Yesterday we had the news that the NSA has, apparently for years, been receiving by secret court order the records of major phone carriers: which numbers called which numbers. ALL calls. This may or may not be objectionable as they do not have access to the actual conversation.
Today we find out that NSA has also gained access to major internet servers such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Apple among others and have been mining data from those servers. The data mined includes email, photos, communications and more.
CNN Article "(CNN) -- U.S. intelligence agencies operated a broad data-mining program that extracted e-mail, photos and other private communications from some of the biggest Internet companies, American and British newspapers reported Thursday."
Personally, I am finding this much more troubling. I can understand the records of what numbers call what numbers, but data mining involving this kind of data seems to me to cross the line.
What do you all think?
David:
I have just read this articles on CNN. I have to agree with you they have crossed the line. the program, called PRISM The program has been running since 2007. The NSA told CNN it had no comment.:(
What can we expect next!!!!!
I have just read this articles on CNN. I have to agree with you they have crossed the line. the program, called PRISM The program has been running since 2007. The NSA told CNN it had no comment.:(
What can we expect next!!!!!
Don't get me wrong, I agree with some of what the NSA does. They do help protect us. But......................................................
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I understand how you feel yes they are a important part of our security I agree with that...........but..........
Today there is an interesting Opinion article related to it. Definately food for thought, though really we pretty much all already knew that there is no real privacy on the Internet at this point.
"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. Facebook does the same; it even tracks non-Facebook users. Apple tracks us on our iPhones and iPads. One reporter used a tool called Collusion to track who was tracking him; 105 companies tracked his Internet use during one 36-hour period."
Full Opinion Article
He has some pretty good points. Don't even think you are anonymous on the Internet... you aren't.
"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. Facebook does the same; it even tracks non-Facebook users. Apple tracks us on our iPhones and iPads. One reporter used a tool called Collusion to track who was tracking him; 105 companies tracked his Internet use during one 36-hour period."
Full Opinion Article
He has some pretty good points. Don't even think you are anonymous on the Internet... you aren't.
David I have to agree with you 100%. The internet is a surveillance state, sad to say:(
So the question is what can we do if any to protect our privacy??????????????
So the question is what can we do if any to protect our privacy??????????????
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Well, I am not sure there is a way to protect 100% from all goverments and companies from all tracking but using Webroot certainly helps prevent identity theft.
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Encrypt all your data, use a proxy+tor, run your OS in a VM on a RAM drive that is all sealed in a magnetic box 🙂
Yeah, this really angers Webroot.. So they hire former NSA employees as a response?????
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/21/co-webroot-cmo-idUSnPnLA63927+160+PRN20130221
Duncan began his career with the U.S. Air Force, spending 10 years assigned to
the U.S. National Security Agency as an airborne cryptologic linguist performing
intelligence collection operations and cryptographic analysis. Duncan also
designed and implemented highly secure and classified government information
systems for FEMA, the U.S. Army and the U.S. Air Force.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/21/co-webroot-cmo-idUSnPnLA63927+160+PRN20130221
Duncan began his career with the U.S. Air Force, spending 10 years assigned to
the U.S. National Security Agency as an airborne cryptologic linguist performing
intelligence collection operations and cryptographic analysis. Duncan also
designed and implemented highly secure and classified government information
systems for FEMA, the U.S. Army and the U.S. Air Force.
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Kindle, I'll reply to your other topic over here shortly. This thread is 4 months old and doesn't really need to be resurrected. 🙂
/// JimM /// /// Former Community Manager - Now Humble Internet Citizen/// /// Also Formerly a Technical Support Escalations Engineer ///
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