IamRAMBO24
07-05-2014, 05:43 PM
*Warning* if you click on the link below, you will be targetted.
If you use Tor or any of a number of other privacy services online or even visit their web sites to read about the services, there’s a good chance your IP address has been collected and stored by the NSA, according to top-secret source code for a program the NSA uses to conduct internet surveillance.
There’s also a good chance you’ve been tagged for simply reading news articles about these services published by Wired and other sites.
Legal experts say the widespread targeting of people engaged in constitutionally protected activity like visiting web sites and reading articles, raises questions about the legal authority the NSA is using to track users in this way.
“Under [the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] there are numerous places where it says you shouldn’t be targeting people on the basis of activities protected by the First Amendment,” says Kurt Opsahl, deputy general counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “I can’t see how this activity could have been properly authorized under FISA. This is suggesting then that they have come up with some other theory of authorizing this.”
The findings also contradict NSA longstanding claims that its surveillance targets only those suspected of engaging in activity that threatens national security.
http://www.wired.com/2014/07/nsa-targets-users-of-privacy-services/
The argument that we should not care about all the spying because we are "small potatoes" to the NSA is now completely moot. Just reading an article will make you an "extremist." That's f*ckin insane. I guess I've been an extremist a pretty damn long time ago since I read pretty much anything just for the f*ck it when I'm bored. Again, don't click on the link if you've never read articles like that nor used programs like TOR or IP ghost or whatever.
If you use Tor or any of a number of other privacy services online or even visit their web sites to read about the services, there’s a good chance your IP address has been collected and stored by the NSA, according to top-secret source code for a program the NSA uses to conduct internet surveillance.
There’s also a good chance you’ve been tagged for simply reading news articles about these services published by Wired and other sites.
Legal experts say the widespread targeting of people engaged in constitutionally protected activity like visiting web sites and reading articles, raises questions about the legal authority the NSA is using to track users in this way.
“Under [the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] there are numerous places where it says you shouldn’t be targeting people on the basis of activities protected by the First Amendment,” says Kurt Opsahl, deputy general counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “I can’t see how this activity could have been properly authorized under FISA. This is suggesting then that they have come up with some other theory of authorizing this.”
The findings also contradict NSA longstanding claims that its surveillance targets only those suspected of engaging in activity that threatens national security.
http://www.wired.com/2014/07/nsa-targets-users-of-privacy-services/
The argument that we should not care about all the spying because we are "small potatoes" to the NSA is now completely moot. Just reading an article will make you an "extremist." That's f*ckin insane. I guess I've been an extremist a pretty damn long time ago since I read pretty much anything just for the f*ck it when I'm bored. Again, don't click on the link if you've never read articles like that nor used programs like TOR or IP ghost or whatever.