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Posted on 08/01/2013 8:17:06 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Until Wednesday morning, you'd probably never heard of something called "XKeyscore," a program that the National Security Agency itself describes as its "widest reaching" means of gathering data from across the Internet. According to reports shared by NSA leaker Edward Snowden with the Guardian, is that in addition to all of the other recent revelations about the NSA's surveillance programs, by using XKeyscore, "analysts can also search by name, telephone number, IP address, keywords, the language in which the Internet activity was conducted or the type of browser used."
David Brown, who co-authored the recent book "Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry" under the pseudonym D.B. Grady, told NBC News Wednesday the main value of XKeyscore is that it serves as a first point of collection for massive amounts of data the NSA can now cull from digital activities, such as a person's email or Web browsing.
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Okay, so they’re collecting all this data about us. One day, when they will least expect it, all this info can be used against them, fun part is, they would have done all the work for us. Sad part is, it may not be in our lifetime.
The pendulum swings both ways.
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“your phone is ALWAYS an open mic. that audio data can/will be processed and pushed through voice recognition to produce a text document to be parsed”
BS. But if you really believe that then keep your cell radio turned off. Kind of defeats the purpose though.
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My life details are pretty boring. But for other folks I’m sure all the snooping is a real concern.
Mostly I’m sad that future generations won’t know the simple life we had in the 1960’s, ‘70’s. Maybe at some point they will get tired of the constant monitoring, pull the plug, and toss all computers and cell phones. Rebel against the virtual world and its eye on you!
everyone in government has access to all of the pictures of your colonoscopies and the brand of toilet paper you use and how much TP you use...just in case TP has to be rationed under Obamacare....
I just do all my internetting with full knowledge that Big Brother is watching.
If they ever come for me, I’m going to find a great constitutional lawyer and own a few federal facilities after all the lawsuits are said and done.
Some are but those are mostly "smart" phones waiting for voice commands.
standard phone on the desk... always on mic
smart phones... installed agent with voice2text capability that will constantly convert conversations it picks up, shipping the resultant text (and meta data) when parameters suggest
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