Re: Cambridge Analytica
Posted: 2018-04-06 18:51
In other words,
If you want to be safe and really have Privacy, stay "ashore".
Even if you use strong encryption in your communications, the US government has ways of decrypting it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZQXxUmROIU#t=1h8m25s). And, the technology that the US government has - and that, for the reason of wanting to be in advantage, doesn't share - is usually about 2 decades more advanced than what normal people use.
The Internet is a great tool do disseminate information, and to communicate with other people with whom we would not have the opportunity to otherwise. But, to use it for anything beyond that, is usually counterproductive - and we should only use e-mail, Skype and such to communicate if we really have to.
From what I know, the main purpose of this type of general surveillance (not just Facebook, but reading everyone's e-mails etc) is not even to spy on individual people. But, to collect (generic) data in order to make studies on the general population (know how people think, react etc) in order to develop better ways of controlling the latter.
And, all the immensely naive people who continue thinking that governments and big corporations are trustworthy entities, are falling into the establishment's own trap - by giving it even more means to better enslave them.
MI6 agent Eric Blair wrote in a famous book that the future would be one were the establishment would be aware of everything that people did, even inside their own houses, by using cameras and microphones for it.
Well, look at the type of computers that people nowadays have...
"In three consecutive transparencies, the authors of the presentation draw a comparison with '1984,' George Orwell's classic novel about a surveillance state, revealing the agency's current view of smartphones and their users. 'Who knew in 1984 that this would be Big Brother...' the authors ask, in reference to a photo of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. And commenting on photos of enthusiastic Apple customers and iPhone users, the NSA writes: '...and the zombies would be paying customers?'"
--- http://www.spiegel.de/international/wor ... 21161.html
If you want to be safe and really have Privacy, stay "ashore".
Even if you use strong encryption in your communications, the US government has ways of decrypting it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZQXxUmROIU#t=1h8m25s). And, the technology that the US government has - and that, for the reason of wanting to be in advantage, doesn't share - is usually about 2 decades more advanced than what normal people use.
The Internet is a great tool do disseminate information, and to communicate with other people with whom we would not have the opportunity to otherwise. But, to use it for anything beyond that, is usually counterproductive - and we should only use e-mail, Skype and such to communicate if we really have to.
From what I know, the main purpose of this type of general surveillance (not just Facebook, but reading everyone's e-mails etc) is not even to spy on individual people. But, to collect (generic) data in order to make studies on the general population (know how people think, react etc) in order to develop better ways of controlling the latter.
And, all the immensely naive people who continue thinking that governments and big corporations are trustworthy entities, are falling into the establishment's own trap - by giving it even more means to better enslave them.
MI6 agent Eric Blair wrote in a famous book that the future would be one were the establishment would be aware of everything that people did, even inside their own houses, by using cameras and microphones for it.
Well, look at the type of computers that people nowadays have...
"In three consecutive transparencies, the authors of the presentation draw a comparison with '1984,' George Orwell's classic novel about a surveillance state, revealing the agency's current view of smartphones and their users. 'Who knew in 1984 that this would be Big Brother...' the authors ask, in reference to a photo of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. And commenting on photos of enthusiastic Apple customers and iPhone users, the NSA writes: '...and the zombies would be paying customers?'"
--- http://www.spiegel.de/international/wor ... 21161.html