Posted on 12/05/2012 12:15:36 PM PST by wesagain
Did you ever get the feeling you were being watched?
And watched by the government?
There’s very good reason to feel that way, says a whistleblower from the National Security Agency who says everyone in the U.S. is under virtual surveillance by federal authorities.
In an interview with RT, William Binney, a former mathematician and code breaker at the NSA, says the FBI records the emails of nearly all Americans, including members of Congress, and warns that the government can use this information against anyone.
“The FBI has access to the data collected, which is basically the emails of virtually everybody in the country. And the FBI has access to it,” Binney said.
“All the congressional members are on the surveillance, too, no one is excluded. They are all included. So, yes, this can happen to anyone. If they become a target for whatever reason – they are targeted by the government, the government can go in, or the FBI, or other agencies of the government, they can go into their database, pull all that data collected on them over the years, and we analyze it all. So, we have to actively analyze everything
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E-mail is text, text compresses really nice, a little bit of petabyte storage (which I personally know of 2 governmentally related non-spooky organizations that regularly ADD petabytes to their storage capacity) goes a long way.
The real question isn’t can they gather all the data, because they can, all the data at some point goes through at least one government computer anyway (remember who built the backbone for this thing). The question is what can they do with it. The hard part is searching the data, even really good keyword data gets hard to sort through when you’ve got that much junk. In general figure most of it gets used the other way around, if they decide they want to get you personally they’ve got the data they need, but until they’re already looking at you personally the likelihood of them finding dirt on you is pretty slim.
I send and receive a lot of big photo files and or graphic files.
They are compressible but not so much.
I really, honestly, totally do not care. God is bigger than this godless government and much bigger than allah, the god of those who have subverted this government.
The Secret Sharer Is Thomas Drake an enemy of the state May 23, 2011Even in an age in which computerized feats are commonplace, the N.S.A.’s capabilities are breathtaking. The agency reportedly has the capacity to intercept and download, every six hours, electronic communications equivalent to the contents of the Library of Congress. Three times the size of the C.I.A., and with a third of the U.S.’s entire intelligence budget, the N.S.A. has a five-thousand-acre campus at Fort Meade protected by iris scanners and facial-recognition devices. The electric bill there is said to surpass seventy million dollars a year.
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In the late nineties, Binney estimated that there were some two and a half billion phones in the world and one and a half billion I.P. addresses. Approximately twenty terabytes of unique information passed around the world every minute. Binney started assembling a system that could trap and map all of it. “I wanted to graph the world,” Binney said. “People said, ‘You can’t do this—the possibilities are infinite.’ ” But he argued that “at any given point in time the number of atoms in the universe is big, but it’s finite.”
As Binney imagined it, ThinThread would correlate data from financial transactions, travel records, Web searches, G.P.S. equipment, and any other “attributes” that an analyst might find useful in pinpointing “the bad guys.” By 2000, Binney, using fibre optics, had set up a computer network that could chart relationships among people in real time. It also turned the N.S.A.’s data-collection paradigm upside down. Instead of vacuuming up information around the world and then sending it all back to headquarters for analysis, ThinThread processed information as it was collected—discarding useless information on the spot and avoiding the overload problem that plagued centralized systems. Binney says, “The beauty of it is that it was open-ended, so it could keep expanding.”
Pilot tests of ThinThread proved almost too successful, according to a former intelligence expert who analyzed it. “It was nearly perfect,” the official says. “But it processed such a large amount of data that it picked up more Americans than the other systems.” Though ThinThread was intended to intercept foreign communications, it continued documenting signals when a trail crossed into the U.S. This was a big problem: federal law forbade the monitoring of domestic communications without a court warrant. And a warrant couldn’t be issued without probable cause and a known suspect. In order to comply with the law, Binney installed privacy controls and added an “anonymizing feature,” so that all American communications would be encrypted until a warrant was issued. The system would indicate when a pattern looked suspicious enough to justify a warrant.
This is probably not much more upbeat than your take on this BUT 666 was the number of talons of silver Solomon taxed the Jews after people after he ‘went rouge’ on God.
This represented a HUGE increase in taxes.
So an alternate interpretation would be the “Antichrist will raise taxes on his people to make it a huge burden on them”.
That’s you. 99% of the e-mail is text, and small amounts of text at that, most compression can shrink pure text by as much as 40%. All the e-mails a person sends in a week can be stored in a couple of KB, that’s a 10 to the third measurement, PB storage is a 10 to the 15 measurement. 5 years ago Teradata launched Teradata 12, 50 PB of compressed data. That’s a purchasable tool. And it’s 5 years old, they’re up to Teradata 14 now.
All of our data is storable within commercially available systems. Let’s not even get into secret stuff the government is often claimed to have access to.
When you see these things come to pass, look up and know that your salvation is at hand.
So if the goivernment already has this all encompassing snooping capability, why would they want to implement laws that increase government intrusion and control? Increasing government intrusion and control would discourage the use of e-mails and the internet (especially among people of potential interest to the government), thus reducing the amount of information that could be gathered.
Carnivore and Echelon and others have been around a while...
They are the enemy.
They don’t. Every enail is not forwarded to the feds or intercepted by the feds. They get access when they want/need it and there is a process. But some believe this sort of stuff.
I had a sneaky suspicion years ago that the “Patriot” act wasn’t passed just to go after pesky muslims - it was meant to eventually round up conservatives, and anyone who would seek to defend the constitution against it’s enemies domestically.
When we give Fed enforcement more power (even our own side) we are giving them the power to eventually crush us. We must stop being so dumb about this!
The NSA’s new Bluffdale “Stellar Wind” facility has some amazing storage numbers; none of which I can wrap my calculator around; it melted.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yottabyte
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exabyte
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All data will be stored in the servers and buffers at the Utah facility until the Ministry of Truth building is completed. Then we can move into “the future” where George Orwell said “picture a jack-boot stomping on a face....forever”.
The time of Obama has arrived.
I enjoy the use of the "target" frames drawn around "objects" the surveillance system is monitoring.
It's quite similar to some (civilian) vehicle based systems that track surrounding vehicles, roads and pedestrians (aka "targets") that I used to get to play with at work. We logged weeks and weeks of real world driving to use in testing system enhancements before release to actual testing.
There's a lot of weird stuff that goes on in the world when you review the data in detail later.
Not much privacy in the indefinite future.
Nothing to see here, so just move along.......
Oh, goody. Another really scarey article from WorldNutDaily so FR surrender monkeys can start a white flag parade to tell us that we’re all doomed and we need to get on our knees to get fitted for chains.
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