Alternatives against the PRISM program (Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, ..

[stomy]

Like other technology and communications companies, Google regularly receives requests from governments and courts around the world to hand over user data. In this report, we disclose the number of requests we receive from each government in six-month periods with certain limitations. Usage of our services have increased every year, and so have the user data request numbers.

We continue to look for new ways to organize information and provide more detail. For example, starting with the July–December 2010 reporting period, we began to disclose the percentages of user data requests we comply with in whole or in part. And starting with the January–June 2011 reporting period, we began to disclose the number of users or accounts about which data was requested.

Our FAQ about legal process provides information about how we aim to put users first when we receive user data requests. To learn more about the laws governing our disclosure of user data and reforms to those laws that we think are important, visit http://digitaldueprocess.org/. We hope this report will shine some light on the appropriate scope and authority of government requests to obtain user data around the globe.

Source: http://www.google.com/transparencyre...ests/?hl=en_US
List,Map,Table: http://www.google.com/transparencyre...untries/?t=map
http://www.revivall.org/article-goog...118446462.html

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Asking the U.S. government to allow Google to publish more national security request data
Posted: Tuesday, June 11, 2013
This morning we sent the following letter to the offices of the Attorney General and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Read the full text below. -Ed.

Dear Attorney General Holder and Director Mueller

Google has worked tremendously hard over the past fifteen years to earn our users’ trust. For example, we offer encryption across our services; we have hired some of the best security engineers in the world; and we have consistently pushed back on overly broad government requests for our users’ data.

We have always made clear that we comply with valid legal requests. And last week, the Director of National Intelligence acknowledged that service providers have received Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) requests.

Assertions in the press that our compliance with these requests gives the U.S. government unfettered access to our users’ data are simply untrue. However, government nondisclosure obligations regarding the number of FISA national security requests that Google receives, as well as the number of accounts covered by those requests, fuel that speculation.

We therefore ask you to help make it possible for Google to publish in our Transparency Report aggregate numbers of national security requests, including FISA disclosures—in terms of both the number we receive and their scope. Google’s numbers would clearly show that our compliance with these requests falls far short of the claims being made. Google has nothing to hide.

Google appreciates that you authorized the recent disclosure of general numbers for national security letters. There have been no adverse consequences arising from their publication, and in fact more companies are receiving your approval to do so as a result of Google’s initiative. Transparency here will likewise serve the public interest without harming national security.

We will be making this letter public and await your response.

David Drummond
Chief Legal Officer

Sources: http://googleblog.blogspot.fr/2013/0...google-to.html
http://www.revivall.org/article-goog...118446675.html

[jackovesk]

Obama & NSA’s Worst Nightmare Is Here!

Monday, June 10, 2013

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin

With the ‘Police state’ rapidly unfolding and the NSA spying scandal finally being made known nationwide and around the world, Barack Obama’s and the NSA’s WORST NIGHTMARE is here and staring them in the face: Unsene. Do you really want to secure your privacy? Do you want to send the NSA and Obama back to their very own metaphorical ‘hole in the ground’ where they belong? Sign up for Unsene today. It’s in beta and completely free to use. It uses top secret grade encryption and will soon go beyond that level. Go now and get your free account.

My step-father worked for the NSA and what he told me years ago started me on this fight against TYRANNY here in America. Another very good friend, who will remain unnamed for obvious reasons, STILL works for the NSA (and in a VERY HIGH position & is a Verizon customer) and to say that she is a bit ANGERED at her employer is QUITE an understatement. So, what is Unsene? Let’s let these videos explain Unsene to you. Strike back at the HEART of TYRANNY by signing up and using Unsene to secure your freedom today.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LWklXIXCsQE

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Pms7atU4Y7o

http://beforeitsnews.com/science-and...e-2604580.html

https://unsene.com/

[RMorgan]

Honestly, if you believe there´s any alternative to stay connected while keeping your privacy, you´re simply naive.

The sophistication of the current global surveillance system goes way beyond individual companies and their servers; They monitor every piece of digital data directly from satellites and even from the global fiber optics cable network.

This whole spying scandal is a major distraction. They don´t need any individual company permission to access data illegally, they just need permission if they want to use the acquired data in court.

If you´re using any digital medium to communicate, you can be tracked and monitored, independently if you use Linux, encryption, proxy, strong firewalls, or avoid using google or facebook.

So, if you don´t want to be tracked and monitored, you have to unplug yourself from any digital communication system. They knew exactly what they were doing when they introduced the internet; Don´t think for a second that it was ever out of their control.

The current trend is that people will grow so dependent of digital communication that eventually every aspect of their lives will be monitored, like how many times you brush your teeth, your heartbeats, what you´re cooking for dinner, how many times you make love to your wife...everything...and with the evolution and massive adoption of technologies such as google glass, every person will be turned to real time surveillance cameras.

[naste.de.lumina]

Hey Raf.
Since it is inevitable that such a little humor?
The Brazilian has this habit of making jokes in nearly every situation ...
For friends who do not understand Portuguese here's the translation.
Figure 1: Love, what are you wearing?
Figure 2: Try to guess.
Figure 3: Oh, come ....
Figure 4: Yes, this damned!!!!

[stomy]

Posted by RMorgan (here)
Honestly, if you believe there´s any alternative to stay connected while keeping your privacy, you´re simply naive.

The sophistication of the current global surveillance system goes way beyond individual companies and their servers; They monitor every piece of digital data directly from satellites and even from the global fiber optics cable network.

This whole spying scandal is a major distraction. They don´t need any individual company permission to access data illegally, they just need permission if they want to used the acquired data in court.

If you´re using any digital medium to communicate, you can be tracked and monitored, independently if you use Linux, encryption, proxy, strong firewalls, or avoid using google or facebook.

So, if you don´t want to be tracked and monitored, you have to unplug yourself from any digital communication system. They knew exactly what they were doing when they introduced the internet; Don´t think for a second that it was ever out of their control.

The current trend is that people will grow so dependent of digital communication that eventually every aspect of their lives will be monitored, like how many times you brush your teeth, your heartbeats, what you´re cooking for dinner, how many times you make love to your wife...everything...and with the evolution and massive adoption of technologies such as google glass, every person will be turned to real time surveillance cameras.

Yes! surveillance is global with internet via big brother!
You'll stay without doing a few things against Majors! So, you'll accepte implanted microship too? Great idea my friend. Say Thank you to the NWO because you accept it in your heart and you lln't give solutions!

[RMorgan]

Posted by stomy (here)

Posted by RMorgan (here)
Honestly, if you believe there´s any alternative to stay connected while keeping your privacy, you´re simply naive.

The sophistication of the current global surveillance system goes way beyond individual companies and their servers; They monitor every piece of digital data directly from satellites and even from the global fiber optics cable network.

This whole spying scandal is a major distraction. They don´t need any individual company permission to access data illegally, they just need permission if they want to used the acquired data in court.

If you´re using any digital medium to communicate, you can be tracked and monitored, independently if you use Linux, encryption, proxy, strong firewalls, or avoid using google or facebook.

So, if you don´t want to be tracked and monitored, you have to unplug yourself from any digital communication system. They knew exactly what they were doing when they introduced the internet; Don´t think for a second that it was ever out of their control.

The current trend is that people will grow so dependent of digital communication that eventually every aspect of their lives will be monitored, like how many times you brush your teeth, your heartbeats, what you´re cooking for dinner, how many times you make love to your wife...everything...and with the evolution and massive adoption of technologies such as google glass, every person will be turned to real time surveillance cameras.

Yes! surveillance is global with internet via big brother!
You'll stay without doing a few things against Majors! So, you'll accepte implanted microship too? Great idea my friend. Say Thank you to the NWO because you accept it in your heart because you lln't give solutions!

Sorry, but I don´t understand what you mean.

If you´re suggesting that I agree with all of this, then you´re wrong. I don´t agree with any of it.

However, they couldn´t care less if people agree with it or not. They´ll push their agenda anyway and, in fact, most people will simply love it, like they love their iphones and everything else.

Solutions? Well, there´s only one; Stay out of the grid.

Even staying out of the grid will get increasingly harder. You´ll have to literally be a ghost if you want to live your life unnoticed in the future.

[stomy]

Posted by RMorgan (here)
Sorry, but I don´t understand what you mean.

If you´re suggesting that I agree with all of this, then you´re wrong. I don´t agree with any of it.

However, they couldn´t care less if people agree with it or not. They´ll push their agenda anyway and, in fact, most people will simply love it, like they love their iphones and everything else.

Solutions? Well, there´s only one; Stay out of the grid.

Even staying out of the grid will get increasingly harder. You´ll have to literally be a ghost if you want to live your life unnoticed in the future.

ok ,so why you're there? on the grid Go out!
Live, it's go out, speak with people , hobbies etc. and the web exists to read news like project avalon and others, to learn, etc. Give solutions, it's fight the nwo, if you stay out of the grid, you ll be a sheep!

[InCiDeR]

Posted by RMorgan (here)
Honestly, if you believe there´s any alternative to stay connected while keeping your privacy, you´re simply naive.

The sophistication of the current global surveillance system goes way beyond individual companies and their servers; They monitor every piece of digital data directly from satellites and even from the global fiber optics cable network.

This whole spying scandal is a major distraction. They don´t need any individual company permission to access data illegally, they just need permission if they want to use the acquired data in court.

If you´re using any digital medium to communicate, you can be tracked and monitored, independently if you use Linux, encryption, proxy, strong firewalls, or avoid using google or facebook.

So, if you don´t want to be tracked and monitored, you have to unplug yourself from any digital communication system. They knew exactly what they were doing when they introduced the internet; Don´t think for a second that it was ever out of their control.

The current trend is that people will grow so dependent of digital communication that eventually every aspect of their lives will be monitored, like how many times you brush your teeth, your heartbeats, what you´re cooking for dinner, how many times you make love to your wife...everything...and with the evolution and massive adoption of technologies such as google glass, every person will be turned to real time surveillance cameras.

Totally agree. I even believe that if you make efforts to hide yourself you will just draw unnecessary attention to you, because then they wonder why you try to hide. Therefore it is better to hide in plain sight, meaning use the applications you wish to use and everyone else do. It is always better to hide in a crowd!

It is not helping to unplug either, surveillance is everywhere whether I like it or not.... and soon the register your heartbeat as you say RMorgan, or worse, they already started and people like it!!!:

How Google Tracks Everyone and Everything

(...)Google experiment to sniff out everything from your body heat to your breath. Google is even listening to your footfalls as part of its Data Sensing Lab I/O 2013.(...)

[stomy]

Posted by InCiDeR (here)

Posted by RMorgan (here)
Honestly, if you believe there´s any alternative to stay connected while keeping your privacy, you´re simply naive.

The sophistication of the current global surveillance system goes way beyond individual companies and their servers; They monitor every piece of digital data directly from satellites and even from the global fiber optics cable network.

This whole spying scandal is a major distraction. They don´t need any individual company permission to access data illegally, they just need permission if they want to use the acquired data in court.

If you´re using any digital medium to communicate, you can be tracked and monitored, independently if you use Linux, encryption, proxy, strong firewalls, or avoid using google or facebook.

So, if you don´t want to be tracked and monitored, you have to unplug yourself from any digital communication system. They knew exactly what they were doing when they introduced the internet; Don´t think for a second that it was ever out of their control.

The current trend is that people will grow so dependent of digital communication that eventually every aspect of their lives will be monitored, like how many times you brush your teeth, your heartbeats, what you´re cooking for dinner, how many times you make love to your wife...everything...and with the evolution and massive adoption of technologies such as google glass, every person will be turned to real time surveillance cameras.

Totally agree. I even believe that if you make efforts to hide yourself you will just draw unnecessary attention to you, because then they wonder why you try to hide. Therefore it is better to hide in plain sight, meaning use the applications you wish to use and everyone else do. It is always better to hide in a crowd!

It is not helping to unplug either, surveillance is everywhere whether I like it or not.... and soon the register your heartbeat as you say RMorgan, or worse, they already started and people like it!!!:

How Google Tracks Everyone and Everything

(...)Google experiment to sniff out everything from your body heat to your breath. Google is even listening to your footfalls as part of its Data Sensing Lab I/O 2013.(...)

Unless you want that nine companies lose users, it is called a correction. Other companies ll take back the place. It belongs to us to be vigilent and change things

[InCiDeR]

Posted by stomy (here)

Posted by InCiDeR (here)
Totally agree. I even believe that if you make efforts to hide yourself you will just draw unnecessary attention to you, because then they wonder why you try to hide. Therefore it is better to hide in plain sight, meaning use the applications you wish to use and everyone else do. It is always better to hide in a crowd!

It is not helping to unplug either, surveillance is everywhere whether I like it or not.... and soon the register your heartbeat as you say RMorgan, or worse, they already started and people like it!!!:

How Google Tracks Everyone and Everything

(...)Google experiment to sniff out everything from your body heat to your breath. Google is even listening to your footfalls as part of its Data Sensing Lab I/O 2013.(...)

Unless you want that nine companies lose users, it is called a correction. Other companies ll take back the place. It belongs to us to be vigilent and change things

Agreed. Myself try to avoid the major ones due to that reason, open source is my friend. Even if survelliance is everywhere, that doesn't mean I don't let them work for the information

[stomy]

Posted by InCiDeR (here)

Posted by stomy (here)
Unless you want that nine companies lose users, it is called a correction. Other companies ll take back the place. It belongs to us to be vigilent and change things

Agreed. Myself try to avoid the major ones due to that reason, open source is my friend. Even if survelliance is everywhere, that doesn't mean I don't let them work for the information

Thanks I hope others persons ll do the same, together, we are strong, divised low

[naste.de.lumina]

Posted by InCiDeR (here)
Totally agree. I even believe that if you make efforts to hide yourself you will just draw unnecessary attention to you, because then they wonder why you try to hide. Therefore it is better to hide in plain sight, meaning use the applications you wish to use and everyone else do. It is always better to hide in a crowd!

It is not helping to unplug either, surveillance is everywhere whether I like it or not.... and soon the register your heartbeat as you say RMorgan, or worse, they already started and people like it!!!:

How Google Tracks Everyone and Everything

(...)Google experiment to sniff out everything from your body heat to your breath. Google is even listening to your footfalls as part of its Data Sensing Lab I/O 2013.(...)

Ultimately there is no way to hide the network.
But there's no way they do not realize that that every day more people are waking up due to the scandal.
Soon the day will come that they will have to shut down the internet to try to stop this mass awakening.
The spell on the sorcerer.
And as the bank will work? and the billions they left to win?
The situation is not comfortable for them.
And we have to keep pushing to get worse every day.
They do not have to kill us all.

[Deemah]

In case someone missed this bit that came out on June 6th

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv...n-documents/m/

NSA small powerpoint on visual reference of scheme control of PRISM under Obama.

[stomy]

Posted by naste.de.lumina (here)

Posted by InCiDeR (here)
Totally agree. I even believe that if you make efforts to hide yourself you will just draw unnecessary attention to you, because then they wonder why you try to hide. Therefore it is better to hide in plain sight, meaning use the applications you wish to use and everyone else do. It is always better to hide in a crowd!

It is not helping to unplug either, surveillance is everywhere whether I like it or not.... and soon the register your heartbeat as you say RMorgan, or worse, they already started and people like it!!!:

How Google Tracks Everyone and Everything

(...)Google experiment to sniff out everything from your body heat to your breath. Google is even listening to your footfalls as part of its Data Sensing Lab I/O 2013.(...)

Ultimately there is no way to hide the network.
But there's no way they do not realize that that every day more people are waking up due to the scandal.
Soon the day will come that they will have to shut down the internet to try to stop this mass awakening.
The spell on the sorcerer.
And as the bank will work? and the billions they left to win?
The situation is not comfortable for them.
And we have to keep pushing to get worse every day.
They do not have to kill us all.

i'm allright with the network but do to lose money to the majors is the best weapon of the world
Read this article very interesting
Thousands Of Companies Have Been Handing Over Your Personal Data To The NSA
By Michael, on June 14th, 2013

Prism NSA SpyingIt isn't just Internet and phone companies that are giving your personal information to the U.S. government. According to an astounding report by Bloomberg, "four people familiar with the process" say that "makers of hardware and software, banks, Internet security providers, satellite telecommunications companies" and a whole host of other sources are handing over your personal data to federal agencies. The truth is that there is so much more to this NSA snooping scandal than the American people know so far. When U.S. Representative Loretta Sanchez said that what Edward Snowden had revealed was "just the tip of the iceberg", she wasn't kidding. The U.S. government is trying to collect as much information about everyone on the planet as it possibly can. And this incredibly powerful intelligence machine is not going to go away just because a few activists get upset about it. The United States government spends more than 80 billion dollars a year on intelligence programs. Those that have spent their careers constructing this monolithic intelligence apparatus are doing to defend it to the bitter end, as will the corporate partners in the private sector that rake in enormous profits thanks to big fat government contracts. But if the American people don't stand up and demand change now, it is going to be a signal to those doing the snooping that they can push the envelope even more because nobody is going to stop them.

So why are thousands of companies handing over your personal data to the NSA? Well, according to Bloomberg they are getting things in return...

Thousands of technology, finance and manufacturing companies are working closely with U.S. national security agencies, providing sensitive information and in return receiving benefits that include access to classified intelligence, four people familiar with the process said.

These programs, whose participants are known as trusted partners, extend far beyond what was revealed by Edward Snowden, a computer technician who did work for the National Security Agency. The role of private companies has come under intense scrutiny since his disclosure this month that the NSA is collecting millions of U.S. residents’ telephone records and the computer communications of foreigners from Google Inc (GOOG). and other Internet companies under court order.

Thanks to the recent revelations by Edward Snowden, much of the focus so far has been on the information that the NSA gets from Internet and telecommunications companies, but apparently government agencies collect information about all of us from a vast array of sources...

Makers of hardware and software, banks, Internet security providers, satellite telecommunications companies and many other companies also participate in the government programs. In some cases, the information gathered may be used not just to defend the nation but to help infiltrate computers of its adversaries.

Along with the NSA, the Central Intelligence Agency (0112917D), the Federal Bureau of Investigation and branches of the U.S. military have agreements with such companies to gather data that might seem innocuous but could be highly useful in the hands of U.S. intelligence or cyber warfare units, according to the people, who have either worked for the government or are in companies that have these accords.

We have become a "surveillance society", and this is exactly the sort of thing that the Fourth Amendment was supposed to protect us against. The government is only supposed to invade our privacy and investigate us when there is probable cause to do so.

But now the government is trying to collect as much information about all of us as it possibly can even though the vast majority of us will never be charged with any crime.

There seems to be no limit when it comes to how much personal data the government wants to gather on all of us. As I have written about previously, the chief technology officer at the CIA says that they "fundamentally try to collect everything and hang onto it forever."

And this does not just apply to American citizens. The U.S. government is compiling data on everyone on the planet. And since such a high percentage of Internet traffic flows through U.S. networks and U.S. companies, that gives the U.S. intelligence community a tremendous "home-field advantage". The following is from a recent piece authored by Ronald Deibert, a professor of political science at the University of Toronto...

While cyberspace may be global, its infrastructure most definitely is not.

For example, a huge proportion of global Internet traffic flows through networks controlled by the United States, simply because eight of 15 global tier 1 telecommunications companies are American -- companies like AT&T, CenturyLink, XO Communications and, significantly, Verizon.

The social media services that many of us take for granted are also mostly provided by giants headquartered in the United States, like Google, Facebook, Yahoo! and Twitter. All of these companies are subject to U.S. law, including the provisions of the U.S. Patriot Act, no matter where their services are offered or their servers located. Having the world's Internet traffic routed through the U.S. and having those companies under its jurisdiction give U.S. national security agencies an enormous home-field advantage that few other countries enjoy.

But what is really the point of all of this intelligence gathering?

Is it to make us a little bit safer?

If so, we are making a massive mistake.

Benjamin Franklin once wrote the following: "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Are you willing to give up your Fourth Amendment rights in order to feel a little more safe?

I hope not.

The U.S. Constitution never guaranteed us safety. But it is supposed to guarantee our privacy.

Fortunately, it appears that at this point public opinion is very much against all of the snooping that the government has been doing. According to the Guardian, most of the recent surveys that have been done are coming up with very consistent results...

Thursday, the Guardian released a poll conducted on Monday and Tuesday nights by Public Policy Polling looking at America's reaction to the National Security Agency (NSA) controversy. The public appears to be reacting negatively to the revelations – and it seems to be hurting President Obama.

We found 50% of American voters believe the NSA should not be collecting telephone or internet records, compared to the 44% who think they should. The results hold even when respondents were told that the data the government is collecting is "metadata" (and not necessarily actual content of communications).

These results are consistent with a CBS News poll, Fox News poll, and YouGov survey that showed only 38%, 32%, and 35% of Americans respectively approved of phone record collection in order to reduce the chance of a terrorist attack. A Gallup poll was consistent with these, showing only 37% approved monitoring of Americans' phone and internet use.

And Americans also seem to be very suspicious about what the government will do with our personal data once they have it.

In fact, according to a new Rasmussen survey, 57 percent of Americans believe that the government will use the information that it collects "to harass political opponents".

And of course many of the recent scandals that have erupted this year involve the government harassing political opponents. We have seen this with the IRS scandal, and we have seen this with the spying on reporters scandal.

Just this week it was reported that CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson has had her computers hacked repeatedly. If you are not familiar with Attkisson, she is the one reporter in the mainstream media that has been relentless when it has come to pursuing the Operation Fast and Furious and Benghazi stories. Now we are learning that a "sophisticated" intruder hacked into her computer "on multiple occasions" in late 2012...

CBS News announced Friday that correspondent Sharyl Attkisson's computer was hacked by "an unauthorized, external, unknown party on multiple occasions," confirming Attkisson's previous revelation of the hacking.

CBS News spokeswoman Sonya McNair said that a cybersecurity firm hired by CBS News "has determined through forensic analysis" that "Attkisson's computer was accessed by an unauthorized, external, unknown party on multiple occasions in late 2012."

"Evidence suggests this party performed all access remotely using Attkisson's accounts. While no malicious code was found, forensic analysis revealed an intruder had executed commands that appeared to involve search and exfiltration of data. This party also used sophisticated methods to remove all possible indications of unauthorized activity, and alter system times to cause further confusion. CBS News is taking steps to identify the responsible party and their method of access."

Meanwhile, in a desperate attempt to deflect attention away from all of these scandals, Barack Obama is starting a war with Syria.

In this war, we are actually going to be helping al-Qaeda rebels that are beheading Christians to take over Syria.

If you aren't aware of the deep connection between al-Qaeda and the Syrian rebels, just read the recent USA Today article entitled "Syrian rebels pledge loyalty to al-Qaeda" or any of the dozens of other articles that you can find on the Internet that document this very clearly.

And the sick thing is that a large number of Republicans are actually applauding Barack Obama for teaming up with al-Qaeda.

Has it suddenly become "conservative" to help al-Qaeda?

What in the world is going on?

And you know what?

The truth was that our troops were in position long before Barack Obama made his "stunning announcement" on Thursday. In fact, it has been confirmed that U.S. troops are already in Jordan along the Syrian border.

And could this conflict with Syria actually set the stage for a much larger conflict?

The Russians have been providing "mortars, light artillery, antiaircraft guns, antitank weapons and ammunition" to the Syrian government and they have loudly denounced the latest moves by the Obama administration.

Yes, the Assad government is horrible, but what Obama is doing in Syria is a terrible, terrible mistake.

If the U.S. takes down the Assad government, forces loyal to al-Qaeda and other radical jihadists are going to take over and we will have made Russia and China very angry. If the U.S. is unsuccessful in removing the Assad government, it will be considered a crushing defeat for the United States.

Either way, we lose.

So what do you think about all of this? Please feel free to post a comment with your thoughts below...

Big Brother - The Government Is Watching You

Source: http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/a...ata-to-the-nsa

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27 Edward Snowden Quotes About U.S. Government Spying That Should Send A Chill Up Your Spine
By Michael, on June 10th, 2013

Edward SnowdenWould you be willing to give up what Edward Snowden has given up? He has given up his high paying job, his home, his girlfriend, his family, his future and his freedom just to expose the monolithic spy machinery that the U.S. government has been secretly building to the world. He says that he does not want to live in a world where there isn't any privacy. He says that he does not want to live in a world where everything that he says and does is recorded. Thanks to Snowden, we now know that the U.S. government has been spying on us to a degree that most people would have never even dared to imagine. Up until now, the general public has known very little about the U.S. government spy grid that knows almost everything about us. But making this information public is going to cost Edward Snowden everything. Essentially, his previous life is now totally over. And if the U.S. government gets their hands on him, he will be very fortunate if he only has to spend the next several decades rotting in some horrible prison somewhere. There is a reason why government whistleblowers are so rare. And most Americans are so apathetic that they wouldn't even give up watching their favorite television show for a single evening to do something good for society. Most Americans never even try to make a difference because they do not believe that it will benefit them personally. Meanwhile, our society continues to fall apart all around us. Hopefully the great sacrifice that Edward Snowden has made will not be in vain. Hopefully people will carefully consider what he has tried to share with the world. The following are 27 quotes from Edward Snowden about U.S. government spying that should send a chill up your spine...

#1 "The majority of people in developed countries spend at least some time interacting with the Internet, and Governments are abusing that necessity in secret to extend their powers beyond what is necessary and appropriate."

#2 "...I believe that at this point in history, the greatest danger to our freedom and way of life comes from the reasonable fear of omniscient State powers kept in check by nothing more than policy documents."

#3 "The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to."

#4 "...I can't in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building."

#5 "The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything."

#6 "With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your e-mails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your e-mails, passwords, phone records, credit cards."

#7 "Any analyst at any time can target anyone. Any selector, anywhere... I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge, to even the President..."

#8 "To do that, the NSA specifically targets the communications of everyone. It ingests them by default. It collects them in its system and it filters them and it analyzes them and it measures them and it stores them for periods of time simply because that's the easiest, most efficient and most valuable way to achieve these ends. So while they may be intending to target someone associated with a foreign government, or someone that they suspect of terrorism, they are collecting YOUR communications to do so."

#9 "I believe that when [senator Ron] Wyden and [senator Mark] Udall asked about the scale of this, they [the NSA] said it did not have the tools to provide an answer. We do have the tools and I have maps showing where people have been scrutinized most. We collect more digital communications from America than we do from the Russians."

#10 "...they are intent on making every conversation and every form of behavior in the world known to them."

#11 "Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you're being watched and recorded. ...it's getting to the point where you don't have to have done anything wrong, you simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody, even by a wrong call, and then they can use this system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you've ever made, every friend you've ever discussed something with, and attack you on that basis, to sort of derive suspicion from an innocent life."

#12 "Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest."

#13 "Everyone everywhere now understands how bad things have gotten — and they’re talking about it. They have the power to decide for themselves whether they are willing to sacrifice their privacy to the surveillance state."

#14 "I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under."

#15 "I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity."

#16 "I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong."

#17 "I had been looking for leaders, but I realized that leadership is about being the first to act."

#18 "There are more important things than money. If I were motivated by money, I could have sold these documents to any number of countries and gotten very rich."

#19 "The great fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change. [People] won't be willing to take the risks necessary to stand up and fight to change things... And in the months ahead, the years ahead, it's only going to get worse. [The NSA will] say that... because of the crisis, the dangers that we face in the world, some new and unpredicted threat, we need more authority, we need more power, and there will be nothing the people can do at that point to oppose it. And it will be turnkey tyranny."

#20 "I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant."

#21 "You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk."

#22 "I know the media likes to personalize political debates, and I know the government will demonize me."

#23 "We have got a CIA station just up the road – the consulate here in Hong Kong – and I am sure they are going to be busy for the next week. And that is a concern I will live with for the rest of my life, however long that happens to be."

#24 "I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, and that the return of this information to the public marks my end."

#25 "There’s no saving me."

#26 "The only thing I fear is the harmful effects on my family, who I won't be able to help any more. That's what keeps me up at night."

#27 "I do not expect to see home again."

Would you make the same choice that Edward Snowden made? Most Americans would not. One CNN reporter says that he really admires Snowden because he has tried to get insiders to come forward with details about government spying for years, but none of them were ever willing to...

As a digital technology writer, I have had more than one former student and colleague tell me about digital switchers they have serviced through which calls and data are diverted to government servers or the big data algorithms they've written to be used on our e-mails by intelligence agencies. I always begged them to write about it or to let me do so while protecting their identities. They refused to come forward and believed my efforts to shield them would be futile. "I don't want to lose my security clearance. Or my freedom," one told me.

And if the U.S. government has anything to say about it, Snowden is most definitely going to pay for what he has done. In fact, according to the Daily Beast, a directorate known as "the Q Group" is already hunting Snowden down...

The people who began chasing Snowden work for the Associate Directorate for Security and Counterintelligence, according to former U.S. intelligence officers who spoke on condition of anonymity. The directorate, sometimes known as “the Q Group,” is continuing to track Snowden now that he’s outed himself as The Guardian’s source, according to the intelligence officers.

If Snowden is not already under the protection of some foreign government (such as China), it will just be a matter of time before U.S. government agents get him.

And how will they treat him once they find him? Well, one reporter overheard a group of U.S. intelligence officials talking about how Edward Snowden should be "disappeared". The following is from a Daily Mail article that was posted on Monday...

A group of intelligence officials were overheard yesterday discussing how the National Security Agency worker who leaked sensitive documents to a reporter last week should be 'disappeared.'

Foreign policy analyst and editor at large of The Atlantic, Steve Clemons, tweeted about the 'disturbing' conversation after listening in to four men who were sitting near him as he waited for a flight at Washington's Dulles airport.

'In Dulles UAL lounge listening to 4 US intel officials saying loudly leaker & reporter on #NSA stuff should be disappeared recorded a bit,' he tweeted at 8:42 a.m. on Saturday.

According to Clemons, the men had been attending an event hosted by the Intelligence and National Security Alliance.

As an American, I am deeply disturbed that the U.S. government is embarrassing itself in front of the rest of the world like this.

The fact that we are collecting trillions of pieces of information on people all over the planet is a massive embarrassment and the fact that our politicians are defending this practice now that it has been exposed is a massive embarrassment.

If the U.S. government continues to act like a Big Brother police state, then the rest of the world will eventually conclude that is exactly what we are. At that point we become the "bad guy" and we lose all credibility with the rest of the planet.

Source: http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/a...-up-your-spine

[ponda]

There's some net security alternatives at this link: http://prism-break.org/

Opt out of PRISM, the NSA’s global data surveillance program. Stop reporting your online activities to the American government with these free alternatives to proprietary software.

[psydney]

many thanks stomy and others -- the list and links certainly help in making the changeover ...

[naste.de.lumina]

translation:
My dad says you spy our life ....

He is not your father ....

[PathWalker]

If one it trying to obstruct/confront the surveillance, he/she will get extra attention.
The professionals do not avoid or battle the surveillance.
The professional hide the important information in the open. If the encryption is hidden and well camouflaged, no one will try to break it.

More then that it is not possible to trust the corporation selling anonymity and privacy that they are what they pretend to be.

[EYES WIDE OPEN]

https://prism-break.org/

[Sunny-side-up]

Posted by EYES WIDE OPEN (here)
https://prism-break.org/

Nice list, nice post, now just gota see which software and how to install it without messing every thing up my end and so doing their job for them lol