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stomy

8th June 2013, 07:01

Automatic Translation:

Following the article on NSA and the Prism program (http://www.revivall.org/article-la-nsa-et-le-programme-prism-118339327.html) , alternatives can be considered using other cyber-corporations.

1) Replace Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL, Facebook, Paltalk, Apple services that are:

Your email correspondence
your friends, your interests and your opinions centers (social networks, RSS feeds)
your research on the internet (search engine)
your documents (cloud)
your internet navigation
your home (Street View, etc.)
your bank details (Google Play, etc.)
your telephone number (Recovery Account)
your travels and your location (Latitude, Map)
your calendar
videos and music (Youtube, Google Music)
your blog (Blogger, ...)
data from your mobile phone (Android Apps ...)
and soon your life IRL (Google Glasses, ...)
etc ...

We can use:

Mail: Zoho or mail.opera

Calendar: Zoho

Contacts: Zoho or mail.opera.com

Docs: Zoho

RSS: Feedly

Drive: DropBox

Search: D uckDuckGo , Startpage , Orange

Map: OpenStreetMap

iGoogle: portal.opera.com

Google Music or other: Grooveshark

Youtube: Vimeo , Dailymotion

Internet Browser: Firefox and managing bookmarks Xmarks and Delicious

Google Alert: Talk Walker Alert

Do not use Google+, Facebook, Instagram, ... Prefer Twitter

Instant Messaging (Skype, AOL, ...): Brosix

Blog: Transfer your blog (Blogger, ...) on an independent business as OverBlog or create your own blog ( Wordpress , Joomla , ...)

OS: Linux , Unix , ...

Changes will be made with the new platform to limit OverBlog see not use these companies.

If everyone does not use these companies, they will have more interest to exist. Other companies will resume over by redeeming but it is up to us afterwards to change our habits.

Revivall
Source: http://www.revivall.org/article-des-alternatives-contre-le-programme-prism-microsoft-yahoo-google-118349976.html

naste.de.lumina

8th June 2013, 07:15

My friend stomy.
Some habits acquired in internet use are more difficult to change than eliminate the smoking.
Thanks for the tips.
Naste.

stomy

8th June 2013, 11:06

Spread this tips to all yours contacts please, we'll be more effective against majors ;) Thanks

Lifebringer

8th June 2013, 11:47

Hee, hee, just make a short call to friends and don't use buzz words....you know what they are and I won't bring them here to have the constant probing ill intent snoops throwing stinkers here on the pc's.

The people who do stupid stuff like murder will just use the opposite buzz words anyway, so really its just another way to snoop on everyone. Cameras on every corner not enough, because of gunshots the people are inside NOT watching their crap, but on the net, so now they want to sneak and peek on the sheep. How they can stir the hive into violent intent towards others, not like them in "hue", hair, clothes, finance.

Wheat from the chafe, ladies and gents, the wheat from the chafe.

PS for the newbies who's eyes are just opening to what the abcorgsnoopscope has been doing for the corporations who want to get inside your heads on products.
In 2000, my vote was purged in the election, and I was not "allowed to vote, because I didn't vote in the congressional election." Imagine my surprise on their azzsumption that there was someone I wanted to vote for during that election.

I almost had a nervous breakdown and was on the fence teetering over what my ancestors marched and died for being callously taken from me.(Our ancestors fight for civil and voting rights on the Bridge) All that went through my head that day in an instant and did not compute, so to speak. After that, I told myself to pick myself back up, realize I got reamed of my rights and fight everyday until I was comfortable enough with my IQ to really expose the bs going on, that our parents and baby boomer Grandparents drunk theirselves to sleep on.
Slow thinkers of "remember when" that have stifled the growth of the country through outdated memories of "haves and have nots" living comfortably side by side one poor, and one rich, that's just the way it was with them.

That little fairytale and lullaby of "happy days" is not longer viable with wolves at Fonzie's door with technological weapons of snoop. They were the WW2 babies who faught in Vietnam believing they were fighting for freedom, instead of another CORP WS exec wanting to come take their resources, or open a business in competition using their own people to twist the knife in their economy, as they own the banks.

Like I said, a lot of research on what laws were passed, before and after Bush1 and 2.
If at this time, we don't recognize that God has provided US a President that does not want the same laws Bush put in, and help him close Guantanamo as a sign that the people know they are against closing it, and will support him in his last term. No telling who will get through in 2016, unless we can vote those obstructing JOBS, and Progress on Global climate change preparation for the ALL people/citizens.
It's time to unite, despite doctrine of hate because of physical, financial or "HUEman" color rainbows and language.

The whole world deserves to be free to elect their leaders. WE the majority who didn't follow the Fox newsparrots of media destruction/journalism/opinion/entertainment, elected this President after vetting him for 4 years. Its time the right did the same thing if they are to clean their corruption, as the DEM,IND,Pissed Off Republicans did on the left.

Playing crazy for 15 minutes of fame and death sentence isn't gonna cut it.
Prosecution of the laws and changing of oppressive laws that effect minorities, and give a pass to "real Americans" is NEVER fair. Suppose when the guy who ate the McDonalds, ignored the girl and child because of color? Just saying, Racism and division only work for the energy suckers on the top.

Lets stop feeding them.
You know, that month long boycott of the net, just may open their eyes to the fact that HEY, IS ANYBODY OUT THERE TO TALK TO MY BUSINESS, PROGRAM, OR ORGANIZATION?

Crickets and mind focus of NO MORE SNOOPING, NO MORE WARS, NO MORE IGNORANCE, vibrating around the world.
As you can see, I'm fine now that I've paid attention to every election on the left since, as is my duty. WE cannot leave the rats to play, as the cats are away. Someone must always watch that our rights aren't trampled as humans or citizens equally.
My worst nightmare, WOKE me up like a sleeping giant. I as a woman began to first weep for my country, and then fight verbally to smash lying media planted trolls from east to west, 50 states at a time and around the world for justice and equality whether communist, or democracy. HUMANITY COMES FIRST. LIVE BEINGS OVER EVIL BEINGS
An end to oppressive tyranny of the masses in every nation. NO it's not communism, facism, or any of the ism's.
It's unity for the two legged upright walking, clear thinking, thoughtful soul, they thought was gonna just take it up the rear w/out lubrication and say: "Oh, that's just the way it is. NOT FOR ME, OR MY CHILDREN'S CHILDREN.

FREEDOM NOW, ALL AMERICAN AND WORLD FREEDOM FOREVER!
FIRE THE CORPORATE LOBBYING SHILLS, and free OUR future PEACEFULLY WITH TRUE JUSTICE AND PROSECUTION OF OUR LAWS!
Works for me.
PSS They want to treat the internet like crack to get you hooked. I got off the pc crack and went in the garden among nature with favorite list blasting knowledge for all to hear while I'm in the yard, and praying when necessary, just putting it out there for the Creator to solve, if I am financially or physically able to help/be there, I do so with my love of heart and mind to reach out for healing.
Get off the pc crack for a month, and fill your mind with the positive seeds to sow our future.
We can do it, we are the leaders/guides we've been waiting for.
Let's show the rest of the world how to do it.
Unity for one and ALL OF HUMANITY.

Tesseract

8th June 2013, 13:44

And never trust a democrat:

B6fnfVJzZT4

Paa

8th June 2013, 14:04

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stomy

8th June 2013, 14:17

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Greetings Netizens, and Citizens of the world.

Anonymous has obtained some documents that "they" do not want you to see, and much to "their" chagrin, we have found them, and are giving them to you.
These documents prove that the NSA is spying on you, and not just Americans. They are spying on the citizens of over 35 different countries.
These documents contain information on the companies involved in GiG, and Prism.
Whats GiG you might ask? well...

The GIG will enable the secure, agile, robust, dependable, interoperable data sharing environment for the Department where warfighter, business, and intelligence users share knowledge on a global network that facilitates information superiority, accelerates decision-making, effective operations, and Net-Centric transformation.

Like we said, this is happening in over 35 countries, and done in cooperation with private businesses, and intelligence partners world wide.
We bring this to you, So that you know just how little rights you have. Your privacy and freedoms are slowly being taken from you, in closed door meetings, in laws buried in
bills, and by people who are supposed to be protecting you.

Download these documents, share them, mirror them, don't allow them to make them disappear. Spread them wide and far. Let these people know, that we will not be silenced, that we will not be taken advantage of, and that we are not happy about this unwarranted, unnecessary, unethical spying of our private lives, for the monetary gain of the 1%.

And now, the candy: http://thedocs.hostzi.com/

Mirrors:
http://t.co/XVlZQ53Zhp
http://t.co/JYUHrhi3Ue
http://t.co/qR9PRzySbq
http://t.co/yGw2sP976W
http://t.co/MrmBj4kma5

We are Anonymous
We do not forgive
We do not forget
and by now,
You should expect us

Sources: http://pastebin.com/MPpT7xaf
http://www.revivall.org/article-annonymous-revelent-des-fichiers-d-espionnages-dans-35-pays-du-monde-118357761.html

stomy

8th June 2013, 14:37

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Sorry, just found on Youtube :(
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other video: http://www.democracynow.org/2013/6/7/a_massive_surveillance_state_glenn_greenwald

stomy

8th June 2013, 14:46

Government Built Spy-Access Into Most Popular Consumer Program Before 9/11

In researching the stunning pervasiveness of spying by the government (it’s much more wide spread than you’ve heard even now), we ran across the fact that the FBI wants software programmers to install a backdoor in all software.

Digging a little further, we found a 1999 article by leading European computer publication Heise which noted that the NSA had already built a backdoor into all Windows software:

A careless mistake by Microsoft programmers has revealed that special access codes prepared by the US National Security Agency have been secretly built into Windows. The NSA access system is built into every version of the Windows operating system now in use, except early releases of Windows 95 (and its predecessors). The discovery comes close on the heels of the revelations earlier this year that another US software giant, Lotus, had built an NSA “help information” trapdoor into its Notes system, and that security functions on other software systems had been deliberately crippled.

The first discovery of the new NSA access system was made two years ago by British researcher Dr Nicko van Someren [an expert in computer security]. But it was only a few weeks ago when a second researcher rediscovered the access system. With it, he found the evidence linking it to NSA.

***

Two weeks ago, a US security company came up with conclusive evidence that the second key belongs to NSA. Like Dr van Someren, Andrew Fernandez, chief scientist with Cryptonym of Morrisville, North Carolina, had been probing the presence and significance of the two keys. Then he checked the latest Service Pack release for Windows NT4, Service Pack 5. He found that Microsoft’s developers had failed to remove or “strip” the debugging symbols used to test this software before they released it. Inside the code were the labels for the two keys. One was called “KEY”. The other was called “NSAKEY”.

Fernandes reported his re-discovery of the two CAPI keys, and their secret meaning, to “Advances in Cryptology, Crypto’99″ conference held in Santa Barbara. According to those present at the conference, Windows developers attending the conference did not deny that the “NSA” key was built into their software. But they refused to talk about what the key did, or why it had been put there without users’ knowledge.

A third key?!

But according to two witnesses attending the conference, even Microsoft’s top crypto programmers were astonished to learn that the version of ADVAPI.DLL shipping with Windows 2000 contains not two, but three keys. Brian LaMachia, head of CAPI development at Microsoft was “stunned” to learn of these discoveries, by outsiders. The latest discovery by Dr van Someren is based on advanced search methods which test and report on the “entropy” of programming code.

Within the Microsoft organisation, access to Windows source code is said to be highly compartmentalized, making it easy for modifications to be inserted without the knowledge of even the respective product managers.

Researchers are divided about whether the NSA key could be intended to let US government users of Windows run classified cryptosystems on their machines or whether it is intended to open up anyone’s and everyone’s Windows computer to intelligence gathering techniques deployed by NSA’s burgeoning corps of “information warriors”.

According to Fernandez of Cryptonym, the result of having the secret key inside your Windows operating system “is that it is tremendously easier for the NSA to load unauthorized security services on all copies of Microsoft Windows, and once these security services are loaded, they can effectively compromise your entire operating system“. The NSA key is contained inside all versions of Windows from Windows 95 OSR2 onwards.

***

“How is an IT manager to feel when they learn that in every copy of Windows sold, Microsoft has a ‘back door’ for NSA – making it orders of magnitude easier for the US government to access your computer?” he asked.

We have repeatedly pointed out that widespread spying on Americans began prior to 9/11.

Source: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/06/microsoft-programmed-in-nsa-backdoor-in-windows-by-1999.html

spiritguide

8th June 2013, 15:53

Well there have been black programs on this issue going back decades. All this held under secrecy of National security. Who is Daniel Elsberg and why was he news?

Openmindedskeptic

8th June 2013, 21:12

According to journalist Glen Greenwald the full extent of the NSA's PRISM program has yet to be completely exposed.

The question now is what are the American people willing to do to get their civil liberties back? Most thoughtful activists, scholars and Constitutional organizations are insisting on stringent oversight hearings along the lines of the Church Committee hearings of the 1970's. Sounds like a good start to me.

CdnSirian

8th June 2013, 22:22

When a young Linux learner I know needed to learn Windows he got a German copy. I asked why and he said "there's no backdoor". I don't know if that is true now. I read a few years ago that both the gov of France and UCLA switched to Linux because of security issues with Windows. Maybe they wanted to eliminate the backdoor issue. I really don't know much about these things.

ThePythonicCow

8th June 2013, 22:27

I read a few years ago that both the gov of France and UCLA switched to Linux because of security issues with Windows.
There are more security issues with Windows than the NSA's backdoor.

Warlock

8th June 2013, 22:33

With the revealing of Echelon and Carnivore, you can bet your full net worth that PRISM was, and had been, in full operation.

With the revealing of PRISM, there is something much more efficient that is, and has been, operating for some time.

That is why it is safe, at this time, for TPTB to get you all worked up over this.

It's not what you see, it's what you don't see.

Warlock :wizard:

stomy

9th June 2013, 10:30

Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data

Revealed: The NSA's powerful tool for cataloguing data – including figures on US collection

• Boundless Informant: mission outlined in four slides
• Read the NSA's frequently asked questions document

(Map on Source)
The color scheme ranges from green (least subjected to surveillance) through yellow and orange to red (most surveillance). Note the '2007' date in the image relates to the document from which the interactive map derives its top secret classification, not to the map itself.

The National Security Agency has developed a powerful tool for recording and analysing where its intelligence comes from, raising questions about its repeated assurances to Congress that it cannot keep track of all the surveillance it performs on American communications.

The Guardian has acquired top-secret documents about the NSA datamining tool, called Boundless Informant, that details and even maps by country the voluminous amount of information it collects from computer and telephone networks.

The focus of the internal NSA tool is on counting and categorizing the records of communications, known as metadata, rather than the content of an email or instant message.

The Boundless Informant documents show the agency collecting almost 3 billion pieces of intelligence from US computer networks over a 30-day period ending in March 2013. One document says it is designed to give NSA officials answers to questions like, "What type of coverage do we have on country X" in "near real-time by asking the SIGINT [signals intelligence] infrastructure."

An NSA factsheet about the program, acquired by the Guardian, says: "The tool allows users to select a country on a map and view the metadata volume and select details about the collections against that country."

Under the heading "Sample use cases", the factsheet also states the tool shows information including: "How many records (and what type) are collected against a particular country."

A snapshot of the Boundless Informant data, contained in a top secret NSA "global heat map" seen by the Guardian, shows that in March 2013 the agency collected 97bn pieces of intelligence from computer networks worldwide.
boundless heatmap The heat map reveals how much data is being collected from around the world. Note the '2007' date in the image relates to the document from which the interactive map derives its top secret classification, not to the map itself.

Iran was the country where the largest amount of intelligence was gathered, with more than 14bn reports in that period, followed by 13.5bn from Pakistan. Jordan, one of America's closest Arab allies, came third with 12.7bn, Egypt fourth with 7.6bn and India fifth with 6.3bn.

The heatmap gives each nation a color code based on how extensively it is subjected to NSA surveillance. The color scheme ranges from green (least subjected to surveillance) through yellow and orange to red (most surveillance).

The disclosure of the internal Boundless Informant system comes amid a struggle between the NSA and its overseers in the Senate over whether it can track the intelligence it collects on American communications. The NSA's position is that it is not technologically feasible to do so.

At a hearing of the Senate intelligence committee In March this year, Democratic senator Ron Wyden asked James Clapper, the director of national intelligence: "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?"

"No sir," replied Clapper.

Judith Emmel, an NSA spokeswoman, told the Guardian in a response to the latest disclosures: "NSA has consistently reported – including to Congress – that we do not have the ability to determine with certainty the identity or location of all communicants within a given communication. That remains the case."

Other documents seen by the Guardian further demonstrate that the NSA does in fact break down its surveillance intercepts which could allow the agency to determine how many of them are from the US. The level of detail includes individual IP addresses.

IP address is not a perfect proxy for someone's physical location but it is rather close, said Chris Soghoian, the principal technologist with the Speech Privacy and Technology Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. "If you don't take steps to hide it, the IP address provided by your internet provider will certainly tell you what country, state and, typically, city you are in," Soghoian said.

That approximation has implications for the ongoing oversight battle between the intelligence agencies and Congress.

On Friday, in his first public response to the Guardian's disclosures this week on NSA surveillance, Barack Obama said that that congressional oversight was the American peoples' best guarantee that they were not being spied on.

"These are the folks you all vote for as your representatives in Congress and they are being fully briefed on these programs," he said. Obama also insisted that any surveillance was "very narrowly circumscribed".

Senators have expressed their frustration at the NSA's refusal to supply statistics. In a letter to NSA director General Keith Alexander in October last year, senator Wyden and his Democratic colleague on the Senate intelligence committee, Mark Udall, noted that "the intelligence community has stated repeatedly that it is not possible to provide even a rough estimate of how many American communications have been collected under the Fisa Amendments Act, and has even declined to estimate the scale of this collection."

At a congressional hearing in March last year, Alexander denied point-blank that the agency had the figures on how many Americans had their electronic communications collected or reviewed. Asked if he had the capability to get them, Alexander said: "No. No. We do not have the technical insights in the United States." He added that "nor do we do have the equipment in the United States to actually collect that kind of information".

Soon after, the NSA, through the inspector general of the overall US intelligence community, told the senators that making such a determination would jeopardize US intelligence operations – and might itself violate Americans' privacy.

"All that senator Udall and I are asking for is a ballpark estimate of how many Americans have been monitored under this law, and it is disappointing that the inspectors general cannot provide it," Wyden told Wired magazine at the time.

The documents show that the team responsible for Boundless Informant assured its bosses that the tool is on track for upgrades.

The team will "accept user requests for additional functionality or enhancements," according to the FAQ acquired by the Guardian. "Users are also allowed to vote on which functionality or enhancements are most important to them (as well as add comments). The BOUNDLESSINFORMANT team will periodically review all requests and triage according to level of effort (Easy, Medium, Hard) and mission impact (High, Medium, Low)."

Emmel, the NSA spokeswoman, told the Guardian: "Current technology simply does not permit us to positively identify all of the persons or locations associated with a given communication (for example, it may be possible to say with certainty that a communication traversed a particular path within the internet. It is harder to know the ultimate source or destination, or more particularly the identity of the person represented by the TO:, FROM: or CC: field of an e-mail address or the abstraction of an IP address).

"Thus, we apply rigorous training and technological advancements to combine both our automated and manual (human) processes to characterize communications – ensuring protection of the privacy rights of the American people. This is not just our judgment, but that of the relevant inspectors general, who have also reported this."

She added: "The continued publication of these allegations about highly classified issues, and other information taken out of context, makes it impossible to conduct a reasonable discussion on the merits of these programs."

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/08/nsa-boundless-informant-global-datamining#
http://www.revivall.org/article-informateur-sans-bornes-l-outil-secret-de-la-nsa-suit-les-donnees-sur-la-surveillance-mondiale-118372609.html

stomy

10th June 2013, 15:02

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x10qr0x_nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-i-don-t-want-to-live-in-a-society-that-does-these-sort-of-things_news?search_algo=2

Automatic Translation:

Who is Edward Snowden?

Ex-CIA technician, Snowden worked for four years at the NSA, as an employee of various subcontractors, including Dell and Booz Allen Hamilton, his former employer, when he made fuiter confidential documents. As he explained to British newspaper, he chose to reveal his own identity: "I have no intention to hide me because I know I did nothing wrong." The technician who worked in offices in Hawaii is not a money man, and he has chosen to sacrifice his comfortable salary of $ 200 000 for his ideals: "I wanted to sacrifice just because I could not, in good conscience, allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and fundamental freedoms of people around the world with this massive surveillance machine he built secretly. "

On May 20, he flew to Hong Kong, claiming to have an operation to cure his epilepsy. He had already copied all the documents he wanted to be, and chose not to prevent his companion. "I do not think I can go back home," he says in the Guardian video, filmed in the former British colony.

What it revealed?

Thanks to documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the Guardian revealed Thursday, June 6 that the NSA, the U.S. National Security Agency, had asked the phone company Verizon information on the data of all its customers, whether they are suspected in cases in progress or not. This surveillance was authorized by a judge, from April 25 to July 19, 17 pm: the intelligence services have access during this time all telephone metadata largest telecommunications operator in the United States. This means both international mobile numbers, the equipment used, the duration and time of call. Everything except the content of the calls for U.S. citizens but also foreigners.

The Washington Post and then the British newspaper revealed Friday, June 7 that the intelligence services also have access to new servers Internet giants and micro-computer world like Google, Apple or Facebook to intercept communications of foreign Internet: the famous - and top secret - PRISM.

The authorities' response

The outcry caused by these revelations, the authorities were forced to react, and to clear the controversy. The Prism program is "legal" ensures James Clapper, the director of national intelligence. This program, authorized under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (for surveillance and intelligence abroad), and the Patriot Act passed one month after the September 11 attacks "was widely known and had been discussed publicly since his implementation in 2008, "he says. "Service providers provide information to the government when they are forced to do so by a court," he also said. The Prism program is not U.S. citizens or anyone who lives in the United States, he also assured. And the administration can not ask about a person living abroad "unless there is specific information justifying the request (...) and that it is reasonable to assume that the target is outside the United States "

Other espionage cases that have affected the Obama administration

These revelations appear while the Obama administration has to deal with many cases which are singled out the intervention of information in the private lives of some of these people or the questioning of the protection of journalistic sources.

First, the U.S. ruling would have tried to cover the responsibilities in the context of the attack against the consulate in Benghazi September 11, 2012. Then in May, an official of the IRS has leaked some of its employees had specifically targeted the Tea Party in their controls. Finally, three days later, the Associated Press (AP) revealed that the telephone lines of twenty of its reporters had been monitored as part of an investigation into leaks it received in 2012 (on an attempted terrorist attack has been thwarted in Yemen in 2012).

Sources:

Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA monitoring revelations

guardian.co.uk (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance)

Edward Snowden: saving us from the United Stasi of America

guardian.co.uk (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/10/edward-snowden-united-stasi-america)

This abuse of the Patriot Act must end

guardian.co.uk (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/09/abuse-patriot-act-must-end)

NSA whistleblower's warning: 'Just the tip of the iceberg'

washingtontimes.com (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jun/7/the-national-security-agencys-collection-of-phone-/#ixzz2VlDDygKj)

U.S. monitoring HAS 'expanded' under Obama, says Bush's NSA director

guardian.co.uk (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/us-surveillance-expanded-obama-hayden)

http://www.revivall.org/article-edward-snowden-interview-et-enquete-sur-l-ex-agent-de-la-cia-denon-ant-le-programme-prism-118401026.html

stomy

10th June 2013, 15:09

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x10rcv6_ron-paul-about-computer-surveillance-in-1984_webcam

Roisin

10th June 2013, 15:14

PRISM is not only a shocking invasion of our privacy but it's also a violation against human rights. If the general public does not step in to nip this one at the bud, we will end up in a state of indentured servitude to the elite who stand to reap in enormous profits on a global level as a result of that initiative.

Valle

10th June 2013, 15:54

And never trust a democrat:

B6fnfVJzZT4

Its all Irony..

In the book 1984, three slogans of the Party stood out in bold capitals:
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

In Germany 1940, Signs at entrance to camps:
"Arbeit macht frei"

"Labour makes (you) free".

Google, code of conduct:
“Don’t be evil”

http://investor.google.com/corporate/code-of-conduct.html

stomy

12th June 2013, 16:23

'Quit Google, Facebook' suggests tech expert as surveillance scandal deepens

A best-selling author and technology expert has said that web users should boycott internet giants like Google and Facebook if it is confirmed they were involved in a US surveillance programme referred to as Prism.

In an interview with Wired.co.uk, Professor Tim Wu of Columbia Law School suggested that consumers had a responsibility to leave social networks found out to be collaborating secretly with intelligence services such as the US National Security Agency:

"When you have enormous concentrations of data in a few hands, spying becomes very easy"

Tim Wu

"Quit Facebook and use another search engine. It's simple." He added, "It's nice to keep in touch with your friends. But I think if you find out if it's true that these companies are involved in these surveillance programs you should just quit."

Wu cautioned that he felt many facts were not yet verified but admitted he was not surprised to hear of the existence of Prism. News of the programme was, he said, "shocking and dispiriting".

"When you have enormous concentrations of data in a few hands, spying becomes very easy," said Wu. "So Facebook and Google were always obvious targets for any government that wants to know stuff about people."

Wu was speaking after giving a keynote speech to delegates of ORGCon2013, an Open Rights Group conference held in London on Saturday 8 June. Appearing to refer to Prism during his address, Wu asserted that the current situation was one of "crisis".

As part of his keynote, Wu described several historical examples of technologies having been used as tools of oppression or societal control, such as enforced propaganda radio broadcasts by the Nazi regime. He also commented that he felt web users ought to have a "visceral" sense of ownership over their online data.

In further comments made during interview, Wu criticised the track record of the Obama administration on civil liberty issues, saying that the Justice Department under Obama had, in his opinion, been, "a colossal disappointment in this respect".

Responding to remarks made by President Obama immediately following revelations on Prism, Wu said, "I think he is underestimating the degree to which people want to feel safe and secure from eavesdropping." Wu added, "I'm not relieved by his comments at all."

Wu is known for his views on "network neutrality", a phrase he coined in the title of a 2003 academic paper which argued that internet service providers and governments should give equal treatment to all data transmitted via telecommunications networks.

According to a leaked PowerPoint presentation, Prism is a secret intelligence programme created to enable members of the NSA to retrieve user data from co-operating technology companies such as Google, Facebook, Apple, Yahoo and Skype.

Jim Killock, Executive Director of Open Rights Group, told Wired.co.uk: "I think people need to seriously consider quitting [these] services and moving to ones which are located within Europe. But also the government needs to insist that legal rights and privacy rights should be applied to non-US citizens. After all, European governments respect the rights of US citizens. Why shouldn't they do the same?"

Referring to the breaking of the Prism story two days before ORGCon2013, Killock said, "It focused the minds of everyone at the conference." He added that many members of ORG believed "they had to do their part to stop such abuses".

Source: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-06/10/tim-wu-google-boycott
http://www.revivall.org/article-google-microsoft-yahoo-aol-facebook-un-expert-en-technologie-appelle-a-boycotter-118447571.html

stomy

12th June 2013, 16:27

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/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/?hl=en_US
List,Map,Table: http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/countries/?t=map
http://www.revivall.org/article-google-les-demandes-des-gouvernements-sur-les-utilisateurs-augmentent-inexorablement-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/2013/06/asking-us-government-to-allow-google-to.html
http://www.revivall.org/article-google-demande-de-publier-plus-de-donnees-sur-la-securite-nationale-plus-118446675.html

jackovesk

12th June 2013, 16:49

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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWklXIXCsQE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pms7atU4Y7o

http://beforeitsnews.com/science-and-technology/2013/06/obama-nsas-worst-nightmare-is-here-2604580.html

https://unsene.com/

RMorgan

12th June 2013, 16:57

naste.de.lumina

12th June 2013, 17:09

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!!!!

http://www.elatadexico.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/obama.jpg

stomy

12th June 2013, 17:27

RMorgan

12th June 2013, 17:38

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

12th June 2013, 17:54

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

12th June 2013, 17:58

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 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?59255-How-Google-Tracks-Everyone-and-Everything&p=675853&viewfull=1#post675853)

(...)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

12th June 2013, 18:07

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 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?59255-How-Google-Tracks-Everyone-and-Everything&p=675853&viewfull=1#post675853)

(...)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

12th June 2013, 18:20

stomy

12th June 2013, 18:28

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

12th June 2013, 18:29

Deemah

12th June 2013, 19:05

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

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-collection-documents/m/

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

stomy

15th June 2013, 09:17

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 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?59255-How-Google-Tracks-Everyone-and-Everything&p=675853&viewfull=1#post675853)

(...)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/archives/thousands-of-companies-have-been-handing-over-your-personal-data-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/archives/27-edward-snowden-quotes-about-u-s-government-spying-that-should-send-a-chill-up-your-spine

ponda

15th June 2013, 10:52

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

17th June 2013, 00:38

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

naste.de.lumina

11th July 2013, 13:15

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/1005734_303232479823081_1942149888_n.jpg

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

He is not your father ....

PathWalker

11th July 2013, 15:19

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

3rd August 2013, 22:20

https://prism-break.org/

Sunny-side-up

3rd August 2013, 23:12

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

ThePythonicCow

3rd August 2013, 23:34

https://prism-break.org/

I merged this thread with one of the other threads already covering this topic.

toad

4th August 2013, 04:32

I read a few years ago that both the gov of France and UCLA switched to Linux because of security issues with Windows.
There are more security issues with Windows than the NSA's backdoor.

LOL no kidding.

https://crypto.cat/ is a cool messaging service that is pretty secure its under development but its a cool project.