Could Trisquel be flagged for investigation by NSA?

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GNUser
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Hey guys.
I was watching an interview of Jacob Appelbaum in Germany () and at a certain point he says that "I saw one of the NSA's rules for DPI and it was about a certain linux website that was marked as "extremist" so they look into everyone who visits that website". These were not the exact words but you get the meaning. So... I was hoping he would disclose which linux distro was it, but I thought, we all discuss free software here and we are a little extremist for most people, do you think the NSA has a special interest in us?

ssdclickofdeath
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Extremist because we don't like being spied on?

GNUser
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Lol, we are extremists to some people because we reject non-free software and because we actually TALK about privacy methods. Again, I don't know if it was us, I just thought about it. So... could it be? :P

GNUser
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt7XloDNcm4

by the way here is the link for the interview

CentaurX
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Watching it. I'll give you what I think after I finish watching it!

andrew
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If there was a single distro that the NSA was interested in it would
probably be Tails. It was mentioned in their "IAT Tor" slideshow:

http://cryptome.org/2013/10/nsa-iat-tor.pdf

Andrew.

quantumgravity
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It thought a while about it, but I think it's very likely that he was talking about trisquel; maybe about gnewsense, but they don't have such a "big" community like trisquel, do they?
And he wouldn't have refered to the GNU website with the term "linux forum".

So I think we have to face the truth, yes.

onpon4
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I don't see a reason Trisquel or the Trisquel community would be particularly interesting to the NSA. They probably don't even know we exist.

Note that a "Linux (sic) website" is not necessarily the website of a GNU/Linux system. It could be just about anything.

CentaurX
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Everybody then should be careful about everything you write then (if the NSA is SOOO nosy)

If not, then be careful anyway! XD!

At least use Tor and an Anonymous VPN service and type stuff that doesn't compromises personal information that by which they can recognize you.

But, nonetheless, I was reading that inconclusive information is kept until they find out what it's all about, in this case your identity... Sorry if I don't put a link to back up the last thing, but I don't remember where I read it, but I'm pretty sure it was official...

axgb
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On the news, it said that the NSA targets had been revealled - about 1000 organisations

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-25468263

I could not find the document with the targets on the internet, but if anyone does then we would know.

It would not surprise me if the FSF was on that list.