Encryptthe.net!
This site will talk about the easy steps you can take to encrypt your traffic on the internet. Encrypting your traffic increases your privacy, keeps your data secure when using public access points and prevents ISPs and governments from illegally capturing and mining your traffic.
There will be different sections for people of different technical levels from end-users to the web masters to system administrators.
Protect your data, encryptthe.net!
Why would I need to encrypt my internet traffic?
- Software engineer blogs own Starbucks wiretap
- NSA beats warrantless wiretap rap
- EFF's NSA Spying FAQ
- Secrecy of correspondence — The constitution does not explicately guarantee privacy of correspondences.
- Senate votes to continue FISA domestic spying through 2017
- Great Firewall architects fingered for GitHub attack
- Apple finally adopts HTTPS for the App Store - here's why it matters
- Leaked docs show NSA collects data on all Verizon customers
- Snowden's secure email provider Lavabit shuts down under gag order
- NSA coughs to 1000s of unlawful acts of snooping on US soil since 2008
Some useful links:
- DNS Related:
- Web/HTTP Related:
- HTTPS Everywhere (Firefox plugin)
- Strict Transport Security
- Transport Related:
- Datagram Transport Layer Security
- CurveCP — Uses UDP instead of TCP
Comments and suggestions can be emailed to iwill@encryptthe.net