A very dangerous joke with very dangerous tools at their disposal.
If you think you’re safe online, you’re wrong. I’m as tin-foil-hat as they come and have invested incredible amounts of personal funds to develop a heavily encrypted home network with personal email servers, etc., but I STILL believe they can infiltrate.
If its turned on they can see it.
> I’m as tin-foil-hat as they come and have invested incredible amounts of personal funds to develop a heavily encrypted home network with personal email servers, etc., but I STILL believe they can infiltrate.
And you’d be 100% correct. They’ve had this ability for much longer than the average person might guess.
In 1998 a friend and I were discussing encrypted emails and we decided to check out the process. We went to a Norwegian website and downloaded their open source PGP program. We each installed it, exchanged public keys and we each sent each other a one line email to test it out.
Mine said “This is cool. We should check out the capabilities further.”
My friend’s email was similar and only one line long.
Within one day, we were each received an email from the FBI and asking to remove the encryption software from our PCs as it might contain viruses or malware and did not conform to US standards.
We took the software off our machines, but the question remains, “How did they detect the encrypted emails so fast?” It wasn’t even 24 hours later.