otherwise.
The best expose on PRISM now comes from the 40 year career NSA employee, William Benny, who became the Director of Intelligence there under Geroge W. Bush. He has gone public since Snowden and detailed the full capabilities of PRISM and what the NSA was doing.
Former Director of NSA Intelligence reveals the full extent of PRISM capabilities. MUST SEE!
Someone once made a remark about Pat Buchanan that stuck with me, because it’s really not about Buchanan, but a philosophy of behavior.
“Pat Buchanan is the kind of guy that, if you injected him with Sodium Pentothol, he would say exactly the same things.”
In practical terms, this means that you should have a public face and a private face. What you say and do in public, or over electronic media, should always be made with the assumption that anyone and everyone will be reading it. Zero privacy. There is and never will be a way around this problem.
There is no privacy on the Internet. Assume this.
It is much like the elementary school rule that “You should never take anything to school that you are afraid of losing. Everything you take should be replaceable and expendable.”
And while everybody also has a private face, of things you don’t want to share with others, this means *always*. If you want to keep them private, do not share them.
Many families have one member who is a gossip. They will tell complete strangers anything they know about you, with utter disregard to your privacy. And they will also frequently ask you to give them private information just so they can abuse it.
Many corporations and government agencies are this way as well. They are always after private information to add to their files and exploit. To the point where there is some truth to the statement, that “Nobody wants to know anything about you, for *your* benefit.”
Today, there are so many government(s) and commercial interests after your information, that it is a wonder the Internet still functions. If 100 wiretaps are on your phone, eventually you can’t speak to or hear who you want to talk to on the other side.
However, beyond a certain point, the information collection becomes foolish.
A great example of this was when Clinton’s office in the White House accumulated the crude and unverified FBI files of hundreds of his political opponents. Vast, thick dossiers loaded with rumor, innuendo and guesswork, with no distinction of what was accurate and what was not.
The childish glee of voyeuristically doing so, in a close to perverse way, was great, but the actual value was minimal. Manufactured lying gossip would have been just as useful to politically attack or threaten, the purpose of the exercise.
So, since we cannot speak publicly of private things, what can we as individuals do? Simple. Increase the amount of garbage that the snoops collect.
http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/
This is a random (plausible) identity generator. When a website (that you are not buying something from) asks for personal information; or if you are “required” to submit personal information just to comment on a news or opinion item; give them a fake. They have no “need to know”.
And, if they demand an email address, give them a “10 minute email”, a real email account that only lasts for 10 (renewable) minutes:
http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html
Or, if you need to get several responses from them, use a spamgourmet address, which will forward to your real email a limited number of emails, then block the rest.
People tend to reuse passwords, which is noted by the surveyors, so use a password generator, such as:
http://www.pctools.com/guides/password/
Importantly, it lets you generate up to 64 characters, so if you can, use a 30-64 character password, which will be much, much harder to crack. Just for fun. Make them work for it. Especially on frivolous sites.
Importantly, if you assign a fake name to your real address because they are snail mailing something to you, keep a list record of fake names that you used, so when somebody else sends junk mail to your address, using the fake name, you will know who sold your information.
So don’t trust them as much in the future.
I don’t know, but what I got from reading the first two paragraphs is that they would be for it.
What an ass abyss author. No hits from me for the author.
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