[BlueScreen]

Thanks to the Guardian and The Washington Post we know exactly what the government has been doing, and what they might know about us.


The Washington Post and Guardian dropped their bombshell reports regarding PRISM, a covert collaboration between the NSA, FBI, and almost every tech company utilized by the American public.

PRISM allowed the goverment nearly limitless access to your personal information and it’s been going on for at least 6 years.

The program that sounds like it’s straight out of any conspiracy theorists 101 handbook went into effect in 2007 and has only gained momentum since it’s inception. Its stated purpose is to monitor potentially valuable foreign communique that may pass through US servers.

However, in practice appears to have a much larger scope than just monitoring foreign correspondence.

PRISM gave the NSA unprecedented access to the servers of major tech companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, AOL, Skype, and Yahoo. Any interaction you have had with these companies in the past six years has been available to the government.

The companies mentioned above received a directive from the attorney general and the director of national intelligence. They hand over access to their servers to the FBI’s Data Intercept Technology Unit, which in turn relays it to the NSA.

PRISM information accounts for staggering 1 in 7 intelligence reports.

What’s most troubling about PRISM isn’t that it collects data. It’s the type of data it collects. According to the Washington Post report, that includes:

…audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs… [Skype] can be monitored for audio when one end of the call is a conventional telephone, and for any combination of “audio, video, chat, and file transfers” when Skype users connect by computer alone. Google’s offerings include Gmail, voice and video chat, Google Drive files, photo libraries, and live surveillance of search terms.

Essentially they could pull up every interaction you’ve ever had with anyone or anything you’ve ever done online.

Most of the tech companies involved have cooperative with the injunction, starting with Micrsoft who reportedly signed on in 2007. However some companies, Like Twitter for example, have not complied.

PRISM’s first corporate partner was allegedly Microsoft, which according to the Post and Guardian signed on back in 2007. Other companies slowly joined, with Apple being the most recent enlistee. Twitter, it seems, has not complied.

Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google have all denied any involvement whatsoever.

PRISM is, shockingly, legal. The government has had this authority for years, and there’s no sign that it’s going to be revoked any time soon.

The Protect America Act of 2007 made it possible for targets to be electronically surveilled without a warrant if they were “reasonably believed” to be foreign.

PRISM abuses this loophole by using a single filter that checks for anything “foreign” in the subject. It eliminates 49% of the data, leaving more than half, legally with the government.

Question:
Now that you know who and what is monitoring you, are you going to change any of your online habits? Why or why not? Let me know in the comments down below!


Source(s): youtube.com/SourceFed

[Nefarious]

I will not change my habits, if they have heard my conversations it's already too late.
I dislike google even more now, DuckDuckGo all day.

[Dismas]

A few people were talking about this yesterday. Now you know why I am urging people to use the IRC. Not saying that an IRC is any more protective, but it is better.

[Charon]

I am really going to stop using these services, Jabber and IRC here I come.

[Dyme]

A few people were talking about this yesterday. Now you know why I am urging people to use the IRC. Not saying that an IRC is any more protective, but it is better.

Lol you're using rizon.

[ねこまっしぐら]

A few people were talking about this yesterday. Now you know why I am urging people to use the IRC. Not saying that an IRC is any more protective, but it is better.

You still need to tell me how to join :-(

[i0xIllusi0n]

I'm not. If it's been going on for years, why hasn't anything happened so far? Clearly they're not picking out specifically our logs. From my understanding, they log it all and only look if necessary.

[me3000]

Good reason why you should use encryption whenever possible.

https://www.boxcryptor.com/ - encrypt all your files as they are uploading to cloud storage

https://www.torproject.org - browse the web without your ISP(or gov monitoring ISP's) being able to monitor your UDP traffic

any good VPN - allow TCP/UDP traffic to be secure from your ISP, only the VPN can possibly know your traffic. PPTP protocol developed by M$, so stay away from this one(proven to have security issues).

hushmail - some email security -- GnuPG secure your email's from all without key =D

secure your chat - many available, not sure what is the best or most used yet...

TrueCrypt - secure your HDD. Make a 2nd hidden partition to protect your sensitive files in case you are ever required by law to give up your password... Recent case in the news about a Wisconsin man being charged with child porn being required to give up his encrypted password after the FBI has failed to crack his encryption!!! - loosing more rights as a citizen

Basically anything that you do should have encryption if you expect any real level of privacy. This includes your cell phone too, police will search that too if you ever get put into police custody!

[yokai_old]

Lol you're using rizon.

If you think using onion ircs is the solution, you're wrong, and yes rofl @ rizon.

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Good reason why you should use encryption whenever possible.

https://www.boxcryptor.com/ - encrypt all your files as they are uploading to cloud storage

https://www.torproject.org - browse the web without your ISP(or gov monitoring ISP's) being able to monitor your UDP traffic

any good VPN - allow TCP/UDP traffic to be secure from your ISP, only the VPN can possibly know your traffic. PPTP protocol developed by M$, so stay away from this one(proven to have security issues).

hushmail - secure your email's

secure your chat - many available, not sure what is the best or most used yet...

TrueCrypt - secure your HDD. Make a 2nd hidden partition to protect your sensitive files in case you are ever required by law to give up your password... Recent case in the news about a Wisconsin man being charged with child porn being required to give up his encrypted password after the FBI has failed to crack his encryption!!! - loosing more rights as a citizen

Basically anything that you do should have encryption if you expect any real level of privacy. This includes your cell phone too, police will search that too if you ever get put into police custody!

Are you encouraging CP, I hope you get raided...and truecrypt's denial of plausibility has some flaws, and obviously you're retarded for referring hushmail, if you read the TOS, you'd see it says they will give everything over to the feds if need be; honestly if you already didn't know big brother is watching you're not that observant..

pppehpp patriot act! no but data mining has been going way before that, but that made it happen much more; and google and the NSA has been public for ages, you guys have to read the TOS before being so suprised

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I'm not. If it's been going on for years, why hasn't anything happened so far? Clearly they're not picking out specifically our logs. From my understanding, they log it all and only look if necessary.

Vote yes on prop 1984, orwellian society is the way to go!

[Nefarious]

You still need to tell me how to join :-(

I have made a tutorial, you can find it here.
http://www.sinister.ly/Thread-Tutorial-C...ficial-IRC