Watch what you search on the Internet. Big Brother is watching!
Is Google really tapping the NSA for network security help?
The Post, citing unnamed sources, said that the National Security Agency would help Google analyze the December attacks to prevent them from happening again in the future. The Post’s report also stressed that a partnership “doesn’t mean that the NSA will be viewing users’ searches or e-mail accounts or that Google will be sharing proprietary data.”
I have to admit that I feel the same way - squeamish.In part, this is troublesome because a dark cloud over the NSA was born under a different political climate, one where there was widespread distrust about the government’s intrusion into private lives, with any sort of poaching of individual rights hiding under the “We’re fighting a war against terror” argument.
Secondly, this bothers me because Google is turning to the government for help in protecting the infrastructure. I mean no disrespect to my country or my government but I have to ask: Is Washington really the best choice if you’re looking for help with something as serious as cyber security. After all, I wouldn’t exactly place any Washington agency at the cutting edge when it comes to fighting what was referred to as one of the most sophisticated cyber attacks experts had ever seen.
ZDNet: Yikes! Is Google really tapping the NSA for network security help?
"I trust my government," the sycophants cry!
Because of course, the government lies, I've never met any of the bureaucrats in these secretive government agencies, and I see politicians (and war) on TV!
Sounds logical to me. "We have to give up our freedoms to be free!"
Huh?
Google partners with NSA, CIA on intelligence database
Google is selling storage and data searching equipment to U.S. Intelligence agencies giving them the power to create internal searches of government data.
The CIA, FBI and National Security Agency have all reportedly banded together to create an internal government intranet – sharing data on a system called Intellipedia.
"Each analyst, for lack of a better term, has a shoe box with their knowledge," Sean Dennehy, chief of Intellipedia development for the CIA, told the San Francisco Chronicle Sunday. "They maintained it in a shared drive or a Word document, but we're encouraging them to move those platforms so that everyone can benefit."
The Raw Story: Google partners with NSA, CIA on intelligence database
Everyone say it with me. All together now ...
Freedom is slavery. War is peace.
Freedom is slavery. War is peace.
Freedom is slavery. War is peace.
Freedom is slavery. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. War is peace ...
UPDATE:
if you sup with the devil, use a long spoon
The natural mesh of technology and snooping can lead to a world in which you have no secrets at all - even in the security of your own mind, and certainly in your physical actions. And this sort of alliance between government and private enterprise (is any enterprise “private” any more?) is certainly a potential extension of such effects. Google has enormous amounts of raw data on individuals, and I’m certain that the NSA, which also collects enormous amounts of raw data on the electronic doings of millions of people, would be interested in mining that trove. For Google’s own protection, of course.
