NSA Owns Everything (2015)
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NSA Owns Everything (2015)
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Yet, still as scary and relevant today.
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Yet, still as scary and relevant today.
More scary is how people in tech circles still call you paranoid when you call Intel ME/AMD PSP a backdoor.
>We are also always open for ideas but our focus is on firmware, BIOS, BUS or driver level attacks.
Anyone on WiFi AC or up are backdoored right now by NSA. All of them are compromised, no doubt in my mind. All the LTE. All the x86 hardware on the market. All of it.
If you aren't running fully free software, you're affected. And if you are a rare case running fully free software, you're an easy target for interdictions, since there's so few of you.
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#5The basic premise is false.
> "Why did we never see it coming?"
Many people saw it coming. I was warning about the possibility of dragnet surveillance, the existence of ECHELON, the use of the American security apparatus to steal trade secrets, the surveillance of non-American politicians, et al... For many, many years before Snowden. And I'm just some rando on the internet who follows the mainstream news!
We were called _Conspiracy Theorists_; but when the action is _probably_ fact[0][1][2][3], why is it still ridiculed to say it might be happening?
0: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/08/nsa-tapped-g...
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
2: https://fas.org/irp/program/process/991101-echelon-mj.htm
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yet, still as scary and relevant today.
More scary is how people in tech circles still call you paranoid when you call Intel ME/AMD PSP a backdoor. >We are also always open for ideas but our focus is on firmware, BIOS, BUS or driver level attacks. Anyone on WiFi AC or up are backdoored right now by NSA. All of them are compromised, no doubt in my mind. All the LTE. All the x86 hardware on the market. All of it. If you aren't running fully free software, yo…
How does "running fully free software" helps alleviate "compromised x86"?
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#7We knew about mass surveillance via Echelon in Romania in the early 2000s... Mobile phones were just ramping up, best internet we had was PPPOE neighborhood networks.
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#8The basic premise is false. > "Why did we never see it coming?" Many people saw it coming. I was warning about the possibility of dragnet surveillance, the existence of ECHELON, the use of the American security apparatus to steal trade secrets, the surveillance of non-American politicians, et al... For many, many years before Snowden. And I'm just some rando on the internet who follows the mainstream news! We were ca…
There were others before snowden, like: James bamford https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6600_-_en_-_saal_2_-_201412281...
What snowden did was provide independently verifiable content and details of their activities. His leaks were outdates by half a decade by the time they were public too. Everyone sort of accepted the IC will do shady stuff to stop terrorists after 9/11 because "american lives" so it was a solid conspiracy theory backed (not proven) by facts at the time. We sort of hoped they didn't care enough to snoop into our boring lives.
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#9The basic premise is false. > "Why did we never see it coming?" Many people saw it coming. I was warning about the possibility of dragnet surveillance, the existence of ECHELON, the use of the American security apparatus to steal trade secrets, the surveillance of non-American politicians, et al... For many, many years before Snowden. And I'm just some rando on the internet who follows the mainstream news! We were ca…
It's not that nobody saw them coming it's that nobody cared enough to produce better technology.
When a few key entities are central points of information distribution it is very simple to monitor everything. End-to-end encryption is helpful, but it isn't enough, becaues no effort is required to know where to find everything. If you really want to lower the probability of state monitoring you need end-to-end encryption and point-to-point communication without a central service provider.
Major information providers and social media have no motivation to solve that problem. Removing them from the communication channel between you and your grandma instantly renders them irrelevant.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
More scary is how people in tech circles still call you paranoid when you call Intel ME/AMD PSP a backdoor. >We are also always open for ideas but our focus is on firmware, BIOS, BUS or driver level attacks. Anyone on WiFi AC or up are backdoored right now by NSA. All of them are compromised, no doubt in my mind. All the LTE. All the x86 hardware on the market. All of it. If you aren't running fully free software, yo…
How does "running fully free software" helps alleviate "compromised x86"?
Wrap up that fully free software with LibreBoot and you're good to go!