How To Block the NSA From Your Friends List

Atticus Rex writes "The fact that our social networking services are so centralized is a big part of why they fall so easily to government surveillance. It only takes a handful of amoral Zuckerbergs to hand over hundreds of millions of people's data to PRISM. That's why this Slate article makes the case for a mass migration to decentralized, free software social networks, which are much more robust to spying and interference. On top of that, these systems respect your freedom as a software user (or developer), and they're less likely to pepper you with obnoxious advertisements." On a related note, identi.ca is ditching their Twitter clone platform for pump.io which promises an experience closer to the Facebook news feed. Unfortunately, adoption seems slow since Facebook, Google, et al have an interest in preventing interoperability and it can be lonely on the distributed social network.

Signal to Noise ratio

[Anonymous Coward]

Just increase the noise.

Friend EVERYONE.
Call random numbers from your cell.
Setup your own spamming mail server.
Put key words in white text in your posts.
Start fake twitter/facebook/youtube channels.

A few million of us generating 2 fake identities each could soon drown out the real data.
Now, does anyone have Abu Hamzas twitter details?
Whats the dialing code for North Korea?

Re:...The Prisoner

[Nyder]

Prisoner: What do you want?
        Two: Information.
        Prisoner: Whose side are you on?
        Two: That would be telling.... We want information...information...information!
        Prisoner: You won't get it!
        Two: By hook or by crook, we will.
        Prisoner: Who are you?
        Two: The new Number Two.
        Prisoner: Who is Number One?
        Two: You are Number Six.
        Prisoner: I am not a number; I am a free man!
        Two: [Laughter]