Privacy? Good luck with that!

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God bless America...

American ISPs to launch massive copyright spying scheme on July 12

NSA building new facility to hold its custom built supercomputer specifically to crack AES that is faster than the "official" fastest supercomputer in the world, and tie it to wiretapping servers in the central switches of every major ISP/telco in the country

 

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Thats really horrible, of course!

But I cant help but wonder, how much can they really control? Every time there is a move to control, there is a contrary move to rebel.. Its innate of the human spirit I think.

Also another thing I wonder is how practical it can be to really get to control people? I mean, 7 billion people on this planet, and so many people doing illegal stuff...... And a lot of really big stuff going on, much bigger than some people extracting dmt in their kitchen. Not that its only about us, of course, its horrible in the sense of the loss of rights and privacy going on more and more, but just saying...

I think a totalitarian state cant sustainably go on for too long, and change must come. Too bad so many people suffer on the way.

 

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But I cant help but wonder, how much can they really control? Every time there is a move to control, there is a contrary move to rebel.. Its innate of the human spirit I think.

From the article above (really good article imo):

There is still one technology preventing untrammeled government access to private digital data: strong encryption. Anyone—from terrorists and weapons dealers to corporations, financial institutions, and ordinary email senders—can use it to seal their messages, plans, photos, and documents in hardened data shells. For years, one of the hardest shells has been the Advanced Encryption Standard, one of several algorithms used by much of the world to encrypt data. Available in three different strengths—128 bits, 192 bits, and 256 bits—it’s incorporated in most commercial email programs and web browsers and is considered so strong that the NSA has even approved its use for top-secret US government communications. Most experts say that a so-called brute-force computer attack on the algorithm—trying one combination after another to unlock the encryption—would likely take longer than the age of the universe. For a 128-bit cipher, the number of trial-and-error attempts would be 340 undecillion (1036).

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That, he notes, is where the value of Bluffdale, and its mountains of long-stored data, will come in. What can’t be broken today may be broken tomorrow. “Then you can see what they were saying in the past,” he says. “By extrapolating the way they did business, it gives us an indication of how they may do things now.” The danger, the former official says, is that it’s not only foreign government information that is locked in weaker algorithms, it’s also a great deal of personal domestic communications, such as Americans’ email intercepted by the NSA in the past decade.

Take the poll: Do you encrypt?