Anonymous Living

I’ve used quite some time to read the legal documents and other documents regarding the EFF v. AT&T lawsuit. The suit is a EFF class-action suit against the AT&T because AT&T are helping the NSA spy on US citizens by giving them access to the Internet backbone at various central points.

Now, the interesting thing isn’t really that the EFF are suing AT&T for helping the NSA spy on citizens. It’s that AT&T are in fact helping the NSA monitor the Internet activities of citizens in the US. That is what the lawsuit is about. Check out the legal documents, see for yourself. This is yet another good reason to use traffic analysis resistant software such as Tor when browsing the Internet…

The suit: EFF’s Class-Action Lawsuit Against AT&T for Collaboration with Illegal Domestic Spying Program

It’s also worth knowing that they do keyword filtering of plain-text http connections in real time. You browse some page which contains the word foo, the word foo happens to be flagged, now you’re on their list. You browse 10 pages with the word foo, now your on the watch-list, you browse a hundred, now you’re scheduled for termination.

Or not. Because, generally speaking, they don’t come hunt you down just because you read the wrong thing. What really makes them upset is people who are publishing information, describing new information, acrively taking part in forums, peace-groups, writing blogs, and so on. Now, I’m not saying you shouldn’t do such things, you should. But you may want to learn a thing or who about how invasive the surveillance of the Internet really is and what you can do to hide your identify, location and so on when you are using the Internet. It’s really not that hard, it only takes some reading, learning and most importantly, motivation.