Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: is your metadata safe?

[Bruce Hill <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com>]

On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 05:38:57PM +0000, James wrote:
> 
> SS7 (The north American "switching standard") where the tariffs are still
> enforced is where the phone "meta-data" comes from regardless of how it is
> originated. Now, All data from an ISP, Telco
> web company, social media or anything else can all be moved between "ICPs"
> for business (sales) purposes now via this document and many others. What's
> new is the Feds will be paying gargantuan sums of money to the telcos now
> to keep data they already maintain.....
> 
> Yes this is the back door that has always existed and all advanced countries
> use it. The "agencies" just buy the data from offshore sources;
> thus circumventing domestic restrictions. That was/is a fundamental tenet of
> "signal intercept".
> 
> Did you notice that after the fall, of the Berlin wall (nov 1989), the good
> ole USA needed a new boogey man to justify spending billions and billions to
> keep us secure? The  Internet security business opened in 1990 via public
> access to the Internet.
> 
> 
> Soon it will be those evil Chinese. Taxpayers pay; so the politicians
> and can play..... There has to be a boogey man, to justify spending billions
> on keeping us safe.
> 
> The Onion with strong encryption does delay the process. But there's 
> too much advanced hardware available if they really want to decipher
> a particular stream of data.

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