I disagree. It's not that stupid. The US government has significant resources
and if you look at what is actually going on you can clearly see it. The
evidence of the level of and the insane amount of spying on Americans and
others is all over the place.
There is lots out there on how the NSA is building massive data centers in
Utah and elsewhere.
There is evidence of tapping into traffic at crucial points and spying on
Americans. AT&T & others have engaged in a massive program of illegal dragnet
surveillance of domestic communications and communications records of
millions of ordinary Americans since at least 2001. AT&T technician Mark
Klein showed that AT&T was cooperating with the illegal surveillance.
Edward Snowden has leaked evidence on just how massive it is. Then the
denials have been proven wrong in regards to the NSA not spying on Americans.
They were / are! And lets not forget that there is the UK which is even less
restricted by law to spy on Americans and in cooperation with US spying
operations.
All ISPs are required by law to comply with the Communications Assistance for
Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) which is a United States wiretapping law passed
in 1994.
CALEA's purpose is to enhance the ability of law enforcement and intelligence
agencies to conduct electronic surveillance by requiring that
telecommunications carriers and manufacturers of telecommunications equipment
modify and design their equipment, facilities, and services to ensure that
they have built-in surveillance capabilities, allowing federal agencies to
monitor all telephone, broadband internet, and VoIP traffic in real-time.
These modifications are what I believe made possible spying / tapping by an
unknown party on prime ministers of some country in Europe some years ago
(might have been Greece).
These same devices have enabled China, Iran, and others to spy and monitor
its populations.
Now we have cells phones which ARE tracking devices. Cellular carriers are
required to be able to pinpoint phone locations to within 50 to 300 meters.
but.. no... this is beyond Intel. A company which after all didn't try and
embed a unique, retrievable, identification number in its CPUs. That must
have been my imagination. Yes- that was sarcasm.
I tried to find one of the videos. Unfortunately I can't find it although it
was demonstrating how the system worked.
Obviously I don't have the numbers and can't prove anything. That's what I've
been saying all along. We need more information and more investigation into
these CPUs and the technology behind it. What can be done, what can't be
done, and how it could be missuses. It's not a trivial thing to investigate.
It's extremely complex.
The one video I watched showed how with a GSM module and the Intel technology
the laptop could be remotely accessed anywhere regardless of what the user
was doing. Now this was just a video so you do have to take it with a grain
of salt.
But the separation of processes I was reading elsewhere. They do have some
animations on it and I forget the reason they gave for it. There was a
feature on encryption I believe related to it in the enterprise.
