Dammit, I'm gonna have to stop organising my terrorist attacks on Facebook.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data
Q: Why did you decide to become a whistleblower?A: "The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards."I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things … 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."
Don't like it, send a letter, you know pen and papyrus
I've resigned myself to the fact that everything I do on the internet is tracked or could be if needed.Same with my cell phone.Info is being filtered all the time, most of it just goes down the drain but some of it pans out and we have a terror plot uncovered before peeps die.Don't like it, send a letter, you know pen and papyrus
The US might want to revoke our No nukes policy to allow them to use our ports to refuel their fleet,
I think we should allow them to use our ports to refuel their fleet.
I think you would have to be very naive if you think this sort of data will only ever be used to stop terrorism.As a New Zealander would you be comfortable with the United States under someone like Bush using all of our government/business and citizens information for their own nations benefit?As the Snowden rightly points out if they allow this to continue and grow with the current rate of technology growth these tools will just get even more powerful and then it won't take much for some senator to decide this asset should be used for far more than terrorism.Eg. The US might want to revoke our No nukes policy to allow them to use our ports to refuel their fleet, they then start blackmailing those in our government and threatening to release scandals or other personal information that would hurt their re-elections unless they vote to revoke.Not that far fetched especially in a decade or two.
The pure weight of information they have to sift through on the net must mean they can only skim through the content using keywords etc and then zero in when they smell something fishy. Surely they can't store all that info. I don't think it will make much diff to the likes of us talking shit on a nz gaming site
I don't like it, but I also agree the internet can't run unchecked. Pedos 'n shit. Yuck, ain't no one got time fo' them.
I dont think it is me being naive.Of course they have to monitor the internet, it is such a powerful tool that doesn't respect many borders. I am reading more and more about Chinese cyber attacks on american sites both private and government. Israel (US) just set back Irans nuclear programme years with a cyber attack. This will imo become more common over time as the internets reach expands and we rely on it more everyday. The power of the internet was a big part in the Arab uprising, which I'm sure wasn't unnoticed by many governments.Any super power will have to have a huge cyber team ( for want of a better phrase) to monitor and try to control the internet in their country against both foreign and local threats and to use the internet to fuck with their enemies. It is simply too big of a tool to be left unchecked.The pure weight of information they have to sift through on the net must mean they can only skim through the content using keywords etc and then zero in when they smell something fishy. Surely they can't store all that info. I don't think it will make much diff to the likes of us talking shit on a nz gaming siteAs for your example, governments have been spying on and blackmailing each other since year dot so no change there. As they say in boxing, protect yourself at all times.
