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Laws Are Supposed to Serve Us
Laws Are Supposed to Serve Us
In principle, new laws are passed, upheld, and enforced to protect us and our inalienable rights. Violation of these laws have consequences and the fear of the consequences are meant to deter us from said violations. For example, the fear of ending up in prison or the death penalty discourages those who lack the empathy not to commit the act of murder.
However, laws can also have a negative…
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A pair of NSA analysts who blew the whistle on the spy agency’s misuse of their security and privacy controls have come out of retirement to form a
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United States of Secrets Part 1: This part of the documentary describes a surveillance program used by the US government and the controversy that surrounded it. This program was developed by a group of people to identify terrorists and stop terrorist activity before it happened. It would gather phone and internet information such as calls, emails, browser searches, etc from, if not all, most of american citizens. The program would compile the information it gathered, and sort through it for potential terrorist information. The early type of program, nicknamed "thin thread," had a data "privacy" section where it basically incrpted the information from anyone who did not display any terrorist activity. This made it so the information from everyday US citizens could not be intruded on by any other person. However, after 9/11, NSA got rid of the privacy setting because they had the authorization to do so in order to prevent another event like 9/11. With this dismissal of privacy, came doubts that the program was legal anymore. Through much back and forth, the press was eventually tipped and news got out that the government was spying on people's lives. The president denied the idea that the program was illegal and lied about how it operated in an attempt to "tone down" thoughts and reactions to it. But in reality, NSA's surveillance network extended farther and was much worse than officials made it out to be.
- United State of Secret part 1 talks about THE PROGRAM and how it was all started. There was an email from an unknown NSA insider. He sent out millions of classified information showing how the States was overusing its authority to spy on people. According to him, he was risking his life so that he could send out these files. These documents were talking about THINTHREAD and how NSA was using it "lawfully" wrong. Everything was a normal until an act of terrorists was done that killed over 3000 lives without the NSA realizing it. Micheal Hayden, the Director of NSA, went overboard while trying to come up with a way to prevent another 9/11. With the consent from President Bush, he started using THINTHREAD, without the protection code for American Citizen, to spy on everyone. The magnitude of this program went up to thousands and hundreds of millions emails, phone calls, etc. As Barack Obama was about to be elected as a President, he promised to be the most transparent President in the history of America. Yet, after looking at THINTHREAD and its magnitude, he decided to keep on running the program. As for many briefings that he had done, he miraculously lowered how gigantic this program was for people who listened to it and made them believe.
- The artifact shows a picture of two ways: a legal way and an illegal way. This happened when Micheal Hayden was first come up with the idea of gathering data on everyone's lives to prevent another national security thread. Spying on everyone is illegal. However, with a signature from President Bush, the program has been authorized, by the highest authority of America, as legal.
- This relates to many concepts. The first one would be information. In this case, we are talking about trillions of Gbs of valuable data about people's lives are being gathered without permissions. This action is done by NSA; yet, it is very illegal and un-institutional. The next one would be network. Thanks to such big network that NSA has, it was able to successfully perform this program.
Why New Zealand?
A tool called ThinThread, a US spy device, has reportedly been tested on the public of New Zealand.. A spy expert told the NEW ZEALAND HERALD this information.. the Prime Minister and other officials that could potentially be involved with this issue have not made public comment and refuse to speak to the HERALD about the allegations..
Here are just a few of the great quotes from this article:
Bill Binney believes he helped create a monster.
Sitting in the innocuous surroundings of an Olive Garden in the Baltimore suburbs, the former senior National Security Agency (NSA) official even believes he owes the whole American people an apology.
Binney, a tall, professorial man in his late 60s, led the development of a secret software code he now believes is illegally collecting huge amounts of information on his fellow citizens. For the staunch Republican, who worked for 32 years at the NSA, it is a civil liberties nightmare come true.
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ThinThread correlated data from emails, phone calls, credit card payments and Internet searches and stored and mapped it in ways that could be analysed.
Binney wanted to use ThinThread to track foreign threats but it worked too well and kept catching data on Americans too.
So Binney's team built in safeguards that encrypted that data. But, by 2000, the NSA decided to go with developing a larger scale programme called Trailblazer to be built by outside contractors (that eventually failed to make it past the design stage) and ThinThread was effectively mothballed.
Then September 11 happened. Within a few weeks, Binney says, he realised parts of ThinThread were now being used by the NSA in a massive and secret surveillance operation.
But his safeguards had been removed allowing for far more targeted surveillance of American citizens. "I knew the dangers so I built in protections. And you could still find the bad guys with the protections in it. But that wasn't what they wanted so they took those things out," Binney said.
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Binney believes there has been too much of a sacrifice of civil liberties in order to fight terrorism. "People should feel the ability to go out there and and do anything that they want to without being looked at all the time. Monitored. Watched," he said.
Binney is also determined to keep on speaking out. "I don't see any other recourse. Everybody needs to wake up to what we are doing here and whether we want it or not. There is a big hole at the end of this tunnel and it drops off to nowhere."
I think Jonah wakes up and laughs at the news every morning.
