Privacy security

Want to thwart govt spies? Use snail mail, Assange says

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange advised journalists to use the regular postal service instead of email to avoid government surveillance, while talking about how to protect information sources and whistleblowers in an interview with a Belgian newspaper.

“Journalists are treated by intelligence services as spies,” Assange told the Belgian daily Le Soir in an interview on Saturday.“The same methods used against spies are used against journalists, and now journalists must learn counter-espionage methods to protect their sources.”

“My recommendation, for people who don’t have 10 years’ experience in cryptography, is to return to old methods [and] use the traditional postal service,” he added.