On 08/20/2013 07:23 AM, Ski Kacoroski wrote:
I have known implicitly for years that pretty much anything I do (on or off the internet) can be and probably is being tracked so I do not have much expectations of privacy anymore. What has changed for me is the more overt way the governments are using this knowledge. Perhaps it was always like this and I never noticed.
I think that the primary thing that Snowden showed was not that we were being watched; we knew that.
Snowden showed us that the data they were keeping on us was ridiculously insecure. Not only can the government access your data (which we all knew, or suspected) but any random contract sysadmin can also see your data.
I would bet a fair amount of money that there were many for-profit leaks before this one. It's just too easy to abuse without consequence.
I mean, if you were doing this for gain, you wouldn't directly use the evidence out of prism to blackmail or discredit someone; You would use the evidence out of prism to find other evidence of the embarrassing activities, then you'd release (or threaten to release ) that other evidence.
I bet this has happened many times. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
