Ten years ago, the first revelations about US mass surveillance were published in the UK and USA.
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The interesting thing about Snowden to me after 10 years is how few times I see the public think about how low-level staff with hardware-level access can bypass all command and control decisions. He was a contractor who just wholesale scooped data off the servers. Nearly 10 years later… Jack Teixeira leaks documents because he has server access to documents outside his immediate need too.
I think a lot of organizations really don’t see how vulnerable they are to deliberate attacks and theft - if the NSA can’t protect their data 10 years ago, do you really think your mobile phone network provider or these VPN companies are not subject to internal staff selling off data, etc?
The NSA is keen on collecting data (“nothing is beyond our reach”). Protecting that data might be an afterthought.
@RoundSparrow @yogthos if the employee of a private company is selling data on his own behalf, he can get sued and prosecuted for misconduct. In the case of Snowden he did not do it for personal gains but to just report a crime. Also an entire planet is on his side. The US establishment has no chance.
At this point, I really think that the only way to have real privacy is to not use a computing device. It’s back to pen and paper and in person meetings.
@yogthos @RoundSparrow we can safely use computers and phones if they don’t have an internet connection.
Yeah, anything that’s not connected to the internet is generally safe.
Start putting everything on forgotten technologies, like the Bernoulli Box or the 8-inch floppy. It’s not more secure, but if they can’t open it, they can’t read it hahaha kidding
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lol there is some truth to that :)