What Can I Do To Protect Myself?

In the last section, you learned that wiretapping and pen-trap tapping are powerful and routine government surveillance techniques, and got an idea of how often those techniques are legally used. In this section, you'll learn how to defend yourself against such real-time communications surveillance. As we'll describe in detail below, unless you take specific technical measures to protect your communications against wiretapping or traffic analysis — such as using encryption to scramble your messages — your best defense is to use the communications methods that possess the strongest and clearest legal protections: postal mail and landline telephones.

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