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UK and US Collected Millions of Webcam Images (Many Nude) ... To Smear or Blackmail the Targets?
Newly-released Snowden documents show that the British and American spy agencies gathered and stored many millions of images from Yahoo web cam streams … and that a large percentage are naked or pornographic images.
Given that the spy agencies use porn to discredit activists – and apparently to blackmail critics - it is worth asking whether that was the larger purpose for this spy program.
Indeed, Glenn Greenwald – who has seen all of the Snowden documents – tweets:
Regarding GCHQ/NSA collection of sex chat photos, remember they plot to use online sex activity to harm reputations ....
The Associated Press notes:
The stockpiling of sexually explicit images of ordinary people had uncomfortable echoes of George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four," where the authorities — operating under the aegis of "Big Brother" — fit homes with cameras to monitor the intimate details of people's home lives.
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The collection of nude photographs also raise questions about potential for blackmail. America's National Security Agency has already acknowledged that half a dozen analysts have been caught trawling databases for inappropriate material on partners or love interests. Other leaked documents have revealed how U.S. and British intelligence discussed leaking embarrassing material online to blacken the reputations of their targets.
And Bill Binney - the high-level NSA executive who created the agency’s mass surveillance program for digital information, a 32-year NSA veteran widely regarded as a “legend” within the agency, the senior technical director within the agency and managed thousands of NSA employees, an expert on spying by the Soviets, interviewed by virtually all of the mainstream media, including CBS, ABC, CNN, New York Times, USA Today, Fox News, PBS and many others - told Washington's Blog:
This is just one of the ways to make controlling people possible. Standard KGB/Stasi tactics.
In addition, top security experts have pointed out that spy agencies' mass surveillance leaves such information vulnerable to hackers and other malicious actors.
So even if those nude pictures aren't used for smear campaigns or blackmail (or drooled over) by GCHQ or NSA personnel, they might be by others.
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Paranoid!!!
I use electrical tape, sticks really good and matches the frame ;-)
Fine, but what about the microphone(s)? I'm thinking maybe it's time to install a little switch to kill them, too.
I curse the government right here in writing. Does it matter if they hear me do it out loud?
edit: Fuck you, 0bama.
Don't be too sure about that.
Remember, Anthony (Carlos Danger) Weiner was one of Obama's, and the Clinton's, congressional lackeys.
The next crop of Congresspeople are pre-blackmailed. Growing up in a world of camera phones means everybody is thouroughly embarrassed and in digital storage in numerous files.
Never to be underestimate lack of moral fiber of progressive political class. Never to be overestimate intellectual capacity of sycophant.
"lack of moral fiber of progressive political class."
Both sides of the classroom are dunces, not just the progressive side, unless they don't teach that in virtual russia?
No, is call spade spade. Progressive political class is only one mind, one goal, grab power over other peoples.
Oh, you are refer to "two party" system, Republican/Democrat, Torrie/Whig...? Ahahahahaha, you are too silly, that is silly rah rah mental state to fool citizenry. All power organ is progressive, progressively grabbing more at power.
what a disgusting image..... I am now sick. Literally, I just puked in my mouth.
Nothin' some soft yellenlovins won't cure!
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-27/scrambling-gold-mints-around-world-plead-we-can%E2%80%99t-meet-demand#comment-4371549
They must have something on Obama. It would explain much.
Seriously. He is such a narcissist, you just know he had to take some selfies.
Speaking of, and to, the selfie/twatter generation, and youth in general:
YOUR PARENTS DID IT TOO, otherwise you wouldn't exist...
And with a whole generation's head start on you... they're probably that much dirtier than you only think you are.
Now try expunging that truthiness from your cranium...
Ignorance is bliss, but at some point- people need to grow up.
Now try expunging that truthiness from your cranium...
Isaac wasn't named "laughing boy" for nothing. The Jews famous ancestor was concieved when the Almighty blessed the union of a couple of centarians.
Now try expunging that truthiness from your cranium.
theres a sex tape you dont want to see
fucking beauty and the beast with barrack and michelle making mad wookie love on the white house dining table
and it only gets worse from there
+1 for the naturalistic wookie-love imagery.
NSA official on trial for murdering his 3 year old son:
http://youtu.be/5yNsfH2x3kc
something wrong with these people.
Did you notice that guy had the same look on his face as Private Pyle from Full Metal Jacket did after the blanket party?
NSA official on trial for murdering his 3 year old son:
http://youtu.be/5yNsfH2x3kc
something wrong with these people.
'Something'??? I like a bit of understatement m'self, John, but come on!
Man cannot snoop on citizenry and watch so too much child porn and not go mental bad. This is kind of people is custodian over personal information of USSA citizenry. Welcome to Stasi 2.0!
Back to the xxx porn rental store...fuck me
Yahoo? Really? Yahoo?
Why don't they go full retard and go after the hipsters who use AOL and Compuserve.
LOL, Mom uses AOL, and needs a new hip... is compuserve still alive?
“what a disgusting image”
They had to work pretty hard to earn that level of disrespect.
The last thing SCOTUS is about is the Constitution.