[TriLUG] NSA hunting and hacking sysadmins

[John Vaughters]

Random Thoughts!

I think I have said this before, but if technology exists it will be used. I am more worried about being pwned by Iran, China or Russia. I am not excusing the NSA, but we just have to live in reality. 


The only way to not be pwned if you are targeted is to be completely on private networks and that is nearly impossible and even if you owned all the fiber and equipment to run the fiber, you would still have to deal with someone tapping your fiber. Only organizations at the level of Google have a chance to fend off the NSA and they are more likely to cooperate with the NSA.

If you truly are that concerned about privacy, go completely off grid with no internet, no smart phone, or for the truly concerned, not even a landline. Use antenna TV because that smart TV will sell you out too. I guess the only fear then would be will you become an investigated target becasue you are not on-grid. `,~)

John Vaughters