The NSA Is Targeting Users of Privacy Services, Leaked Code Shows
If you use Tor or any of a number of other privacy services online or even visit their web sites to read about the services, there’s a good chance your IP address has been collected and stored by the NSA, according to top-secret source code for a program the NSA uses to conduct internet surveillance.
There’s also a good chance you’ve been tagged for simply reading news articles about these services published by Wired and other sites.
This is according to code, obtained and analyzed by journalists and others in Germany, which for the first time reveals the extent of some of the wide-spread tracking the NSA conducts on people using or interested in using privatizing tools and services—a list that includes journalists and their sources, human rights activists, political dissidents living under oppressive countries and many others who have various reasons for needing to shield their identity and their online activity.
The source code, for the NSA system known as XKeyscore, is used in the collection and analysis of internet traffic, and reveals that simply searching the web for privacy tools online is enough to get the NSA to label you an “extremist” and target your IP address for inclusion in its database.
Thanks for the article TC It’s hard to believe that anyone would be surprised by this. I know i’m not. Does it not amaze you that they can find out everything about everyone except them numnuts out there that is all time coming up with some kind of code to destroy your computer or hold it for ransom until you pay them some money. But as i have wrote before as to what i think is going on that this for the end of the church age. I don’t think anything good will ever come of this but we shall see down the road. TC they probably know more about you and Cloudeight than you think they do. With you taking a stand for the right of people and saying some things and putting articles up for us to read to try to stay on top of some of this stuff. You never know when you write about some of these crooks that is trying to sell you protection for your computer when all the time they selling you tracking code so that they know every where you go on the net. Some of them might just be in bed with the NSA i’m just saying. But you and EB gotta remember that we all in this thing together so don’t quit on us now. Thanks again
HogMan