to deal with some inconvenient citizen.

These are the tactics and behavior of a totalitarian state.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024573395

You totally stole that from this DUer.



Oh, wait...

I think I only noticed because I followed your link to that other thread and had an unexpected deja vu moment.

this is way beyond acceptable. I'd like to hear their defense of this kind of program.

yet did, only to see the same tired names. People are entitled to their opinions, but it's getting either rather weird or rather obvious. So I guess that's good - surely us deeply concerned with surveillance aren't the only ones to notice.

The NSA defenders are shameless.

Doing that type of work is also incompatible with human decency and a functional conscience.

For others... I dunno. When they're transferred, I suppose.

Good thing there isn't a US branch of GCHQ.

Up next:
"You know the NSA must be doing this too!!"
"Then why didn't Snowden leak that?"
"Well, you know they must be!"

surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the US National Security Agency, intercepted and stored the webcam images of millions of internet users not suspected of wrongdoing, secret documents reveal.

and



Optic Nerve was based on collecting information from GCHQ's huge network of internet cable taps, which was then processed and fed into systems provided by the NSA. Webcam information was fed into NSA's XKeyscore search tool, and NSA research was used to build the tool which identified Yahoo's webcam traffic.

Especially since the referenced software isn't for collecting such 'chats'.

XKeyscore is basically an indexer, like Google. The "NSA research" would presumably be a network protocol analyzer. It would tell GCHQ that it's a video stream instead of an HTTP transfer.

It's not like they stuffed the information into "NSA Pornfinder 3000".

these are still pics taken at 5 minute intervals

This is certainly a sticky situation...

just because the documents came from Snowden?

If and when a Republican becomes POTUS then DU will once again be virtually 100% against this sort of spying.

And of course Free Republic will once again be 100% for this sort of spying.

I said it's sticky....

Optic Nerve was based on collecting information from GCHQ's huge network of internet cable taps, which was then processed and fed into systems provided by the NSA. Webcam information was fed into NSA's XKeyscore search tool, and NSA research was used to build the tool which identified Yahoo's webcam traffic.

agencies peeking into your bedroom and 'collecting and storing your data'?

This should be a women's rights issue. If some creep was caught peeking in your window you could call the police. But when the government does it, when sickos in these agencies are doing it, who do you call?

And I wonder, how many Politicians' 'meta data' with 'sexual content' did they collect.'


ANYONE who tries to defend any of this, the threat this is to democracy, has to be one of them I have concluded at this point. No one can claim not to see the enormous harm these egregious violations of human rights has and will do.

Post nothing on the Internet that you want kept private.