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Tor and VPN users labeled as criminals will be hacked and spied by FBI under new law

We had reported a landmark judgement by the United States Supreme Court, which will give FBI powers to hack any computer in the world using a single warrant. The same judgement contains a innocuous para related to Tor and VPN users.

http://www.techworm.net/2016/05/tor-vpn ... w-law.html

Sad world we're living in. Soon it'll be you're guilty until proven innocent.

We geeks need to do what-ever we can to make privacy as strong as we can. Security is not absolute - it is a barrier. The trick is to make the barrier higher than the prize - or at least higher than your neighbour's barrier.

Running Tor on Gargoyle is a good first step because it adds a barrier, and adds general traffic to the Tor network which helps to obscure the traffic of others. However, the applications that you use over Tor can identify you. If you need a higher barrier then you can choose the Tor browser bundle or better yet use Tails https://tails.boum.org/

Also I believe I2P https://geti2p.net/en/ is an important project, and Bote in particular.

And http://www.protonmail.com