Notice to PF posters: Big Brother is watching

[SiiNii]

Just in case you forgot or didn't know, is past due time to start looking into encrypted email, TOR, VPN and other technologies important to our freedom.

Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government? | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

On Thursday night, Clemente again appeared on CNN, this time with host Carol Costello, and she asked him about those remarks. He reiterated what he said the night before but added expressly that "all digital communications in the past" are recorded and stored:
Let's repeat that last part: "no digital communication is secure", by which he means not that any communication is susceptible to government interception as it happens (although that is true), but far beyond that: all digital communications - meaning telephone calls, emails, online chats and the like - are automatically recorded and stored and accessible to the government after the fact. To describe that is to define what a ubiquitous, limitless Surveillance State is.

and now for our regularly scheduled two minutes of hate:

http://www.pashtunforums.com/political-talk-11/kabul-suicide-bombing-37745/

http://www.pashtunforums.com/political-talk-11/taliban-37716/

[Admin Khan]

Sometimes I feel like my professors are simply cannon-fodders; I wonder how Professor Lee feels about this. I need to definitely swing by CSAIL one of these days.

[JAMALUDEEN]

that is an awful lot of information to save.. seriously.. and how would they go through them.. LOL... to find the stuff they want..

the article is BS..

[Admin Khan]

that is an awful lot of information to save.. seriously.. and how would they go through them.. LOL... to find the stuff they want..

the article is BS..

You'd be surprised, algorithms is a very unique field. You can sort, and find what you want in minutes, with the right algorithm.

[SiiNii]

that is an awful lot of information to save.. seriously.. and how would they go through them.. LOL... to find the stuff they want..

the article is BS..

Were you using search engines before google appeared? Back in 1997 they were completely useless so I thought the same thing as you, that there is so much info out there it's impossible for a person working alone to find anything in it. Just over a decade later if you can't find the answer on google, chances are humanity hasn't yet answered the question.

[BarakzaiAbdali]

Were you using search engines before google appeared? Back in 1997 they were completely useless so I thought the same thing as you, that there is so much info out there it's impossible for a person working alone to find anything in it. Just over a decade later if you can't find the answer on google, chances are humanity hasn't yet answered the question.

You are right and so is Glen Greenwalnd. Its a simple process... in the digital era a phone call is just bits and bytes.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/201...nsadatacenter/

Wired broke this story to corroborate Greenwald's musings nearly a year ago.

[Wowra]

I agree to an extent. I don't really want to get into it, but suffice to say, the intelligence community is still a bureaucracy manned by bureaucrats. That being said, I'm sure certain actions can garner more attention from them - like repeated calls overseas, trips to the Voice of Jihad website, writing the word "jihad" on pashtunforums haha - but though it may make me feel uneasy, ill worry about after I wake up to the ol' waterboard. Until then, ill just keep digging, writing, and bitching.