![]() All of this data contains metadata: who sent what to whom, where, when, how often, using what browser, with which cookies, etc. They can taps phones in Pakistan and spin up centrifuges in Iran. NSA, possibly others, have highly sophisticated international intercept capabilities. How long they store this data, and which data in particular, is less certain.ħ. NSA/GCHQ capture basically everything you do online. GCHQ can read (store/index/search) email hosted all the major UK ISPs and very likely many of the US ones, too.Ħ. Probably AOL, ComCast, AT&T (ok, almost certainly AT&T) and other major providers.ĥ. The NSA has access to Yahoo!, Gmail, Facebook, and Verizon messages. They share information with each other and the other gang of five (Echelon/whatever, ): UK, USA, Canada, Austrlia, New Zealand.Ĥ. The UK can monitor every single bit of data that passes its borders.ģ. Nonetheless, an attempt at an answer is warranted.ġ. There are things I've heard in confidence, too, that I can't di vulge without breaking confidences, so where possible I'll mix 'heard it from someone who really,really knows' with 'this is idle speculation, wink wink'. Those are some interesting questions much of what makes them interesting is the difficulty of answering with any degree of certainty, because much of what we know is actually speculation. I've censored the expletives but I find that slightly ironic given the subject matter: I think his reply is well thought out and a geek fest of techy goodness so I'm pasting it in it's entirety here. ![]() Is what I do to maintain some privacy a token? Is it worth it? Is it too late? Should I bother? Does big data join me up regardless of my efforts? I asked him, on the subject of privacy, this question: I have a friend who works in the security field. TL:DR: Give them the finger and laugh it's funny. And do you know what is the saddest part in this? That this is not from youngsters doing their homework, but from people with masters and doctorates, yes, quite pathetic actually so, "what people really want is." Anyway, while this might have not been the best comparison to prove a point, examples abound. Do you know how many times I've seen documents created only with texts literally copied from Wikipedia? If I had a dime. But where do people go when they they are looking for answers? Wikipedia, obviously the encyclopedia from the people to the people, easy to use and a system that do not forces one to think. Have you heard of the Knowledge computational engine? This is really a fascinating system, one can spends hours there (just for fun, try, "How many theoretical physicists specializing in general relativity does it take to change a light bulb?"). Oh, and if you can keep them entertained at the same time then you'll definitely have them eating out of your hand. Truth is that people care less about government surveillance activities, world order conspiracy theories or anything else. Let me rephrase then, what people really want is an easy to live life, the easier the better nothing more nothing less. Well, it actually is cheaper, so why waste precious resources? In an utopic world, what you say would be true and people would do things in quite a different way. Barnum? He was supposed to have said "the bigger the humbug, the better people will like it".Īnyway, what people really want is easy to use applications, the easier the better nothing more nothing less. As always has been and always will be, it is just human nature.Īs much as one would like Curtis to be wrong -whom would like to know that "MI5 were completely incompetent"?- one has only to watch carefully to realize that people not only live in a state of self-delusion but they sure seem to strive to keep it that way. Make a superb gun available to children, let them play with it until they start shooting themselves in their feet then, being everyone as focused on the gun as they are and in how wonderful it is, they'll start suggesting that the gun needs fixing. The real issue lies not in technology we do not need engineers fixing security, nor privacy, nor anything at all.
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