And in my area that gets you a static IP and you can run whatever server you want. They do prefer that you don't run open relays on port 25, but that's reasonable.

I can decript my data, use browsers to erase cookies, but without spoofing IP addresses, the websites know where I am accessing from and when I access the site. If I would then use a major email (instead of my own email server), then the NSA has their hands on my emails and any cloud stuff I save. Everything in the internet needs to be reworked for privacy, not just the browser...

Of course the The United Surveilla^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H States Government is not going to let that happen.

I figure if he's asking this question, he doesn't have a geek badge. So these kind of recommendations may just go over his head... But what do I know.

Leave skype on all evening... Watch movies "together" and talk to each other while watching. Make the same dinners "together." Storytelling? Open up a google doc and write your own story collaboratively. If you both like games, then play whatever you like together using teamspeak. My girl and I have played Ultima Online, Everyquest, starwars and Diablo when we were working across the country. What's important is that you communicate and spend "time" together. But something important that no one will mention is this: Trust each other and give each other time alone. Good luck.

My email server is sitting in my laundry room. I also host some message forums and picture galleries for just my family and friends. It is how I communicate with them.

Only about 1/3 of my family and friends use my server for email.... So any over seas email service is going to have the same limitation as mine. If I email my sister from my server, that email goes to gmail. So now the NSA knows what I sent to my sister.

So unless everyone you communicate with is outside of the US or on a server outside of NSA's reach, it won;t do any good.

Sorry to break it to you, but in the war against terror, the American people have lost.

Kinda funny that looking at IMDB, he has credits in World War Z as W.H.O Doctor. As long as he talks slower than Matt Smith, I'll be happy.

DuckDuck Go keeps your info from third party advertisers... They are still sleeping with the feds. They jsut do it in a motel down the road and everyone turns a blind eye, while the feds are sleeping with Google and apple in open public.

I use a gmail, so I figure google has tabs on what I email. it is interesting when I send a friend a chapter or short story I am working on and the ads I get after this...

That being said, will the feds come get me if I am sending a short story about an assassination?

A habit that I have gotten into a while back though, so as to not tie my searches in with my gmail, is that I use firefox for gmail and I use Opera in private browsing to search google. After reading this article, I realize that I am probably tracked via IP. This is disheartening.

It's time to invest in an anonymous proxy. I think I am going to start with this article then investigate further.

I traveled via plan; I went through the security checkpoint..

. It was the typical experience that everyone has come to expect. But once it is over, you're free to roam the "Secured" area of the airport. I don;t know how often this happens, but as we were getting ready to board the airplane, Three TSA agents showed up in their hands of blue, (One too many for a good firefly reference.)

Anyway, it was announced that the TSA would be doing random luggage checks as we boarded the plane. I watched what was happening and the "random" checks were that they stopped everyone with a backpack and/or large purse. No one with a regular wheely-carry on luggage was randomly checked. I observed about 30 people board the plane and "predicted which people ahead of me were randomly selected. As my turn to board the plane approached, I stepped in line and said to the agent, "Some back at the regular checkpoint not doing his job and taking a nap?" The TSA guys scowled at me, physically pulled me aside, and went through every article of clothing and compartment of my regular luggage carry-on. At least he attempted to fold everything back and put it in the way it came out.

I should have asked him for a piece of paper saying my luggage was checked by the TSA,

I wonder if they are trying to police up their "faults" by doing even more checks past where we are used to them happening?

Is the American government so oppressive that if you speak the Truth, people assume that the government will kill and/or torture you? The government has to step up and say, "We will not Kill or torture."

Freedom of Speech is only one of the freedoms which is gone. People know it. Yet nothing is being done to bring them back.

Snowden is my hero for saying the Truth. Emerson and Thoreau would be proud. Snowden's name is going to come up when I teach Transcendentalism to this year's students.

That last sentence made me thing of posting AC, but I now have the strength to speak the truth also.

Maybe Bill the cat had a new job.. while in Russia.

If Obama's arming of al-Qaeda friendly rebels in Syria isn't "adhering to their enemies, giving them aid...", I don't know what is.

Why do you hide beind AC, then?

I'd be fine with prosecuting Bush. On the right, Feinstein supports ripping up the second amendment, and McCain sought to have NDAA include a provision for indefinite detention AFTER acquital by a jury.

I think this administration has done plenty to warrant impeachment (high crimes and misdemeanors), but a charge of treason involves giving comfort and aid to the enemy. Benghazi sticks out on that one, and I am anxious to see more facts and detail emerge.

It isn't so much whether the administration was complicit, but whether they lied, and how much. NSA director Clapper has already put his foot in his mouth on that one in the domestic spying Verizon scandal and is close to being found guilty of perjury. If they have nothing to hide, why are the stories inconsistent and changing?

I may very well be wrong in seeing an ominious pattern where there is none. I'd be happy to be proved wrong. But, I do think it's appropriate to raise the question, to challenge the administration when things don't smell right, and, above all, to NOT fear reprisals, even if they may be believed likely: for my part I noticed (a) a break in to my Facebook account (with nothing really of value or interest there) and (b) access to private hyperlinks referenced there from "interesting" IP addresses. I fully expect that I am on some "list" now.

I don't care. Perhaps I will be "disappeared". IF, and I note IF, that happens, to me, and enough others, then perhaps it would not be for naught, and people might start to wake up.

Paranoia? Perhaps, but I think in a healthy dose. Silence, and fear, on the other hand, always play into the hands of tyrants.

Yes.

I've lived 51 years, most of them O.K., and a few very well.

I'd be quite willing to die on my feet rather than live under tyrany on my knees. Somehow, either beats becoming infirm and dying of old age. On this issue, I thinks heads should roll. The responsible people (all, of them, Republican and Democrat alike), should be found out, tried for treason, and if found guilty, commensurately punished, to send a message to future politicians about who serves whom.

So, without further ado, and to certainly attract the attention at the good folks at the Secret Service:

What to do about a treasonous president

1. 218 (50%+1) of the 435 representative members of congress vote to imeach.
2. 67 (2/3) of the 100 Senators vote to convict.
3. 1 President is removed from office and is now subject to criminal prosecution.
4. 23 members of a grand jury indict him to stand trial for treason (Benghazi certainly qualifies: ordering troops to stand down when Americans are under attack?).
5. 12 members of a jury convict and sentence him for treason.
6. One disgraced, former president.

Rinse, Lather, Repeat with all the other traitors, and send a message to "politicians".

It's an easy process to remember: 218 67 1 23 12, almost like a phone number: (218)671-2312.

I am not afraid, of criticism, of torture, or of death.