Who's Reading Your Emails?

NSA allies with Internet carriers to thwart cyber attacks against defense firms - The Washington Post

 

"Rook" has some thoughts on who's reading your emails.

 

“We hope the . . . cyber pilot can be the beginning of something bigger,” Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III said at a global security conference in Paris on Thursday. “It could serve as a model that can be transported to other critical infrastructure sectors, under the leadership of the Department of Homeland Security.”

 

The prospect of a role for the NSA, the nation’s largest spy agency and a part of the Defense Department, in helping Internet service providers filter domestic Web traffic already had sparked concerns among privacy activists. Lynn’s suggestion that the program might be extended beyond the work of defense contractors threatened to raise the stakes.

 

The excuse: foreigners hacking into DoD and contractor sites in attempts to steal defense secrets.

The "solution:" filtering internet traffic to look for "malicious code" and "suspicious patterns of internet behavior."

 

No matter how they try to explain this away with techno-babble gibberish - that this is not and will never amount to domestic spying - the fact is that:

1. It is technically impossible to look for "malicious code" without actually reading and analyzing the CONTENTS of your messages, postings and the sites you visit, and 

2. It is technically impossible to look for "suspicious patterns of internet behavior" without actually reading and analyzing your CONTACT LIST, your browser's search HISTORY and any other records of your activities that our own computer or some spy MALWARE might record, such as your keystrokes.

3. It is technically impossible to limit these intrusive activities to foreigners and collaborators in this country without profiling (which in this Administration is a dirty word) and therefore EVERYBODY's internet activities will be monitored. Therefore, this program is INDEED universal domestic spying.

 

In fact the first time we have ever seen any mention of it in the media was during the Clinton years (mid-90's) when all the privacy-rights brouhaha was about an NSA program called Majestic or Magellan or something like that. At that time the NSA was said to be monitoring ALL cell phone traffic in the US and eventually world wide, by actually routing all calls through the NSA's computers. Maybe that is too much to be believable in view of the volume of traffic, but with this new program between the NSA and internet service providers, obviously they keep trying.

 

Now remember that today Sheila Jackson Lee (are there enough idiots in TEXAS to keep re-electing HER?) called for investigating domesticCHRISTIAN terrorists (like, when is the last time you heard of Christian suicide bombers?), and you have a LOT to be concerned about... Such as, how long before the DHS turns into a modern-day Gestapo, Stasi, KGB / GRU, Tonton Macoutes, etc., and this time with all the hi tech tools for monitoring the masses that petty Middle East dictators could only salivate over in their wildest dreams.

 

 

 

Comments

[Ernie]

The dems seem to be extremely interested in Sarah Palin's email. If you haven't read Mark Levin's book "Liberty and Tyranny", it's stories like this that make me recommend the book yet again. Can anyone accurately measure the losses of freedom and liberty we've suffered under the al Mahdi Obama's leadership? Some we probably won't realize for several years and then we'll go...whaaat?

[North Face Jackets]

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