Snnowden and the breathtaking abuse of liberty

[doodab]

I'd be more concerned that they can decrypt a lot of encrypted traffic. I wonder if they are?

[Mich the Tester]

FTFY.

Well it seems that Germany protesteth too much since they use the data supplied by America.

And they sell bank data they've bought from thieves.

[VectraMan]

Then get a Swedish VPN. iPredator is the way to go.

Presumably they can break that, if they want to. More worrying is that using something like that will get you onto a higher priority list on the basis you're probably trying to hide something. You probably stand more chance of being anonymous being part of the unencrypted crowd.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the shear scale of data from monitoring all traffic must make the chances of finding a terrorist so insignificant as to make it not worth the effort, compared to say monitoring the communications of a specific person you suspect of being a terrorist and see who they talk to.

[Alias]

The Matrix is real?

[Platypus]

Then get a Swedish VPN. iPredator is the way to go.

Why? I can't imagine that any of my traffic of of interest to anyone

[DodgyAgent]

I do not know what gives cause for anyone on CUK to be concerned about all this
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Let me remind you of what the CUK forum is for and why you are here. It is because


YOU ARE OF NO INTEREST TO ANYONE but yourselv..........

[DodgyAgent]

I do not know what gives cause for anyone on CUK to be concerned about all this
.
Let me remind you of what the CUK forum is for and why you are here. It is because


WE ARE OF NO INTEREST TO ANYONE but ourselv..........

Ahem FTFMe

[Paddy]

Presumably they can break that, if they want to. More worrying is that using something like that will get you onto a higher priority list on the basis you're probably trying to hide something. You probably stand more chance of being anonymous being part of the unencrypted crowd.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the shear scale of data from monitoring all traffic must make the chances of finding a terrorist so insignificant as to make it not worth the effort, compared to say monitoring the communications of a specific person you suspect of being a terrorist and see who they talk to.

As with the Boston bombers. They were followed, their Internet activity monitored and emails intercepted yet it did not prevent the tragedy. Surveillance is not really about terrorists, it is about controlling the population and industrial espionage.

[amcdonald]

I do not know what gives cause for anyone on CUK to be concerned about all this
.
Let me remind you of what the CUK forum is for and why you are here. It is because


YOU ARE OF NO INTEREST TO ANYONE but yourselv..........

Once you have that level of information you can control who is in government and what they do, even if you have to suffer reading about SAS fictional life story along the way

[cojak]

Once you have that level of information you can control who is in government and what they do, even if you have to suffer reading about SAS fictional life story along the way

I'd imagine that they'd save on performance and storage if they just read the Daily Wail...

<looks hard at vetran>