{"id":10080,"date":"2015-07-15T07:07:55","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T12:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10080"},"modified":"2015-07-15T07:07:55","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T12:07:55","slug":"chatting-in-secret-while-were-all-being-watched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10080","title":{"rendered":"Chatting in Secret While We&#8217;re All Being Watched"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/firstlook.org\/theintercept\/2015\/07\/14\/communicating-secret-watched\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chatting in Secret While We&#8217;re All Being Watched<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>When you pick up the phone and call someone, or send a text message, or write an email, or send a Facebook message, or chat using\u00a0Google Hangouts, other people find out what you\u2019re saying, who you\u2019re talking to, and where you\u2019re located. Such private data might only be available to the service provider brokering your conversation, but it might also be visible to the telecom companies carrying your Internet packets, to spy and law enforcement agencies, and even to some nearby teenagers monitoring your Wi-Fi network with<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wireshark\">Wireshark<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But if you take careful steps to protect yourself, it\u2019s possible to communicate online in a way that\u2019s private, secret and anonymous. Today I\u2019m going to explain in precise terms how to do that. I\u2019ll take techniques NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/firstlook.org\/theintercept\/2014\/10\/28\/smuggling-snowden-secrets\/\">used<\/a>\u00a0when contacting me two and a half years ago and boil them down to the essentials. In a nutshell, I\u2019ll show you how to create anonymous real-time chat accounts and how to chat over those accounts using an encryption protocol called Off-the-Record Messaging, or OTR.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re in a hurry, you can skip directly to where I explain, step by step, how to set this up for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/firstlook.org\/theintercept\/#osx\">Mac OS X<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/firstlook.org\/theintercept\/#windowslinux\">Windows, Linux<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/firstlook.org\/theintercept\/#android\">Android<\/a>. Then, when you have time, come back and read the important caveats preceding those instructions.<\/p>\n<p>One caveat is to make sure the encryption you\u2019re using is the sort known as \u201cend-to-end\u201d encryption. With end-to-end encryption, a message gets encrypted at one endpoint, like a smartphone, and decrypted at the other endpoint, let\u2019s say a laptop. No one at any other point, including the company providing the communication service you\u2019re using, can decrypt the message. Contrast this with encryption that only covers your link to the service provider, like an HTTPS web connection.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chatting in Secret While We&#8217;re All Being Watched When you pick up the phone and call someone, or send a text message, or write an email, or send a Facebook message, or chat using\u00a0Google Hangouts, other people find out what you\u2019re saying, who you\u2019re talking to, and where you\u2019re located. 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