Thursday, June 6, 2013

Hooray!

Ever forward.
The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, allowing investigators to examine e-mails, photos and other documents that can be used to track people and their contacts over time, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.
I wonder if there's going to be any fallout from countries with meaningful privacy laws.

5 comments:

  1. I look forward to the Murdoch Press editorials about the individual's right to unmonitored telephony.

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  2. And the NSA is a bunch of pikers compared to Google and Facebook.

    I wonder who the poor NSA schlub who had to read my Yukon Cornelius/Abominable Snow Monster slashfic is.

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  3. more Janus node content would give them something to analyze - "a gibberish-filled email a day keeps the spooks away"

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  4. In the glory days of usenet there were signatures filled with various scary words BECAUSE ECHELON. Maybe the bad guys will come up with botfloods of pressure-cooker/Ramadan content.

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