |> Sadly , where as it is possible there data collection efforts are so good and so extreme that they account for things of this nature . As you have to imagine that there is already a massive amount of useless data they are absorbing via the broad way in which they collect said data . That being said there are ways to safeguard yourself to a degree . Here is a great article from one of the only news sites I read , The Intercept , an interview with Edward Snowden about some of the measures you can adapt to address OpSec . s n o w d e n e x p l a i n s h o wtoreclaimyourprivacyHere ' s the important bit for those that don ' t want to read itThe first step that anyone could take is to encrypt their phone calls and their text messages . You can do that through the smartphone app Signal , by Open Whisper Systems . It ' s free , and you can just download it immediately . And anybody you ' re talking to now , their communications , if it ' s intercepted , can ' t be read by adversaries . Signalis available foriOSandAndroid , and , unlike a lot of security tools , isvery easy to use . You should encrypt your hard disk , so that if your computer is stolen the information isn ' t obtainable to an adversarypictures , where you live , where you work , where your kids are , where you go to school . I ' ve written a guide toencrypting your diskon Windows , Mac , and Linux . Use a password manager . One of the main things that gets people ' s private information exposed , not necessarily to the most powerful adversaries , but to the most common ones , are data dumps . Your credentials may be revealed because some service you stopped using in 2007 gets hacked , and your password that you were using for thatone site also works for your Gmail account . A password manager allows you to create unique passwords for every site that are unbreakable , but you don ' t have the burden of memorizing them . The password managerKeePassXis free , open source , crossplatform , and never stores anything in the cloud . The other thing there is twofactor authentication . The value of this is if someone does steal your password , or it ' s left or exposed somewhere twofactor authenticationallows the provider to send you a secondary means of authenticationa text message or something like that . If you enable twofactor authentication , an attacker needs both your password as the first factor and a physical device , like your phone , as your second factor , to login to your account . Gmail , Facebook , Twitter , Dropbox , GitHub , Battle . net , andtons of other servicesall supporttwofactor authentication . We should not live lives as if we are electronically naked . We should armor ourselves using systems we can rely on every day . This doesn ' t need to be an extraordinary lifestyle change . It doesn ' t have to be something that is disruptive . It should be invisible , it should be atmospheric , it should be something that happens painlessly , effortlessly . This is why I like apps like Signal , because they ' re low friction . It doesn ' t require you to reorder your life . It doesn ' t require you to change your method of communications . You can use it right now to talk to your friends . LEE What do you think about Tor ? Do you think that everyone should be familiar with it , or do you think that it ' s only a useitifyouneedit thing ? SNOWDEN I think Tor is the most important privacyenhancing technology project being used today . I use Tor personally all the time . We know it works from at least oneanecdotal casethat ' s fairly familiar to most people at this point . That ' s not to say that Tor is bulletproof . What Tor does is it provides a measure of security and allows you to disassociate your physical location . But the basic idea , the concept of Tor that is so valuable , is that it ' s run by volunteers . Anyone can create a new node on the network , whether it ' s an entry node , a middle router , or an exit point , on the basis of their willingness to accept some risk . The voluntary nature of this network means that it is survivable , it ' s resistant , it ' s flexible . Tor Browseris a great way to selectively use Tor to look something up and not leave a trace that you did it . It can also help bypass censorship when you ' re on a network where certain sites are blocked . If you want to get more involved , you can volunteer torun your own Tor node , as I do , and support the diversity of the Tor network . LEE So that is all stuff that everybody should be doing . What about people who have exceptional threat models , like future intelligencecommunity whistleblowers , andother people who have nationstate adversaries ? Maybe journalists , in some cases , or activists , or peoplelike that ? SNOWDEN So the first answeris that you can ' t learn this from a single article . The needs of every individual in a highrisk environment are different . And the capabilities of the adversary are constantly improving . The tooling changes as well . What really matters is to be conscious of the principles of compromise . How can the adversary , in general , gain access to information that is sensitive to you ? What kinds of things do you need to protect ? Because of course you don ' t need to hide everything from the adversary . You don ' t need to live a paranoid life , off the grid , in hiding , in the woods in Montana . What we do need to protect are the facts of our activities , our beliefs , and our lives that could be used against us in manners that are contrary to our interests . So when we think about this for whistleblowers , for example , if you witnessed some kind of wrongdoing and you need to reveal this information , and you believe there are people that want to interfere with that , you need to think about how to compartmentalize that . Tell no one who doesn ' t need to know . Lindsay Mills , Snowden ' s girlfriend of several years , didn ' t know that he had been collecting documents to leak to journalists until she heard about it on the news , like everyone else . When we talk about whistleblowers and what to do , you want to think about tools for protecting your identity , protecting theexistenceof the relationship from any type of conventional communication system . You want to use something like SecureDrop , over the Tor network , so there is no connection between the computer that you are using at the time preferably with a nonpersistent operating system like Tails , so you ' ve left no forensic trace on the machine you ' re using , which hopefully is a disposable machine that you can get rid of afterward , that can ' t be found in a raid , that can ' t be analyzed or anything like that so that the only outcome of your operational activities are the stories reported by the journalists . SecureDrop is a whistleblower submission system . Here is a guideto usingThe Intercept ' sSecureDrop server as safely as possible . And this is to be sure that whoever has been engaging in this wrongdoing cannot distract from the controversy by pointing to your physical identity . Instead they have to deal with the facts of the controversy rather than the actors that are involved in it . LEE What about for people who are , like , in a repressive regime and are trying to SNOWDEN Use Tor . LEE Use Tor ?