Peeping Toms of the Intel World: Recording Bulk Private Yahoo Webcam Chats

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http://www.juancole.com/2014/03/peeping-recording-private.html

Peeping Toms of the Intel World: Recording Bulk Private Yahoo Webcam Chats
By Juan Cole | Mar. 1, 2014

In the same way that pedophiles are attracted to professions where they come into frequent contact with children, peeping Toms surely are attracted into electronic surveillance work.

That seems to me the only explanation for the US National Security Agency and British intelligence’s Optic Nerve program, just revealed by The Guardian from the Snowden files. The analysts sneaked into millions of people’s private webcam conversations without a warrant and appropriated them, that is, actually downloaded and stored still images from them. If a private hacker did that to even one person and was caught, that hacker would be tossed in a prison cell for life and the key would be thrown away.

Up to 11% of the video they spied on and captured was lovers engaged in nudity and long-distance video intimacy with one another. Although the agencies are said to have attempted to limit employees’ access to this enormous government-funded porn movie industry, we know from the Snowden case that even relatively low-level contractors could get access to millions of such records.

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The Guardian points out that Optic Nerve bears an uncanny resemblance to the surveillance cameras the government had in every home in George Orwell’s novel, 1984 .

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1. "Because we can".

I did network/system management in the 1990s, and I was just stunned at the things people would leave in their picture collections. Kiddie porn, every kind of kinky sex their is, gore, and plain old porn in volumes that beggar description, with every shape and form of human depicted, and a few non-human forms tossed in. I'd describe it, but I don't want to give anyone ideas.

So anyway, this is just stupid collecting all this. Porn is like water, like air. Porn built the net. It take a certain lack of clue not to know that.

I had a guy working for me that would collect all the latest source code for the open source apps we were using, and other software of interest (to them). Filled up his drive with it. And it was all obsolete code in 6 months or less.

Once they start "collecting", reason goes right out the window, they are building an edifice.