I heard that there are over one million people with the security clearance level and the access to do what Snowden did (or something as potent.)
Get that? One million people who can do the following: 1. Intercept the emails of CEOs etc. as a major merger is brokered -- no matter yes or no, money can be made if one knows which way the deal is going, and, then, hey, who can prove whether an NSA employee is lucky or is doing insider trading? 2. Find out about neighbors, the kids who hang with the coder's kids and all about their parents and their neighbors and how much everyone earns and what the kids grades are and who has what STD and who's gotta get another abortion. 3. Find out about anything anyone is doing and blackmail anyone. 4. Use the massive architecture of the NSA system to launch every sort of "attack" upon anyone from any left field from which any person would least expect it. Every manner of extortion is thus possible. "Pay up or have your life ruined." 5. Intercept any message and change it. 6. Create a personal "empire" of servers that obey a rogue NSA employee's now and future commands even after leaving the NSA. 7. Target people on the cutting edge of the frontiers, and invest with two or three notches higher ROIs as new tech that is about to be announced is seen and known weeks or more ahead of the announcement -- get in on the ground floor or avoid a false-IPO turkey. 8. Manipulate the markets with various e-ploys. AND ON AND ON AND ON....this is just what I could think of in ten minutes....imagine what a true smarty pants could dream up to make some easy cash. And here's why the above screed has impact for me, personally: I have worked with very good coders. Sitting next them and watching the type code at speeds faster than I can type words. Real and actual whiz kids who could do programming on the fly. I probably know 30 guys who could be truly potent forces-unto-themselves if they decided to "do evil" and really exploit access they might have by abusing almost any large corporate system. Just the customer information data-sets alone could be disastrously exploited via simple identity theft. So, nope. One million people with the above powers? -- who can type code that fast? and it's code that "does stuff" to trillions of bits of information in seconds? -- nope, I say, nope. That's too much power in the hands of those who are probably pizza eating pencil necked geeks in windowless rooms whining about X-box and squeezing pimples. Nope. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: > > On 06/18/2013 07:56 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: > > "That metadata includes which version of the > > operating system, browser and Java software > > are being used on millions of devices around > > the world...." > > > > Bloomberg: > > http://tinyurl.com/mvaew4f > > > > > > Very standard stuff you get back from your web host. It is primarily > used to determine how many customers you have on each OS. If you have a > problems with certain browsers. Also identify mobile devices and route > them to a mobile version of your site. Not all that useful as far as > spying on anymore except of the IP and many of those are "leased" and > change for the user. It can help is someone is having problems > downloading or if some jerk is trying to do a DOS attack on your site. > > The bad stuff is routing the Internet through places like the NSA where > they can collect your emails and look at them if they feel they need > to. "Through a Scanner Darkly" was a fairly good movie based on a > Philip K Dick story about a surveillance society. It's possible bored > workers at the NSA scan for "hot" emails to share amongst themselves. >
