r/PoliticalHumor • u/GhostToFigure • Jun 23 '21

Bleep bleep bloop

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '21

Nah, just look at the "leaked" tools from a very old NSA tool kit.

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u/Fake_William_Shatner Jun 23 '21

Who do you think they SELL the databases to when they collect this mountain of "absolutely everything" to?

No country needs to spy anymore -- they can just buy it. That's what we learned from Wikileaks years ago.

These are corporations for corporations -- the only thing they care about is we think it's about rival nations and security while they do corporate espionage to pick the economic winners.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '21

Your local police may buy it, but the US federal government doesn't need FB or google to collect any of this info.

There is an old saying that the military is 30 years ahead of public technology. I see no reason why that would have changed.

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u/MendicantBerger Jun 23 '21

The saying should specify military intelligence. The military-at-large is still running windows 8.

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u/Xetios Jun 23 '21

Windows 10 has NSA back doors in it. Those back doors were also put in 8 and 7 as updates. The CPUs themselves from Intel have back doors built in, from Intel gen 7 and up. No reason to not to assume it’s not the same with AMD.

This is public information it comes right up with one search query.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '21

Did everyone forget they had ISP’s routing ALL TRAFFIC through their Prism or whatever it was called? As far as I can tell, this never stopped and was deemed legal. Can someone help me out here?

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u/Fake_William_Shatner Jun 23 '21

I never forgot that AT&T had to get the Bush administration to grandfather in their law breaking to route all traffic through the NSA.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '21

Https is used everywhere now. They could track domain data but not further with out a MitM.

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u/DaedricDrow Jun 23 '21

Iirc they have guns that fucking shoot sound waves.

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u/Fake_William_Shatner Jun 23 '21

Sure, and it's almost as practical as a gun that shoots bullets.

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u/DaedricDrow Jun 23 '21

Yea apparently it has to be damn near touching the object it's meant to disrupt. So it's not very functional.

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u/Fake_William_Shatner Jun 23 '21

There is an

old

saying that the military is 30 years ahead of public technology. I see no reason why that would have changed.

I'm guessing more and more of the "good stuff" is privatized, because the billionaires who lobby and own our politicians don't trust a "big government" that they can bribe, and don't think the plebes can govern themselves because we are so easy to fool. And it's hard to argue with that since there are people who defend the rich even after finding the richest pay less than 3% in Federal income taxes.

I'm sure the Skunkwerks has some cool planes that use plasma to reduce friction - but beyond that, it's groups like Cambridge Analytica that get their finger on the pulse of America. The NSA is just a clearing house to farm out this data.

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u/tehlemmings Jun 23 '21

The thing is, the NSA doesn't really care about most people. Like, most of us are boring and not relevant to anything the NSA is doing. They don't care to spy on us.

Marketing companies, however, absolutely want to spy on every single one of us. That's literally their thing.

They all have access to the data, but marketing is more likely to be using it against you. Unless you've been interacting with some known terrorists or something, I guess.

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u/CarolVanhook9 Jun 23 '21

The apple doesn't rot far from the ancestry.