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U.S. Telcos Illegally Routed Data to the NSA prior 2008
by lyx Wednesday, Jun 12 2013, 3:11am international /
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Were we asleep when it was OPENLY PUBLISHED that the US House of Reps passed LAWS retroactively that legalised unrestrained universal spying on EVERYONE? Why the surprise TODAY when NO-ONE reacted YESTERDAY to oppressive totalitarian policies -- are you people for real? The price of inaction in the face of ‘totalitarian’ oppression (look it up, kretins) is SLAVERY, how does it feel now, SLAVES?
A report published over one year ago describes the planned attack on the freedoms and rights that our founding fathers expressed as SELF-EVIDENT! What was the public reaction to these ASSAULTS on our ‘inalienable rights’ at the time? YAWN! Well, just keep yawning morons, cos you ain’t seen nothing yet!
From the linked (below) story:
"Large companies including AT&T and Verizon handed billions of customer records to the NSA; only Qwest refused to participate," McCullagh reminded us. "Verizon turned over customer data to the FBI without court orders. An AT&T whistleblower accused the company of illegally opening its network to the NSA, a practice that the U.S. Congress retroactively made legal in 2008."
Indeed, routers were installed years before at a major communications hub in California that routed all comms data directly to the NSA, all of which was highly illegal at the time -- reaction from the public, yawn!
We nevertheless commend Edward Snowden for his courageous act but he was by NO MEANS the FIRST whistleblower to reveal universal illegal surveillance/spying by the NSA on citizens.
Now allow me to enlighten the moronic masses -- if that is possible. All the technology behind these Draconian policies is DIGITAL, and State forces that utilise this technology are by no means the most proficient in its use, have we got that simple point, morons? In fact State forces are fifth-raters at best.
Some 25 years ago, when I was legally making buckets of money in the fledgling IT industry, I quite by accident encountered what would be described TODAY as an ‘elite hacker’ group. This group roamed the ‘wire’ at will, the major networks of universities and corporations posed no problems; their activities were rarely detected as they did not damage networks, it was sensitive data they were after, information that would increase their skills and that others would purchase for enormous sums of money. That was the way it was then.
Russian groups were peerless in IT skills and overall hacking, Russian Jews that had immigrated to Israel took with them skills they learned in the Soviet Union/Russia. The East Germans were also very highly regarded in hacking circles, Americans didn't rate they were too busy making money to notice the new front. The elite hacking community was global and loosely held together by shared interests, skills and shared ethical standards. For the most part -- with the exception of Israeli Jews -- they were opposed to working for corrupt governments and rapacious, profiteering Corporations that were destroying our planet and our quality of life -- some of the worst corporate offenders often wondered how their most prized secrets ended up in the hands of their competition - lol!
In today’s terms these hackers were the elite of the elite and a few were able to move around ‘invisibly’ in the most ‘secure’ military and corporate networks -- that means no existing detection methods were/are able to reveal their presence.
A few became notorious among a rapidly growing hacker community, which was spontaneously forming an underground movement; real identities were unknown and remain so to this day though most groups were aware the elites were Russian and German nationals.
We had a ball but the most exhilarating aspect of this life was compromising the most secure systems in the world; systems which continue to be compromised today -- regardless of all the efforts of salaried fifth-rate ‘security’ consultants -- lol!
Now a turn of logic for demented dunces to exercise their bird brains: would it stand to reason that a group with superior skills is able to circumvent any measure created by those of lesser skills? Doh! What I will say plainly is that the more DIGITAL technologies are used by nations, States and Corporations the FREER the elite hacking community becomes! In other words, MORONS and SLAVES, it is YOU that carries the burden, and it is you that is most disadvantaged by new Draconian digitally implemented measures and policies, which, I might add, are primarily designed to enslave and EXPLOIT YOU, the sheeple! That is the price you have paid for your disgraceful cowardice and lack of community spirit.
Btw, I’m really enjoying ‘rubbing it in,’ morons, simply because you failed to act when you should have, when you had the opportunity to resist and prevent these totalitarian implementations, you yawned or remained self-interested rather than community oriented -- and it is only in community that the power of real social change resides! So suck on your new status as alienated, cowering slaves whose every move is monitored and the slightest transgression against the criminal ruling plutocracy is recorded to be later used against you.
In conclusion, I am nevertheless (theoretically) forced to concede to the ideas expressed in a paper a colleague recently posted -- though I would say to my idealistic colleague, 'Buckley’s and NONE!’
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