Posted on 06/06/2013 4:56:00 PM PDT by Nachum
The Washington Post has published a remarkable report showing that the National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been monitoring the central servers of major Internet companies -- Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube and Apple -- and "extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person’s movements and contacts over time."
Why did a government source leak information of this program, dubbed "PRISM," to the Post? What follows is perhaps the most chilling paragraph I've read to date about U.S. government surveillance:
Firsthand experience with these systems, and horror at their capabilities, is what drove a career intelligence officer to provide PowerPoint slides about PRISM and supporting materials to The Washington Post in order to expose what he believes to be a gross intrusion on privacy. “They quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type,” the officer said.
In the wake of last night's Guardian report about the NSA's collection of Verizon phone user metadata, the New York Times editorial board argued that the Obama administration "has now lost all credibility" in defending its abuses of executive power. That was before the report about PRISM, which unlike the Verizon metadata, includes surveillance of user content.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
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“PRISM was implemented in 2007.”
It may go back further than that. Steve Martini wrote a book, Double Tap, copyright 2005. The government had a program called Primis that was mining information from computers.
mware wrote:
“I just checked Steve jobs died on Oct 2012,PRISM got access to Apple on Oct 2012.”
Oh CR@p.....
Ping to LucyT and MestaMachine!
For inclusion in the Threatmatrix perhaps....
Probably much of Congress either doesn’t know about this, or doesn’t care.
There is no chance of that ever happening now. We are too far gone. Maybe we can slow it down a bit, but we can’t stop it.
Mware,
Good work connecting the dots!
There’s a info/cyberwar going on between 0 and the “silent service”.....
narcissistic 0 ain’t gonna back down....
I’m afraid its gonna be messy....
Many thanks for the info!
Many thanks MestaMachine!
Interesting times indeed....
There is no such thing unless you become a mountain man or desert hermit, or otherwise remove yourself from civilization.
All phones are trackable, and all can be listened in on, because all you signals are digitized and recordable. This has been going on since Clinton,maybe to some degree even before him, but technology has made this possible.
Look into the new data center NSA opened in Utah, supposedly ably to store 5 Zettabytes of data. Only God has more data storage.
Did you not notice the las election? That is what they used it for. Google is in their camp, probably Apple and most of the others either voluntarily or by court order.
I guess it wasn’t watched by many people because you are the first Freeper to post anything in a forum on it, besides myself.
Google is evil personified, but it is likely to stay here.
Glad someone noticed
the real purpose.
>> There’s got to be a better way.
I agree.
My point is to take advantage of threat patterns that can be found in net/telecom. It can be done without infringing on anyone’s privacy.
We’re enjoying the perceived sense of privacy, but in reality, we trust our fellow citizens that work in telecom, that manage Google’s infrastructure, that analyze fiber to radio at NSA, that operate forums, blogs, etc. It is truly a fascinating altered-reality that we communicate within. The trust factor is incredibly high given the ease through which identities can be exposed. It is a testament to human nature and the mutual understanding that we all deserve the right to communicate within our select coteries.
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