Posted on 04/07/2014 8:27:30 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey
Only a fraction of the NSA's spying activities has been revealed to the public, claims German journalist Holger Stark in his new book. In an interview, he tells DW more about how the "surveillance matrix" functions.
DW: You were one of the first people with access to the Snowden documents, some of which were classified as strictly confidential. What shocked you the most when reading them? Holger Stark: I was particularly fascinated by how early the NSA categorized the Internet as a medium for full-scale monitoring.
There was a passage in the documents of former NSA chief Kenneth Minihan from the summer of 1996 where he confidentially tells his colleagues that the Internet is the key medium of the future, comparable to the invention of the atom bomb in the 20th century. Minihan says that whoever controls the Internet has the power in the 21st century. And he adds that all efforts need to serve the goal of asserting America's intelligence dominance.
(Excerpt) Read more at dw.de ...
again, i would not cry one tear if the nsa took a tactical nuke hit. not one damn tear.
NSA started talking about spying on the internet in 1996!
Few Americans were even online back then and those that did spent very little time on it.
Back in the early days web pages took about a minute to load as I recall.
Yep. 1996, The New Dawn of Spying!
I remember the dialup days.
One has to wonder how big the NSA really is.
could they be...dare I say such a thing.....de-funded in this “envorinment”?
Here’s an article about the internet of 1996.
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2009/02/jurassic_web.html
People called it the world wide web back then, 20 million Americans were online and spent about 30 minutes per month online.
This is what Yahoo’s homepage looked like:
http://web.archive.org/web/19961017235908/http:/www2.yahoo.com/
1996 was also the year email started.
“The NSA doesn’t generally do anything that hasn’t been sanctioned by the White House. Every six months, the White House issues a type of “surveillance matrix” - in which all countries and topics of interest are outlined: foreign policy, armament policy, economic policy and similar things. For each country, a very sophisticated information-sifting process determines what the interests are and how high the priorities are. One is very high and five is very low.”
What is next? Are they going to admit to beaming messages into people’s heads?
Not that it would surprise me if they were actually doing so...
[ NSA started talking about spying on the internet in 1996!
Few Americans were even online back then and those that did spent very little time on it.
Back in the early days web pages took about a minute to load as I recall. ]
It took a WHOLE minute to load as it had to spend 30 seconds going through the NSA router...
Notice that the yahoo homepage back then wasn’t filled with leftist news headlines.
Just a directory of links and no pictures either.
No wonder Obungo wants to give away the control of the internet to ... parties unknown .
Probably wants to give it to the UN , or China , or Russia so that he show how he's ".. more flexible " .
Not that it would surprise me if they were actually doing so...
We're ready when that happens...
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...
love the “Freeping While you’re Sleeping” Image
The UN China and Russia are nearly synonymous in terms of their....Opposition to Liberty! They differ only in size and location
a basic elementary school primer....
See Jane,.. See Janes Email...
You are absolutely correct!
This is one reason that I dislike when people try to insinuate/imply that Obama is the problem — no, the problem is far more endemic.
Tinfoil Fez and tinfoil fedora.
won’t they be surprised when they find out I don’t have a brain...
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