The Internet is a surveillance state

CNN ^ | March 16, 2013 | Bruce Schneier

[eagleye85]

CNN) -- 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. The Internet is a surveillance state. Whether we admit it to ourselves or not, and whether we like it or not, we're being tracked all the time. Google tracks us, both on its pages and on other pages it has access to.

[UCANSEE2]

They use the megadata .

Probably get it from this guy.

[AlexW]

“So how much does gasoline cost?”
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Probably about 4 bucks per gallon, but it is immaterial,
as a car is not necessary here, as in the US.
I see very few cars per day, and I know very few expats that have one.
I travel my town and go to market by bicycle.
If I need to go north or south to a big city, I take a bus that I can catch anywhere on the highway. I rarely wait more then ten min. to catch one.
That is for an air conditioned bus with airliner type seats, on-board movie and Wi-Fi.

[bronxville]

Exactly! I’m very nervous that many are going along with the BS these obnoxious media jackals are spewing.

[KrisKrinkle]

“I think you know that meant US government intrusion.”

Maybe. A lot of people on this forum write as if the US government is the only government and thus the only government that poses problems.

“As for the foreign governments that I have lived under,
they have not tried to dictate how I live.”

That’s kind of hard to believe because it’s not in the nature of government, any of them. It’s more believable that they haven’t tried to dictate anything you disagree with.