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Don't Believe The Hype: These New Services Won't Protect You From The NSA
Gerry Smith huffingtonpost.com On its website, the company Private WiFi sells virtual private networks that it says can resist government snooping. “Don’t want the government to know what you are doing? Then it’s time to get a VPN," the company says. Another such company, HideIPVPN,makes a similar promise.“NSA and FBI are spying on you," its website says. "VPN can limit what they know!” A third firm, Faceless.me, offers a “surefire way” to protect your anonymity. “You don’t need to worry about Internet monitors and people knowing which sites you visit. A VPN will help you hide your tracks online,” the company says on its site. Virtual Private Networks, or VPNs, can disguise the locations of computers and encrypt Internet traffic to allow people to get around firewalls or prevent outside snooping. Businesses that sell the networks are using the NSA scandal as a marketing tool, promising to protect customers from the prying eyes of government spies. But new revelations from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden have raised doubts about whether such services really provide as much privacy as they claim. On Wednesday, NBC News reported that the British spy agency, GCHQ, had identified a member of the hacker group Anonymous by tracing his virtual private network. When the hacker clicked on a link sent by an undercover spy, the spy could see the hacker's IP address and determine his name and location. It was unclear how GCHQ found out the identity of the hacker, known online only as pOke. NBC News suggested the spy agency may have hacked into the virtual private network or asked the VPN provider, which was not named in the story, for the hacker’s personal information. Privacy activists responded to the news by warning that virtual private networks may not be so private. "If your VPN provider retains logs and turns over user data to law enforcement, what is the point?" Christopher Soghoian, a security and privacy researcher, tweeted. to read more: huffingtonpost.com
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