Mana News editor Joe Trinder

Recently the social media adviser to the Prime ministers office Gwynn Compton threatened a critic. This was an admission Mr Compton can track down dissidents. In this dystopian scenario of National government employees having to much control over peoples lives through mass surveillance.

The NSA has passive optical taps sensors on the southern cross cable based in a high security building in Takapuna. This data is transferred to the NSA headquaters at Fort Meade Maryland. In return the NSA provides access to the Xkeyscore search engine to the NZSIS. Through mass data collection the NZSIS can run queries using Xkeyscore on private New Zealand citizens.

If the NZSIS have given the prime ministers office access to Xkeyscore Gwynn Compton can trace any critic that challenges the National government. If you don’t feel comfortable privileged Young Nats having access to your internet history including banking, emails, phone calls or personal browsing history. There are solutions to protect yourself from being spied on.

The Tor network (anonymity network) or The Onion Router –Tor directs Internet traffic through a free, worldwide, volunteer network consisting of more than six thousand relays to conceal a user’s location and usage from anyone conducting network surveillance or traffic analysis. The Tor browser is a free browser that can be downloaded and installed.

When used in conjunction with other privacy tools such as OTR, Cspace, ZRTP, RedPhone, Tails, and TrueCrypt can conceal your identity from the spy state. The United States National security agency can still mass collect your Data but through Tor you remain anonymous. If your happy with random government employees having access to your internet history please email me your password and login to your email.