If you want to keep something private, don't put it on the internet. The NSA has been harvesting audio, video, photos, email, documents, and connection logs from services provided by Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple, and Dropbox coming soon. http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....0ccb04497_story.html
While they insist it is not a "dragnet", which pulls in everything imaginable, the Oracle of Bacon (http://oracleofbacon.org/) taught me long ago that very few links are required to connect one person to another person. So, think about that before you upload that video just for your friends on facebook. They might not be the only ones watching.
Unbelievable! In 2011 the court found the NSA surveillance unconstitutional. To which the government said to keep that a secret and carry on. Now, in a case with the EFF (Electronic Freedom Foundation), the court may have to rule against the EFF (and people's privacy) just to keep the precedent ruling secret. WTF?
NSA plans to infect millions of computers with malware, in an attempt to "own the internet".
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Mikko Hypponen, an expert in malware who serves as chief research officer at the Finnish security firm F-Secure, calls the revelations “disturbing.” The NSA’s surveillance techniques, he warns, could inadvertently be undermining the security of the Internet.
“When they deploy malware on systems,” Hypponen says, “they potentially create new vulnerabilities in these systems, making them more vulnerable for attacks by third parties.”
Hypponen believes that governments could arguably justify using malware in a small number of targeted cases against adversaries. But millions of malware implants being deployed by the NSA as part of an automated process, he says, would be “out of control.”
“That would definitely not be proportionate,” Hypponen says. “It couldn’t possibly be targeted and named. It sounds like wholesale infection and wholesale surveillance.”