While reading through an Intercept article on the NSA’s XKEYSCORE program (simply put: a search engine for data captured by the NSA), I came across this gem: When systems administrators log into XKEYSCORE servers to configure them, they appear to use a shared account, under the name “oper.” Adams notes, “That means that changes madeContinue reading “NSA Admins and Privacy”
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Surveillance: Fundamentally Wrong
“It seems to me that any government prepared to subject its citizens to mass surveillance is by definition the wrong one. No one can be trusted with powers as wide and inscrutable as these.” — George Monbiot in The Guardian, 2013-06-24 At the point where a surveillance system of any kind is built, things areContinue reading “Surveillance: Fundamentally Wrong”
Tower of Air 