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Ask HN: How to stay completely free from prying eyes? Like NSA, etc

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If they monitor traffic at the ISP level and have backdoors to all major modes of communication, can anybody give a step-by-step, full on survival guide to staying clear? VPNs? Encryption? I want 100%, or as close to it as possible.

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deadfall
Tor. I turned my raspberry pi into a Tor proxy to hide all traffic.

http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2013/06/18/onion-pi-pack-wsmall...

proliferation
What's the advantage of creating one of these as opposed to just connecting to Tor with your computer?
deadfall
All traffic from the computer proxy through Tor e.g. Skype, Spotify, Chrome...
arshsingh
What if i run tor on my computer and apply a system wide proxy through that port (9050 by default), is that any different from your setup ?