Is anyone surprised? The NSA is still spying

[Loren Pechtel]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/01/u...ollection.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=2

Who cares about the laws???

 

[ZiprHead]

I said it before in another thread that there was nothing that was going to stop this from going on.

 

[NobleSavage]

Of course they are.

 

[tupac chopra]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/01/u...ollection.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=2

Who cares about the laws???

Can you imagine them giving up this kind of power?
NSA’s XKEYSCORE spy program is ‘as easy as typing a few words in Google

Training documents show that XKEYSCORE is extremely user-friendly, requiring only a target’s email address, telephone number, name or other identifying data for an analyst to be able to conduct sweeping searches on that person.

“Anyone could be trained to do this in less than one day: they simply enter the name of the server they want to hack into XKEYSCORE, type enter, and are presented login and password pairs to connect to this machine. Done. Finito,” Jonathan Brossard, a security researcher and the CEO of Toucan Systems, told The Intercept.

“NSA has built an impressively complete set of automated hacking tools for their analysts to use,” Brossard noted. “The amount of work an analyst has to perform to actually break into remote computers over the Internet seems ridiculously reduced ‒ we are talking minutes, if not seconds. Simple. As easy as typing a few words in Google.”

How would anyone give up that power unless forced to?

Opposing what the NSA is doing requires some real fortitude, some real conviction that life is better without it.

 

[prideandfall]

Can you imagine them giving up this kind of power?

can you imagine anyone or any organizational body in recorded human history that has ever voluntarily given up any new level of power?
allow an individual or a group or amass that level of power and nothing short of violent overthrow will ever get them to give it up.
this is why i can never understand the baffled outrage people express at government excess, or how it continues regardless of whether or not it's discovered.

 

[fast]

this is why i can never understand the baffled outrage people express at government excess, or how it continues regardless of whether or not it's discovered.

Kinda like outraged customers who don't get quality customer service at Walmart. It's like their expectations are warped and so out of tune with reality. You only get shit out of shit, yet there's something that causes people to have some seriously misplaced expectations.