Did you actually think your web surfing was not being watched?

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konane — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 19:32:56 GMT

Correction about my WorldCom reference above. Facts somewhat right ... wrong company. It should have been Global Crossing which went into bankruptcy and it was Singapore Technologies Telemedia which bought two-thirds share of the emerging company. That was the one I felt the NSA might be watching due to its providing computer networking services worldwide.

Comment #6

Winner2Be — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 13:50:25 GMT

Nope... :-)

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Todd — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 13:47:41 GMT

The main point of this is that people who think that using something like Anonymizer is going to prevent the authorities from seeing their Internet activity is living under a false sense of security. If the NSA or FBI has full access to all the thousands of routers of the major network backbones, it is relatively easy to piece together whatever you are doing, even when you use Anonymizer. Of course if they take someone's computer and analyze it they will be able to see whatever tracks are on... [ More ]

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fxsterling — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 03:05:36 GMT

It's scary to look into ones iternet logs I've looked at alot of things alot of links my hard drive is a few years old but IF I was up to nogood I would find a way to hide it so let them look the states started linking up dmv's and I had to pay a ticket from 1985 to drive again last year

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konane — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 00:43:06 GMT

Yes there's always the chance Hillary (remember the 1000 FBI files she ILLEGALLY ordered and held in her possession for months), or stealth Mao clone might be elected. Guess we need to think China and what they're doing to censor internet usage .... label as dissident behavior so they can imprison, harvest organs, cremate remains as if the person never existed.

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Todd — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 23:36:50 GMT

Konane, I basically agree with you on this, except my main point of disagreement is that although the monitoring is used for terrorist activity right now, when things loosen up a little it is going to be misused for something else later. That's the way ALL intrusions of privacy start. They are created with an innocent purpose -- normally something that is "needed". With all this anti-gambling crap, can't you seem the out-of-control authorities sucking up Internet traffic looking for peop... [ More ]

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konane — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 22:33:06 GMT

Provided that memory serves me part of WorldCom which was a larger bankruptcy than Enron, was sold to a Chinese company and monitoring internet and other traffic going through the extensive infrastructure of remaining pieces and parts of WorldCom may be subject to that monitoring for national security. What caused WorldCom's bankruptcy was another law signed by Clinton which allowed overstating of assets precipitating massive bankruptcies that this administration has to clean up. By executiv... [ More ]

Original Blog Entry: Did you actually think your web surfing was not being watched?

Todd — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 21:50:53 GMT

I am about to burst the bubble of anyone who thinks they are surfing the internet securely.

Computers are very powerful machines, especially when you have a bunch of them that are programmed to do nothing except watch all of the Internet traffic flowing around in the ole' USA, and pick out data streams that they're looking for.

If someone in high places wants the low-down on what you're doing on the Internet, they can do it.

And it's a lot easier than you think.

Read on......

Is the NSA spying on U.S. Internet traffic?

by Kim Zetter
June 25, 2006
Salon.com - 2006-06-22

Two former AT&T employees say the telecom giant has maintained a secret, highly secure room in St. Louis since 2002. Intelligence experts say it bears the earmarks of a National Security Agency operation.

In a pivotal network operations center in metropolitan St. Louis, AT&T has maintained a secret, highly secured room since 2002 where government work is being conducted, according to two former AT&T workers once employed at the center.

In interviews with Salon, the former AT&T workers said that only government officials or AT&T employees with top-secret security clearance are admitted to the room, located inside AT&T's facility in Bridgeton. The room's tight security includes a biometric "mantrap" or highly sophisticated double door, secured with retinal and fingerprint scanners. The former workers say company supervisors told them that employees working inside the room were "monitoring network traffic" and that the room was being used by "a government agency."

The details provided by the two former workers about the Bridgeton room bear the distinctive earmarks of an operation run by the National Security Agency, according to two intelligence experts with extensive knowledge of the NSA and its operations. In addition to the room's high-tech security, those intelligence experts told Salon, the exhaustive vetting process AT&T workers were put through before being granted top-secret security clearance points to the NSA, an agency known as much for its intense secrecy as its technological sophistication.

"It was very hush-hush," said one of the former AT&T workers. "We were told there was going to be some government p....

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