The Post-American era:
Privacy is dying in all technologically advanced nations, and it may simply be a glum fact of contemporary existence that the right to live an unmonitored life is now obsolete unless one wishes to relocate to upcountry villages in Somalia or Waziristan. Nevertheless, even by the standards of other Western nations, America’s loss of privacy is deeply disturbing. Its bureaucracy is bigger and better funded, and its response to revelations of its abuse of power is to make it bigger and better funded and more bureaucratic still.
… at least we can be assured that by now just about all NSA transgressions have been revealed 😉
It’s a start…
Just curious to what degree the NSA’s multipetabyte data depository has been EMP proofed? Seems it might be a good target for some amateur EMP generation devices.
What’s needed now is a parallel internet which carries encrypted traffic and this can be achieved through the open wireless initiative in cities. Out in the country it’s a bit harder but I’m sure enterprising individuals can modulate laser beams to create a much more difficult to tap communications network than the increasingly NSA infiltrated internet. Also a great chance to play around with self-reorganizing mesh networks.
In the meantime, anyone who wants to protect their privacy should pay cash for all transactions and avoid any social media sites. Also, turning off ones cell phone unless one is expecting a call is a good idea which deprives the spooks of their ability to monitor an individuals movements via their location to cell towers. I use a pay as you go cell phone registered under a false name and pay only cash for phone time. Costs more, but I value my privacy.
Those who want to help defeat the forces of darkness in the USSA can run Tor nodes which facilitate almost complete online anonymity. One way of defeating ubiquitous digital cameras is to wear a necklace of bright IR LED’s which will obscure facial features. All digital cameras are sensitive to near IR frequencies and, while being the only person using such a technique to defeat face recognition software would make one stand out as a bright IR blob on top of a body, if a good chunk of the population started to do this then surveillance cameras would be rendered useless. It’s time to fight back.
‘Bitmessage’ works off the same protocol as Bitcoin. Even if the spooks tap the ISP, they can only see what mail you are looking at but not read the contents or see whose sending and receiving. It’s rudimentary but it’ll evolve. We’ll need all the tools we can get, and there are quite a few.
As I’ve stated before, many pro-Oboma media/Journos are openly calling the Obumbles years as “post constitutional” or “Post-congessional” America. Think that describes exactly what the current Washington Junta is working towards. In that regard the expansion of the NSA and particularly the DHS scares the hell out of me. America’s only hope is Rand Paul libertarianism/tea party candidates.
You may have been infuriated by the ineptness of a Jimmy Carter. Scornful of the hypocrisy of a Richard Nixon.
In a state of Laughter or derision at the Clinton sexual escapades. Loved or hatred Ronald Reagan for his Patriotism. t Loathed he Bush’s for their ignorance of programs that have ballooned into nightmares while bleating ignorance of the very threats that are eating away America.
But I can’t think of anyone who feared them.
With Obama you have a sense of disquietude. A real tense feeling of consternation
of his many actions that are the antithesis of American life.A suspicion that not all is right. The foreboding feeling that this is not a President, but a King pretending to be plebeian.
I sense a lot of fear . After all he launches real reprisals at any insult. Exudes an air of extreme authoritarianism. By his very response to any criticism.