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[linux_var] Fwd: Reset the Net with our email self-defense guide
Ciao
una nuova guida a come usare gpg per proteggere la privacy nostra e
delle persone con cui comunichiamo
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Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 08:10:52 -0400
From: Free Software Foundation <info@fsf.org>
To: Elena Grandi <elena.valhalla@gmail.com>
Subject: Reset the Net with our email self-defense guide
Message-ID: <E1WsWVQ-00023y-Cg@eggs.gnu.org>
Dear Elena,
One year ago today, an NSA contractor named Edward Snowden went public
with his history-changing revelations about the NSA's massive system
of indiscriminate surveillance. Today the FSF is releasing Email
Self-Defense, a guide to personal email encryption to help everyone,
including beginners, make the NSA's job a little harder. We're
releasing it as part of Reset the Net, a global day of action to push
back against the surveillance-industrial complex.
Email encryption is a simple way to give yourself a shield that can
protect you and your community from the giant surveillance system we
all face. If you need any proof of the effectiveness of these tools,
remember that Snowden used them to leak his precious information
safely. Many effective shields, wielded well and held together in
solidarity, make a strong wall. The Email Self-Defense Guide will lead
you all the way through the process of sending and receiving your
first encrypted mail.
**[Check out the guide, and get started encrypting your
email!][1]
It comes with a [gorgeous infographic][2], which you
can share with the [hashtags][3] #EmailSelfDefense and
#ResetTheNet.**
"Encryption matters, and it is not just for spies and
philanderers. [Encryption] is a critically-necessary security
measure for anyone who wishes to communicate with you." -- Edward
Snowden
Encrypting your email can not only protect you and your loved ones
from the NSA, it also keeps big Internet corporations from collecting
your data as well. Gmail, for example, mines your email to serve you
ads. If that email is encrypted on your desktop, Google's servers will
never see the contents of your messages (even if you don't use Gmail
yourself, [every email you send to someone who does][4] ends up on
their servers). And even if you think that you personally have nothing
to hide, remember: if the only people who encrypt their email DO have
something to hide, then the NSA can easily target those emails and use
their massive resources to break the encryption. The more people
encrypt all their email, even the trivial stuff, the harder it becomes
for the NSA to target whistleblowers, journalists, and others with
legitimate, legal reasons to keep information private.
If you already use email encryption, we encourage you to check out the
guide and give us feedback on it. You can also make a big difference
by sending it to your friends and offering to help them use it to get
started.
Challenging the surveillance state takes a multi-pronged approach;
we'll need to take legislative action, and we'll need to [sharply
reduce the amount of data that companies are collecting about us in
general][5]. Today thousands of people -- and some of the most popular
websites -- are taking concrete steps to secure their part of the
Internet. With free software tools and principles, we can make
suspicionless, dragnet-style surveillance exponentially more difficult
and expensive for governments to conduct.
**[Learn how to practice email self defense][1], then head over the
Free Software Directory to download our [free software privacy
pack][6].**
Zak, Libby, John, William, and the rest of the FSF team
P.S. If you like Email Self-Defense, please consider [making a
donation][7]. We have big plans to get it in the hands of people under
bulk surveillance all over the world, and make more tools like it.
[1]: https://u.fsf.org/yu
[2]: https://u.fsf.org/yw
[3]: https://www.fsf.org/twitter
[4]: http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-because-it-has-all-of-yours
[5]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy
[6]: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Collection:Privacy_pack
[7]: https://u.fsf.org/yv
*You can read this post online at
<https://fsf.org/blogs/community/reset-the-net>.
You can also read our press release online at
<https://fsf.org/news/reset-the-net>.*
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