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# Obama and Warrantless Wiretapping
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The EFF has released an article with a [plethora of links describing warrantless
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wiretapping under the Obama administration][0], spurred by Obama's response to
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Jon Stewart's questioning on The Daily Show last Thursday. (Readers should also
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be aware of the [NSA spy center][1] discussed earlier in the year, as is
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mentioned in the EFF article.)
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[0]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/fact-check-obamas-misleading-answer-about-warrantless-wiretapping-daily-show
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[1]: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/
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It is clear that the United States government has no intent on protecting the
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freedoms of individuals and instead is actively resisting attempts to correct
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the problems. While we can hope that this will change, and we can be confident
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that organizations like the EFF will continue to fight for our liberties, one
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immediate option is to limit as much as possible what the NSA and other agencies
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can discover about you. Consider using [Tor][2] for all of your network traffic
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(at the very least, use HTTPS connections to prevent agencies and ISPs from viewing
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specific web pages on a particular domain; HTTPS is unnecessary if using Tor.)
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PGP/GPG can be used to encrypt e-mail messages to the intended recipients. Etc.
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It's unfortunate that such precautions are necessary. Privacy is important even
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if you have nothing to hide; any suggestion to the contrary is absolutely
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absurd.
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[2]: http://torproject.org
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