PRISM: Here’s What You Need to Know About the US Internet Monitoring Scandal

The Next Web ^ | June 7,, 2013 | John Russell

[lbryce]

The scandals keep on piling up in new and different ways. The really, really scary part is that 2016 is an comparatively eternity away. If you think calling the present situation scary is being paranoid,ask yourself this question?
Can you really believe the Obama Administration is capable of running the government in a responsible, qualified, straightforward manner? Can you really believe this is the last, final scandal you're going to hear emanating from the Obama Administration? Scared yet?

[pepsionice]

I think if all this data just went into a pit...with no outside world connection to it....and you appointed a special federal judge for twelve months to have only one single job of running the facility and clearing people who might need access.....it might all work.

But there needs to be a law in effect that if anyone used the data for political efforts or brought data out to punish people....then there has to be a minimum of ten years of prison time. You get dragged back to Utah where the data is stored, face the federal judge, with no jury, and accept the punishment handed out. No Presidential pardons allowed. The threat to abuse? It has to be so painful that no political party would ever abuse the situation.

[urbanpovertylawcenter]

seems like they knew what I was going to type....

We should plan an overthrow of salt over our shoulders to word off broken mirrors and the ladder it topples.

It is in code.

!enitlavO erom knirD

[Right Wing Assault]

Can you really believe this is the last, final scandal you're going to hear emanating from the Obama Administration? Scared yet?

I imagine President Valerie Jarrett has a lot of mischief still in place with more on the way.

[Right Wing Assault]

Oops. I bet their computers have already scanned ours posts looking for the magic words so they can haul our butts in for at least an IRS audit or worse.

[The Raven]

Hey Obama....if you want something to read......I don't mind if you read my stuff

[Gene Eric]

The legislation was approved by Congress in 2007

Bitch at the Congressional douche bags, not the NSA.

[TheCipher]

I bet their computers have already scanned ours posts looking for the magic words...

Here is a list of the magic words. Everyone should just put that list in an email and mass mail it out. Overload their system. Magic Words

[spokeshave]

That information was required in order to “effectively plan, direct and conduct detection and monitoring of illegal narcoterrorist activities”, as highlighted in a past job opening.

OK...then cough up all the Fast and Furious e-mails.....

[kidd]

If this system worked, or even exists to the degree that is implied...

then why didn’t it catch the Boston Marathon bombers? After all, they must have looked at the AQ-sponsored website that described how to make a pressure cooker bomb.

The NSA knew that they went to Chechnya.

[Typelouder]

Just looked at the list of “Magic Words”...Mecca, Allah, Muhammed, nor Allahu Achbar are on it. So according to DHS, Islam must not be a threat.

[TheCipher]

I am sure they also have a "special list" with the real threat words- patriot, tea party, conservative,Constitution, God .....

[jsanders2001]

Ah no its just de white man tryin ta take de black man down. All dis is lies I tell you...lies. Obama would never do dis to his own people.

Idiots. We tried to warn them. Our instincts were right when the hair on our necks went up but they refused to listen because they finally had their black champion, their first voice, in the white house who would pay back the white man. Now he has proven he’s the worst president in history and they cannot stand that we were right.

[maine-iac7]

Zuckerberg Awarded CIA Surveillance Medal

(HE never believed in personal privacy from the get go - so stated in the very beginning of his venture)

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/07/10/mark-zuckerberg-awarded-cia-surveillance-award/

This was a year ago.

Why is it news only now?

(I used to be an investigative reporter. Investigative reporters are not a dying breed - they are dead, long gone.

Now ‘reporters’ just report to their desks and wait for their talking points feed from their editor, who just got them from the WH.)

[RegulatorCountry]

Looks like the Washington Post was instructed to front-run a scandal about to break by discrediting any claims of uninvolvement to me. Google I can believe, Facebook I can believe. But all of them? Not believable.

[nathanbedford]

Both the Washington Post and Guardian claim that the NSA has “direct” access to the system belonging to nine Internet companies, in order to monitor data. That information was required in order to “effectively plan, direct and conduct detection and monitoring of illegal narcoterrorist activities”,

Like the orange drink Tang grew out of the space program, this is just one more spinoff from our dubious war on drugs but this spinoff could be poisonous.

When are we going to stop waging war against ourselves with ever more Star Wars weapons? We have already used drones, what's next, nuclear weapons? When will we finally decide that the war on drugs is killing our democracy and has already gone a long way toward killing our Constitution?

[Fred Hayek]

Up here in space
I’m looking down on you
My lasers trace
Everything you do

You think, you’ve private lives
Think nothing of the kind
There is no true escape
I’m watching all the time

I’m made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean

I’m electric, electric spy
I’m protective, electric eye

Always in focus
You can’t feel my stare
I zoom into you
But you don’t know I’m there

I take a pride in probing
All your secret moves
My tearless retina takes
Pictures that can prove

I’m made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean

I’m electric, electric spy
I’m protective, electric eye

Electric eye
In the sky
Feel my stare
Always there

There’s nothing you can do about it
Develop and expose
I feed upon your every thought
And so my power grows

I’m made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean

I’m electric, electric spy
I’m protective, electric eye
I’m electric, electric spy
I’m electric, protective, detective, electric eye

Electric Eye, by Judas Priest.

[rockinqsranch]

“Bitch at the Congressional douche bags, not the NSA.”

That would be “Bitch at the DEMOCRAT Congressional douche bags.....” as THAT’s the year the Democrats took over Congress. Oh I’m sure there were some RINO’s involved in the “yays”, but they are Democrat’s incognito.

[tbw2]

Protecting Your Privacy from Tools like RIOT and PRISM
http://tamarawilhite.hubpages.com/hub/Protecting-Your-Privacy-from-Tools-like-RIOT-Software

[Mr. Jeeves]

The threat to abuse? It has to be so painful that no political party would ever abuse the situation.

That kind of threat requires a big, mean government to carry out.

The very same big, mean government who would be looking at the data in the first place.

Government cannot and will not police itself - the only viable option is to constantly strive to keep it within Constitutional limits.

We can take an occasional terrorist attack - we can't take warrantless searches, unlimited blackmail of office-holders, and an unrestrained legal code which leads honest citizens to inadvertently commit an average of three felonies a day.