‘To Protect You From The Bad Guys’, The Government Is Spying On Every Aspect Of Your Life!

September 26th, 2013

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

After all of the revelations by Edward Snowden and other
whistleblowers – spying apologists say that the reports are
“exaggerated” or “overblown”, and the government only spies on
potential bad guys… In reality, the government is spying on everyone’s digital and old-fashioned communications. ~ Video

For example, the government is photographing the outside information on every piece of snail mail.

The government is spying on you through your phone … and may even remotely turn on your camera and microphone when your phone is off.

As one example, the NSA has inserted its code into Android’s operating system … bugging three-quarters of the world’s smartphones. Google – or the NSA – can remotely turn on your phone’s camera and recorder at any time.

Moreover, Google knows just about every WiFi password in the world … and so the NSA does as well, since it spies so widely on Google.

But it’s not just the Android. In reality, the NSA can spy on just about everyone’s smart phone.

Cell towers track where your phone is at any moment, and the major cell carriers, including Verizon and AT&T, responded to at least 1.3 million law enforcement requests for cell phone locations and other data in 2011.

(Given that your smartphone routinely sends your location information back to Apple or Google – it would be child’s play for the government to track your location that way.)

YouriPhone, or other brand of smartphone is spying on virtually everything you do (ProPublica notes: “That’s No Phone. That’s My Tracker“). Remember, that might be happening even when your phone is turned off.

The government might be spying on you through your computer’s webcam or microphone. The government might also be spying on you through the “smart meter” on your own home.

NSA also sometimes uses “man-in-the-middle” tactics, to pretend that it is Google or other popular websites to grab your information.

The FBI wants a backdoor to all software. But leading European computer publication Heise said in 1999 that the NSA had already built a backdoor into all Windows software.

Microsoft has long worked hand-in-hand with the NSA and
FBI so that encryption doesn’t block the government’s ability to spy on
users of Skype, Outlook, Hotmail and other Microsoft services.

And Microsoft informs intelligence agencies of with information about bugs in its popular softwarebefore it publicly releases a fix, so that information can be used by the government to access computers. (Software vulnerabilities are also sold to the highest bidder.)

A top expert in the ‘microprocessors’ or ‘chips’ inside every
computer – having helped start two semiconductor companies and a
supercomputer firm – also says:

He would be “surprised” if the US National Security
Agency was not embedding “back doors” inside chips produced by Intel and
AMD, two of the world’s largest semiconductor firms, giving them the
possibility to access and control machines.

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[The expert] said when he learned the NSA had secured “pre-encryption stage”
access to Microsoft’s email products via the PRISM leaks, he recognised
that “pretty much all our computers have a way for the NSA to get
inside their hardware” before a user can even think about applying
encryption or other defensive measures.

Leading security experts say that the NSA might have put a backdoor in all encryption standards years ago. … meaning that the NSA could easily hack into all encrypted communications. And the NSA hacks into encrypted “VPN” connections.

It’s gotten so bad that some of the largest encryption companies are warning that their encryption tools are compromised.

“Black boxes” are currently installed in between 90% and 96% of all new cars. And starting in 2014, all new cars will include black boxes that can track your location.

License plate readers mounted on police cars allow police to gather millions of records on drivers … including photos of them in their cars.

If you have a microphone in your car, that might also open you up to snoopers. As CNET points out:

Surreptitious activation of built-in microphones by the FBI has been done before. A 2003 lawsuit revealed
that the FBI was able to surreptitiously turn on the built-in
microphones in automotive systems like General Motors’ OnStar to snoop
on passengers’ conversations.

When FBI agents remotely activated the system and were listening in,
passengers in the vehicle could not tell that their conversations were
being monitored.

A security expert and former NSA software developer says that hackers can access private surveillance cameras. Given that the NSA apparently already monitors public cameras using facial recognition software (see this).

The FBI is building a system which will track “public and privatesurveillance cameras around the country”, we can assume that government agencies might already be hacking into private surveillance cameras.

The CIA wants to spy on you through your dishwasher and other “smart” appliances. As Slate notes:

Watch out: the CIA may soon be spying on you—through your beloved, intelligent household appliances, according to Wired.

In early March, at a meeting for the CIA’s venture capital firm
In-Q-Tel, CIA Director David Petraeus reportedly noted that “smart
appliances” connected to the Internet could someday be used by the CIA
to track individuals.

If your grocery-list-generating refrigerator knows
when you’re home, the CIA could, too, by using geo-location data from
your wired appliances, according to SmartPlanet.

“The current ‘Internet of PCs’ will move, of course, toward an
‘Internet of Things’—of devices of all types—50 to 100 billion of which
will be connected to the Internet by 2020,” Petraeus said in his speech. He continued:

Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored,
and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency
identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy
harvesters—all connected to the next-generation Internet using abundant,
low cost, and high-power computing—the latter now going to cloud
computing, in many areas greater and greater supercomputing, and,
ultimately, heading to quantum computing.

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ITworld’s Kevin Fogarty thinks that J. Edgar Hoover, were he still with us, would “die of jealousy” upon hearing about the tools soon to be at Petraeus’ disposal.

They’re probably bluffing and exaggerating, but the Department of
Homeland Security claims they will soon be able to know your adrenaline
level, what you ate for breakfast and what you’re thinking …from 164 feet away.

(In addition, people will probably soon be swallowing tracking devices for medical purposes)

The government is allegedly scanning prisoners’ brains without their consent at Guantanamo. In the near future, brain scanners may be able to literally read our thoughts (and see this).

The government is currently testing systems for use in public spaces which can screen for “pre-crime”. As Nature reports:

Like a lie detector, FAST measures a variety of
physiological indicators, ranging from heart rate to the steadiness of a
person’s gaze, to judge a subject’s state of mind. But there are major
differences from the polygraph.

FAST relies on non-contact sensors, so
it can measure indicators as someone walks through a corridor at an
airport, and it does not depend on active questioning of the subject.

CBS News points out:

FAST is designed to track and monitor, among other inputs, body movements, voice pitch changes, prosody changes
(alterations in the rhythm and intonation of speech), eye movements,
body heat changes, and breathing patterns.

Occupation and age are also
considered. A government source told CNET that blink rate and pupil
variation are measured too.

A field test of FAST has been conducted in at least one undisclosed
location in the northeast. “It is not an airport, but it is a large
venue that is a suitable substitute for an operational setting,” DHS
spokesman John Verrico told Nature.com in May.

Although DHS has publicly suggested that FAST could be used at
airport checkpoints–the Transportation Security Administration is part
of the department, after all–the government appears to have grander
ambitions.

One internal DHS document (PDF)
also obtained by EPIC through the Freedom of Information Act says a
mobile version of FAST “could be used at security checkpoints such as
border crossings or at large public events such as sporting events or
conventions.”

The risk of false positives is very real. As Computer World notes:

Tom Ormerod, a psychologist in the Investigative
Expertise Unit at Lancaster University, UK, told Nature, “Even having an
iris scan or fingerprint read at immigration is enough to raise the
heart rate of most legitimate travelers.”

Other critics have been
concerned about “false positives.” For example, some travelers might
have some of the physical responses that are supposedly signs of
mal-intent if they were about to be groped by TSA agents in airport
security.

Various “pre-crime” sensing devices have already been deployed in public spaces in the U.S.

The government has also worked on artificial intelligence for “pre-crime” detection on the Web. And given that programs which can figure out your emotions are being developed using your webcam, every change in facial expression could be tracked.

According to the NSA’s former director of global digital data –
William Binney – the NSA’s new data storage center in Utah will have so
much storage capacity that:

“They would have plenty of space … to store at least something on the order of 100 years worth of the worldwide communications, phones and emails and stuff like that,” Binney asserts, “and then have plenty of space left over to do any kind of parallel processing to try to break codes.”

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[The NSA isn’t stopping there.] Despite its capacity, the Utah
center does not satisfy NSA’s data demands. Last month, the agency broke
ground on its next data farm at its headquarters at Ft. Meade, Md. But
that facility will be only two-thirds the size of the mega-complex in
Utah.

The NSA is building next-generation quantum computers to process all of the data.

NBC News reports:

NBC News has learned that under the post-9/11 Patriot Act, the government has been collecting records on every phone call made in the U.S.

This includes metadata … which can tell the government a lot about you. And it also includes content.

The documents leaked by Edward Snowden to Glenn Greenwald show:

But what we’re really talking about here is a
localized system that prevents any form of electronic communication from
taking place without its being stored and monitored by the National
Security Agency.

It doesn’t mean that they’re listening to every call, it means they’re
storing every call and have the capability to listen to them at any
time, and it does mean that they’re collecting millions upon millions
upon millions of our phone and email records.

In addition, a government expert told the Washington Post that the government “quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type.” (see this.)

A top NSA executive confirmed to Washington’s Blog that the NSA is intercepting and storing virtually all digital communications on the Internet.

McClatchy notes:

FBI Director Robert Mueller told a Senate committee on
March 30, 2011, that “technological improvements” now enable the bureau
“to pull together past emails and future ones as they come in so that it
does not require an individualized search.”

The administration is building a facility in a valley south of Salt
Lake City that will have the capacity to store massive amounts of
records – a facility that former agency whistleblowers say has no
logical purpose if it’s not going to be a vault holding years of phone
and Internet data.

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Thomas Drake, a former NSA senior executive who challenged the data
collection for several years, said the agency’s intent seems obvious.

“One hundred million phone records?” he asked in an interview. “Why
would they want that each and every day? Of course they’re storing it.”

***

Lending credence to his worries, The Guardian’s latest report quoted a
document in which Alexander purportedly remarked during a 2008 visit to
an NSA intercept station in Britain: “Why can’t we collect all the
signals all the time?”

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One former U.S. security consultant, who spoke on condition of
anonymity to protect his connections to government agencies, told
McClatchy he has seen agency-installed switches across the country that
draw data from the cables.

“Do I know they copied it? Yes,” said the consultant. “Do I know if they kept it? No.”

NSA whistleblower Russel Tice – a key source in the 2005 New York Times report that blew the lid off the Bush administration’s use of warrantless wiretapping – says that the content and metadata of alldigital communications are being tapped by the NSA.

The NSA not only accesses data directly from the largest internet
companies, it also sucks up huge amounts of data straight from undersea cables providing telephone and Internet service to the United States.

After all, the government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act so that “everything” is deemed relevant … so the government can spy on everyone.

The NSA isn’t the only agency which is conducting massive spying.

The Wall Street Journal notes:

The rules now allow the little-known National
Counterterrorism Center to … copy entire government databases—flight
records, casino-employee lists, the names of Americans hosting
foreign-exchange students and many others.

The agency has new authority
to keep data about innocent U.S. citizens for up to five years, and to
analyze it for suspicious patterns of behavior.

Previously, both were
prohibited. Data about Americans “reasonably believed to constitute
terrorism information” may be permanently retained.

The changes also allow databases of U.S. civilian information to be
given to foreign governments for analysis of their own.

In effect, U.S.
and foreign governments would be using the information to look for clues
that people might commit future crimes.

“It’s breathtaking” in its scope, said a former senior administration official familiar with the White House debate.

Reason notes:

Gazillions. That’s the number of times the federal
government has spied on Americans since 9/11 through the use of drones,
legal search warrants, illegal search warrants, federal agent-written
search warrants and just plain government spying.

This is according to
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who, when he asked the government to tell him
what it was doing to violate our privacy, was given a classified
briefing.

The senator — one of just a few in the U.S. Senate who
believes that the Constitution means what it says — was required by
federal law to agree not to reveal what spies and bureaucrats told him
during the briefing.

Even if the US government weren’t recording all of that data, England’s GCHQ spy agency is … and issharing it with the NSA.

Germany, Australia, Canada and New Zealand are also recording and sharing massive amounts of information with the NSA.

Private contractors can also view all of your data … and the government isn’t keeping track of which contractors see your data and which don’t.

Because background checks regarding some contractors are falsified, it is hard to know the types of people that might have your information.

And top NSA and FBI experts say that the government can retroactively search all of the collected information on someone since 9/11 if they suspect someone of wrongdoing … or want to frame him.

The American government is in fact collecting and storing virtually every phone call, purchases, email, text message, internet searches, social media communications, health information, employment history, travel and student records, and virtually all other information of every American.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the NSA spies on Americans’ credit card transactions.
Senators Wyden and Udall – both on the Senate Intelligence Committee,
with access to all of the top-secret information about the government’s
spying programs – write:

Section 215 of the Patriot Act can be used to collect any type of records whatsoever … including information on credit
card purchases, medical records, library records, firearm sales
records, financial information and a range of other sensitive subjects.

Many other government agencies track your credit card purchases as well. In fact, all U.S. intelligence agencies – including the CIA and NSA – are going to spy on Americans’ finances.

The IRS will be spying on Americans’ shopping records, travel, social interactions, health records and files from other government investigators.

The Consumer Financial Protection Board will also spy on the finances of millions of Americans.

As Washington Monthly noted in 2004, Congress chopped off the head of the Total Information Awareness program … but the program returned as a many-headed hydra:

A program can survive even when the media, the public,
and most of Congress wants it killed. It turns out that, while the
language in the bill shutting down TIA was clear, a new line had been
inserted during conference—no one knew by whom—allowing “certain
processing, analysis, and collaboration tools” to continue.

….Thanks to the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security
Agency, which had lobbied for the provision, TIA didn’t die—it
metastasized.

As the AP reported in February [of 2004], the new language
simply outsourced many TIA programs to other intelligence offices and
buried them in the so-called “black budget.”

What’s more, today, several
agencies are pursuing data mining projects independent of TIA,
including the Department of Homeland Security, the Justice Department,
the CIA, the Transportation Security Administration, and NASA….

Even with
TIA ostensibly shut down, many of the private contractors who worked on
the program can continue their research with few controls.

The government is flying drones over the American homeland to spy on us. Indeed, the head of the FBI told Congress that drones are used for domestic surveillance … and that there are no rules in placegoverning spying on Americans with drones.

Senator Rand Paul correctly notes:

The domestic use of drones to spy on Americans clearly violates the Fourth Amendment and limits our rights to personal privacy.

Emptywheel notes in a post entitled “The OTHER Assault on the Fourth Amendment in the NDAA? Drones at Your Airport?”:

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As the map above makes clear–taken from this 2010 report–DOD [the Department of Defense] plans to have drones all over the country by 2015.

Many police departments are also using drones to spy on us. As the Hill reported:

At least 13 state and local police agencies around the
country have used drones in the field or in training, according to the
Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, an industry
trade group.

The Federal Aviation Administration has predicted that by
the end of the decade, 30,000 commercial and government drones could be
flying over U.S. skies.

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“Drones should only be used if subject to a powerful framework that
regulates their use in order to avoid abuse and invasions of privacy,”
Chris Calabrese, a legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties
Union, said during a congressional forum in Texas last month.

He argued police should only fly drones over private property if they
have a warrant, information collected with drones should be promptly
destroyed when it’s no longer needed and domestic drones should not
carry any weapons.

He argued that drones pose a more serious threat to privacy than
helicopters because they are cheaper to use and can hover in the sky for
longer periods of time.

A congressional report earlier this year predicted that drones could
soon be equipped with technologies to identify faces or track people
based on their height, age, gender and skin color.

The military is paying for the development of drones with facial recognition software which “remember” people’s faces … and read “malintent”.

Moreover, Wired reports:

Transit authorities in cities across the country are
quietly installing microphone-enabled surveillance systems on public
buses that would give them the ability to record and store private
conversations….

The systems are being installed in San Francisco, Baltimore, and
other cities with funding from the Department of Homeland Security in
some cases ….

The IP audio-video systems can be accessed remotely via a built-in web server (.pdf), and can be combined with GPS data to track the movement of buses and passengers throughout the city.

***

The systems use cables or WiFi to pair audio conversations
with camera images in order to produce synchronous recordings.

Audio and
video can be monitored in real-time, but are also stored
onboard in blackbox-like devices, generally for 30 days, for later
retrieval.

Four to six cameras with mics are generally installed
throughout a bus, including one near the driver and one on the exterior
of the bus.

***

Privacy and security expert Ashkan Soltani told the Daily that the
audio could easily be coupled with facial recognition systems or audio
recognition technology to identify passengers caught on the recordings.

RT notes:

Street lights that can spy installed in some American cities

America welcomes a new brand of smart street lightning systems:
energy-efficient, long-lasting, complete with LED screens to show ads.
They can also spy on citizens in a way George Orwell would not have
imagined in his worst nightmare.

With a price tag of $3,000+ apiece, according to an ABC report, the
street lights are now being rolled out in Detroit, Chicago and
Pittsburgh, and may soon mushroom all across the country.

Part of the Intellistreets systems made by the company Illuminating Concepts, they havea number of “homeland security applications” attached.

Each has a microprocessor “essentially similar to an iPhone,” capable ofwireless communication.

Each can capture images and count people for the police through a
digital camera, record conversations of passers-by and even give voice
commands thanks to a built-in speaker.

Ron Harwood, president and founder of Illuminating Concepts, says he
eyed the creation of such a system after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and
the Hurricane Katrina disaster. He is“working with Homeland Security” to deliver his dream of making people “more informed and safer.”

The TSA has moved way past airports, trains and sports stadiums, and is deploying mobile scanners to spy on people all over the place. This means that traveling within the United States is no longer a private affair.

You might also have seen the news this week that the Department of Homeland Security is going tocontinue to allow searches of laptops and phones based upon “hunches”.

What’s that about?

The ACLU published a
map in 2006 showing that nearly two-thirds of the American public –
197.4 million people – live within a “constitution-free zone” within 100
miles of land and coastal borders:

The ACLU explained:

Normally under the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the
American people are not generally subject to random and arbitrary stops
and searches.

The border, however, has always been an exception. There, the
longstanding view is that the normal rules do not apply. For example the
authorities do not need a warrant or probable cause to conduct a
“routine search.”

But what is “the border”? According to the government, it is a
100-mile wide strip that wraps around the “external boundary” of the
United States.

As a result of this claimed authority, individuals who are far away
from the border, American citizens traveling from one place in America
to another, are being stopped and harassed in ways that our Constitution
does not permit.

Border Patrol has been setting up checkpoints inland — on highways
in states such as California, Texas and Arizona, and at ferry terminals
in Washington State. Typically, the agents ask drivers and passengers about their citizenship.

Unfortunately, our courts so far have permitted
these kinds of checkpoints – legally speaking, they are
“administrative” stops that are permitted only for the specific purpose
of protecting the nation’s borders. They cannot become general
drug-search or other law enforcement efforts.

However, these stops by Border Patrol agents are not remaining
confined to that border security purpose. On the roads of California and
elsewhere in the nation – places far removed from the actual border –
agents are stopping, interrogating, and searching Americans on an
everyday basis with absolutely no suspicion of wrongdoing.
The bottom line is that the extraordinary authorities that the
government possesses at the border are spilling into regular American
streets.

Computer World reports:

Border agents don’t need probable cause and they don’t
need a stinking warrant since they don’t need to prove any reasonable
suspicion first. Nor, sadly, do two out of three people have First
Amendment protection; it is as if DHS has voided those Constitutional
amendments and protections they provide to nearly 200 million Americans.

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Don’t be silly by thinking this means only if you are physically
trying to cross the international border. As we saw when discussing the
DEA using license plate readers and data-mining to track Americans movements, the U.S. “border” stretches out 100 miles beyond the true border. Godfather Politics added:

But wait, it gets even better! If you live anywhere in
Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan,
New Hampshire, New Jersey or Rhode Island, DHS says the search zones
encompass the entire state.

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) have a “longstanding constitutional and statutory
authority permitting suspicionless and warrantless searches of
merchandise at the border and its functional equivalent.” This applies
to electronic devices, according to the recent CLCR “Border Searches of
Electronic Devices” executive summary [PDF]:

Fourth Amendment

The overall authority to conduct border searches without suspicion or
warrant is clear and longstanding, and courts have not treated searches
of electronic devices any differently than searches of other objects.

We conclude that CBP’s and ICE’s current border search policies comply
with the Fourth Amendment.

We also conclude that imposing a requirement
that officers have reasonable suspicion in order to conduct a border
search of an electronic device would be operationally harmful without
concomitant civil rights/civil liberties benefits.

However, we do think
that recording more information about why searches are performed would
help managers and leadership supervise the use of border search
authority, and this is what we recommended; CBP has agreed and has
implemented this change beginning in FY2012.***

The ACLU said, Wait one darn minute! Hello, what happened to the
Constitution?

Where is the rest of CLCR report on the “policy of combing
through and sometimes confiscating travelers’ laptops, cell phones, and
other electronic devices—even when there is no suspicion of
wrongdoing?”

DHS maintains it is not violating our constitutional
rights, so the ACLU said:

If it’s true that our rights are safe and that DHS is
doing all the things it needs to do to safeguard them, then why won’t it
show us the results of its assessment?

Why would it be legitimate
to keep a report about the impact of a policy on the public’s rights
hidden from the very public being affected?

***

As Christian Post wrote,
“Your constitutional rights have been repealed in ten states. No, this
isn’t a joke. It is not exaggeration or hyperbole. If you are in ten
states in the United States, your some of your rights guaranteed by the
Bill of Rights have been made null and void.”

The ACLU filed a
Freedom of Information Act request for the entire DHS report about
suspicionless and warrantless “border” searches of electronic devices.

ACLU attorney Catherine Crump said

“We hope to establish that the
Department of Homeland Security can’t simply assert that its practices
are legitimate without showing us the evidence, and to make it clear
that the government’s own analyses of how our fundamental rights apply
to new technologies should be openly accessible to the public for review
and debate.”

Meanwhile, the EFF has tips to
protect yourself and your devices against border searches. If you think
you know all about it, then you might try testing your knowledge with
a defending privacy at the U.S. border quiz.

Wired pointed out in 2008 that the courts have routinely upheld such constitution-free zones:

Federal agents at the border do not need any reason to
search through travelers’ laptops, cell phones or digital cameras for
evidence of crimes, a federal appeals court ruled Monday, extending the
government’s power to look through belongings like suitcases at the
border to electronics.

***

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the government,
finding that the so-called border exception to the Fourth Amendment’s
prohibition on unreasonable searches applied not just to suitcases and
papers, but also to electronics.

***

Travelers should be aware that anything on their mobile devices can
be searched by government agents, who may also seize the devices and
keep them for weeks or months.

When in doubt, think about whether online
storage or encryption might be tools you should use to prevent the feds
from rummaging through your journal, your company’s confidential
business plans or naked pictures of you and your-of-age partner in adult
fun.