Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Chances are if you are an American living inside the United States that the NSA has created a personal file on you, this is nothing new. In fact the NSA has already admitted that of the roughly 321 million Americans living inside the United States that the agency has an official file on 300 million of us. For those of you whom are mathematically challenged that means there is is a 93% likelihood that the United States government has spied on and recorded you. One of the main tools the United States government uses to spy on its own citizens is hacking. You may think to yourself, but isn’t hacking illegal? Technically yes you are right, but in response to that the government will simply respond “Patriot Act“. Under the Patriot Act, the Constitution and laws which govern every United States citizens literally do not apply to the United States government. You may have heard of a license to kill, well one of the privileges government agencies get to play around with as a result of the Patriot Act is a license to hack; and hack they do. At the end of last week Google announced that over 1 million Gmail accounts were hacked by US government officials and that this behavior has been occurring for years. You might think these federally sanctioned hacks were aimed at criminals or suspected terrorists but you would be surprised, according to a direct statement from Google these hacks were also targeted against“activists, journalists and policy makers." So once again, chances are if you said anything at all about the United States in public or online, and had a Gmail account, you were hacked by the United States Government.
“Since 2012, we’ve warned Gmail users when we suspect they’ve been targeted by state-sponsored attackers. The users that receive these warnings are often activists, journalists, and policy-makers taking bold stands around the world.”
These warnings are much more significant than you realize. Later in the same blog post Google goes on to specify that “these warnings are rare – fewer than 0.1 percent of users ever receive them.” Just stop and think about this for a moment. Google itself admits it allowed the government to hack accounts but that they did try to warn SOME people about it…… The number of people Google warned was only one tenth of one percent of all accounts which had been hacked. Furthermore this “0.1%” of people warned still totaled more than 1 million accounts!
It does not take a mathematical genius to understand how those statistics are frighteningly insane! There is no stopping the United States government and the NSA. For the love of God if you own a Gmail account you need to close it ASAP, don’t even finishes reading this article and do it right now…….. Well maybe finish reading this article because we have a list of email subscribers you need to switch to for your own safety.
Ghostmail. This service allows you to sign up to an encrypted email service. The server is located out of Switzerland and offers free end to end encryption on all emails. The service also has a built in “self destruct mode” which when turned on will automatically delete any message after it has been read; Mission Impossible stye. At no point in signing up for this service are you asked to confirm anything or give away any personal information. Sign Up Here: www.ghostmail.com
ProtonMail. Another service which offers free end to end encryption who’s services are located in Switzerland outside of US laws and jurisdiction. Like Ghostmail, at no point in time are you asked for any personal information. If you are a fan of the Television hit “Mr. Robot” this is Elliot’s email of choice. Sign Up Here: https://protonmail.com/
Tutanota. This is another free encrypted email service that has become quite popular in recent times. It was announced just the other week that Tutanota just surpassed 1 million accounts, becoming the largest online encrypted email service on the internet. Tutanota makes their encryption code open source so security experts can confirm the level of security they will be receiving. Sign up Here:https://tutanota.com/
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