Fri Apr 20, 2012 10:39 am
The NSA's New Spy Center
Inspired by the recent thread about black boxes in cars... this is small potatoes compared to what's coming.
Enjoy the read.
This is why I suggested elbow add SSL security to keypicking, (https://ssl.keypicking.com)
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/0 ... nter/all/1
If you don't feel like reading it, heres the bottom line:
1. You're fucked.
2. NSA is racing to build supercomputers to crack AES encryption (which is currently uncrackable without a quantum computer).
3. Every piece of telecom info sent and received from the US or inside the US (this includes phone conversations, TCP and UDP internet traffic, emails, satellite, wideband, radio, high frequency transmissions) are monitored and possibly stored.
4. This is not new, but the NSA does real-time traffic monitoring with keyword triggering. The shit you see in the Bourne series movies is real. If you say a trigger phrase on the phone or email/anywhere it will be automatically recorded and forwarded to the Pentagon.
5. You have ZERO privacy unless you are using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a keysize of atleast 256 bits (32 character password). There are other safe ciphers such as the One Time Pad which IS TOTALLY IMPOSSIBLE to crack if used correctly. ALL of your phone conversations are unsecure. You'd need to be using an encrypted phone to be safe from eavesdropping. I highly recommend encrypting your computer files using AES256 or even encrypting your entire hard drive if you feel that suits your level of paranoia. The laws regarding the ability of the government to demand your encrytion keys or passwords is very situatonal. There have been cases where it was imposed upon the suspect to hand over keys, and other cases where it was seen as illegal.
6. You've got nothing to worry about if you've got nothing to worry about. Plain and simple........ for now. The concept of pre-crime isn't fully realized yet however I can definitely forsee this as reality within the next 10-50 years.
Enjoy the read.
This is why I suggested elbow add SSL security to keypicking, (https://ssl.keypicking.com)
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/0 ... nter/all/1
If you don't feel like reading it, heres the bottom line:
1. You're fucked.
2. NSA is racing to build supercomputers to crack AES encryption (which is currently uncrackable without a quantum computer).
3. Every piece of telecom info sent and received from the US or inside the US (this includes phone conversations, TCP and UDP internet traffic, emails, satellite, wideband, radio, high frequency transmissions) are monitored and possibly stored.
4. This is not new, but the NSA does real-time traffic monitoring with keyword triggering. The shit you see in the Bourne series movies is real. If you say a trigger phrase on the phone or email/anywhere it will be automatically recorded and forwarded to the Pentagon.
5. You have ZERO privacy unless you are using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a keysize of atleast 256 bits (32 character password). There are other safe ciphers such as the One Time Pad which IS TOTALLY IMPOSSIBLE to crack if used correctly. ALL of your phone conversations are unsecure. You'd need to be using an encrypted phone to be safe from eavesdropping. I highly recommend encrypting your computer files using AES256 or even encrypting your entire hard drive if you feel that suits your level of paranoia. The laws regarding the ability of the government to demand your encrytion keys or passwords is very situatonal. There have been cases where it was imposed upon the suspect to hand over keys, and other cases where it was seen as illegal.
6. You've got nothing to worry about if you've got nothing to worry about. Plain and simple........ for now. The concept of pre-crime isn't fully realized yet however I can definitely forsee this as reality within the next 10-50 years.
The code is hidden in the tumblers. One position opens the lock, another position opens one of these doors...
http://www.youtube.com/xeotech1
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