It's crazy... I remember in high school (I think 2001) I gave a speech to my Social Studies class about Carnivore (previously DCS1000). I was incensed by it, and by what it represented. I now read this stuff, and just kinda quietly think "what next?"
Of all the electronic device you own that are capable of being exploited for automated surveillance, your PC or Mac is probably the only thing that is not actually being used for automated surveillance (not counting your web browsing habits, and provided you don't have any spyware on your computer). How dare you use a computing device that (hopefully) does not have any backdoors built into it, is not locked into any vendor's monthly payment plan, is not locked into any vendor's proprietary OS, and even supports "terrorist" techniques such as full-disk encryption?
Fortunately for Big Brother, key hardware components of general-purpose computers are only produced by a handful of corporations such as Intel and AMD. Don't be surprised if they agree to build all sorts of defects-by-design into their processors, graphics cards, HDDs/SSDs, etc. There are already plenty of excuses: I have popcorn ready for the day when graphics cards finally implement security systems to prevent them from being used for bitcoin mining or password brute-forcing.
The FSF should change their name to FCF, Free Computing Foundation. We need them badly, more than ever before.
I recall that the only ISP that refused Carnivore being installed in their systems was EarthLink - then there wasa story that EarthLink was founded by Scientology and they already had deep packet inspection and full traffic filtering/monitoring.
When the AT&T closet fiasco was revealed, it was a short-lived outrage.
The fact that the library of congress has signed a deal archiving all tweets is extremely odd.
The amount of ex-intelligence employees at facebook is just astounding.
The fact that .ir and .us cointelpro agents have built duqu and stux is amazing - the capabilities of those sytems is crazy.
We live in a cyber WWIII - and its largely invisible to 99% of the world.
Earthlink wasn't founded by Scientology. The founder of Earthlink - Sky Dayton - who did not have a controlling interest in the company by the point of the IPO in 1997, was/is a Scientologist. Earthlink was backed by a myriad of capital sources, from traditional VC to people like George Soros; Apple even put $200 million into them.
As I recall reading, there was an article naming a lot of the direct investors of EarthLink; all Scientologists from hollywood: Tom Cruise, Whoopi Goldberg and others...
I don't know where that article is now - but I am sure it may be available online...
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It's crazy... I remember in high school (I think 2001) I gave a speech to my Social Studies class about Carnivore (previously DCS1000). I was incensed by it, and by what it represented. I now read this stuff, and just kinda quietly think "what next?"
What next? This [1], of course.
Of all the electronic device you own that are capable of being exploited for automated surveillance, your PC or Mac is probably the only thing that is not actually being used for automated surveillance (not counting your web browsing habits, and provided you don't have any spyware on your computer). How dare you use a computing device that (hopefully) does not have any backdoors built into it, is not locked into any vendor's monthly payment plan, is not locked into any vendor's proprietary OS, and even supports "terrorist" techniques such as full-disk encryption?
Fortunately for Big Brother, key hardware components of general-purpose computers are only produced by a handful of corporations such as Intel and AMD. Don't be surprised if they agree to build all sorts of defects-by-design into their processors, graphics cards, HDDs/SSDs, etc. There are already plenty of excuses: I have popcorn ready for the day when graphics cards finally implement security systems to prevent them from being used for bitcoin mining or password brute-forcing.
The FSF should change their name to FCF, Free Computing Foundation. We need them badly, more than ever before.
[1] Cory Doctorow, "The Coming War on General Computation", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg
> not counting your web browsing habits, and provided you don't have any spyware on your computer
You don't need spyware to do that: http://www.experian.com/hitwise/hitwise-methodology.html
Intercepting your network traffic doesn't count as backdooring your computer.
yes, it counts as censorship
I recall that the only ISP that refused Carnivore being installed in their systems was EarthLink - then there wasa story that EarthLink was founded by Scientology and they already had deep packet inspection and full traffic filtering/monitoring.
When the AT&T closet fiasco was revealed, it was a short-lived outrage.
The fact that the library of congress has signed a deal archiving all tweets is extremely odd.
The amount of ex-intelligence employees at facebook is just astounding.
The fact that .ir and .us cointelpro agents have built duqu and stux is amazing - the capabilities of those sytems is crazy.
We live in a cyber WWIII - and its largely invisible to 99% of the world.
Earthlink wasn't founded by Scientology. The founder of Earthlink - Sky Dayton - who did not have a controlling interest in the company by the point of the IPO in 1997, was/is a Scientologist. Earthlink was backed by a myriad of capital sources, from traditional VC to people like George Soros; Apple even put $200 million into them.
As I recall reading, there was an article naming a lot of the direct investors of EarthLink; all Scientologists from hollywood: Tom Cruise, Whoopi Goldberg and others...
I don't know where that article is now - but I am sure it may be available online...
http://articles.latimes.com/1996-05-20/business/fi-11766_1_e...
http://www.skeptictank.org/moxon1.htm