Snowden urged not to use software that violates privacy – teleSUR TV

In the middle of an interview with The New Yorker magazine, the former agent of the National Security Agency (NSA), Edward Snowden, advised Internet users abandon any tool that does not have encryption information.

The former agent of the National Security Agency (NSA) Edward Snowden, concendió the sáboad an interview via videoconference to The New Yorker magazine; where he criticized the services for mass storage Internet information.

Snowden considers that services like Dropbox, Facebook and Google are “hostile to privacy” and aconsejano thus use them, because the process Data encryption is not completed successfully.

In this regard, the activist recommends using tools like SpiderOak; in which process include encrypting data while files are in the computer

Snowden. “We are talking about abandoning programs that are hostile to privacy”

From the perspective of a similar case Snowden applies to social networks like Facebook or Google services; ensures that they are “dangerous” and suggests people use other mechanisms for sending encrypted messages as RedPhone or SilentCircle.

In the video-conference exanalista NSA noted that maintains regular contact with “computer and cryptographers (…) to try to figure out how we can create solutions “that allow to be appreciated and viewed as a private business metadata.