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[polonus]

Hi bob3160 and Asyn,

Well something we expected to be so became more credible with this news.
Yes, and it is a sad thing actually for those corporations that were forced to cooperate.
We as mere users should always have at the back of our heads that all we do on the Internet is actually done in public,
same as we would stand on a soapbox in HydePark (only this time on a global scale).
Good thing that this data collecting was only for data from citizens outside the USA...

polonus

[Johnny4745]

Hi bob3160 and Asyn,

Well something we expected to be so became more credible with this news.
Yes, and it is a sad thing actually for those corporations that were forced to cooperate.
We as mere users should always have at the back of our heads that all we do on the Internet is actually done in public,
same as we would stand on a soapbox in HydePark (only this time on a global scale).
Good thing that this data collecting was only for data from citizens outside the USA...

polonus

The Internet Service Providers should have refused, and forced the government to charge them with a crime or put them in jail.  Then if would really get the attention it needs.

The United States is becoming no better than Communist China that blocks websites it decides the people shouldn't see.

This latest unconstitutional move by out government that violates unreasonable search and seizure does have the attention of Congress, and lawmakers have vowed to reign in this administration.

[bob3160]

The United States is becoming no better than Communist China that blocks websites it decides the people shouldn't see.

There is a difference. In this country it is being done "legally". 

[mchain]

The United States is becoming no better than Communist China that blocks websites it decides the people shouldn't see.

There is a difference. In this country it is being done "legally". 

+1 to all of the above.  No more isolationist posture(s) is available now or in the future.  Think "WWI Isolationists" when at that time it might have been possible for the US to not enter the first world war, no Internet existed then.  Now, we are more interconnected, as in worldwide, then we ever have been.  With this interconnectivity comes a certain erosion of personal privacy, (and) some of that is what we have done to ourselves.

[polonus]

Hi mchain,

Agree, but there is a positive side to it as well as we are like cells that become aware they form part of a larger organ and in the end are one body together.
This is making the status of these mortal cells more "irrelevant",

polonus

[Johnny4745]

Paul wants to lead Supreme Court challenge to fed's tracking of Americans' calls, emails

Published June 09, 2013

Sen. Rand Paul said Sunday he wants to mount a Supreme Court challenge to the federal government logging Americans’ phone calls and Internet activities.

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“I’m going to be asking all the Internet providers and all of the phone companies: Ask your customers to join me in a class-action lawsuit,” he said. “If we get 10 million Americans saying we don’t want our phone records looked at, then maybe someone will wake up and something will change in Washington.”

The Whole Article:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/09/paul-wants-to-lead-supreme-court-challenge-to-fed-tracking-americans-calls/

[Asyn]

HP Insight Diagnostics 9.4.0.4710 multiple vulnerabilities
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/324668

[polonus]

How to diable java plug-in in various types of IE browser with a Fix it: http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2013/05/29/java-when-you-cannot-let-go.aspx
a “Microsoft Fix it” solution to block all Java web-attack vectors through Internet Explorer. The solution will work for all versions of Java (tested 5 and above) and all supported versions of Internet Explorer (32-bit or 64-bit)....

polonus

[Asyn]

Hi bob3160 and Asyn,

Well something we expected to be so became more credible with this news.
Yes, and it is a sad thing actually for those corporations that were forced to cooperate.
We as mere users should always have at the back of our heads that all we do on the Internet is actually done in public, same as we would stand on a soapbox in HydePark (only this time on a global scale).

86 Civil Liberties Groups and Internet Companies Demand an End to NSA Spying
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/86-civil-liberties-groups-and-internet-companies-demand-end-nsa-spying
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/06/11/stopwatching-us-mozilla-launches-massive-campaign-on-digital-surveillance/
https://optin.stopwatching.us/

[polonus]

Zeus now spreads as worm: http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/going-solo-self-propagating-zbot-malware-spotted/
link article author = TrendLabs' Abigail Pichel (Technical Communications)

polonus

[polonus]

Hi Asyn,

More invisibilty to PRISM outside USA. Use an ISP without servers in the USA. Use I2P overlay network or tor and an open source browser (non-american builds like Google Chrome), use your provider web-mail, use YaCy for searching. Use ICQ chat which is now Russian owned and VOIPBuster, use a different mail account for mobile services are a few of the steps you could take, (tips were taken from link article author Kristian van Tuil, see: http://computerworld.nl/beveiliging/78073-in-6-stappen-buiten-bereik-van-prism

Personally I do not feel the need for all this, but for those that feel some urge to do so....

For instance loads of tor nodes are owned by amazon, so open to PRISM: http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/   27 seen with .compute dot amazonaws dot com
I think there really is no escape from this giga data snooping

polonus

[bob3160]

There may not be any escape Damien but that doesn't mean we should take this laying down.
http://bob3160.blogspot.com/2013/06/personal-information-privacy-and.html

[Dwarden]

polonus and You think the Russia, Chine and other big gov don't have own version of PRISM already ? so suggesting Russian owned ICQ is quite weird ...

[bob3160]

polonus and You think the Russia, Chine and other big gov don't have own version of PRISM already ? so suggesting Russian owned ICQ is quite weird ...

What are you talking about Who is suggesting what

[Johnny4745]

Google surveillance far surpasses the NSA, author says

By Wyatt Andrews
June 11, 2013 7:19 PM

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"For years, Google's computers have scanned the content of millions of Gmails -- Google's popular email service -- in order to figure out what ads the users might respond to. Many users don't realize they've given Google permission to eavesdrop in the agreement that opens their account."

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57588833/google-surveillance-far-surpasses-the-nsa-author-says/