The Internet is a surveillance state

CNN ^ | 3/16/13 | Bruce Schneier

[Borges]

I'm going to start with three data points.

One: Some of the Chinese military hackers who were implicated in a broad set of attacks against the U.S. government and corporations were identified because they accessed Facebook from the same network infrastructure they used to carry out their attacks.

Two: Hector Monsegur, one of the leaders of the LulzSac hacker movement, was identified and arrested last year by the FBI. Although he practiced good computer security and used an anonymous relay service to protect his identity, he slipped up.

And three: Paula Broadwell,who had an affair with CIA director David Petraeus, similarly took extensive precautions to hide her identity. She never logged in to her anonymous e-mail service from her home network. Instead, she used hotel and other public networks when she e-mailed him. The FBI correlated hotel registration data from several different hotels -- and hers was the common name.

[real saxophonist]

Hold on while I go update my Facebook status.

[proxy_user]

“And three: Paula Broadwell,who had an affair with CIA director David Petraeus, similarly took extensive precautions to hide her identity. She never logged in to her anonymous e-mail service from her home network. Instead, she used hotel and other public networks when she e-mailed him. The FBI correlated hotel registration data from several different hotels — and hers was the common name.”

Amateurish.

[Hardraade]

It’s all surveillamce.

Watch the watchers.

[ChoobacKY]

I don’t care if they track my every move! With any luck at all the trackers will soon die of boredom! :)

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

..still waiting for EPA’s Lisa Jackson to be prosecuted for using alias E-mails for official EPA business.. Hmmm, hmmm, hmmmm.. laaaa laaaa deeeee daaaaaa.. Hmmm, hmmmm...

[nascarnation]

still waiting for EPA’s Lisa Jackson to be prosecuted

Eric (with)Holder is all over it!

[ClearCase_guy]

I’ve never trusted the internet. That’s why I don’t go on it.

[upchuck]

I don’t have a cell phone. And if I did the battery would be in only when I was making a call.

I don’t use Google unless absolutely necessary. Mostly I use Bing or DogPile.

I don’t participate in ANY social networking of any kind.

My vehicle is old enough that it doesn’t have any tracking goodies under the hood.

I don’t go out and about nearly as much as I used to.

Yeah, “they” may try tracking me. But I’m gonna make it as hard on the bastards as I can.

Besides, my life is mostly boring compared to some.

[Terry L Smith]

I don’t use Facebook.
I don’t use MySpace.
I don’t use Twitter.

[upchuck]

One more thought.

Technology, to me, stopped in about 1999. That’s about when tracking first started. So I stopped trying to keep up with technology at that point. No cell phone, no iPad, no tablet, etc. I do have a desktop computer and a notebook computer. They do me fine. And I don’t miss all that other stuff.

I see people in the store with their cell phone or tablet in their hand and they watch it continuously. Hello? Get a life?

[TigersEye]

I use the best security protocol on the planet. I never log in.

[Fred Hayek]

Yet some employers will not hire candidates who do not have Fakebook profiles.

[real saxophonist]

btt

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

One thing I see missing from your list. Your not one of those guys that whips out his credit card for every little purchase are you?

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

The very first ‘surveillance’ in this country started with driver’s licenses. Then there was social security and service numbers for military members. The internet has merely enhanced big brothers desire to ‘surveil’ us.

[Praxeologue]

I don’t use Google unless absolutely necessary.

As a long-time Gmail user, I now put Gmail on a different browser, Opera, and use Mozilla Firefox for everything else. That prevents Google from tracking my every move. This is a pain. however, so I am considering moving to the best e-mail service I could find, LuxSci, and forwarding all my Gmail messages to LuxSci.

[upchuck]

Of course not. I have no credit cards. Use my debit card at the ATM (where the bank takes my picture) and then use the cash to pay for everything.

[upchuck]

I also use Firefox. I’ve got the PrivacyChoice TrackerBlock running. I choose maximum protection from tracking.

[Chances Are]

I don’t use Yearbook.

I don’t use MyFace.

I don’t use Tweety.

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