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Edward Snowden: "The US Government Has Been Hacking China For Years", Meet TAO
It's a good thing Obama and Xi met last week, because following the latest revelations by Edward Snowden, just released as part of an ongoing series of interviews posted by Hong Kong's South China Morning Post, there may have been some very awkward silence between the leaders of the world's superpowers. Especially since what he revealed once again exposes the US as nothing but a schoolyard hypocrite bully, which has been spinning a PR campaign "exposing" Chinese hackers as the biggest threat to internet security and privacy, when in reality it was the US that has done the bulk of snooping on Chinese soil.
Snowden said that according to unverified documents seen by the Post, the NSA had been hacking computers in Hong Kong and on the mainland since 2009. None of the documents revealed any information about Chinese military systems, he said.
One of the targets in the SAR, according to Snowden, was Chinese University and public officials, businesses and students in the city. The documents also point to hacking activity by the NSA against mainland targets.
Snowden believed there had been more than 61,000 NSA hacking operations globally, with hundreds of targets in Hong Kong and on the mainland.
“We hack network backbones – like huge internet routers, basically – that give us access to the communications of hundreds of thousands of computers without having to hack every single one,” he said.
“Last week the American government happily operated in the shadows with no respect for the consent of the governed, but no longer. Every level of society is demanding accountability and oversight.”
Snowden said he was releasing the information to demonstrate “the hypocrisy of the US government when it claims that it does not target civilian infrastructure, unlike its adversaries”.
“Not only does it do so, but it is so afraid of this being known that it is willing to use any means, such as diplomatic intimidation, to prevent this information from becoming public.”
If true, Snowden's allegations lend credence to China's longstanding position that it is as much a victim of hacking as a perpetrator, after Obama pressed Xi to rein in cyber-espionage by the Chinese military.
The irony continues because in world in which China suddenly has the moral superiority to an America, that is more reminiscent to the "Evil Empire" USSR from the 1950s than anything the founders had envisioned, it is Russia that Snowden exposes as the country not afraid to stand up to the world's most arrogant bully:
Asked if he had been offered asylum by the Russian government, he said: “My only comment is that I am glad there are governments that refuse to be intimidated by great power”.
Here SCMP reverts to FP magazine to present the NSA's Tailored Access Operations or TAO:
Published in Foreign Policy magazine and called "Inside the NSA's Ultra Secret Hacking Group", the story by Mathew Aid lifts the lid on the US's covert cyber operations in China. The US continually accuses China of cybercrime. However, senior Beijing officials accuse the US government of hypocrisy and allege Washington is also actively engaged in cyber-espionage.
"The Chinese government's allegations are essentially correct," the article reveals. "According to a number of confidential sources, a highly secretive unit of the National Security Agency (NSA), the US government's huge electronic eavesdropping organisation, called the Office of Tailored Access Operations, or TAO, has successfully penetrated Chinese computer and telecommunications systems for almost 15 years, generating some of the best and most reliable intelligence information about what is going on inside China."
When the latest allegation of Chinese cyber-espionage was made last month, it alleged hackers employed by the Chinese military had stolen the blueprints of more than three dozen American weapons systems. The Chinese government's top internet official, Huang Chengqing, responded that Beijing possessed "mountains of data" showing the US has engaged in widespread hacking to steal Chinese government secrets.
Revelations about the NSA's Prism operation from former CIA undercover operative Edward Snowden have added fuel to Beijing's stance, and Foreign Policy's exposé confirms China's claims.
"According to former NSA officials … TAO's mission is simple. It collects intelligence information on foreign targets by surreptitiously hacking into their computers and telecommunications systems, and then copying all the messages and data traffic passing within the targeted e-mail and text-messaging systems," the story revealed.
"TAO is also responsible for developing the information that would allow the United States to destroy or damage foreign computer and telecommunications systems with a cyber attack if so directed by the president. TAO, sources say, is now the largest and arguably the most important component of the NSA's huge intelligence gathering network."
Back to Snowden and his conclusion:
“I’m very grateful for the support of the public,” he said. “But I ask that they act in their interest – save their money for letters to the government that breaks the law and claims it noble.
“The reality is that I have acted at great personal risk to help the public of the world, regardless of whether that public is American, European, or Asian.”
We can only hope that the same public will care.
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Hmmm, Iceland must have said no.
On to plan B. A place in HK with the blessing of China
Snowden is the Kanye of espionage.
Awesome truth and awesomeness. Beauty, truth, awesomeness. That’s all it is.
http://www.vulture.com/2013/06/kanye-times-interview-quotes.html
what backs the dollar?
not gold. not silver.
not real estate.
oil? only partly.
this is the information age.
info is what backs the dollar.
info is what keeps the dollar strong.
dollars (in the proper hands) are redeemable for information assets.
and that is why we are building a fort knox for data.
because that is what will keep the dollar strong.
strong. sound. money.
Most of that data has got to be Porn. I mean, come on now...
I'd say US Citizens have a lot of house cleaning to do. Every corner of America is corrupt and nasty.
But just for the record, Snowden didn't go whistle blower on his own accord. China got to him a while back. No surprise he's in Hong Kong...Mainland China by now.
Can you say, Honey-Pot?
For those in the NYC area...https://www.facebook.com/events/582151318491697/
DaddyO
You're free to assemble in NYC, BUT:
No annoying the NYPD stasi enforcers
No big gulps
No trans fat
No smoking
No drinking
Weekends at central booking are far from relaxing, so my friends tell me (I run faster than them).
This Kanye?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKVMo0K9u_s&t=0m25s
As long as The "Honorable" Jon S. Corzine is living the high life, free as the most glorious bird of prey, feasting on his massive ill-gotten gains on prime Hamptons beachfront - his Obama-bundler pimp hand strong - and as long as someone like Snowden, who gave up much to ring the alarm bell in a way that even the most placid sheeple might "get it," is on the lam, all is right with this righteous world.
More info coming out on Mr. Snowden...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/12/us-usa-security-snowden-hunt-idUSBRE95B1A220130612
DaddyO
''China got to him a while back''
Two-short. Do you have anything to actually say about that? Or is it all wink wink nudgie nudgie
"Do you have anything to actually say about that"
Sure...Snowden's a singleton seeking to reconnect with a one night stand. Like Cruise, he foolishly jumped up and down on a couch publically proclaiming his love, nobody wants a love sick fool; infidelity is the attraction, not loyalty. Running to where the romance first started, like a one night stand turning up on your door step, bad form, bad move, zero craft.
Like watching a blind bull in a china shop (pun intended), hilarious to watch!
I'm not talking about a woman, and I'm not going to spell it out.
So... For the record.... No
o China got to him a while back.
Could you back that up with something?
Or maybe, like me, after seeing the pole-dancer flikr, you guess Edward knew it was time for a change.
Either way - Rock on Edward.
China's great.
Here's the deal -
In America, you can say whatever you want ... You just can't do anything.
In Asia, You can do whatever you want ... Just don't talk about it.
Lifestyle trap, not woman trap.
So he was so desperate for this life style he risked his life by exposing the US government's spying on Americans? Who even gives a shit? The story isn't that Edward isn't perfect. Edward is just some guy that I don't know and have never heard of before. The story is that my government is spying on me and has built the infrastructure for the greatest police state ever in the history of mankind. That means I may get to live in the greatest police state ever. That is a little bit more important to me than figuring out Edward. You, I think I have you figured out. The lifestyle trap is projection on your part. Take your shame somewhere else. Being more shameful will not make it easier to sleep.
"I may get to live in the greatest police state ever" That's the only thing you've got right.
My comments pertained to the initiation of this whole event. I've not put forward my take on the morality of the NSA for spying on the US public, but thank you for telling me which side of the fence I'm on; you've just done the same thing the NSA has just been caught for, contraction of freedom of another...another thing you've got upside-down and inside-out.
"My comments pertained to the initiation of this whole event."
Oh, I'm sorry. Let me explain. My comment was to say your comments pertaining to the initiation of this whole event are stupid and irrelevant. Who knew by stating these comments I was oppressing you like when the NSA collects all your information to blackmail or destroy you if need be in the future? My opinion and comments contract your freedom? Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. No, you're the greatest. Just ask yourself again for reassurance.
This discussion has become pointless. Yup, your'e right, my bad.
Good luck in your patriotism and living where you do.
you've just done the same thing the NSA has just been caught for, contraction of freedom of another.
jury's still out on snowden in me mind, so i reserve the right to disagree with your premise, but you nailed a subtle point here that is flying right past most regardless of their stance on the issue. perhaps this is because what this is truly revealing is actually a very ugly aspect of human nature that most practice every day without recognizing it.
Dear listening intelligence services,
Can you tell me why I like skinny brunettes in the real world but buxom, full-figured, red-heads in my porn world?
Thanks, and cold regards.
Dear Lemming,
Sure thing;
Even colder regards,
NSA: from cradle to grave we're 'The Police'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOGaugKpzs
that's funny shit.
that was the sheep's point, no?
With that in mind maybe the police should crash the NSA offices for downloading X.
Fuck you and your statist reasoning. I'll keep my p/m and real estate.
No excuse to legitimize spying and blackmail.
This is a sideshow, something else is coming. This is for the sheeple's attention, too easy. Congressional hearing on CSPAN, papers, MSM coverage. Too obvious.
What else is coming, and who profits from it. That's the real question here. Follow the money.
Could be, but go with the flow when the trend is your friend.
People are more aware of government spying. Doesn't matter ZHer or not - We know we're all considered enemies now.
This is how consciousness builds.
Even if the meme does disappear from "the news", we'll know more - Like in the case that the story does disappear, at least we'll know that the sheeples are really really hopeless.
yup, if the MSM is pushing the story... you know this is all staged towards some end...
The MSM wants a debate about security vs privacy. The debate is total bullshit as the infrastructure is built not for security but for a police state. The "debate" is to get people to assume that it isn't designed and purposed for controlling Americans but to "help" them. It is total bullshit. The White House said they welcome a debate. Fuck them. The "opposition" in Congress wants a "debate". Fuck them. Fuck all of Congress and fuck the White House. Fuck the media. Fuck the government. The constitution is null and void. The government has indirectly declared that I am an enemy of the state which is kinda ironic. If that's the way they want it, no problem.
So there you are. Hoovering up all the data you want. Where to look first? Facebook? Nah, congressional staffers and banks. Any of those HFT algols fed directly from the NSA data pool?? How about steering congress with selective data revelations? No, it does not all need to be blackmail. If you know what the connections are before anyone else does, a fine profit can be made.
I thought is was those 1.6 billion .223 rounds, and a few hundren thousand human drones willing to use them on anyone not willing to back the dollar.
(reply to safelygraze)
It's all political targeting for the drones.
"Drone 23, you are near a "terrorist's" house. He is a known reader of ZeroHedge.com and LRC.com and based on his Amazon account, he reads. Please switch to targeting mode. Target coordinates are being uploaded as we speak."
"Roger, coordinates here, missile locked, and AWAY! Wow, did you see that, bulls-eye!"
"Drone 23, good job, another dead thinker and his spawn too. Now fly toward that library over there..."
"strong. sound. money."?
sarc right?
correct
wrong, the triumverate is power, money and beauty.
all support one another.
the military supports the dollar.
Putin summarized well, "US is trapped in its own position of leadership, any consession is an act of weakness so it must always project its power" .
It will only get worse, before it gets really bad, and then who knows.
sarcasm?...I hope
Hmmm. I was wondering where GS got China's Strategic Investment stats.
This is one Mf'ing deep rabbit hole.
Kanye is not worthy to carry Snowden's dirty jock strap, Tool!
DaddyO
It was a joke, tool. Have you not seen the train wreck quotes. Follow the link.
Even the inference of a comparison is repugnant!
Next time use the /sarc tag or prepare to get lit up!
DaddyO
Apparently! Never seen so many junks. The Kanye was /sarc.
The fact that I think Snowden is awesome, /not sarc.
I'm surprised safelygraze didn't get more down votes, he wasn't kidding. The Data collected is all about controlling people and has nothing to do with the value of currency.
I think you may find that currency is used to control people.
Data is a tool used when currency doesn't work.
Not all currencies are equal. Currency by itself is just a measure of value. Fractional reserve banking is used to destroy a nations wealth. Money is not evil, evil people use any means to control people. Data in the hands of evil people is used to eliminate opposition to the totalitarian state.
...ummmm...it's the LOVE (LUST) of money that's the root of all evil...money in and of itself isn't evil...
I had to junk you for mentioning Kanye.
Fair enough. I just thought his intvw was pure comedy. I take it those quotes haven't yet made it to the ZH readership, but you'll see them everywhere soon
With all due respect, the ZH crowd seems to not be overly concerned with whether this weeks actress d'jour has her panties on...just sayin'. Well maybe a bad example, Kanye is just so unworthy of our attention when Snowden or someone like him is grabbing the headlines.
DaddyO
DaddyO, I've been a loyal ZH reader (under a dif username) for 4+ yrs. I've even sent in a few widely-read pieces through the tips line.
I'm right there with you on this Snowden story. I'm infuriated (tho not surprised) that the MSM wants to make this about the man and not the machine.
The quotes are a 30 second comedic interlude. Take a break, watch Leno tonight. And we can come back together when @ggreenwald hits the tape with the next story. Which I'm hoping will pull back the curtain even more.
Hey no problemo, sorry your sarcasm fell on my tin year...
DaddyO
Don't watch Leno is my advice.
Honest question - What's kanye?
I don't do pop-culture. So never mind. I don't really want to know.
I did see the comparison as some kind of slur on Snowden, which I did not appreciate.
@ notbot:
Downvoted you for comparing Snowden to that PoS. He gives black people a bad name.
Anyone who cheats a Kardashian can't be that bad.
I don't think China needed the confirmation...
Thing is, who stole who top weapon designs again?? Ah yes, CHINA stole US weapons... US stealing crappy Chinese weapons ain't worth the energy.
China is committing acts of wars against NATO and the best Obama can do is suck Xi's cock.
In other news...
North Korea: ‘Moment of explosion is approaching fast.’ War could break out on Korean peninsula ‘today or tomorrow’
The nutjobs are at it again... the talks scheme was a set up from the beginning...
Also interesting... Iranian election on Friday... if nothing changes... (and probably won't)... Israel and the US will crank up the build for finally bombing Iran...
While Turkey is probably going to turn real hot in the next 24 hours...
The headlines for years have been "China Hacking U.S.?"
The 'ol double-game, eh!
Classic man bites dog story
Maybe the US hacked the secret to fusing communism and capitalism.
NK is about to go dark. Expect a massive internal purge a la Stalin when Junior loses his itty bitty mind, and then a long deathly silence. We won't hear again from those people for a decade or four.
Iran ... meh. Useful as a stooge. Mostly harmless. They get another decade to play around with the regional balance of power. Maybe then some Israeli nut-job pulls the trigger.
Turkey? That could get interesting. The protests I've watched on streaming internet look like the real thing, not just a handful of counter-revolutionary malcontents waving anti-regime banners. Those Turkish kids are showing some real guts, raging while not breaking into the shops to steal sneakers, and going hammer-and-tongs with the cops. That's spiritual purity right there, hard to stop that without major military involvement.
"NK is about to go dark. Expect a massive internal purge a la Stalin when Junior loses his itty bitty mind, and then a long deathly silence. We won't hear again from those people for a decade or four."
I'm thinking when he loses his mind it'll be out a 7.62x39 sized pair of matched wounds.
Interesting comments. Glad you're back with us. I was beginning to wonder if you were going to take a straitrazor with you to the bathtub last night.
Perspective, perspective.
Drama Queen alert. Confidential != Secret or Top Secret. Unless you really think that the USA has nanotech weapons?
You've already been spanked over this FUD btw.
o US stealing crappy Chinese weapons ain't worth the energy.
No, the problem is this approach would skip some of the feed slurry to the weapons contractors.
The US of A gives away all kinds of critical technology in various ways for various reasons - example, DoD components sourced in China. Give-aways to a certain entity. ...
Finally, China has some great tech. China's carrier destroying missles look like a real smart move.
You worry too damn much. Go raise some bees and get some perspective.
@lolmao
you seem to be catching alot of shit for saying anything about nk, but i was in an american legion hall for a reception the other day and was looking at the headline they had posted about the korean war and it was one of disbeleif that the threats that had been going on for years actually turned into a full out assault overnight. people have this weird beleif that a burgular is going to ring your doorbell and announce themselves before they attack.
i believe the nazis called it a blitzkreig (same story there, a world too weak to oppose a nation threatening to take back territory they had previously controlled acting shocked when words turned to action very quickly)
I have tried to figure out who stole what and the answer is, buy lots of tin foil because agreat deal of what they have, they bought directly from US suppliers or manufactured for them.
Is this our black swan?
This kid is smart. Knows how to play the game.
A generation full of Snowdens and the future looks brighter.
His biggest threat now isn't a prosecution, but a "disappearing"?
That doesn't work for TPTB. Kind of makes his point. Ellsberg is still around. I think he has Obama in checkmate.
+1
Although I don't think it's Snowden who has Obama in Checkmate, it's his handlers...
DaddyO
People have his back. Should not be a problem.
But we're the good guys.
and the god guys
and the occasional od guy
and the weird chicks
thanks hillary
The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers. [/Princess Leia]
Can ZH provide a link so we can express that support?
(oh Sh!t, I am now a target for annihilation)
Try this:
http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8083
boozy allen ! and what's his name....
are they the government now?
Carlyle ....
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/06/mozilla-wants-500m-users-to-t...
Stopwatching.us
I guess that's better than standing in wal-mart parking lot yelling at nothing
I upvoted you, but I think it's a little silly to still use Google as a search provider when you want the NSA to stop spying on you.
This would probably be better - a petition to .GOV to pardon Edward Snowden: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/pardon-edward-snowden/Dp03vGYD
Not much the US wants out of China they couldn't buy with cash or drugs. Place is that corrupt.
However I'd bet they are rooting the fuck out of the Chinese IT infrastructure. The better to shut them down cold (or packet sniff their networks) in the event of a hot conflict economic or otherwise.
Nobody really gives a shit about the content of packets. It is 100% every day all the time about control.
They (U.S.) have to dig a wormhole deep enough into China's cyberspace to infect when needbe.
cougar - you're just making shit up. Nobody really gives a shit about the content of packets.
I love the propaganda channels always paint the usa as the innocent victims of hacking. Uncle Sam is a nosy mother fucker.
AIPAC's nose is bigger. Its the Information Age, if you don't have an intelligence capacity you'll go hungry.
China has been hacking the USA for decades. Everyone has, thanks to the low priority of network security from the OS vendors. The swiss bankster? Read Victor Orlovsky.
He better have more than this.
You are full of shit. He has exposed the usa for what it is, an orwellian nightmare.
The democrats want him decapitated and the republicans want to stick his balls in the mouth of his severed head. That says it all.
if he's not a plant and he wants to live, he better have more than this.
Every day Snowden lives proves what a worldwide joke the cia and usa gubbermint have become. He'll probably be on the Jerry Springer Show next week.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnwgbH0TPbI
Teamwork? Could this be the event that gets dickless republican to work with dickless democrats?
NAW.
Two Mafia crime families competing for the best vig.
Everyone who can see knew about this. Its hard to miss the Jolly Green Giant, and the unwelcome guests. They hardly need to break into networks, the generous support of US government policies discriminating against our own citizens, the government holds the door for every trade secret to walk out the door. Wakey wakey http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/
He has allegedly over 50k documents, all of which he chose as not naming names / endangering life.
So, if it's true, a shit load of boring tech manuals which might contain some juicy fruits.
He has not divulged anything significant yet. If he ran for the stated reasons, he must have damning evidence handy. I'd love to see it, then some justice. I'm not interested in the tech. Heads are going to roll, its too late for him to have second thoughts. He has to produce something. He better hurry. What's he waiting for, green? Or are the "journalists" delaying to cut their own deals, maybe kill this story? He who hesitates is lost.
The Guardian has an extremely good media team, and they're very good at timing leaks / choosing the contents of leaks to have maximum impact (They did it throughout Wikileaks). Turns out, dumping mass piles of docs all at once often allows Media Burn to churn past the story and hand-waive it away ("Oh, that leak? Soooo last week dear, run the story about the cat up the tree!").
They're slimy in that once they've milked the story for honey ($ / impact) they then sit on the dumps & don't release them so that they could be used / archived by the public and run shitty book deals off them (usually with hilariously bad understanding of the tech involved). This is why they're only semi-useful, and are typical journo scumbags. This leak was mostly targeting the NYT for burying a prior leak over China <> USA involvement for a year (according to a third party) and fending off the tide of bullshit rising out of US MSM who are bitching 'cause they've got nothing (which, given they tend to show all the leaks to the fucking government first, is hardly surprising).
So, basically, let the pros do their work.
I hope this turns into a real shitstorm and the whole executive branch and both houses of congress are caught out without an umbrella.
I hope that it convinces enough amerikans that they can say no.
No, you will not spy on me to keep me safe.
No, you may not simply use "national security" to refuse to answer any of my questions.
No, I will not abide by the same laws you refuse to abide by.
No.
pods
.
...oh, and before I forget, children are dicks, so don't try that old "it's for the children" bromide.
Fuck it, I think it is time to start poking people's cognitive dissonances. This story is big enough that many now know about it (in sheeplevile).
Science experiment:
Whenever some annoying fuck is on a cell phone in line at the grocery store. Calmly walk up to them and whisper:
"Careful, they're listening."
Then slightly nod your head and walk away.
pods
.
I agree with this poast.
You're a smart guy, so I'll say it just once. Don't hold your breath, cause it ain't gonna happen. I've seen this movie before, and so have you.
Fuck the pros, they got us into this mess. We're on our own.
To Arms.
To Arms.
Fortune cookie say: "Tell no one your secrets"
And China has been hacking the USA for years. And?
I don't know fellas, this sounds like an Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand moment.
No blood spilled yet, but something's gonna give.
Seatbelts FiSHeS - shit's steamin'.
TPTB could/will shut down the Net when they are ready for the Reset of King-fiat. Will play the blame game.
If they shut down the net, half the population will swallow prescription drugs and die. Ingenius.
Is that all he's got, I didn't need to know that even if I didn't already know it. All I am interested in is what's happening to Me. For some reason that "disclosure" don't feel right.
You're getting serially junked for using "Me" and "interested in" in the same sentence. Mustn't evince any rational self-interest here on ZH. The altruists around here don't like it.
I wonder when Google will be sued en-masse for violating our privacy?????? Can be in the billions if Google has to pay us.
Not goint to happen.
The big boys in government covered the technology companies collective asses with the 2008 FISA amendment that granted retroactive immunity. Specifically the act:
"Protects telecommunications companies from lawsuits for "'past or future cooperation' with federal law enforcement authorities and will assist the intelligence community in determining the plans of terrorists". Immunity is given by a certification process, which can be overturned by a court on specific grounds."
Yeah, the un-constitutional ex post facto 'law'.
If you want to believe in unicorns and fairies that's fine with me, but you're wrong. Ex post facto only applies to criminal law, not civil liability.
You can read more at
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/06/27/542758/-Ex-Post-Facto-Law-and-T...
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calder_v._Bull
Dream on.
The down vote is for mentioning The D****K** before I've digested my dinner.
You might be able to understand wikipedia.
FUCK GOOGLE!
hEY, nsa, sEND sTOCK tIPS TO zEROhEDGE.
FUCK U O'COCKSUCKER....
ITS ON LIKE KING KONG U BITCH ASS GOVERNMENT FUCKS...
SNOWDEN...KEEP RIDING HOMIE...
...And here's the justification for multiple countries (especially the US) to pull the plug on the internet.
While I don't agree, I didn't junk you. Serial messenger-shooter junkers are out in force.
Wow, 0 and -6 is a new record for me. I guess I rubbed someone(s) the wrong way with that particular prediction.
Are there any new pictures of his girlfriend?
<---homos
If I said to you that out of 1.5 million individuals (and large town), over the course of a year and a bit (15 months), I could take your GPS ping four (4) times and ID you with a 95% hit rate, you'd think I was crazy, right? (That's without using my direct access Verizon backdoor).
Meet science, bitch:
We study fifteen months of human mobility data for one and a half million individuals and find that human mobility traces are highly unique. In fact, in a dataset where the location of an individual is specified hourly, and with a spatial resolution equal to that given by the carrier's antennas, four spatio-temporal points are enough to uniquely identify 95% of the individuals. We coarsen the data spatially and temporally to find a formula for the uniqueness of human mobility traces given their resolution and the available outside information. This formula shows that the uniqueness of mobility traces decays approximately as the 1/10 power of their resolution. Hence, even coarse datasets provide little anonymity. These findings represent fundamental constraints to an individual's privacy and have important implications for the design of frameworks and institutions dedicated to protect the privacy of individuals. [Nature - lots of pretty graphs and science]
Meta-data says hi! When Silicon Valley etc say "Privacy is Dead!", this is what they meant.
Anyone packing a smartphone around all day may as well be wearing a radio tracking collar and an embedded RFI tag. And that's even if you never place a phone call or use any of the built-in apps, btw most of which transmit PID back to their attached servers every 60 seconds 24 hours a day. And no you cannot unstall most of them or modify their behavior.
On the plus side ... um ... well maybe there is no plus side.
Yes, of course.
But like these leaks, it's nice to have the proof.
On the plus side they also keep track of every purchase you make at Costco?
It's not just smart phones. The day after the Boston bombers were caught, the police/Verizon pinged my regular old cell phone to assertain my exact location.
Yeah, you're on the list.
Being unpredictable is a good habit to learn.
These latest developments should go a long way towards convincing China - and Germany - to lay down for FATCA.
Not even China would consider this news. He must be quickly running out of material. However, thanks so much for the info.
'American Exceptionalism' is what's breaking down.
Phony WMD, torture, rendition, loss of rule of law, etc., got this ball rolling and with these revelations continues to break down.
I love how the "go navy" commercial just said we're spreading Democracy and freedom around the world. Ha, good one. We're the fuckin USSA.
I saw a Navy commercial where they called the USN a global force for good. It has come a long way from my days in the Navy where we had three main goals. Be capable of destroying the Soviet Navy, be able to drink mass quantities of booze and bang the whores in any port with great abandon!
"I saw a Navy commercial where they called the USN a global force for good"
Well, USN did sponsor development of TOR:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_%28anonymity_network%29
Maybe USN should advertise that more ...
This is what I've been telling people who complain about foreign hax0rs ... who controls most of the internet access points in the world? Most of these are US based. If anything goes on, it's already known.
"“We hack network backbones – like huge internet routers, basically – that give us access to the communications of hundreds of thousands of computers without having to hack every single one,” he said."
I don't know much about tech, but here's a general overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_backbone
They're known to be vulnerable. There's a new routing protocol in the works which doesn't solve the problems, but it does give a small group of people total control over internet routing. So there's that.
As I have been saying for years, anyone who calls the Internet decentralized has no idea what they're talking about. There are half-solutions out there, disk-level encryption, VPNs, PGP, OpenSSL and OpenSSH, mesh networks, caching proxies, tor/vidalia, etc. to solve most of these issues (at least somewhat).. But next to no one knows about, understands, or uses them, and development is very slow. And it matters little if you're storing data on unsecured remote hosts, or transmitting over unsecured networks (basically all of them).
And I'm not suggesting for a moment that many of the common cryptographic standard are not vulnerable in the hands of the NSA - they've had a hand in designing and cracking more than a few of them, but it requires far more of their time and effort than plaintext.
Or maybe they already have quantum computing sorted out and can brute-force AES-256 in 2/100s of a second...
I care. if this guy worked for cia and nsa and boozy allen
he knows who and why 9/11, all about it; spill the beans
or shut the fuck up some might suggest.
That would up the ante.
just sayin', if he wants to keep it real,
get real.
Called Insurance my friend.
I have been wondering about this "insurance".
is it expensive or cheap insurance? who is being
insured and who is covering? what the cost and
whom or who (hoo hoo) is paying, suffering the
consequences flowing from that uncertainty ,
the unknowing of that which was and is true?
insurance against a future possibility is one thing.
insurance predicated upon the truth of a past or
historic event being disclosed is something else.
sounds like, what is the term?, ......
not blackmail, not greenmail, not extortion ....
I know, it is called a partnership! a corporation
in the making! fuck it, let's call it an llc.
a legal "person" with all the benefits and none of the liability
of a human being.
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disclaimer.. I have no idea whether these comments apply
to your particular mind trend or flow, but there they are
and good luck to you!
Blindman - He's too young to have been on the job in real time. He's 29, that was 12 years ago. Do the mobsters return to the scene by reminiscing over the phone or internet?? Probably they mostly keep quiet.
but the cover up and diversion from leading evidence and
facts that are screaming out must be maintained after the
fact and ongoing, the money and benefits predicated upon the misinterpretation
of the crime keep flowing. he was in the seat, front row seat, to observe
all that manipulation. perhaps he was just incurious concerning
one of the most blatant, violent and political crimes of the century?
with all due respect to him, his cause and situation.
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I know there are many people smarter and slicker than I can
even imagine and I wonder if he is one of them, and inside and
among a group of them. is he real or is he Memorex? I guess that
is the first question.
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NSA leaker: are there serious cracks in Ed Snowden’s story?
By Jon Rappoport
June 10, 2013
http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/nsa-leaker-are-there-seriou...
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.."In 2007, Snowden is sent to Geneva. He’s only 23 years old. The CIA gives him diplomatic cover there. He’s put in charge of maintaining computer-network security. Major job. Obviously, he has access to a very wide range of classified documents. Sound a little odd? Again, just asking. He’s just a kid. Maybe he has his GED by now. Otherwise, he still doesn’t have a high school diploma." ...
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I smell a rabbit hole,
or I should say I smell The rabbit hole.
This is a test. This is a test. This is a test. This is a test.
This is a test. This is a test. This is a test. This is a test.
Got plausible deniability?
Do you really want the answer? You might not like it?