Worried about the NSA under Trump? Here's how to protect yourself

We don’t yet know Trump’s surveillance plans, but follow these guidelines if you think it’s better to be safe than sorry

In January 2017, Donald Trump will become President of the United States of America, and the most technologically advanced surveillance infrastructure in the world will start reporting directly to him.

When Edward Snowden revealed the extent of the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance regime in 2013, he warned that a new American president could rapidly expand its scope overnight with just a simple change of government policy.

“A new leader will be elected,” Snowden said. “They’ll flip the switch, say that because of the crisis, because of the dangers that we face in the world, some new and unpredicted threat, we need more authority, we need more power, and there will be nothing the people can do at that point to oppose it. And it will be turnkey tyranny.”

As in many other policy areas, we don’t yet know Trump’s plans for surveillance, but better safe than sorry.

Protecting yourself from surveillance by the NSA isn’t easy, but with information security technologies it is possible. In fact, it’s possible to fit the basic guidelines in a tweet, like this from the pseudonymous security researcher the grugq:

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the grugq @thegrugq

.@snowden OPSEC guide:
- use Signal
- use Tor
- use full disk encryption
- use a password manager
- use two factor auth

Solid basics.

From The Guardian read it HERE