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The Most Evil And Disturbing NSA Spy Practices To-Date Have Just Been Revealed
Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
In some cases the NSA has masqueraded as a fake Facebook server, using the social media site as a launching pad to infect a target’s computer and exfiltrate files from a hard drive. In others, it has sent out spam emails laced with the malware, which can be tailored to covertly record audio from a computer’s microphone and take snapshots with its webcam. The hacking systems have also enabled the NSA to launch cyberattacks by corrupting and disrupting file downloads or denying access to websites.
The man-in-the-middle tactic can be used, for instance, to covertly change the content of a message as it is being sent between two people, without either knowing that any change has been made by a third party.
- From Glenn Greenwald’s latest article: How the NSA Plans to Infect Millions of Computers with Malware
The latest piece from Greenwald and company on the unconstitutional spy practices of the NSA may represent the most dangerous and disturbing revelations yet. It’s hard for shadiness at the NSA to surprise me these days, but there was only one word that kept repeating over and over in my head as I read this: EVIL.
As a quick aside, Greenwald points out in the quote above how spam emails are used by the NSA to bait you into clicking dangerous links. This is a timely revelation considering I received one such email yesterday from a friend of mine. The email was sent to a wide list of let’s say “liberty-minded people” and webmasters associated with very popular sites. The link seemed shady so I texted him to ask if he had sent it. He hadn’t.
Earlier this week, during a talk at SXSW, Edward Snowden pleaded with people to use encryption. While he admitted if the NSA targeted you individually they could almost certainly “own your computer,” he stated that if people use encryption on a massive scale it makes the NSA’s attempts to monitor everyone at the same time much more difficult.
Apparently, the NSA is well aware of this threat. Which is why we now know that the agency has been dedicating significant amounts of taxpayer dollars toward an attempt to infect millions of computers with malware in an attempt at “industrial-scale exploitation,” which would lead to them “owning the net.”
As Mikko Hypponen, an expert in malware stated:
“The NSA’s surveillance techniques could inadvertently be undermining the security of the Internet.”
Move along serfs, nothing to see here.
From The Intercept:
Top-secret documents reveal that the National Security Agency is dramatically expanding its ability to covertly hack into computers on a mass scale by using automated systems that reduce the level of human oversight in the process.
The classified files – provided previously by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden – contain new details about groundbreaking surveillance technology the agency has developed to infect potentially millions of computers worldwide with malware “implants.” The clandestine initiative enables the NSA to break into targeted computers and to siphon out data from foreign Internet and phone networks.
In some cases the NSA has masqueraded as a fake Facebook server, using the social media site as a launching pad to infect a target’s computer and exfiltrate files from a hard drive. In others, it has sent out spam emails laced with the malware, which can be tailored to covertly record audio from a computer’s microphone and take snapshots with its webcam. The hacking systems have also enabled the NSA to launch cyberattacks by corrupting and disrupting file downloads or denying access to websites.
The implants being deployed were once reserved for a few hundred hard-to-reach targets, whose communications could not be monitored through traditional wiretaps. But the documents analyzed by The Intercept show how the NSA has aggressively accelerated its hacking initiatives in the past decade by computerizing some processes previously handled by humans. The automated system – codenamed TURBINE – is designed to “allow the current implant network to scale to large size (millions of implants) by creating a system that does automated control implants by groups instead of individually.”
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.
It sounds like that is precisely their intent…
The NSA began rapidly escalating its hacking efforts a decade ago. In 2004, according to securet internal records, the agency was managing a small network of only 100 to 150 implants. But over the next six to eight years, as an elite unit called Tailored Access Operations (TAO) recruited new hackers and developed new malware tools, the number of implants soared to tens of thousands.
The agency’s solution was TURBINE. Developed as part of TAO unit, it is described in the leaked documents as an “intelligent command and control capability” that enables “industrial-scale exploitation.”
Earlier reports based on the Snowden files indicate that the NSA has already deployed between 85,000 and 100,000 of its implants against computers and networks across the world, with plans to keep on scaling up those numbers.
The intelligence community’s top-secret “Black Budget” for 2013, obtained by Snowden, lists TURBINE as part of a broader NSA surveillance initiative named “Owning the Net.”
The agency sought $67.6 million in taxpayer funding for its Owning the Net program last year. Some of the money was earmarked for TURBINE, expanding the system to encompass “a wider variety” of networks and “enabling greater automation of computer network exploitation.”
Your tax dollars at works slaves.
One implant, codenamed UNITEDRAKE, can be used with a variety of “plug-ins” that enable the agency to gain total control of an infected computer.
An implant plug-in named CAPTIVATEDAUDIENCE, for example, is used to take over a targeted computer’s microphone and record conversations taking place near the device. Another, GUMFISH, can covertly take over a computer’s webcam and snap photographs. FOGGYBOTTOM records logs of Internet browsing histories and collects login details and passwords used to access websites and email accounts. GROK is used to log keystrokes. And SALVAGERABBIT exfiltrates data from removable flash drives that connect to an infected computer.
The implants can enable the NSA to circumvent privacy-enhancing encryption tools that are used to browse the Internet anonymously or scramble the contents of emails as they are being sent across networks. That’s because the NSA’s malware gives the agency unfettered access to a target’s computer before the user protects their communications with encryption.
According to the Snowden files, the technology has been used to seek out terror suspects as well as individuals regarded by the NSA as “extremist.” But the mandate of the NSA’s hackers is not limited to invading the systems of those who pose a threat to national security.
In one secret post on an internal message board, an operative from the NSA’s Signals Intelligence Directorate describes using malware attacks against systems administrators who work at foreign phone and Internet service providers. By hacking an administrator’s computer, the agency can gain covert access to communications that are processed by his company. “Sys admins are a means to an end,” the NSA operative writes.
But not all of the NSA’s implants are used to gather intelligence, the secret files show. Sometimes, the agency’s aim is disruption rather than surveillance. QUANTUMSKY, a piece of NSA malware developed in 2004, is used to block targets from accessing certain websites.
QUANTUMCOPPER, first tested in 2008, corrupts a target’s file downloads. These two “attack” techniques are revealed on a classified list that features nine NSA hacking tools, six of which are used for intelligence gathering. Just one is used for “defensive” purposes – to protect U.S. government networks against intrusions.
Before it can extract data from an implant or use it to attack a system, the NSA must first install the malware on a targeted computer or network.
According to one top-secret document from 2012, the agency can deploy malware by sending out spam emails that trick targets into clicking a malicious link. Once activated, a “back-door implant” infects their computers within eight seconds.
Consequently, the NSA has turned to new and more advanced hacking techniques. These include performing so-called “man-in-the-middle” and “man-on-the-side” attacks, which covertly force a user’s internet browser to route to NSA computer servers that try to infect them with an implant.
In one man-on-the-side technique, codenamed QUANTUMHAND, the agency disguises itself as a fake Facebook server. When a target attempts to log in to the social media site, the NSA transmits malicious data packets that trick the target’s computer into thinking they are being sent from the real Facebook. By concealing its malware within what looks like an ordinary Facebook page, the NSA is able to hack into the targeted computer and covertly siphon out data from its hard drive. A top-secret animation demonstrates the tactic in action.
The man-in-the-middle tactic can be used, for instance, to covertly change the content of a message as it is being sent between two people, without either knowing that any change has been made by a third party. The same technique is sometimes used by criminal hackers to defraud people.
“The thing that raises a red flag for me is the reference to ‘network choke points,’” he says. “That’s the last place that we should be allowing intelligence agencies to compromise the infrastructure – because that is by definition a mass surveillance technique.”
In many cases, firewalls and other security measures do not appear to pose much of an obstacle to the NSA. Indeed, the agency’s hackers appear confident in their ability to circumvent any security mechanism that stands between them and compromising a computer or network. “If we can get the target to visit us in some sort of web browser, we can probably own them,” an agency hacker boasts in one secret document. “The only limitation is the ‘how.’”
GCHQ cooperated with the hacking attacks despite having reservations about their legality. One of the Snowden files, previously disclosed by Swedish broadcaster SVT, revealed that as recently as April 2013, GCHQ was apparently reluctant to get involved in deploying the QUANTUM malware due to “legal/policy restrictions.” A representative from a unit of the British surveillance agency, meeting with an obscure telecommunications standards committee in 2010, separately voiced concerns that performing “active” hacking attacks for surveillance “may be illegal” under British law.
When even the GCHQ is questioning the legality of a surveillance program you know you’ve gone too far. Way too far.
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"The man-in-the-middle tactic can be used, for instance, to covertly change the content of a message as it is being sent between two people, without either knowing that any change has been made by a third party."...
The NSA is Facebook. The NSA is Twitter... The NSA both is and has always been AT&T, Verizon, Qwest and Sprint before that, WCOM/MCI and the RBOCs....
Based on the way it started I'm fairly confident that Facebook at least started out legitimate. I would be far more surprised if they were not comprimised today, than if they are. Twitter on the other hand was clearly suspect from the start. The way it was immediately adopted, advertised, and promoted by major tv espeically NBC was almost certainly contrived. Anyone remember seeing Conan's reluctant twitter sketches? How perfect can you get for a global spy agency? People tag their own thoughts in a very easy to search fashion, and are required to keep their free text to a confined size making search and analysis require far less processing power.
And when the time comes to start the next biggest event in our "state of emergency" going on 13 years now those applications with security holes in that 'stack' as big as baby swiss will be used to bring down and blame the wrong suspects -again.
Same as it ever was!...
Agree in part Vagabond, but I am skeptical about the story of FB..... we've been fed a lot of myths over many years and any "grass-roots" invention or movement that "suddenly catches-on" now gets a good dose of skepticism from me and FB is a little too conviently sold as an innocent story of a creep trying to stalk his ex, just enough grist for a myth to birth a fab system of self-generated Hooveresque files worth trillions to TPTB collecting and using the info for tracking, commercial and predictive purposes.
But me is a uselesseater so wad do i kno and me mates think I lost the plot somewhere me tinfoil garden ;)
Dude, my uncle was a courier employed by AT&T during WW2 and he had occasion to visit AT&T facilities back in 1942 which had rooms as large as football fields filled with operators monitoring phone calls. This has been going on for a very long time.
I think if Putin wanted to give the ultimate fuck you to Obama, he'd appoint Snowden to his ambassador team and include him in talks with Kerry. That woudl be hilarious.
That would come with Diplomatic Immunity as well.
Don't know about diplomatic immunity to protect Snowden. We're talking about real criminals in the US/UK government here, not as a hyperbole, but real dangerous sociopaths and psychopaths who commit serious crimes on a daily basis ostensibly 'for our own good', who won't think twice about hijacking a private plane belonging to a sovereign head of state. Remember last year?
Corruption and theft are old hat. They openly fund and train terrorists with tax payer's money, they openly commit mass surveillance and disseminate malware (the list of crimes is getting longer by the minute) - crimes which for anyone else would be a long prison sentence. We use words like, crazy and evil, but a word has yet to be invented to describe the current lawless state of the government on a collision course with disaster with the complete, blanket cooperation of the media.
I used to think that when something questionable happened, it was an exceptional case, an aberration under emergency, a few bad apples, etc. Now, I recognise my own government for what it is: a dangerous criminal enterprise, run by criminals for criminals with systemic corruption that is ingrained from the lowest level to the highest. The facade of respectability is so realistic, I never saw the crap underneath until now. I feel pity for those who believe in it and work in it without recognising it yet.
And the most ingeneous aspect of the facade is that, unlike third world countries, the massive corruption that goes on in the U.S. is written right into the statute books by our bought and paid for Congress so that it is perfecly "legal."
God bless America !! We are exceptional !! Greatest nation in history !! I am a loser, Yay !!
Hand-cranked mimeo machines, independent local area phone systems and independent local networks might be good investments for neighborhood and even city organization. Bicycles, carts. Draft horses if you can find a way to house and feed them, and reconditioned horse-drawn equipment. There's still lots of it in corners of old barns. Yes, fight for the internet and access to fuel as hard and as long as we can, but also make plans to keep going so we don't go into shock when they get shut off.
Visit an Amish farm to see how it's done.
But not this one since a lot of the "Amish" are college kids.
http://www.amishfarmandhouse.com/
And save the street addresses of folks on your lists so you can find them!
Why all the paranoia? If you're not in to anything illegal, if you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to worry about, right? Until they decide to plant something on your hardware that is..............
What a fucking mess.
Who's not into something illegal these days?
breaking laws in your sleep.....anything we do that may threaten a teeny minorities hold on the worlds wealth is criminalised, they are extremely risk averse when it comes to their inter-generational wealth and control - something Catherin Austin Fitts was saying in a recent Solari report (I am slowly getting my head around the logic of her interesting and quite unique perspectives)
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-10-22/you-break-law-every-day-...
http://blog.heritage.org/2014/01/20/happens-break-law-didnt-know/
"In the wake of media reports that 40,000 new federal, state, and local laws will go into effect this year, there’s no better time for Americans to revisit the old maxim that “ignorance of the law is no excuse.” An unknown number of these new provisions are criminal laws that can deprive us of our liberty and brand us for life. No ordinary American can be expected to know every law, new and old, on the books, not even every criminal law. Anyone concerned about Americans’ being locked up for innocent behavior should resolve to help end overcriminalization."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lePrBUHihKI
80 seconds to show an Aussie example of the physical stack of paper required to generate "the criminalisation of everything we do" meme towards a global standard of regulatory control. We're all merging into one consistent regulatory latrine.
That which is "legal" and "illegal" appears to be defined by "Government" and not by Law.
Examples: Manning, Assange, Snowden et al.
I define NSA as : The banality of Evil as defined by Hannah Arendt in her conclusions drawn from the Israeli trial of the Nazi clerk, Adolf Eichman. Eichman was just another "thoughtless" bureaucratic clerk.
I also believe that the definition of evil is: One thousand efficient but thoughtless bureaucrats (I paraphrase from memory)
Reference: Bureaucracy by v. Mises
We impose on our youth, from birth, THE Belief System drawn from the social Collective; a consensual and obedient set of conditionings and rules (laws) that are Politically Correct. We do not teach our young to be skeptics, nor to confront those who claim to be an Authority, and to obey blindly, repeat blindly, the rule of thoughtless labour in return for comfort, until...
As a result, the "meal-ticket" labout force of humanity, devolve to automatons, just as Eichman who never once questioned, or even considered questioning, sending thousands of people to be slaughtered by the State Machinery - as it was totally"Legal".
The social "Collective", is a consensual parasite; it is not human and it is not an Authority; it is an opaque cloud of ignorance which can easily be manipulated and is, a priori, done so by that which we stupidly refer to as "Government".
Citation: World History Circa 5,000 BCE to date; ad Continuum
The Theory of government lies in "governance" which demands of those elected to manage the affairs of its citizens on behalf of the well being and benefit of those citizens. Nowhere is their a Mandate of Government to criminalize its citizens and or abuse Society's Laws for fun and profit.
Ho hum
I like the way Mises waxed poetic in the conclusion:
"The post-office clerk is the prototype of future man. Streams of blood have been shed for the realization of this ideal"
In today's speech, "going postal" means the opposite of the required conformation.
Everybody's got something to hide except me and my monkey....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCE0z4V3USQ
I think you know the answer, it isn't about them getting us, it about them getting total control so that we can never get them.
Anal beads, dildos rammed your ass as MSM speaks in a lispe voice on political correctness. Leave it at that.
Double post
Son, if you are gonna doulble post on a message board, make sure it is about anal beads.
Accually in a Hicksville of United States of America has limited Internet service. When you log onto free wifi. At least, smoking was not prohibited and a good meal was served outside GMO . One mention of Obama turned a shit storm of how they'll hang him. On the border near savannha GA and northern Fl.
Let the media spin Obama's new polling figures. VA,NC,SC,GA,Al and Florida dispise the negro piece of shit. Don't need to read a poll when people talk.
This doesn't surprise me, but I'm in the loop. Most Muricans are fucking clueless. The key is disrupting the masses of stupid fucks daily lives into understanding there's a problem. They enjoy their sleep, so it's a difficult situation.
To avoid international crises they test all this stuff, some of it dangerous, on unwitting US civilians: you, labrats. This means in some cases they also monitor us through conventional surveillance to verify results - boots on the ground, phone taps, local pigfest cooperation, spying. Like the California Coast Guard pilot that collected all California internet traffic 2003-4, before this prototype was turned over to the unconstitutional DHS gestapo for... you know. Barbie and Diane approved it.
Serfing the Internet.
Why is it? Youngsters always think they're smarter then their elders?
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Maybe they consider themselves to be more highly evolved.
& the proganda to sort through gets thicker, especially with the perception of 'technological freedom' like bitcoin, wave'n pay and FB. Once they get to an age where they want to preserve and grow their life savings, then they're not so evolved they're cornered and need to embrace the stockholm syndrome to meet the UN happiness index based on Bhutan.
Geat answer. This world needs an enema!
Generation Y is going to blow this world a new asshole, and I'll welcome it.
Status quo, you reap what you sow.
Snowden for Prez !!
Prez! haha.... 'specially since he's sleeping with the globalists useful idiots who have plans for managing uselesseaters.... smells froggy
http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/?s=snowden
Using taxpayer money to spy on taxpayers in violation of the 4th Amendment - by the Military that has sworn to defend The Constitution.
Treason by any other name, and Treason on top of Treason.
Treason is a hanging offense.
Are you listening N.S.A.?
You misinterpret what it means when they say they had reservations.
It means they had reserved resources for that purpose.
Banzai,
You are truly doing God's work. Could you please make up some friendly propoganda posters that ZHers could post around their various locations?
Criteria would be:
Good print quality in B&W laser or inkjet
Very block images and fonts for easy readability
Simple messages to be injested by the masses
You could make them for various target audiences like military, NSA locations, general population etc.
Are you interested?
Thanks!
That's pretty awesome, but the black isn't going to print well on most laser printers or photocopiers, or it will run everyone out of toner in a couple reams of paper. The colors will be completely lost, and everything would bleed terribly on an inkjet. What else do you have?
There was a picture I saw the other day that was pretty cool along those lines. Let me see if I can find it...
That is today's effort. Go through my Flickr, I have tons of other stuff that you can use.
Anyone can reproduce it for non-commercial purposes.
Something like this would be awesome to do a ZH media campaign with: http://artofthewicked.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/big_brother_is_watc...
Everyone prints 100 of them and posts them everywhere around the world. That would be epic.
I don't mean to deter you. But we have been down this road before.
Some people actually print out my pictures and disseminate them.
Others are just too busy trying to put bread on their table.
All of my time is dedicated to content generation.
Stickers, decals all that stuff, is very easy for someon to to do.
I have more or less concluded that in this day and age they have been marginalized by digital media. If you want to persuade people you better do it on a mobile device. Unless you are going to organise a public spectacle. Naked tits seem to be the current weapon of choice.
Naked tits seem to be the current weapon of choice.
I do not know what the fuck I am protesting...but I have one helluva chubby.
I've been thinking on your comment for a moment, and I think things are starting to get more heated. The younger generation certainly is the TA (target audience) of social media as you say, however, most blithering idiots are pretty receptive to meatspace propoganda. Others on our side would certainly be more emboldened by posters everywhere. It also has the side benefit of possibly stemming the possibility of violence by heading it out at the pass. I'd be willing to swing my dick on Times Square if it could prevent violence, sorry, no tits here. It's worth a shot. right?
Hey, more time fucking and less time killing works for me.
The problem is that the whole make love not war meme has been tried before....like 40 plus years ago. I think things have not improved much since Aunt Bessy revealed her knockers.
I'd be willing to swing my dick on Times Square if it could prevent violence, sorry, no tits here. It's worth a shot. right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c2jp8WyXms
Yep, it is worth a shot.
As I say, all of my stuff is free to be used and has been in the past, albeit not at Time Square as far as I am aware.
But strictly as a defensive legal matter, it is better for me or anyone else for that matter, not to be publicly seen as instigating urban guerilla marketing tactics given what the NYPD has done to other artists, the NYPD Drone poster artist being a good example.
As a matter of visual impact, I agree with you that a poster on a wall beats a mobile screen hands down, particularly if the poster shows up in an unexpected place.
That's a big ass rainbow comment.
Tried sending you some btc. Address not recognized.
Might wanna fix that.
DIO Rainbow in the Dark
EBWORTHIN:"Are you listening N.S.A.?"
Apparently so, the only government agency that does in fact listen.
Heh-heh.
Yes, probably true.
This patriot for the ideals of The Constitution is not afraid to speak up; JOHN HANCOCK you fucking N.S.A. Redcoats!
Well said, Mike ...
If you have done nothing wrong then you have nothing to worry about. Any true American patriot would welcome the government's evidence gathering and spying on them. Only the guilty person would complain of being spied on. What have you done wrong that you should fear NSA? Thought crimes perhaps? Banker bashing? Not supporting the troops? Are you not onboard with "we are all west Ukrainians now?" If you are not a patriot then government must keep tabs on you in order to secure the homeland.
Do you watch Max Kieser and Stacy? Have you listened to news on RT? So many potential crimes, no wonder NSA is hiring.
So if everyone now knows about these attacks, who is writing software to scrub a system of this malware? Kinda like complaining your house is on fire when there's nary a bucket of water in sight.
Scrubbing a system these days means buying a new hard drive and starting over from install discs while not connected to the net.
Flash the BIOS before putting the new HD in.
Now the NSA can see what you are doing and PLANT stuff as well.
Loving son writes: "I love you mom."
Loving mom sees: "I hate you mom. You bitch."
And it also means that even a squeaky clean Internet user may just have kiddie- porn on his/her hard drive.
We now have a better insight on how Roberts was made to change his Obamacare vote.
"We have ways of making you comply."
So when can we get the unadulterated version via FIOA (Freedom of Information Act is a law that gives you the right to access information from the federal government) on all NSA data, so that we can see all the emails our politicians sent to one another, and other Fortune 500 CEOS, to enable them the ability to buy, sell and fuck over all of us?
Quote from the motion picture, "HACKERS"
The Plague: You wanted to know who I am, Zero Cool? Well, let me explain the New World Order. Governments and corporations need people like you and me. We are Samurai... the Keyboard Cowboys... and all those other people who have no idea what's going on are the cattle... Moooo.
The soundtrack was Awesome! The movie sucked my balls.
I loved that movie. Complete BS at the time. But so was Orwell's 1984 when he wrote it. Yes, OST was amazing! Rewatch the part when Secret Service Agent Richard Gill says, "I'm watching youuuuuuuu!" ---- now it's like the NSA watching via webcam. And the quote in that movie, from 1995:
"FYI man, alright. You could sit at home, and do like absolutely nothing, and your name goes through like 17 computers a day. 1984? Yeah right, man. That's a typo. Orwell is here now. He's livin' large. We have no names, man. No names. We are nameless"
I'm a big fan of Orwell. He was a brilliant writer. He was certainly precient. It's very sad. I remember reading 1984 in primary school and being amazed by the dystopian landscape. Now we live it. How things have changed.
I'm pretty good at digging up financial research and facts. I'm going to start digging up some "honest " political facts !
I don't appreciate being accused of being an alcoholic ,coke sniffer by some group of thugs that cant even spot the most basic aspect of trading! (20 day average)
I've already contacted my legal team, and I'm going to find those fuckers! This isn't playtime!
so if i plead the 5th and refuse to testify against myself, can i cut my Verizon Bill In half ?
I'll plead you erased! How's that for real life? Smart ass<
I always figured that if they wanted you bad enough they would download kiddie porn to your computer, then bust you for it.
Welll....
Seeing as the NSA knows everything. I have to ask...
Who are the Tylers? Come clean guys, the bad guys already know who you are.
And this can get thrown right out of the window:
our method: pseudonymous speech...
anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. it thus exemplifies the purpose behind the bill of rights, and of the first amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation-- and their ideas from suppression-- at the hand of an intolerant society.
Who cares who the Tylers are!?!? None of what is posted is disinfo....it is what it is and presented to you, via the Internet, unlike what you pay a premum for for HDTV mainstream news. Read, if you like, like and if not, wait for the next post. You've obviously signed up to comment. I'll be watching which posts you do fancy.
I obviously signed up to comment?
What gave it away?
You could've in the least spent an extra second and picked out a classy avatar, like David Hasselhoff or Mario....or Luigi...or Froto.
I think the tylers are really David Hasselhoff. If not, they seem to favor him.
Get over it, they just complete what Hitler couldn't accomplish.
Info.org sent me an email with clickbait for an attached trojan. I got one after having been a little overzealous in posting to websites which espouse "changing" our government.
Coincidence? Perhaps. However when I checked their webpage they didn't have much content. It did not look like an active business. That was two years ago. Hackers or government? I will never know.
If it was the government I am sure they have much more sophisticated methods now.
$#@%&!
By way of deception they wage war
The cussing lizzard above you was funnier. You are right, but that guy was funnier.
The NSA is going to own the Internet yet the Bitcoin proponents don't think that this would present a problem.
Aldous Huxley warned us...
All those who have bought bitcoin have never dealt with eBay or Paypal and their methods of instantly restricting access to funds and denying you the ability to transact online. WHERE IS THE CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT ON PAYPAL???? FUCK PAYPAL!!!!!
This is indeed a problem. PayPal does not use national (or international-) law to freeze your funds - or your account, for life. Whenever they see fit they will kick you out of the system, they don't even have to give a proper reason. Has happened to some mates of mine who paid for access to a porn site. PayPal had the porn site remove the PayPal buttons and blocked my mates for life.
Okay folks, I need help.
I am wondering the following regarding the events in Russia, in light of these revelations (which we all suspected and worse). If the NSA is this bad assed then:
1. Why aren't they fucking up Russia hard. Bad assed NSA hard. Undermine them Armageddon hard. Are they lying and can't do all these leaks claim?
2. Could it be that Obama is too stupid to deploy these assets against Russia?
3. Could it be that due to bureaucracy, the left hand is pretty unaware of the right hand so no one thinks to apply these assets in this way? (doubt it).
4. Are we in fact fucking them very hard and it is not being made public at all?
5. Is all the bullshit we see about Ukraine, in fact, a lie. Not the real story at all?
As far as #1, the Russians are pretty damn good hackers. They wouldn't be an easy target. I also think the NSA is over-rated as an organization. They have hired a lot of the best dexters and blinking lights but they are managed by bureaucrats and political hacks. Pretty sure a lot is going on we don't know about cyber warfare wise.
6. $#@%&!
Why do you care so much about Russia?
I bet you never heard of Crimea before this situation.
"war is the best way for Americans to learn geography"
-OAO
We are lied to so much it is hard to "know" anything. This is another instance of it.
The Fed lies to me.
The BLS lies to me.
My government lies to me.
The press lies to me.
I suppose I could just tell myself they all lie and get over it...I find it hard to do that and stick with it.
My husband was a Russian interpreter for the army who used to be posted in Germany where he sat and "listened" to the Ruskies.
Why the reactivity regarding whether or not I "care" about Russia?
Ms., I believe number five. If snowden is an op, so is Ukraine. We are living in a soap opera. Shit runs deep.
Are we the controlled opposition?
You are beginning to understand. We are on our own. What you should be doing is planning and acting to secure your life and lifestyle against the hordes of enemies foreign and domestic that are engaging us in an undeclared, asymetric contest. Forget Russia, the perimeter is your property, your body and your mind, in that order.
Or, you can lie to yourself like everyone else does. Baaaa
Thanks, that's kind of what I was thinking (only thing you can do is minimize the system's affect, by minimizing your involvement in said system).
They can't they don't speak Russian. They don't program the software they are using, they just use it, badly. No, it's not like a spiffy tool you can unfold from its handsome leather carrying case. The tool they constructed is to watch YOU, Joe Blow!
The perversity is that they can now "go deep" against anyone, from a pool of suspects that don't apply, aren't that interesting, or threatening to begin with. The specificity breaks it. It is as stupid as the fucking Star Treck Themed Command Center. Yeah, "Number One, Make it So!" To which he responds, "Yes Sir I made number one and a little number two, may I be excused."
Give it up, shut it down. America backtrack you have lost the path.
Where have you seen it written that the NSA tells politicians anything? They don't need no stupid politicians.
Once again TheOnion is pretty damn close to reality; Which is sad.
http://www.theonion.com/video/cias-facebook-program-dramatically-cut-age...
Moreover, people really suck. For years, I heard things like "They (government) wouldnt do 'that'", "youre fucking crazy," or some variation. Now that confirmation of what MANY of us have been saying has been happening is here, its suddenly "no big deal to that same group.
Fuck them.
If it was no big deal now, it would have been no big deal before. NOT a "they wouldnt do that." Why did these asshats think it wrong before, but not now?
Two things. Fear. Fear that it something will interupt their DVR recordings. Anger that NetFlix might be interupted. Embarrassment. Embarrassment that they were so fucking wrong for so long; talked so much shit; now theyre in a corner.
Know what?
FUCK EM!
Governments of the world are chocked full of shit-eating lying fucks.
I could give a shit IF they spy on me. Hell, I'm out in the open, exercising my First God Damn Amendment Right to Free Fuckin Speech.
I highly doubt I'm important to them.....
They could give a shit about me; my words mean nothing to them.
My only small solace is that some douchebag fuck from the government reads these posts, so my words curse them - and in their tiny little gubbermint brains, they know what many people think of them.
...and in the end.....it's who YOU are, that defines you.
At least I did not sell my soul to a fucking bank or some shit-eating government for money.
SO...government spys/workers/douchebags on the dole...wankin bankers?
FUCK....YOU!
You really need to speak your mind and release some of your pent up anger - but a good rant
click here
All the NSA agents have to do is commit suicide immediately, if not sooner.
Good riddance to a bunch of dumbasses.
But, go ahead, spy on anybody you can see.
Just be sure to kill yourselves now.
Have fun.
Call me crazy, but I think the larger investment banks are the driving force behind this. If the NSA can hack into your computer (on the behalf of lets say Goldman Sachs), it can surely intercept any stock market trades you may make. It's just the next step in HFT. If you can intercept an order before it reaches an exchange, you can get ahead of the HFT algos and manipulate the price accordingly. Instead of a dark pool, think of it as a massively distributed dark pool.
Call me crazy, but I think the larger investment banks are the driving force behind this. If the NSA can hack into your computer (on the behalf of lets say Goldman Sachs), it can surely intercept any stock market trades you may make. It's just the next step in HFT. If you can intercept an order before it reaches an exchange, you can get ahead of the HFT algos and manipulate the price accordingly. Instead of a dark pool, think of it as a massively distributed dark pool.
If theres any doubt, there is no doubt.
I cant believe people are still sitting at the table. People need to stand up and walk away.
and watching your bank accounts. They know what trades you can enter or can't enter because of what you can use for margin, what you have for cash & perhaps a bit of trading history analysis would show what you're likely to want, maybe even a price range.
If you even said so online what your price/ticker preferences are, you're shot. All your cards are on the table.
My only advantage is to take what look like long shots but for cheap with solid math & with most other people deciding "that's crazy, I wouldn't ever do that!" so they think I'd lose regardless.
But... I don't ;) I don't win 'em all but the math is solid so all that remains is the fundamentals & the time-analysis of the manipulation itself.
This article is great but I have to comment on the format of the writing, why repeat same paragraphic multiple times throughout the article? I have seem this in other articles onZH it's like you want a long article but not sure what to write but just copy and paste some lines over and over again to fill minimum wording requirement.
At least it is comforting to know in the days of Hitler and Stalin there was some trust in government. I can't imagine that anyone with a normal IQ still has any.
A newsletter I get said his kids call Obama President Quimby after the mayor of the town Bart and the Simpsons live in...the are 9 and 12.
I guess they could nuke us all but at least there wouldn't be any surprises.
It is with reason I say this; NSA employees, burn that shit hole to the ground.
This is what I say without reason; NSA employees, if you dont burn that shit hole to the ground, you might as well kill yourselves by drinking LSD.
To the War Pigs in charge:
We are Armed.
Arm yourselves.
Anyone heard from Diane Feinswine? Senator Feinswine has her panties in a wad over a little surveillance..... Hope you do something about her William Banzai 7!!!!
He did
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2014-03-11/and-now-message-big-sis
Crime for money. These globalists didn't derive their power and wealth from morality and being nice guys. These dudes be mass murderers to the Nth degree. And, they've taken over America.
Ever wonder how you could have possibly sent out a humiliating "reply all" email? Don't worry, it wasn't you it was the NSA!
Lets see the list of victems. Including all the fucked up dirty tricks you pulled on them. Or how bout a list of things they did to folks. This system is for screwing people over left right up and down. All this talk about spying is passive. This stuff is for active/aggressive intent. How can we be sure about that?
Human nature. The same mind that thinks it needs to spy needs to be able to act on it.
Unfortunately, most encryption is useless against the NSA. Their supercomputers will find the key faster than it takes you to encrypt a message. I have found one unbreakable, mutating-key algorithm encryption software called Cryptogra.ph that works flawlessly on any kind of content. The encryption key mutates with each 8 bits of content encrypted yet it is lightning fast. (Write the code "ZH2014" in the order note to get the premier edition ($200) for the standard edition price ($20) but you didn't hear it from me.)
Whats your key size? Mine is 8192.
Anything over 1024 is basically unhackable by all computers on the face of the earth no matter it be optical, quantum, expanded spatially or just given a large amount of time, not even centuries upon centuries with all combined computing power. For every additional bit it's twice as hard so for 8192 bits that's berzillions.
For rinky-dinky 256-bit for bitcoin or 128-bit for common web browser encryption, ya, that's a knife through hot butter, but my PGP keys?
Fat chance.
If you are going to plug, then at least do it honesty like this:
My campaign to sue Deutsche Bank: www.kingoftherepublic.com
Honest capatalism is good.
Imagine that, I did not even have to click on your Add.
If you have a product to sell on ZH, At least pay the Tyler's for the space.
Sheesh... They have to eat too.
The spying is worse than you think.
The Revolution TV show is using comments from ZH in their series.
Copyright your words as they come off your fingertips or join the revolution for free.
Coyright is information terrorism using the government gun to shoot what should be allies. We don't need it to speak our voices.
I am starting to believe the NSA demonic powers over technology less and less. Isn't it just a show. What about the US army who will fly iron man suits soon? Don't forget the Strategic Defense Initiative, which according to propaganda brought the Soviets to their knees, without ever working. As if a centrally planned economy need any help of getting on it's knees.
re I am starting to believe the NSA demonic powers over technology less and less.
Yeah - we're supposed to believe that they collate, index, file, have instant relational access to billions of communications a day? Yeah right!
Pity they couldn't have helped out on the obamcare website!
Wouldn't be surpised if all thats inside that warehouse in Utah is the Maytag Man - snoozing away while the rats scurry around looking for his lunch-bucket.
It's Paranoia On The Cheap: BOW DOWN! HATE ME! BUT, MOST OF ALL, BELIEVE WHAT I SAY & FEAR ME!
It's all B.S. And this Snowden/Greenwald tag-team soap-opera is getting rather tiresome with its amateur-hourd drip-drip Leak-Of-The-Week hyperventilation
'They' are getting desperate - and, thus, increasingly bizarre & ridiculous in their claims of omnipotence.
Whooaa.... my screen just went all wobbly & the disk's whirring like its being scoured!!!OMG!!!
What you and pcrs are missing is that the NSA may not (or may) have the ability collate and use all this data but they certainly can watch target rich environments such as ZH where people have the audacity to disagree with the one and even dare to disagree and discuss amongst themselves (too much 'radical' thinking going on at that site!) The realities of control that these communists have in America is devastating to real freedom.
Don't be fooled, what J. Edgar Hoover had on government politicians was a drop in the sea compared to what these communists have on our politicians and companies. Everyone understands front running information could be very profitable in the world of stocks, gold and silver; what do you think it is worth in the realm of controlling a government and by proxy its people.
The NSA and their ilk do not need to watch everyone, only the ability to pick and choose as they see fit - including the ability to go back in time when a new target is acquired.
Is that a plane I see in the distance or a Reaper?
I don't think ubiquitous information works ultimately to their advantage. They have a monopoly now, but information has the tendency to spread fast on the internet and they themselves have the most dirty laundry.
So, after reading this, do they now own my computer?
That's a joke, of course.
But do I press my luck by visiting http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2014/03/12/the-most-evil-and-disturbing-nsa... ?
;-)
It's good to see so many free minds here. As for me, I escaped the asylum over 30 years ago. The only thing that I haven't accomplished in that time is to free my wallet from being picked each and every payday.
“Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.”
? William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Even if they are paying their TAO guys a fortune, the general decency of most people smart enough to be in the hacking game suggests they will turn against their paymasters.
If I were NSA management I would know the only way I could get folks to work poyally for me, is to lock em up. Automating everything still needs people to interpret.
If i were an NSA hacker, I would know that they don't trust me at all.
The NSA may not (or may) have the ability collate and use all this data but they certainly can watch target rich environments such as ZH where people have the audacity to disagree with the one and even dare to disagree and discuss amongst themselves (too much 'radical' thinking going on at that site!) The realities of control that these communists have in America is devastating to real freedom.
Don't be fooled, what J. Edgar Hoover had on government politicians was a drop in the sea compared to what these communists have on our politicians and companies. Everyone understands front running information could be very profitable in the world of stocks, gold and silver; what do you think it is worth in the realm of controlling a government and by proxy its people.
The NSA and their ilk do not need to watch everyone, only the ability to pick and choose as they see fit - including the ability to go back in time when a new target is acquired.
Is that a plane I see in the distance or a Reaper?
Yep. This is in a nutshell, exactly what is going on and what has been going on for a long time. Hoover did set the example of how this is done. It has spread everywhere in DC since then. It is now the defacto way that DC operates. Corruption taken to it's extreme. And now we see that the internal feifdoms are warring against each other.
Think for a moment. As soon as Senator Feinstein (known NSA supporter) went after the CIA the CIA shot back with a big gun, less than 24 hours after Feinstein went public with the Congressional evidence of CIA law breaking.
The CIA has reporters and entire newspapers all over the world in it's pocket. They shape public opinion world wide. Anything they want to puff in MSM's get's puffed. It's been this was since WWII when it was operating for wartime propaganda / support.
They are going after each other now publicly. CIA vs. NSA.
This is not to say that everything the NSA does is legal or even ethically right- everyone knows that it's not constitutional inside the US and most likely illegal, even with National Security justification. But the CIA's history of misdeeds are far, far worse. And if the CIA closet gets pryed open here then I think it's going to get interesting.
"The realities of control that these communists have in America..." Actually, this is Fascism.
Communism has an artery of fascism in it at all times.
Fascism was invented by the communists.
Nothing out of the ordinary here, just more of the usual behaviour of chronically dysfunctional sociopaths needing to be gods.
Like 0blahma and Co?
I wonder what TURBINE will do with my encrypted copy of Fed proceedings since 1913 that I've renamed to "The_anarchists_cookbook.zip"
Change We Can Believe In!
nothing to worry about.... TRUST US..... it's for your own good
except of course when we come for you .....
How is it they dont ever stop the bad guys in advance of an event?
What about the bitcoin "hack"... cant track that?
What about the missing airliner.... can t track/locate the 4 hours of engine data?
sen frankenstein knows about all this and is now shockingly concerned about the cia..... because it touched her.... who the fuck does she think she is anyhow and the common scum is forced to sit silent and accept this abuse... fuck you up the ass bitch... what she is really concerned about is the NO BID exclusive award for real estate brokerage for her husband... and other insider deals that totally violate the law... but then agin the law is just for the common scum that pays the bills ... the serfs in amerika... its not just the aca that is off the tracks.... the whole fucking DC beltway crew is ....
I never for an instant believed FBI book and twatter ever had any other intention than to gather as much info as possible and sell it to the gov. Same with Google and MS, especially their nice little data base for all school children. I bet those companies offered it up to ANY government agency maybe even initializing the contact. What those guys did in a private room with the Government in the room with 85 billion a month in QE was damn sure NOT objecting to all of this spying as long as they got their share. That data will be used to quantify and control citizens for eons to come. Particularly with FB. I'm not sure that wasn't a spy program from the get go. Developed by a couple of guys at an Ivy league college. I call bullshit.
Data is data. For sale to the highest bidder or wholly owned by the government (through your acceptance of the terms and condidtions) by way of fascistic cooperation. We have been tricked into participating in the largest surveillence grid in human history. Just make sure there is enough entertainment to hook people and it's a done deal. The only way to escape is to go dark. The Internet = Television.
If you like your data you can keep your data.
Hmm. If I wanted to put up a fake facebook.com i'd register racebook.com because the QWERT keyboard capital letters are adjacent and look similar in caps at least.
What they can or cannot do is still an unknown. What is for sure is it violates all of our rights. The real question is not weather they masterbait to it. Its what do they do with it and to whom do they do it to. Now if snowden were the real deal thats what he would be talking about. That part of this he could chime in on without giving up any bla bla bla.
If we knew what they were so affraid of then we might start getting somewhere. It looks to me they are crapping thier shorts over a global consensus of honest people forming. Its forming now, maybe its much more fully formed then we know? Devide and counqure is not working as well as it used to. Distractions dont work for as long as they did before. The msm is a known joke. The honest folks are becoming much more focused on the beast.
Did you ever notice how honest folks just get along? Thats where our true power is. Our participation is the glue that keeps the beast from falling into disaray. Because lying thieving rat bastards dont get along very well. Casting doubts in the minds of the tools is not hard. Swaying the minds of people that dont lie to themselves is much harder.
Ok yes the NSA is enemy #2 as we do have to wait around for them to call up our number (grin)...but 60 Minutes if you missed it Sunday..must watch..they ripped the data brokers, and they did it good and talked about what I drill in to people's heads, the re-query and matching that goes on. Also I have a link to the crooked credit agency video they did last year.
Perhaps my campaigning with passing a law to require any data seller to buy a license may finally get there. How in the hell do you know who they all are, we don't. The FTC head admits to 60 Minutes on camera, "they have lost control" now that should make you feel real good. I write to an attorney at the FTC a couple times a month bugging them on the licensing issue as how can you regulate if you don't know who they are? I also suggest a nice little excise tax on the big boys like Walgreens making 1-2 Billion a year, just selling data. We are the free labor force here as they don't care, they sell and get their money, we have to do the work as we get denied access to something with flawed data on our records.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2014/03/60-minutes-blasts-data-sellers-ft...
At the end don't choke but the one data broker thinks self regulating is working just fine...ummm..yeah like banks self regulating right?