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BumRushDaShow

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2. Anyone with a good packet sniffer has access "to all the worlds emails"

Reply to go west young man (Original post)

Mon Aug 19, 2013, 11:30 AM

Aug 2013

Look at what Google had been caught doing with respect to stray wifi signals while driving by residences taking StreetView pictures.

This is not something that is just "corporations". It's a (perhaps unavoidable) flaw in the "internet".

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If Booze, Allen, Hamilton=access to all the worlds emails.... [View all] go west young man Aug 2013 OP

I've wondered why nobody seems to be talking about How the corporations fasttense Aug 2013 #1

We do; the threads fall fairly quickly: (Added links) Fire Walk With Me Aug 2013 #3

+1! n/t 2naSalit Aug 2013 #6

I've been saying this afor ages malaise Aug 2013 #11

Anyone with a good packet sniffer has access "to all the worlds emails" BumRushDaShow Aug 2013 #2

All your privacy are belong to BushCo. Fire Walk With Me Aug 2013 #4

Seriously. Mnemosyne Aug 2013 #9

And if Booz-Allen had this access, why didn't Snowden? randome Aug 2013 #5

He did and they fired him Harmony Blue Aug 2013 #7

Perhaps he did/does 2naSalit Aug 2013 #8

And any day now, Wikileaks will release the key to their 'nuclear documents'. randome Aug 2013 #12

Hmmm 2naSalit Aug 2013 #14

Hitting the nail on the head. JoePhilly Aug 2013 #10

The world has changed and is changing by these revelations Harmony Blue Aug 2013 #13

What legislation is on deck? JoePhilly Aug 2013 #16

"Snowden and GG should have a ton of documents..to destroy the real enemy .. the 1% who control it" BumRushDaShow Aug 2013 #15

Divide the left into pieces is my bet. JoePhilly Aug 2013 #17