What Petraeus & Broadwell *Should* Have Done Remember, when trying to hide things from the FBI, no method is perfect, especially when they're already on your trail. The following tools are not 100% foolproof, but if employed early would have made for a much more convoluted game of cat and mouse, and might even have concealed the amorous activity long enough for the general and his fatal attraction to have escaped unscathed. * 1. PGP Encryption <http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-pgp.htm>:* PGP stands for "pretty good privacy," and that's exactly what it is. The service encrypts data, like emails, which would have been another hurdle for the FBI to jump through. If this method would have been used, it would have forced Uncle Sam to deploy Trojan-style spyware onto Broadwellbs computer to uncover the emails. With Google snitching the General out, PGP might not have worked. For regular folks though, this tool is a good start. *2. Hide Your IP:* Tools like Tor <https://www.torproject.org/>, an open source method to conceal real IP addresses and Web browsing, would have masked their IP address identification. Another is Hamachi<http://hamachi.en.softonic.com/>, an app that creates free, encrypted Virtual Private Networks<http://lifehacker.com/5763170/how-to-secure-and-encrypt-your-web-browsing-on-public-networks-with-hamachi-and-privoxy> (VPNs) between computers. Just use the VPN every time you log in, and don't log in from your home IP, and you should be safer. Well, unless you're LulzSec<http://torrentfreak.com/vpn-providers-mull-fraudster-database-in-wake-of-lulzec-fiasco-111006/> that is. *3. Disposable Email:* This message will self destruct after reading. Really. If the General really was 007, or even 007-ish, he would have used this method. Disposable email functions much like it sounds, with messages that are deleted after reading. Disposable email services include Spamex<http://www.spamex.com/> and Mailinator <http://www.mailinator.com/>, which were originally designed to keep out spam, not the Feds. *4. Don't Send Messages Online Period!* Keep it offline! If this was 1972, short of the U.S. Postal Service intercepting their mail, this would have been the ideal method, and some inquisitive papparazzi snapping a photo would have been all they would have had to worry about. While the two *did* spend a good deal of time together in-person (Broadwell apparently traveled overseas to Iraq and Afghanistan to visit Petraeus), they might have been safer to keep the relationship in person only. The only truly private way to use email? Don't! http://readwrite.com/2012/11/14/how-to-hide-your-email-what-petraeus-did-wha... -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE