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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 10:01 am Post Subject: Total Retroactive Surveillance Coming - Zero Privacy
One of the biggest enablers of this kind of thing is the whiny little sheeple voices you'll inevitably hear again on this issue as well saying (use your whiniest, beaten down voice) "Well if you haven't done anything wrong you've got nothing to worry about". Altogether now...
Coming soon: Ubiquitous surveillance from Big Brother's wayback machine
Storage, search technology will enable surveillance on suspects before they became suspects
By Tim Greene, Network World
December 15, 2011 04:53 PM ET
As the price of digital storage drops and the technology to tap electronic communication improves, authoritarian governments will soon be able to perform retroactive surveillance on anyone within their borders, according to a Brookings Institute report.
These regimes will store every phone call, instant message, email, social media interaction, text message, movements of people and vehicles and public surveillance video and mine it at their leisure, according to "Recording Everything: Digital Storage as an Enabler of Authoritarian Government," written by John Villaseno, a senior fellow at Brookings and a professor of electrical engineering at UCLA.
That will enable shadowing people's movements and communications that took place before the individuals became suspects, he says.
"For example, if an anti-regime demonstrator previously unknown to security services is arrested, it will be possible to go back in time to scrutinize the demonstrator's phone conversations, automobile travels, and the people he or she met in the months and even years leading up to the arrest," the report says.
"These enormous databases of captured information will create what amounts to a surveillance time machine. ... This will fundamentally change the dynamics of dissent, insurgency and revolution," the report says.
Villaseno draws on knowledge gained from recent overthrows of such authoritarian regimes to support his argument that such a scenario is not just possible but likely. He notes that when the government of Libya fell, insurgents found equipment that had captured 30 million to 40 million minutes of phone conversations per month and enabled the government to read activist emails. There have been reports that the government of Syria wants to build communications intercepts as well, he says.
The report notes that technologies needed to capture, store and analyze these mountains of data are built for legitimate business purposes by reputable vendors, citing Blue Coat, Cisco, Huawei, NetApp, Qosmos (France) and Utimaco (Germany).
Noting that an iPod classic can store up to 40,000 songs, 200 hours of video or 25,000 photos, Villaseno concludes that ubiquitous surveillance will eventually crop up. "When that much information can be held in the palm of a hand, the prospect that an authoritarian government could archive the entire life of a nation no longer seems impossible. Declining storage costs will make such monitoring not only possible, but likely," the report says.
Key to this possibility is the dramatic drop in the cost of storage, which cost $85,000 per gigabyte in 1984 and costs 5 cents per gigabyte today.
The storage needed for different types of data varies widely. Data to pinpoint a location within 15 feet takes up 75 bits. Storing that data for 1 million people taken at five-minute intervals for a year would take up less than a terabyte and cost a bit more than $50.
In 2015 the cost of storing all the phone calls made in a year by an average person will be less than 2 cents, the report says. By 2020, the cost to store all the phone calls made by everyone over the age of 14 in Iran will be about $100,000, the report says.
Villaseno points to a 24-hour video surveillance program in China that will put 500,000 video cameras throughout the city of Chongquing. By 2020, all that video could be stored for 25 cents per Chongquing resident per year.
Total costs of surveillance -- gathering, aggregating, managing, analyzing -- will be greater, but as Big Data becomes a reality, tools for handling it will become better and cheaper. "[T]he problem of managing large data sets occurs in many contexts, not just in the surveillance of people in authoritarian countries," the report says. "Many of the solutions that are being developed in the commercial world for searching and analyzing data could be applied to state-sponsored surveillance as well."
Future uprisings like those recently against governments in Libya, Tunisia, Syria, Egypt and Iran will become less likely against regimes that can monitor and modify an entire nation's communications in near-real time, Villaseno says. "Awareness of the likelihood that all messages -- including those that are encrypted -- will eventually be read by security services will chill dissent," he says.
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 10:06 am Post Subject:
And one might say "but we still have the numbers..." but are not 99% of those numbers just impotent, frightened, chemically lobotomised little beehatches who LOVE to lick not just the boots of their oppressive overlords who are glorified for them everyday on that alter in their lounges? Methinks so...
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 3:29 pm Post Subject:
Missing from the list of storeable data is obviously website hits.
Forty years ago, there was a start on this, in the Deakin Telecom building in Canberra.
It's a large building with very thick walls, apparently 5m, thick, and no windows, and deep underground levels.
To suggest that this is still in the future is woefully naive, at best.
It's true that the cratocrats have the upper hand at present, due to the disactivated state of people in general, but I don't think the gate is quite shut yet.
There are unknowables in the equation, and in this life on this Earth, every empire has a beginning, a middle and an end.
The Internet is blowing things open in an unpredictable way.
If all else fails, the Casseiopians might wing in in their silver spaceships [/quote]
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Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 6:09 am Post Subject:
I've been using Scroogle, till yesterday
Don't know if it's permanent, but Google seems to have stymied Scroogle.
Went looking and found this
https://www.ixquick.com/m/
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Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 12:17 pm Post Subject:
F'sure! And common sense would tell you that those with the most money can employ the best hackers even though said hackers "appear" to be working independently! In the words of the waterboy's mamma "Google is the devil!" :twisted:
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Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 10:05 am Post Subject:
Cross Google and die beehatches!!! Information central (cough cough) wikipedia now says this -
"Scrooglewasa web service that allowed users to perform Google searches anonymously. It focused heavily on searcher privacy by blocking Google cookies and not saving log files. The service was launched in 2003 by Daniel Brandt. After 2005, the service encountered rapid growth before running into a series of problems starting in 2010. In February 2012, the service was permanently shut down by its creator due toa combination of throttling of search requests by Google and a denial-of-service attack by an unknown person or group. Before its demise, Scroogle handled around 350,000 queries daily and ranked among the top 4,000 sites worldwide in traffic."
