[sudo-discuss] Opt out of PRISM
GtwoG PublicOhOne
g2g-public01 at att.net
Wed Jun 12 14:44:14 PDT 2013
The three-letter agencies need a good lesson in marketing.
The way to do surveillance is to offer "free candy & toys" in exchange
for tracking everything you do, everywhere you go, scanning for keywords
and emotional tone in your email and phone calls, and doing the same to
all your friends who write to you or talk to you over the intercepted
channels.
For cover, occasionally pester you with ads that seem a little too
personal, so you complain about the ads but don't notice Big Brother
lurking behind the curtain. And claim it's all consensual since
everyone who signed up clicked the check-box "I Agree" on the
interminably long TOS page.
Then when it's time to increase the level of surveillance even more,
bring out a new consumer toy, starting with beta tests offered to a
select group of the hippest coolest people around. That'll get
thousands of others to want it, so they can seem as if they're part of
the elite. After it's gotten plenty of chirpy reviews from the supine
media, offer it to the masses. Alternately, find some "need" that can
"only" be met by having even more pervasive surveillance in exchange for
"convenience."
That works fabulously well, as recent history shows. And a strong
enough plurality of the people who are being watched, listened to,
stalked, and sniffed, will even defend it, to the point where anyone who
objects gets labeled as a luddite.
One more thing. Have a young billionare as the figurehead, or come up
with a slogan that makes the company doing it seem "different" or
"better" than a corporate reptile. A slogan such as "don't be evil."
If the three-letter agencies did that, even a major leak wouldn't slow
them down.
-G.
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On 13-06-12-Wed 2:10 PM, Andrew wrote:
> The FBI, hiding in plain sight.
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Eddan Katz <eddan at clear.net
> <mailto:eddan at clear.net>> wrote:
>
> Yeah, I assumed it was a joke. One I had nothing to do with. A
> great meme, though! Makes me want to change my home router's SSID
> to van # 8.
>
> The fact that it hits a nerve and that everybody's now tuned in to
> the joke suggests the unprecedented vulnerability of public
> opinion about NSA surveillance.
>
> sent from eddan.com <http://eddan.com>
>
> On Jun 12, 2013, at 1:18 PM, Julio Rios <julio.rios at gmail.com
> <mailto:julio.rios at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> isn't that a little too obvious of a name to be for real? or am I
>> just being unnecessarily cynical about being this paranoid...
>> good list of links though.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Eddan Katz <eddan at clear.net
>> <mailto:eddan at clear.net>> wrote:
>>
>> In an already apparent increase in surveillance transparency,
>> I took this screenshot on my phone of an actual SSID (locked)
>> now available at Sudo Square.
>>
>> <image.jpeg>
>>
>> sent from eddan.com <http://eddan.com>
>>
>>
>> On Jun 12, 2013, at 11:56 AM, Sonja Trauss
>> <sonja.trauss at gmail.com <mailto:sonja.trauss at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>> you could also start living like an elderly person or a
>>> resident of a small mountain town. Those are people that
>>> still only use landline phones and snail mail.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Patrik D'haeseleer
>>> <patrikd at gmail.com <mailto:patrikd at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Also keep in mind that actively trying to circumvent
>>> NSA's spying will likely get you put on a list of
>>> suspicious individuals requiring more intrusive
>>> scrutiny. Because we need to protect society from
>>> cryptoradicals like you.
>>>
>>> Feels like 1984 all over again...
>>>
>>> Patrik
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Andrew
>>> <andrew at roshambomedia.com
>>> <mailto:andrew at roshambomedia.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> this is an awesome list of great software. I also
>>> think it's important that people understand that
>>> privacy, anonymity, and securing require more than
>>> just switching to Ubuntu, using Firefox, etc... It
>>> requires real changes in behavior, as well as
>>> technical solutions. For example, you can use
>>> encrypted email all you want, but if the person you
>>> are communicating with doesn't also have good
>>> security practices they can be compromised and all
>>> your communications can be made available to anyone
>>> with access to their computer.
>>>
>>> Also keep in mind that these technical solutions
>>> will never be enough. For example, keyloggers are
>>> easy to trick someone in to installing or can even
>>> be placed in to "legitimate" via automatic updates
>>> without the user knowing. At any moment Apple,
>>> Microsoft, and Google could switch on a network of
>>> spying computers unprecedented in American history,
>>> (are you sure you and everyone you are communicating
>>> with are using 0% software from these companies?).
>>>
>>> The point is that this is not a technical problem.
>>> And, so far it's still very difficult for the NSA to
>>> gain human intelligence, so if you want to share
>>> secrets, the best way to do it is over drinks at
>>> your friends house surrounded by people you trust.
>>>
>>> --Andrew
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Eddan Katz
>>> <eddan at clear.net <mailto:eddan at clear.net>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Opt out of PRISM, the NSA's global data
>>>> surveillance program. Stop reporting your
>>>> online activities to the American government
>>>> with these free alternatives to proprietary
>>>> software."
>>>
>>> http://prism-break.org/
>>>
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