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It's implausible that they've decided to capture text-messages, but turned a blind-eye to iMessage.
But they may not be able to crack iMessage.
Technology can't prevent this, we must change laws. Which at present, seems almost as unlikely.
Use iMessage instead if you care. I for one welcome our new overlords.
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But they may not be able to crack iMessage.
I think it has got to the point, all revelations considered, where we can't hope or assume any encryption is safe. Technology can't prevent this, we must change laws. Which at present, seems almost as unlikely.
Time to turn the tools on these traitors.
1. Call, write, tweet, and facebook your representatives, both local and federal, and tell them what you think- be sure to inflate your credentials and threaten to give money/votes/accolades to their political enemies. For bonus points, tell their enemies the same thing. For even more bonus points, run as a candidate yourself.
2. Write/speak/act out in the public sphere, make sure to get as much attention as possible and to be moderately vitriolic and abundantly populist in your rhetoric. Use only words, concepts, and rhetoric that a dim 9th grader would understand.
3. Join a physical protest- if there isn't one near you, it's your job to start one. I'd keep it nonviolent if I were you. I know that this isn't the cup of tea for most HN readers, but there's no way around it: physical presence matters, and the numbers of people who have protested surveillance thus far have been extremely paltry. We don't have the luxury of waiting for someone else to do it for us.
4. Convince your less-enlightened friends and relatives to do items 1-5, or at least be terrified of the government.
5. Start again from 1; repeat until successful.
I'm interested in knowing the specifics on this. US data goes into a database and is then proactively removed? Minimization procedures [1] allow the nsa to keep US data up to 5 years to determine where it's coming from. It's also kept if "they contain usable intelligence, information on criminal activity, threat of harm to people or property, are encrypted, or are believed to contain any information relevant to cybersecurity."
So until the documents show otherwise, I assume that most of my text messages from the past 5 years are in an nsa database, and all messages that my friends sent to buy weed are there, perhaps being used to parallel construct criminal cases [2].
And at the very least, all of it would be visible to the systems administrators...
[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/20/fisa-court-nsa-...
[2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/dea-and-nsa-team-intel...