The Internet Is A Surveillance State -- Bruce Schneier, Special to CNN
One: Some of the Chinese military hackers who were implicated in a broad set of attacks against the U.S. government and corporations were identified because they accessed Facebook from the same network infrastructure they used to carry out their attacks.
Two: Hector Monsegur, one of the leaders of the LulzSac hacker movement, was identified and arrested last year by the FBI. Although he practiced good computer security and used an anonymous relay service to protect his identity, he slipped up.
And three: Paula Broadwell,who had an affair with CIA director David Petraeus, similarly took extensive precautions to hide her identity. She never logged in to her anonymous e-mail service from her home network. Instead, she used hotel and other public networks when she e-mailed him. The FBI correlated hotel registration data from several different hotels -- and hers was the common name.
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My Comment: Yup .... if you are on the internet grid .... you will always be under surveillance. George Orwell's 1984 is nothing when compared to where we are heading now.
2 comments:
I'm always on the fence regarding the hype around this...
These are individuals who one way or another, committed offences against a particular state/government and thus, became the center-point for investigation.
In other words, they are bad examples when discussing a debate about internet surveillance.
D. Plowman you sound like my lawyer .... he is always enjoys telling me that "if I am doing nothing wrong I will then have no reason to be worried about anything.
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