NSA has direct access to tech giants' systems for user data, secret files reveal

http://www.spiegel.de/international...ates-claim-to-liberal-democracy-a-932326.html

 

Schneier: Make Wide-Scale Surveillance Too Expensive.

-- Tom

 

Microsoft FAILS to encrypt data centre links despite NSA snooping
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/14/ms_data_centre_link_uncryption/

 

Who cares, they're going to give the keys when asked anyways.

 

Which government, or other entity, is doing the snooping or MITMing?
Microsoft hosted sites/services with their own certificates?

 

NSA Leaks Could Inspire a Global Boom in Intrusive Surveillance.

-- Tom

 

'Intelligence Officials Aim To Pre-Empt More Surveillance Leaks.'

NPR/National Public Radio link

So we'll get 2 streams of info, one from the Snowden batch and one from the 'Please, please, please share our POV, not the facts' side.

 

Of course.

What's done when it's done is out in public and you can't rewind time in our dimension like you can with a computer restore.

The Pandora's Box lid is been thrown open so now any agency in any territory feels like "if they can do it, so will we".

 

This is more than enough reason why I don't use Facebook anymore. Facebook--according to Julian Assange--is the most invasive spying machine ever made. I've found plenty of other sites where I can make friends on, without Facebook's grotesque invasion of privacy.

 

Yup. Why waste money on encrypting the servers....

 

I don't know that they will, people are pretty ~ Snipped as per TOS ~ with the whole NSA spying scandal. Google is very ~ Snipped as per TOS ~ about what has gone on, this is a big ~ Snipped as per TOS ~ to the NSA.

 

Funny cause 99% of people i meet don't care about NSA.

 

Royal Concierge': GCHQ Monitors Hotel Reservations to Track Diplomats

Der Spiegel: 'Royal Concierge': GCHQ Monitors Hotel Reservations to Track Diplomats

From the slide show of GCHQ dox;

Tsk, some mutilated Tux logo...

 

http://www.prisonplanet.com/the-internet-is-now-weaponized-and-you-are-the-target.html

 

Supreme Court Rejects Case Challenging NSA Phone Spying
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/11/scotus-phone-metadata-spying/

In re EPIC - NSA Telephone Records Surveillance
http://epic.org/privacy/nsa/in-re-epic/

 

First Amendment rights, cry tech companies in fight against redacted FISA motion.

-- Tom

 

Yahoo Encrypting Data In Wake of NSA Revelations.

-- Tom

 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...d-nsa-surveillance-is-revealed-for-first-time

 

Internet Engineers Plan a Fully Encrypted Internet.

-- Tom

 

How the NSA weaponized the Internet's backbone.

Reference: Our Government Has Weaponized the Internet. Here’s How They Did It.

-- Tom

 

US and UK struck NSA secret deal

US and UK struck secret deal to allow NSA to 'unmask' Britons' personal data.

~ The Guardian

"The phone, internet and email records of UK citizens not suspected of any wrongdoing have been analysed and stored by America's National Security Agency under a secret deal that was approved by British intelligence officials, according to documents from the whistleblower Edward Snowden.

In the first explicit confirmation that UK citizens have been caught up in US mass surveillance programs, an NSA memo describes how in 2007 an agreement was reached that allowed the agency to "unmask" and hold on to personal data about Britons that had previously been off limits." ~ op cit

 

Re: US and UK struck NSA secret deal

Isn't politics at times entertaining? In public, officials are at the throats of each other over these spying situations. But, in secret, they've known all along and simply wink at each other. Bother agencies would have had to have known regardless, if they were any good at their work.

 

Re: US and UK struck NSA secret deal

Well, you can tell when politicians are lying as their lips are moving. The UK & the US have been closely sharing intelligence since WWII. It's what spies do. I wonder what George Smiley would have thought about it all?

 

Re: US and UK struck NSA secret deal

I don't know what he would have thought, but I think it's rather silly for all of these people to go on TV and threaten this and that and get angry at something they knew about all along. Well, that's not that important I guess. The main thing is that yes, all of these agencies work together and know one is being watched by the other. As you said, it's what spies do.

 

Re: US and UK struck NSA secret deal

LOL Yes.