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In reply to the discussion: Snowden: Vladimir Putin must be called to account on surveillance just like Obama [View all]muriel_volestrangler
(101,470 posts)7. Yes:
When this event comes around next year, I hope we'll see more questions on surveillance programs and other controversial policies. But we don't have to wait until then. For example, journalists might ask for clarification as to how millions of individuals' communications are not being intercepted, analysed or stored, when, at least on a technical level, the systems that are in place must do precisely that in order to function. They might ask whether the social media companies reporting that they have received bulk collection requests from the Russian government are telling the truth.
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Russia to monitor 'all communications' at Winter Olympics in Sochi
Exclusive: Investigation uncovers FSB surveillance system branded 'Prism on steroids' to listen to all athletes and visitors
Athletes and spectators attending the Winter Olympics in Sochi in February will face some of the most invasive and systematic spying and surveillance in the history of the Games, documents shared with the Guardian show.
Russia's powerful FSB security service plans to ensure that no communication by competitors or spectators goes unmonitored during the event, according to a dossier compiled by a team of Russian investigative journalists looking into preparations for the 2014 Games.
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The journalists, Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, who are experts on the Russian security services, collated dozens of open source technical documents published on the Zakupki government procurement agency website, as well as public records of government oversight agencies. They found that major amendments have been made to telephone and Wi-Fi networks in the Black Sea resort to ensure extensive and all-permeating monitoring and filtering of all traffic, using Sorm, Russia's system for intercepting phone and internet communications.
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Another target may well be gay rights, likely to be one of the biggest issues of the Games. Putin has said that competitors who wear rainbow pins, for example, will not be arrested under the country's controversial new law that bans "homosexual propaganda". However, it is likely that any attempts to stage any kind of rally or gathering to support gay rights will be ruthlessly broken up by police, as has been the case on numerous occasions in Russian cities in the past. Using DPI, Russian authorities will be able to identify, tag and follow all visitors to the Olympics, both Russian and foreign, who are discussing gay issues, and possibly planning to organise protests.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/06/russia-monitor-communications-sochi-winter-olympics
Exclusive: Investigation uncovers FSB surveillance system branded 'Prism on steroids' to listen to all athletes and visitors
Athletes and spectators attending the Winter Olympics in Sochi in February will face some of the most invasive and systematic spying and surveillance in the history of the Games, documents shared with the Guardian show.
Russia's powerful FSB security service plans to ensure that no communication by competitors or spectators goes unmonitored during the event, according to a dossier compiled by a team of Russian investigative journalists looking into preparations for the 2014 Games.
...
The journalists, Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, who are experts on the Russian security services, collated dozens of open source technical documents published on the Zakupki government procurement agency website, as well as public records of government oversight agencies. They found that major amendments have been made to telephone and Wi-Fi networks in the Black Sea resort to ensure extensive and all-permeating monitoring and filtering of all traffic, using Sorm, Russia's system for intercepting phone and internet communications.
...
Another target may well be gay rights, likely to be one of the biggest issues of the Games. Putin has said that competitors who wear rainbow pins, for example, will not be arrested under the country's controversial new law that bans "homosexual propaganda". However, it is likely that any attempts to stage any kind of rally or gathering to support gay rights will be ruthlessly broken up by police, as has been the case on numerous occasions in Russian cities in the past. Using DPI, Russian authorities will be able to identify, tag and follow all visitors to the Olympics, both Russian and foreign, who are discussing gay issues, and possibly planning to organise protests.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/06/russia-monitor-communications-sochi-winter-olympics
Guess what the first comment on DU was when that was posted here? Inevitably, it was snark about Snowden. In fact, there were an incredible number of childish posts calling Snowden names. As someone said, it looks Pavlovian.
So, yes, Snowden does criticise the Russian surveillance system.
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Snowden: Vladimir Putin must be called to account on surveillance just like Obama [View all]
muriel_volestrangler
Apr 2014
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how is pitching set up softball questions to any politician to their benefit? nt
arely staircase
Apr 2014
#41
This was an immense PR coup by Putin, and there's no other way to look at it
Blue_Tires
Apr 2014
#56
so what can snowden do, short of punching putin in the cock on satellite TV, to satisfy you?
frylock
Apr 2014
#77
Friends! Romans! Countrymen, lend me your ears! I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him!
stevenleser
Apr 2014
#16
Here is the sad truth for Snowden supporters. If he survives this, it was a sham.
stevenleser
Apr 2014
#18
What does the evidence suggest to you? Ask Khodorkovsky and Litvinenko what they think
stevenleser
Apr 2014
#21
The evidence suggests you're saying Putin got Snowden to write this
muriel_volestrangler
Apr 2014
#22
Putin doesn't care about the publicity. If he did, he wouldn't have killed Litvinenko like he did.
stevenleser
Apr 2014
#24
I am trying to be generous to fellow DUers who are prolly struggling with cognitive dissonance
stevenleser
Apr 2014
#31
Snowjob has such a brilliant mind that he doesn't even notice the puppet strings.
tridim
Apr 2014
#30
I can't wait to hear Bill Maher's take on this. He thinks Snowden's a fuckin' idiot, and I agree.
Tarheel_Dem
Apr 2014
#35
Yup. Stick a fork in him, he's pretty much done. NPR seems to agree. Even people who've supported
Tarheel_Dem
Apr 2014
#76
that's a smearmater for you - just like his buddy - Smearmaster Greenwald
Douglas Carpenter
Apr 2014
#69
Wrong. I think you guys have come to believe your own nonsense, and that's just tragic.
Tarheel_Dem
Apr 2014
#86
A scientific poll vs. the comment section of a newspaper? Hmmm. Which one to believe?
Tarheel_Dem
Apr 2014
#90