Friday, June 09, 2006

EVIL NSA EXPANDS SNOOPING

An investigative reporter for a science magazine makes a sinister discovery:
New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon's National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks.
Oh my God, the NSA is going to harvest information voluntarily posted by internet users. It's yet one more wake-up call:
Americans are still reeling from last month's revelations that the NSA has been logging phone calls since the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001.
So, why does the NSA want to log activity at social networking sites like MySpace and Friendster? Simple, phone logging doesn't provide much information:
They can only be used to build a very basic picture of someone's contact network, a process sometimes called "connecting the dots".
Dumb old Americans have been reeling over nothing. Ready, set, reel.

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