I've been seeing more surveillance stories popup regarding the NSA and various other tech companies. In particular, Microsoft and the story out of Germany concerning Trusted Computing and Windows 8 back doors.
I've also heard some suggestions that running Linux or BSD(Unix) is a way to get around some of this. I wondered if that was a valid opinion or just half right?
To be honest, I think FreeBSD is okay for Desktops but a weird pain in the ass for laptops or my Netbook. For mobile devices, I've found many Linux distros that are actually good to run "Out of the Box".
I guess while on this topic, I wondered if Linux or BSD users had any additional security tips.
I should also add that absurdly while I might have incidental security from running Linux, I still tend to frequently use Google. To some extent, I accepted Google holding some browsing data as trade-off for better results. However, if they're infested with the NSA I might consider alternatives now, and wondered if any one had a favorite search engine.
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