tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788320933169396528.post8423791497617368200..comments2018-12-22T22:03:25.616+01:00Comments on CryptoCellar Tales: PRISM, Metadata and Unwarranted SpyingFrode Weierudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08968879717819444694noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788320933169396528.post-50796243353192964012013-07-07T20:48:41.770+02:002013-07-07T20:48:41.770+02:00Hello Anil,
Pleased to see that you liked it. I h...Hello Anil,<br /><br />Pleased to see that you liked it. I hope to write something more on this topic later but at the moment I am rather busy on other fronts. This kind of surveillance has many aspects and it cannot outright be condemned, but the form it has taken now scares me. What they do is to create an enormous pond of intercepts where they can go fishing for any fish they like to catch, small, medium, big and ugly, and using whatever tool they like. It seem to be very little control of their activities. Dystopia seem very close indeed.Frode Weierudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08968879717819444694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788320933169396528.post-8453669280894882212013-07-07T13:05:25.616+02:002013-07-07T13:05:25.616+02:00Excellent piece! Thanks...Excellent piece! Thanks...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13023539310993228790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788320933169396528.post-55930735457320372212013-06-09T19:00:15.466+02:002013-06-09T19:00:15.466+02:00Wait, someone knocking on my door...Wait, someone knocking on my door...Dirk Rijmenantshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03973502421787834920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788320933169396528.post-73043245658521397372013-06-09T18:58:02.287+02:002013-06-09T18:58:02.287+02:00Hi Frode,
excellent piece! Here's my suggesti...Hi Frode,<br /><br />excellent piece! Here's my suggestion: what if, from now on, everyone around the world includes a footer in all his e-mails, chats and text messaging, that contains a list of flag words like U.S., bombe, ricine, obama, kahlid sheik mohamed, al qaida, missile, airplane, hijacking, nuclear, gay, muslim, catholic, constitutional rights and a few hundred other indecent words. Wouldn't that make their PRISM going bezirk, and overload the NSA data centre in Utah :-) Ha!<br /><br />PS: oups, I'm afraid you now might have gone up some places in the black list.Dirk Rijmenantshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03973502421787834920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788320933169396528.post-45708267610619112702013-06-09T08:18:38.832+02:002013-06-09T08:18:38.832+02:00Hello Randy,
Many thanks for your comments. The us...Hello Randy,<br />Many thanks for your comments. The use of the private sector to develop, prototype and probably also test live these tools is very worrying. I probably will post something on that later. These firms seems largely outside any governmental control, a kind of grey market, peddling their wares in the same way arms dealers do.<br /><br />Now the American government is not alone in having this kind of massive surveillance but due to the way the Internet and the telecommunications networks are built a very large part of the traffic passes over American territory. And as we know, the large IT companies are mainly American, so almost by design it scoops up a large part of the rest of the world too.Frode Weierudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08968879717819444694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788320933169396528.post-78477730715450649392013-06-09T00:12:26.649+02:002013-06-09T00:12:26.649+02:00Frode;
What also frightens me is that all these t...Frode;<br /><br />What also frightens me is that all these technologies were prototyped by the private sector for marketing purposes. The ability to identify, categorize, slice and dice millions of people and manipulating them for profit is as dystopian an image of society as anything the government threatens. A for profit bureaucracy has even less restraint than a government in abusing their power.<br /><br />Another fine point of your commentary is that these issues about American security (or perceived lack of security) that encourage this abuse effects everyone on the planet, not just Americans. <br />Randy Rezabekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09913203521977949884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788320933169396528.post-3192794373816454022013-06-08T22:42:11.981+02:002013-06-08T22:42:11.981+02:00Hello Chris,
I know it is cheap and easy but in m...Hello Chris,<br /><br />I know it is cheap and easy but in my eyes that does not make it neither legal nor appropriate to indiscriminately collect data on people who has not done anything wrong. Living a normal life was until now something that I expected to be able to do without having Big Brother breathing down my neck. But it seems that what previously was the Commie Red scare now has become the Terrorist scare. We seem to be living in an era of New McCarthyism. History is repeating itself.Frode Weierudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08968879717819444694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788320933169396528.post-81436598058507983512013-06-08T20:38:20.717+02:002013-06-08T20:38:20.717+02:00‘I have always expected that they would go after t...‘I have always expected that they would go after the bad guys and those under serious and warranted suspicion of being terrorists or national security risks. Now we learn that we are all suspects and that you are regarded as guilty until proven innocent.’<br /><br />Frode, collecting and analyzing internet data is easy and cheap and apparently many countries/organizations have the capability to intercept vast amounts of data on all of us. Breaking passwords is also getting easier and easier. Bureaucratic organizations aren’t interested in catching the bad guys. They’re interested in expanding their budgets, their authority and hiring more personnel.<br /><br />Personally I’m surprised that people are surprised that this was going on. Haven’t you seen ‘Person of interest’? :)Christos T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04246906263926130737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788320933169396528.post-18700436695755311932013-06-08T19:58:52.283+02:002013-06-08T19:58:52.283+02:00Yes, that is also one of my worries. You don't...Yes, that is also one of my worries. You don't even know what kind of government you will get tomorrow.<br /><br />I think the intelligence agencies should have the tools they need to do the job they have to do, and the tools should be sufficiently sharp to do the job properly. But when they are not needed they should be kept locked in their toolboxes. The tools should be treated more or less like nuclear weapons; strictly controlled.Frode Weierudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08968879717819444694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788320933169396528.post-54198878597469567602013-06-08T19:52:27.186+02:002013-06-08T19:52:27.186+02:00I should have proof-read that a bit before I hit r...I should have proof-read that a bit before I hit return. There are a couple of extra words in here. Someday someone may wonder what I was *encoding* there and that will elevate my *status*:-)Carvin' Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08092988523716898485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788320933169396528.post-68988115567793930132013-06-08T19:49:48.248+02:002013-06-08T19:49:48.248+02:00My concern is that while everything they do and sa...My concern is that while everything they do and say *today* may be "by the book" who knows what some individual/group/agency might chose to do with the overall collection of "data" (I am somewhat hesitant to use that word) will do with it *tomorrow*. <br /><br />I, too, am somewhat anxious about all of this.Carvin' Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08092988523716898485noreply@blogger.com