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Now we know what we've speculated darkly about all long: the NSA and GCHQ actively track users who visit sites they don't like.

Presumably your visit to The Intercept and First Look are similarly tracked and correlated with your other online and offline activity.

I for one will visit this site and open every linked document from each IP I have access to. These tactics of mass surveillance and intimidation must be resisted.

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Launch a bunch of t1.micros or tiny dockers or something and have them constantly curl or wget all the links. Setup a spot request with an autoscale script which will constant request spot instances from the cheapest zone where they are spawned and curl/wget to dev null then die and get a new spot spawn.

Or, you know, lease a VPN connection. https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/

I wonder how many of those are either run by spy agencies, or are infiltrated by spy agencies?

They don't even need to run fake VPNs anymore, just go to the host of vpn host, get all the metadata you want http://www.wipeyourdata.com/other-data-erasing/no-logs-earth...

Well, if they already have most of that data (ip/connection metadata from backbone isps) -- and the provider/target site is small enough that traffic analysis is enough to defeat the vpn -- all bets are off anyway. This is a basic problem with VPNs -- you need to assume all data going in and out is logged -- if you're the only one visiting omghowcanimakebombsforeal.com at any given hundreds of a second -- then you're pretty much done for.

A US-based VPN provider? I hope you're being sarcastic.

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