The Technostasi (or, Technostazi) is sniffing your packets and consider you a target for "deep surveillance" if you read BoingBoing (and probably everything else).
The flavor of party official is the NSA.
If you read Boing Boing, the NSA considers you a target for deep surveillanceAmerica's National Security Agency gathers unfathomable mountains of Internet communications from fiber optic taps and other means, but it says it only retains and searches the communications of "targeted" individuals who've done something suspicious. Guess what? If you read Boing Boing, you've been targeted.Cory Doctorow digs into Xkeyscore and the NSA's deep packet inspection rules.In a shocking story on the German site Tagesschau (Google translate), Lena Kampf, Jacob Appelbaum and John Goetz report on the rules used by the NSA to decide who is a "target" for surveillance.
(Read the rest here: http://boingboing.net/2014/07/03/if-you-read-boing-boing-the-n.html )
I've assumed it for a long time.
http://manywordsforrain.blogspot.com/2007/11/technostasi-surveillance-of-citizens.html?m=0
Have a great Independence Day,
Mike Baker
Have a great Independence Day,
Mike Baker
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