PRISM LEAK: All your data is being watched

Top-secret Prism program claims direct access to servers of firms including Google, Apple, Facebook. Microsoft, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube.
Basically secret government agencies are monitoring and recording everyone on the planet.
They read all your emails, google searches. Here's them drinking your privacy away.



If they wish - they can know almost everything about you.
They have denied doing this.
So Edward Snowden leaked this info to the public. A 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of the defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. Snowden has been working at the National Security Agency for the last four years as an employee of various outside contractors, including Booz Allen and Dell.

The Boundless Informant (program used to collect all this data) documents show the agency collecting almost 3 billion pieces of intelligence from US computer networks over a 30-day period ending in March 2013. One document says it is designed to give NSA officials answers to questions like, "What type of coverage do we have on country X" in "near real-time by asking the SIGINT [signals intelligence] infrastructure."

The NSA access is part of a previously undisclosed program called Prism, which allows officials to collect material including search history, the content of emails, file transfers and live chats, the document says.

The Guardian has verified the authenticity of the document, a 41-slide PowerPoint presentation – classified as top secret with no distribution to foreign allies – which was apparently used to train intelligence operatives on the capabilities of the program. The document claims "collection directly from the servers" of major US service providers.



Companies are legally obliged to comply with requests for users' communications under US law, but the Prism program allows the intelligence services direct access to the companies' servers. The NSA document notes the operations have "assistance of communications providers in the US".



Now the guy who leaked this info is gone to Hongkong where he hopes he will not be reached as easily as on home soil.

He has had "a very comfortable life" that included a salary of roughly $200,000, a girlfriend with whom he shared a home in Hawaii, a stable career, and a family he loves. "I'm willing to sacrifice all of that because I can't in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building."

On May 20, he boarded a flight to Hong Kong, where he has remained ever since. He chose the city because "they have a spirited commitment to free speech and the right of political dissent", and because he believed that it was one of the few places in the world that both could and would resist the dictates of the US government.

Just before sovereignty over Hong Kong passed from Britain to China in 1997, the US signed a new extradition treaty with the semi-autonomous territory. Under that treaty, both parties agree to hand over fugitives from each other's criminal justice systems, but either side has the right of refusal in the case of political offences.

Beijing, which gave its consent for Hong Kong to sign the agreement, also has a right of veto if it believes the surrender of a fugitive would harm the "defence, foreign affairs or essential public interest or policy'' of the People's Republic of China. In short, the treaty makes Snowden's fate a matter of political expediency not just in Hong Kong but in Beijing.

So wow. Let's see how his plays out and whether Snowden will dissapear/go to Guantanamo/die from heart attack/live happily ever after.


Poll: What will happen to Edward Snowden?
(Vote): Dissapear from the planet
(Vote): Welcome to Guantanamo!
(Vote): Sudden Heart attack/other medical death
(Vote): Suicide from overmedaction
(Vote): Prison in US
(Vote): Live happily ever after

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posted this on my blog as well: http://heyshow.me/c/2013/06/10/nsa-prism-surveilance-of-everyone-leaked/

[fuck can someone change the topic title to PRISM not prims fucking typo]

Also please see reason why you can never trust a politician promises.- Obama 2007 promising privacy...

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you were too busy creaming your pants on that title typo ha

No ass, titties, or MMA?!?!?

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You act like this is new news

it is new news because before it was speculation, people were being called conspiracy nuts. Now its actually real and has some factual evidence behind the program.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/poker-forum/1040996/NSA_Spy_Center.html

Called it

On June 09 2013 22:54 spets1 wrote: it is new news because before it was speculation, people were being called conspiracy nuts. Now its actually real and has some factual evidence behind the program.

whats a nice country to move to?

On June 09 2013 23:00 RaiNKhAN wrote: Show nested quote + On June 09 2013 22:54 spets1 wrote: it is new news because before it was speculation, people were being called conspiracy nuts. Now its actually real and has some factual evidence behind the program. whats a nice country to move to?

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Anyone with a career in IT knew that this had to be taking place on some level, but most of us assumed it stopped at the ISP. ISP's naturally would want to protect their own interests and datamine whatever passed through their network in the event they needed it to defend against a lawsuit or something. Afterall you dont want to be the ISP who says "dang we had no idea 9/11 was planned via our news groups". The speculation came from whether or not the gov't would join in, and if they could. I mean we're talking ridiculous sums of data here, but they found a way. I dont really know how I feel about this. I mean imagine if Google Street view was ran by the gov't instead of Google. A lot of people have complained because they got caught naked in the drive way at 6am, and some have even sued because of it. But the vast majority of us dont care if we are caught on camera without our permission. Does the same hold true of email/chat/web history?

Personally, I dont think the current implementation of this is whats threatening, but rather what some twisted future gov't might do. There have been enough senators in recent history who have proposed jail time for bloggers and even forum posts that criticized them, and all sorts of other abuses that they personally felt justified in executing. These are the people I'm afraid of rising to power one day, and having this vast treasure trove of information. There's probably at least 1 religious fanatic on your neighborhood street who would kill you based upon your personal lifestyle, but they keep it to themselves because they know it's not legal or worth the hassle to make legal. But should the USA fall back into some anti-intellectual dark ages I fear the worst for us all. Imagine of Sarah Palin became president with access to this kind of information.

On June 09 2013 23:00 RaiNKhAN wrote: Show nested quote + On June 09 2013 22:54 spets1 wrote: it is new news because before it was speculation, people were being called conspiracy nuts. Now its actually real and has some factual evidence behind the program. whats a nice country to move to?

the news from this is it doesn't matter what country you live in, they are trying to tap it all

Well Edward Snowden is making a bet on Hongkong. It will be interesting to see what will happen to him

On June 09 2013 23:23 Highcard wrote: Show nested quote + On June 09 2013 23:00 RaiNKhAN wrote:   On June 09 2013 22:54 spets1 wrote: it is new news because before it was speculation, people were being called conspiracy nuts. Now its actually real and has some factual evidence behind the program. whats a nice country to move to? the news from this is it doesn't matter what country you live in, they are trying to tap it all

they'll be forced to shut off their monitoring of my skype calls when i just keep yelling "BALLS" for 11 straight minutes.

top tier anti gov strategiez

obv you havent seen the document called enemy of the state, starring will smith

I'm shocked...that this is happening.........

ROFL that picture of obama is so awesome

In b4 " as long as youre not doing anything wrong it doesnt matter" retards chime in.

well as long as you are not doing anything wrong it doesnt matter?