Tinfoil Hat Chronicles

[Jack Flash]

Britain’s High-Tech Thought Police - http://reason.com/archives/2012/10/17/b ... ght-police

[cerina]

Yep, the world has gone mad ... they're taking lessons from the other side of the Atlantic.

[Jack Flash]

they're taking lessons from the other side of the Atlantic.

That's what I said. We're taking lessons from the other side of the Atlantic

[cerina]

I said it first.

[Jack Flash]

The dutch are at it too
Dutch Ministry Proposes Powers for Police to Hack into Computers, Install Spyware, Destroy Data - http://www.paritynews.com/government/it ... stroy-data

[cerina]

OMG! It is spreading.

[Jack Flash]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sp ... documents/


...and the candidate promising not to spy on citizens



...and the world wakes up - http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/ ... G520130607

... damage control - US government invokes special privilege to stop scrutiny of data mining - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/ju ... utiny-data

best description of prism - http://www.zdnet.com/prism-heres-how-th ... 000016565/

[Angie G]

that's just depressing



finally found a place for this

[Jack Flash]

So true


A Child's Guide to Why NSA Surveillance is Bad - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-van ... 03714.html

[Jack Flash]

World Bank Insider Blows Whistle on Corruption, Federal Reserve - http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/e ... al-reserve

[Jack Flash]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-tirm ... 69316.html

[mugley]

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfiel ... c-society/

[Jack Flash]

[Jack Flash]

http://www.informationclearinghouse.inf ... e35576.htm

Dozens of CIA operatives on the ground during Benghazi attack
http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2013/08/01 ... /?on.cnn=1

[mugley]

now your tv is watching you http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/01/technol ... d=HP_River

[Jack Flash]

now your tv is watching you http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/01/technol ... index.html

Well that explains why all those women are calling




....and http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/ ... 9R20130805

[Jack Flash]

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201308 ... vice.shtml

My tinfoil hat is starting to become stylish

[Jack Flash]

Test 'reveals Facebook, Twitter and Google snoop on emails' - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... cerns.html

[Jack Flash]

the NSA spent $250M/year on a sabotage program directed against commercial security systems - http://boingboing.net/2013/09/11/how-th ... oft-t.html

[cerina]

That is scary!

[Jack Flash]

more revelations to come I suspect


Report: NSA Mimics Google to Monitor "Target" Web Users - http://www.motherjones.com/politics/201 ... pse_widget

[cerina]

I have no doubt your are right, Jack.

[Jack Flash]

NSA stores metadata of millions of web users - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/s ... -documents

Metadata provides a record of almost anything a user does online, from browsing history – such as map searches and websites visited – to account details, email activity, and even some account passwords. This can be used to build a detailed picture of an individual's life.

..and if you resist
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the ... den-leaks/

Just one major telecommunications company refused to participate in a legally dubious NSA surveillance program

[Jack Flash]

http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/w ... oblem/517/





Exclusive: Inside Account of U.S. Eavesdropping on Americans - http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/exclusive ... id=5987804

Despite pledges by President George W. Bush and American intelligence officials to the contrary, hundreds of US citizens overseas have been eavesdropped on as they called friends and family back home

"Hey, check this out," Faulk says he would be told, "there's good phone sex or there's some pillow talk, pull up this call, it's really funny, go check it out. It would be some colonel making pillow talk and we would say, 'Wow, this was crazy'," Faulk told ABC News.