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JohnnyRingo

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24. Before Snowden...

Sun Aug 11, 2013, 07:32 PM

Aug 2013

...were you really sending emails assuming they were 100% secure? Be honest.

Thirty years ago did you talk on a cordless phone and know your conversation was iron clad private and protected from prying ears? You would have been a miserable failure at drug dealing.

Welcome to the world of 20th century technology visitor.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for proper channels for survelience, but you will never, ever, ever be sure no one will monitor communications that bounce off a tower and gets tranmsmitted to a satellite and to another wireless device. Adapt your behavior accordingly.

There is nothing you can do, and no one you can ever elect to insure total privacy. I guess stating outrage on an internet forum helps.

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The NSA Is Turning The Internet Into A Total Surveillance System - GuardianUK [View all] WillyT Aug 2013 OP

Minority Report. nt silvershadow Aug 2013 #1

The Onion Electric Monk Aug 2013 #12

The NSA have more boxes in their garage than Snowden DJ13 Aug 2013 #2

From what I have seen on the Internet, the surveillance program is not doing a good job. nt kelliekat44 Aug 2013 #3

why stop at communications? why not start random house searches? nashville_brook Aug 2013 #4

Have video cameras in all homes. No one would watch without a warrant of course, rhett o rick Aug 2013 #6

Turn the wi-fi capable TV's into cameras? TxGrandpa Aug 2013 #9

No doubt you've seen this or something like it: AnotherMcIntosh Aug 2013 #14

"What I wouldn't GIVE to have my house randomly searched!" Warren DeMontague Aug 2013 #18

K and R nt Mojorabbit Aug 2013 #5

The PreCrimes unit will be knocking on our doors with copies of all of our unpatriotic emails. BlueManFan Aug 2013 #7

I say we start a "Facebook" only with us mooning them. Spitfire of ATJ Aug 2013 #8

K&R! n/t Catherina Aug 2013 #10

Thx to the Gaurdian I have to go out and buy more Tin Foil, I think that's what SnowdenUndergruond uponit7771 Aug 2013 #11

The Irony here: formercia Aug 2013 #13

It'd be funny if it weren't so sad. DeSwiss Aug 2013 #15

I never thought the internet was supposed to be private. JohnnyRingo Aug 2013 #16

Shhhh...... don't bring reality into the delusionals whistler162 Aug 2013 #19

Crazy world we live in. JohnnyRingo Aug 2013 #21

Not quite. RC Aug 2013 #20

Before Snowden... JohnnyRingo Aug 2013 #24

I know cordless were not secure. Cordless phones do not use the internet, either. RC Aug 2013 #25

Not excusing the NSA... JohnnyRingo Aug 2013 #27

What's my email address? usGovOwesUs3Trillion Aug 2013 #22

Kick and Recommend cantbeserious Aug 2013 #17

Has the Guardian also scrutinzed the British equivalent of the NSA? Rosa Luxemburg Aug 2013 #23

Yes: WillyT Aug 2013 #26

TIA Rex Aug 2013 #28

K&R woo me with science Aug 2013 #29

KNR Th1onein Aug 2013 #30