Okay, let's see what behaviors I should avoid...<p>> Searching for the Tails, operating system, another Windows alternative popular among human rights watchers, will also land you on the deep-packet inspectee list.<p>Oops. Too late.<p>These sort of criteria can't possibly narrow down a set of people enough to justify spying on them. It's like trying to surveil every adult male after a shooting because most shooters are adult men: technically true, and you've eliminated over half of all humans, but most of the people left are still innocent.
>the XKeystore source code designates the Linux Journal as an “extremist forum.”<p>This again? Debunked here:
<a href="http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/07/validating-xkeyscore-code.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/07/validating-xkeyscore-code....</a><p>Y'all are always asking for website ideas. How about a kind of "live Snopes" that lets people discuss and debunk reporting on current affairs?
I wonder if I have been targeted. I used TOR a few times, once I tried to use it to look at my craigslist ads because I thought the ads I had had been flagged by other people selling the same sort of items I was selling, but CL was altering what I saw based on IP. Turns out CL blocks TOR and it didn't even help me.<p>I use Ubuntu as my main operating system, I started that just because I thought it was neat. I don't recall searching for Tails, but I've tried probably close to 50 different Linux distros so I wouldn't be surprised if I've visited the site or at least read articles on it. (I count downloading the ISO and booting it up as a VM and clicking around for 20 minutes as trying one.)
In the past I was put off by the ads on the Linux Journal. Given the information this article it's probably time to give it a closer look again. It's convenient that the NSA provides guidance on interesting web sites.
I predict that every atrocity that happens in the US will be have a trail of suspicious electronic clues leading up to it, which the NSA should have seen. I don't think their efforts will help us at all.