NSA works with Microsoft, Google, Facebook, etc. to collect all your data

**Khajit** · 2014-07-12 15:42

Originally Posted by Ksandra

Except for the fact, you know, you are canadian...........

Since when does that matter to the USA? We have pages upon pages of infodumps in this thread showing otherwise.

**Ksandra** · 2014-07-12 21:58

Originally Posted by Khajit

Since when does that matter to the USA? We have pages upon pages of infodumps in this thread showing otherwise.

Your right. The NSA must be all over mamas waiting to pounce the next time he downloads news segments.

Iphone changed mazmaz to mamas. I am ok with it.

**Meresgi** · 2014-07-12 23:25

Originally Posted by Ksandra

Your right. The NSA must be all over mamas waiting to pounce the next time he downloads news segments.

But...they are. O:

**Khajit** · 2014-07-13 17:36

Originally Posted by Ksandra

Your right. The NSA must be all over mamas waiting to pounce the next time he downloads news segments.

Iphone changed mazmaz to mamas. I am ok with it.

You act as is he's a less logical target to stop terrorism than the various other blanket targets. You're assuming far too much competence in the NSA when it comes to picking reasonable targets.
Would you say targeting civil rights groups is reasonable for stopping terror? How about people already entrusted with top secret information by the government without any evidence of possible wrongdoing or traitorous behavior with close ties to a former president? Or just random people playing world of warcraft? Surely those world of Warcraft players being spied upon are deadly menaces? Ambassadors from friendly nations?
I'm not saying there's a drone outside his house or anything like that but i certainly wouldn't use the idea that the NSA wont break the law when clear and present proof that they do not give a shit about the law as evidence that he'd never be spied upon nor would i use the idea that he's unimportant because they repeatedly spy upon random or unimportant people simply because they can.
Given that it's proven that they would it's ridiculous to claim they wont.

**BaneTheBrawler** · 2014-07-13 21:15

yeah but it's mamas.

**Pirian** · 2014-07-15 15:25

George Takei reminded me that today is the last day to file a comment at the FCC website

**archibaldcrane** · 2014-07-15 17:36

Nope, after crashing again they've extended the deadline until Friday lol

**6souls** · 2014-07-15 19:53

List of programs the GCHQ used as of July 2012 in their cyber spying

Angry Pirate - a tool to permanently disable a target's account on their computer
Bomb Bay - the capacity to increase website hits/rankings
Cannonball - the ability to send repeated text messages to a single target
Gestator - a tool to make a message, normally a video, more visible on websites including YouTube
Glitterball - software to help agents carry out operations in Second Life and other online games
Birdstrike - Twitter monitoring and profile collection
Fatyak - public data collection from the business-focused social network LinkedIn
Spring Bishop - a tool to find private pictures of targets on Facebook
Changeling - the ability to spoof any email address and send messages under that identity
Bearscrape - a tool to extract a computer's wi-fi connection history
Miniature Hero - the ability to source real-time call records, instant messages and contact lists from Skype
Swamp donkey - a way to send a modified Excel spreadsheet document that silently extracts and runs malware on the target's computer
Underpass - a tool to change the result of online polls
Concrete Donkey - a tool with the ability to send an audio message to a large number of telephones and/or "repeatedly bomb" a target number with the same message

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2...trol-internet/
https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.document...6/jtrigall.pdf

**quannum** · 2014-07-15 20:19

Swamp donkey - a way to send a modified Excel spreadsheet document that silently extracts and runs malware on the target's computer

hrm

**Quicklet** · 2014-07-15 21:05

It's as if they used 4chan as the model for a lot of these programs.

**Meresgi** · 2014-07-25 07:05

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...e-9585250.html

Any internet users who use or even read about privacy services online will be targeted for surveillance by the NSA, according to a new report from German broadcaster ARD.

According to leaked source-code of the US spy agency’s ‘XKeyscore’ software, individuals who search for information about anonymising services such as Tor have their IP addresses logged by the NSA and can be flagged for further monitoring.

Oh i'm sorry, were you reading up on something we don't like? Probably a terrorist!

**Cantih** · 2014-07-25 09:51

Not new in the slightest. Before the internet, there was this brouhaha.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Awareness_Program

**ringthree** · 2014-07-26 09:41

Originally Posted by Cantih

Not new in the slightest. Before the internet, there was this brouhaha.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Awareness_Program

Just to be clear the program didn't work because librarians didn't give up any information about their patrons without a warrant. You might be surprised to learn that librarians are very protective of the privacy of the patrons they serve.

**Cantih** · 2014-07-26 11:38

And librarians were fucking awesome for it. They stood up again when the government tried to pull a repeat with a section the patriot act.
If only the ISPs had as much balls.

But the point of the post was that agencies have had too much of a hard-on about deciding for people what they're allowed to think and know, and demonizing anyone who doesn't fall in line.*
And have been trying to pull this shit for quite a long time.

*Reading rates aside, I find it telling that the government budget for libraries has been not so hot for a few decades. I'm not saying it's directly retaliatory, but when you go to balance the budget, when you're deciding to make cuts, it's probably easier to decide to give them to those who've given you the middle finger.

**archibaldcrane** · 2014-07-26 12:31

Let's be real though, you know the NSA backdoored the libraries' systems immediately.

**Meresgi** · 2014-08-01 08:19

https://forum.truecrypt.ch/t/hidden-...rg-website/163

Hidden message on Truecrypt's site. Lends credence to the theory the NSA shut them down and that any future versions are probably not safe, aka like ECC.

**Meresgi** · 2014-08-30 19:01

http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...nnocent-people

You're all terrorists!

**Meresgi** · 2014-09-10 15:12

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/fbi-lied-ab...expert-1464552

FBI lied about how they obtained the IP for silk road.

**Waraji** · 2014-09-10 15:49

Typically in movies, when that sort of thing comes to light, defendants lawyers motion to dismiss all charges due to evidence being collected by illegal means. Let's see how this plays out. Just watched The Star Chamber this weekend...

**hey** · 2014-09-10 18:41

Analyzing the data the server sent them isn't illegal though.

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