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In reply to the discussion: Holy Mother Of God... You KNOW It's Bad When The NSA Tech Director Resigns Over Wire Tapping !!! [View all]Diclotican
(5,095 posts)WillyT
The National Security Agency NSA have powers, and legal rights that even RVS, FSB, GRU, or the old KGB of the Soviet union was not anywhere to have the possibility to collect, and to act on... Everyone think that the old KGB of the Soviet Union was all-powerfully and was able to know down everything, everywhere anytime.. But the fact is, that KGB, as so many other intelligence systems of the old Soviet block, was in most cases blind as a bat, if they had not anyone to tell them what was happening around the country.. And a lot of information never got to the ones who might was in need of it... That was one of the reasons, the early 1990s ended so bad for Gorbatsjev - and the Soviet Union, because the one who needed the right information never got it...
Even Stasi in East Germany had problems getting on top of it, when things was going bad for the government of East Germany in the fall of 1989... And Stasi was one of the smartest, most advanced, and also one of the most lethal intelligence systems in the whole of the eastern block under most of the cold war...
NSA, can if they choose, from their enormous databases pick up, and collect everything, from everyone. And also have it on screens in just seconds, maybe minutes at worst.. That is the real danger, NSA can, and will misuse it, as everyone who are in power have always being doing.. The NSA have always been secret, and powerful - now after 2001, they can virtually spy on everyone, everywhere in the US, or in the world...
And it will be far more difficult to defend yourself against NSA, than it was to protect yourself against some of the other spy organizations all over the world.. As the world goes digital, we give away tonnes of information, tonnes of private thoughts minds and what else we give away, for free that is... In old times, you could at least keep your mind to yourself - or keep a private book, who was not always difficult for the security system to get a hand on.. Today, we use digital systems to almost everything - even our inner things, who we should keep under lock and key if we was smart...
And you dosen't need to be paranoid - to be afraid someone is keeping an eye on you - not in this days and age...
Diclotican