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Edward Snowden’s Privacy Tips: ‘Get Rid Of Dropbox’ and Avoid Facebook

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Edward Snowden being interviewed by Jane Mayer at the MasterCard stage at SVA Theatre during The New Yorker Festival 2014 on October 11, 2014 in New York City.Getty Images

Edward Snowdenhas claimed that if people care about their privacy, they should steer clear from Internet social media sites, like Facebook, Dropboxand Google.

In a remote interview conducted yesterday, as part of the New York Festival, Snowden suggested some of his privacytips.

American people don't have to know the name of every individual that's under investigation. We don't need to know the technical details of absolutely every program in the intelligence community. But we do have to know the bare and broad outlines of the powers our government is claiming ... and how they affect us and how they affect our relationships overseas. Because if we don't, we are no longer citizens, we no longer have leaders. We're subjects, and we have rulers.

- Edward Snowden

Snowdencalled for a reform of government policies and said people who take certain defined positions, where they, "don't have anything to hide," are in fact, "inverting the model of responsibility for how rights work."

"When you say, 'I have nothing to hide,' you're saying, 'I don't care about this right.' You're saying, 'I don't have this right, because I've got to the point where I have to justify it.' The way rights work is, the government has to justify its intrusion into your rights," said Snowden.

Importance of Encryption

Snowden advised individuals to guard their privacy by using encryptedtools and discontinue services that are "hostile to privacy."

He called for a boycott of Dropboxand suggested the use of alternatives, like SpiderOak.

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NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Offers Online Privacy Tips

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Edward Snowden has some advice for maintaining online privacy in an age of widespread NSA surveillance. Snowden called Google and Facebook dangerous while praising Apples encryption efforts.

"We're talking about encryption. We're talking about dropping programs that are hostile to privacy, Snowden said inan interview published Saturday by theNew Yorker.For example, Dropbox? Get rid of Dropbox; it doesn't support encryption, it doesn't protect your private files. And use competitors like SpiderOak that do the same exact service, but they protect the content of what you're sharing."

Snowden, the former NSA analyst who revealed the extent of U.S. government surveillance in 2013, did so from a hotel in Hong Kong before leaving for Russia. Having ditched his Hawaii apartment and $122,000 annual salary earlier that summer, he said in the interview he intended only a brief stay in Russia before leaving for Latin America, only to face visa issues that prevented him from leaving. Snowden is now actively sought by the U.S. to face espionage charges.

Dropbox defended itself in a June blog post after Snowden bashed the services security. All of the files its users send and receive are encrypted while traveling between you and our servers and when they are at rest on Dropboxs servers. SpiderOak encrypts data locally on a users computer as well, as opposed to only when it is in transit or in the cloud.

Snowden said Facebook and Google have improved their methods of protecting user privacy but were still dangerous services that should largely be avoided. Ironically, the interview was conducted remotely over Google Hangouts and streamed live on the tech giants YouTube.

Consumers should also be wary of standard text-messaging services from wireless providers, Snowden said. Silent Circle for iPhone and Android and RedPhone, which is currently Android-only, were better replacements because they encrypt texts -- but require that both users install the app to communicate.

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Apple, Google encryption should be within reach of law enforcement, says cyber czar – Video

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Apple, Google encryption should be within reach of law enforcement, says cyber czar
Encryption is always a best practice, says White House cyber czar Michael Daniel, but it should never put information utterly beyond the reach of law enforce...

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The North American hardware encryption display market is expected to reach $57,116.8 million by 2018 – New Report by …

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Currently, the smartphones and tablets are the most widely used consumer electronics products, which have surpassed computer/desktop web users. Thus, it has become one of the emerging markets for hardware encryption. The hardware encryption enabled on smartphones and tablets are majorly devoid of any storage components, thus it cannot be considered as a separate product. Most enterprise-edition smartphones and tablets have a hardware encryption chip set in them, which does the encryption and decryption processes. The main strategy of the market leaders in the hardware encryption industry is to provide complete solution to protect data, which is not only limited to one product line, but is also solutions for management all sorts of devices that can store data, such as flash drives, smartphones, and tablets.

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North America is the potential market for hardware encryption as it accounted for nearly 33% of the global hardware encryption market share in 2013. The technological innovations in the field of data security solutions have led to decreasing average costs of hardware encrypted products. The resultant cost differences between hardware and non-hardware encrypted products are expected to drive the concerned market in the region. The major countries contributing to the North American hardware encryption market are the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. The U.S. dominates the market, due to the top players, such as Seagate Technology Plc (U.S.) and Imitation Corporation (U.S.), who have collaborated with encryption software providers, encrypted USB flash drive players, and hardware encryption chip set manufacturers in this region.

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Revving up fluorescence for superfast LEDs

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Duke University researchers have made fluorescent molecules emit photons of light 1,000 times faster than normal -- setting a speed record and making an important step toward realizing superfast light emitting diodes (LEDs) and quantum cryptography.

This year's Nobel Prize in physics was awarded for the discovery of how to make blue LEDs. While the discovery has had an enormous impact on lighting and displays, the slow speed with which LEDs can be turned on and off has limited their use as a light source in light-based telecommunications.

In a new study, engineers from Duke increased the photon emission rate of fluorescent molecules to record levels by sandwiching them between metal nanocubes and a gold film.The results appear online October 12 in Nature Photonics.

Above: an artist's representation of light trapped between a silver nanocube and a thin sheet of gold. When fluorescent molecules -- shown in red - are trapped between the two, they emit photons up to 1,000 times faster than normal.

"One of the applications we're targeting with this research is ultrafast LEDs," said Maiken Mikkelsen, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and physics at Duke. "While future devices might not use this exact approach, the underlying physics will be crucial."

Mikkelsen specialises in plasmonics, which studies the interaction between electromagnetic fields and free electrons in metal. In the experiment, her group manufactured 75-nanometer silver nanocubes and trapped light between them, greatly increasing the light's intensity.

When fluorescent molecules are placed near intensified light, the molecules emit photons at a faster rate through an effect called Purcell enhancement. The researchers found they could achieve a significant speed improvement by placing fluorescent molecules in a gap between the nanocubes and a thin film of gold.

To attain the greatest effect, Mikkelsen's team needed to tune the gap's resonant frequency to match the color of light that the molecules respond to. With the help of co-author David R. Smith, the James B. Duke Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke, they used computer simulations to determine the exact size of the gap needed between the nanocubes and gold film to optimise the setup.That gap was 20 atoms wide.

"We can select cubes with just the right size and make the gaps literally with nanometer precision," said Gleb Akselrod, a postdoc in Mikkelsen's lab and first author on the study. "When we have the cube size and gap perfectly calibrated to the molecule, that's when we see the record 1,000-fold increase in fluorescence speed."

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Edward Snowden reveals more details about his reunion with pole dancer girlfriend in Moscow

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NSA leaker reunited with dancer Linsday Mills, with whom he lived in Hawaii He revealed via webcam to New York audience 'she wasn't pleased' The two are together again in Moscow, where Snowden is claiming asylum Vladimir Putin has granted the wanted man permission to stay for 3 years British government today revealed leaks have made their job much harder GCHQ takes TRIPLE the time to crack messages thanks to Snowden tip-off

By Kieran Corcoran for MailOnline and Reuters and Mia De Graaf for MailOnline

Published: 00:40 EST, 12 October 2014 | Updated: 08:48 EST, 12 October 2014

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Edward Snowden has revealed his long-term girlfriend was 'not entirely pleased' with the saga that forced them to flee their home in Hawaii.

The former National Security Agency contractor was finally reunited with pole dancer Lindsay Mills this July in Moscow, where he is claiming asylum.

In a new documentary, the couple are pictured together for the first time in more than a year, looking settled and homely in their Russian apartment.

But last night Snowden conceded that his other half did not take the life change lightly.

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Edward Snowden gets three-year Russia residency permit

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Edward Snowden has received a three-year residency permit from Russia.

The ex-US intelligence contractor's lawyer Anatoly Kucherena confirmed the news today (August 7)

Fugitive US intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden given 3-year residency permit by Russia http://t.co/tLKcbHcv6g pic.twitter.com/ySuvUvASBI

Last year, Snowden secured refugee status in Russia having previously been holed up in Sheremetyevo airport.

Snowden fled the US after revealing details about the US government's controversial PRISM surveillance programme.

The whistleblower gave Channel 4's Alternative Christmas Message for 2013, where he argued that privacy is important because it is "what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be".

Earlier this year, incoming NSA chief Admiral Michael Rogers downplayed the significance of Snowden's revelations about the spy agency.

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How strong is Microsoft Excel encryption?

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I use encrypted Excel 2007 documents to store some sensitive financial information on my Windows 7 laptop. To give me access to these off site I'm thinking of attaching a copy to an email message. How secure is the encryption?

Secondly: on opening the laptop I occasionally get a red tinge on the screen, which disappears when I move the screen slightly. Am I right in assuming that this is probably something to do with the flat cable that connects the screen to the body of the laptop?

Second question first, and yes, it sounds a lot like a connector problem. It will probably only get worse so it is worth getting it seen to ASAP, in case you lose the display altogether. If it is just a loose connector it should be a fairly quick and easy fix for an engineer; I would not attempt a DIY repair, though, as dismantling laptops, without the right tools and skills, can be a tricky and risky business.

Up to Excel 2000 encryption was weak and could be broken in a matter of seconds using widely available utilities on the web. It was strengthened significantly in Excel 2002/3, and changing from the default encryption method made it even stronger. Further improvements followed in Excel 2007 and the default settings, in conjunction with a long (9 or more alphanumeric characters and symbols), should be sufficient to keep your files safe from all but the most determined hackers, with access to powerful computers and a lot of time on their hands. Even so, you might want to rethink how you are going to access these files, especially if it is going to involve connecting to the Internet through potentially insecure public wireless networks and hotspots.

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