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It was, simply put, the closest thing to science fiction I’ve ever seen in science fact: an interface that allows you to type in pretty much anyone’s address, telephone number, or IP address, and then basically go through the recent history of their online activity. In some cases you could even play back recordings of their online sessions, so that the screen you’d be looking at was their screen, whatever was on their desktop.
Edward Snowden, Permanent Record
In an interview, whistleblower Edward Snowden discusses his life in Russia, the power of the intelligence apparatuses and how he will continue his battle against all-encompassing surveillance by governments.
Let’s start with the NSA and government lies to discredit Snowden:
Snowden was just a sysadmin. The NSA wanted to hide his real job, hunting Chinese hackers
Snowden wasn’t seeking asylum in Germany in exchange for his testimony
Snowden revelations put lives in danger. Michael Rodgers, the director of the NSA, said: The sky isn't falling, we are still doing our work. Yes, it was disruptive, but life goes on.
“We don't drop atomic bombs on flies that land on the dinner table”
Reporters trained to repeat the question ingrained by the government. This is how intelligence agencies get $70 BILLION / yr in funding. You have no where to hide. Your secrets are secretly archived for a rainy day.
DER SPIEGEL: The main purpose of surveillance is to prevent attacks against our countries. In principle, there's nothing wrong with that.
“Donald Trump has nothing to do with the deep state. Donald Trump doesn't even know what the deep state is.”
“The idea that half of American voters thought that Donald Trump was the best among us, is something that I struggle with. And I think we will all be struggling with it for decades to come.”
“In my last position in Hawaii, I was literally using XKeyscore all day long to track Chinese hackers. XKeyscore was the program the Germans received from the NSA and used as well.”
“We need to learn to eat fear, to convert it into an energy that can be used to better a society rather than to terrorize and weaken it.”
Read about Obama and Deep State
A weblog about Signals Intelligence, Communications Security and top level telecommunications equipment
Last August, it came out that a whistleblower accused the Danish military and signals intelligence service (Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste or FE) of unlawful activities and deliberately misleading the intelligence oversight board.
Meanwhile, the Danish press was able to paint a surprisingly comprehensive and detailed picture of how the FE cooperated with the NSA in cable tapping on Danish soil.
It was further revealed that the Americans provided Denmark with a sophisticated new spy system which includes the NSA's data processing system XKEYSCORE.
A Danish paper also disclosed that the accusation of unlawful collection came from a young FE employee who reminds of Edward Snowden. A newly established investigation commission now has to clarify whether he was driven by fears or by facts.
Opta por salir de los programas globales de vigilancia de datos como PRISM, XKeyscore y Tempora. Impide que los gobiernos te espíen cifrando tus comunicaciones y terminando tu dependencia en servicios privativos.
NSA’s Google for the World’s Private Communications
NSA’s Google for the World’s Private Communications
As sites like Twitter and Facebook become increasingly significant in the world’s day-to-day communications (a Pew study shows that 71 percent of online adults in the U.S. use Facebook), they become a critical source of surveillance data. Traffic from popular social media sites is described as “a great starting point” for tracking individuals, according to an XKEYSCORE presentation titled…
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Worth reading and knowing about.
I knew that many of my fellow citizens took comfort in their own banality: You live a boring life and feel you have nothing to fear from those on high. But how could you anticipate the ways in which insights bred of spying might prove handy to some future regime? New tools have a way of breeding new abuses. Detailed logs of behaviors that I found tame—my Amazon purchases, my online comments, and even my meanderings through the physical world, collected by biometric scanners, say, or license-plate readers on police cars—might someday be read in a hundred different ways by powers whose purposes I couldn’t fathom now. They say you can quote the Bible to support almost any conceivable proposition, and I could only imagine the range of charges that selective looks at my data might render plausible. [...] It awed me, the Utah Data Center at night. It awed me in an unfamiliar way—not with its size, which was hard to get a fix on, but with its overwhelming separateness. To think that virtually every human act, every utterance, transaction, and conversation that occurred out here—here in the world that seemed so vast and bustling, so magnificently complex—could one day be coded, compressed, and stuck in there, in a cluster of buildings no larger than a couple of shopping malls. Loss of privacy seemed like a tiny issue, suddenly, compared with the greater loss the place presaged: loss of existential stature.
Walter Kirn, 2015. The Atlantic, If You’re Not Paranoid, You’re Crazy
