[Steven W]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense ... sense.html:

Artist Benjamin Grosser has created a Gmail browser extension called "ScareMail" that is designed to insert fake scare stories into the signature of every message that you send. Grosser says his aim is "to disrupt the NSA's surveillance efforts by making NSA search results useless." The tool, which Grosser says took him about three weeks to build, works by randomly generating phony stories that include keywords featured on a Department of Homeland Security list used for searching social media websites. The keywords include everything from "al-Qaeda" and "al-Shabaab" to "domestic nuclear detection," "cyber attack," "North Korea," and "chemical burn."

Perhaps I should say let 'em drown in their own nonsense.

Gladys Kravitz is a true patriot!

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[TmEE]

That is very clever !

[CharlotteTheHarlot]

I like this idea.

They better make it truly random in every metric. Any predictability will mean they will design a filter to ignore it.

[Steven W]

This seems as good a place as any to post this:

Apparently Skype is under investigation in Luxembourg:

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2 ... rosoft-nsa

I found these bits to be salient:

A former Skype engineer, who declined to be named because of the sensitive nature of the issue, told the Guardian that the company worked to build in a "listening element" to help Chinese authorities monitor users' communications for keywords, triggering a warning to alert the government when certain phrases get typed into its chat interface.

While publicly insisting it was unable to help law enforcement agencies eavesdrop on calls, Skype set up a secretive internal initiative called "Project Chess" to explore how it could make calls available to authorities, according to a New York Times report published in June.

A year later, Skype was purchased from eBay by an investor group including US private equity firms Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz. During this period, work began on integrating Skype into the NSA's Prism program, documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden have revealed.

Here's another article, not on Skype, but the general backlash the NSA is now seeing:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/1 ... 92804.html

Enjoy.