Many of us have known about Echelon and
the NSA data collection perpetrated on US citizens for a very long time, but it
has been kept quiet and is less well understood in the general population. As the news has finally revealed with the Snowden
leak of NSA using PRISM which intercepts, monitors and stores every email, text
message and phone call you initiate or receive in effect surveillance of every
type of communication in which you engage which is being collected and stored
by the government, it becomes increasingly important to do all we are able to
protect our privacy and communications.
For many, knowledge of this surveillance
and invasion of our privacy has been occurring for a very long time, yet it is
now becoming well known to the general public through the mainstream media. Several years ago, I backed away from the
network administration profession, rather than dealing with the increasingly problematic
hacker issue, at that time I entertained the idea of using encryption in all of
my communications, however, it was cumbersome and many of my contacts at the
time had issues with their ability to use their pass key to un-lock the
messages. I was not doing anything much
of a remarkable nature, so I dropped the project. Now however, with the advent of the Patriot
Act and the expansion of the terms and definitions of what the government
considers what constitutes being labeled a potential domestic terrorist, such
as anyone who is suspicious of centralized federal authority, respects
individual liberty, pays for purchases in cash especially large purchases,
homeschools their children, owns a gun, supports the 2nd Amendment,
Bill of Rights or Constitution, owns gold and silver, and once labeled as such
the potential ramifications are severe, without the constitutional protections
we all believe are our right, as well as the increased levels of surveillance,
it appears that the time has come to revisit that concept and to use encryption
in most all of my communications.
There has been a saying, with which I
personally disagree, that goes something like, “since I am not doing anything
wrong, I don’t have to worry”. The
fallacy in this statement is that there are millions of “statutes and codes”
that have been brought into effect on all levels of government from the feds
all the way on down to the community level.
On a minute by minute basis, it is virtually impossible to go through
the day without “breaking” one or more
of these many “laws” without any
knowledge of being out of compliance of these manmade “laws” In truth there is only One real law, the law
of the Cosmos or the Creator which is “do no harm” yet man has created
statutes, codes and other directives in order to run society and to extract
financial resources from the populace in order to maintain their function of
control.
The concept that major software developers and
online companies have given access to their customers private data through
PRISM in cooperation with NSA spying is at best chilling… Among those
implicated are Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, Apple, Skype YouTube and
others who are also involved with “back doors” to their software allowing this
access.
Now that this has become clearly an
issue for many, I would like to invite you to at least consider adopting a few
protective measures… using encryption for your communications, and privacy in
your financial transactions is key to not only protecting your hard earned
assets, but your privacy. For access to some of these tools, please visit
http://anna.irecommendit.com/
Simply dial 641-715-3800 and
enter Access Code: 61065# to
listen to a 4 minute overview.
Other sources substantiate this
issue: Here are some comments from
sources that reiterate the value and importance of adopting some safeguards to
your privacy.
America’s
a total surveillance society. It’s longstanding. It persists lawlessly. It’s
out-of-control. It threatens personal freedoms. It shows police state contempt
for what’s right.
Free societies don’t do these
things. In America, it’s standard practice. Corporate giants cooperate complicitly.
They profit handsomely. Who said crime doesn’t pay?
US telecom
and Internet giants profit handsomely. They do so from spying lawlessly on
customers.
Rep.
Edward Markey (D-MA) said AT & T charges NSA a $325 “activation fee.” It
does so for each separate wiretap. A daily $10 charge to maintain adds more to
bottom line profits.
Verizon
charges $775 for the first month per wiretap – $500 monthly fees follow.
Telecom
officials claim they’re not involved for profit. Human rights groups think otherwise.
According to RT, the “average
wiretap” costs US taxpayers “$50,000.” Telecom and Internet giants cash in
handsomely. They’ve been doing it for years.
Nine or
more major online companies cooperate with lawless NSA spying. Google,
Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, Apple, Skype, YouTube and others are involved.
They do so through NSA’s Prism. It
gives the agency access to search histories, emails, file transfers and live
chats. It’s gotten directly from US provider servers. Doing so facilitates mass
surveillance.
Google
claims, “From time to time, people allege that we have created a government
‘back door’ into our systems, but Google does not have a back door for the
government to access private user data.”
Google’s
closely allied with Bilderberg movers and shakers. CEO Eric Schmidt’s a regular
conference attendee. He believes privacy is quaint and out-of-date. He’s got
big plans. He wants Google transformed into “the ultimate Big Brother.”
A
Microsoft statement said:
“When we
upgrade or update products we aren’t absolved from the need to comply with
existing or future lawful demands.”
Officials
claim they provide customer data “only in response to government demands and we
only ever comply with orders for requests about specific accounts or identifiers.”
According
to the Guardian, “internal NSA newsletters, marked top secret, suggest the
co-operation between the intelligence community and the companies is deep and
ongoing.”
Snowden’s
new revelations “come from the NSA’s Special Source Operations (SSO) division.”
He calls them the agency’s “crown jewels.”
They’re “responsible for all
programs aimed at US communications systems through corporate partnerships such
as Prism.”
Since 2011, NSA worked closely with
Microsoft. It gained easy access to Skype. Personal audio and video
communications can be monitored. Skype has about 663 million global users.
From the post of Montague Keen July 21, 2013:
The Cabal has
everything to lose, so it is not surprising that they will use every tool in
their vast armoury to try to hold on to control. If they were not losing the
battle they would not be so desperate.
Everyone needs to be
on guard
Ego’s
are massaged and people become as clay in the hands of the manipulators. They
become easy prey. Subsequently, it becomes difficult for these people to
believe that they could possibly be mistaken and so the Cabal wins yet another
soul.
Secret demands mark escalation in
Internet surveillance by the federal government through gaining access to user
passwords, which are typically stored in encrypted form.
The U.S. government has demanded
that major Internet companies divulge users' stored passwords, which represent
an escalation in surveillance techniques that has not previously been
disclosed.
If the government is able to
determine a person's password, which is typically stored in encrypted form, the
credential could be used to log in to an account to peruse confidential
correspondence or even impersonate the user. "I've certainly seen them ask
for passwords," said one Internet industry source who spoke on condition
of anonymity. "We push back."
A second person who has worked at a
large Silicon Valley company confirmed that it received legal requests from the
federal government for stored passwords. Some of the government orders demand
not only a user's password but also the encryption algorithm and the so-called
salt, according to a person familiar with the requests. A salt is a random
string of letters or numbers used to make it more difficult to reverse the
encryption process and determine the original password. Other orders demand the
secret question codes often associated with user accounts.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57595529-38/feds-tell-web-firms-to-turn-over-user-account-passwords/
Several related articles…
- Feds tell
Web firms to turn over user account passwords
- How elite
security ninjas choose and safeguard their passwords
- Revealed:
how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages
- ‘1984 not
instruction manual’: Thousands protest NSA spying across US
So
a reminder, please for your own peace of mind, check this web site and brief informational
telephone call.
http://anna.irecommendit.com/
Simply dial 641-715-3800 and
enter Access Code: 61065# to
listen to a 4 minute overview.
Til next time...
Merlyn
