[Vision2020] Are the police tracking your calls?

[Ted Moffett]

"You already have zero privacy anyway. Get over it." 1 Sun Microsystems CEO
Scott McNealy

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I assume anything I place on my computer, or send over the Internet, or any
phone call I make anywhere, even from a public phone, is subject to
potential surveillance.

I am way far from super well educated on these complex issues, but from
what I have gathered, encryption does not necessarily assure privacy, with
key stroke loggers such as Magic Lantern.

What if when you are not home, the FBI or government black-op operatives,
or others from who knows where, break-in, with surveillance technology
placed on your computer, that records or sends every keystroke?  Maybe
there are safeguards against Magic Lantern or tampering directly with a
computer to surveil it:

Info on Magic Lantern:

https://litigation-essentials.lexisnexis.com/webcd/app?action=DocumentDisplay&crawlid=1&doctype=cite&docid=20+J.+Marshall+J.+Computer+%26+Info.+L.+287&srctype=smi&srcid=3B15&key=3addc849b1738f1c82c98f8bd294a0ab

COMMENT: THE "MAGIC LANTERN" REVEALED: A REPORT OF THE FBI'S NEW "KEY
LOGGING" TROJAN AND ANALYSIS OF ITS POSSIBLE TREATMENT IN A DYNAMIC LEGAL
LANDSCAPE

McNealy "You already have zero privacy anyway. Get over it." 1 Although
this quip from Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy seems extreme, it
strongly illustrates the current tension between the power of technology
and an individual's expectation of privacy. 2 This tension creates an
incessant struggle, because for power of surveillance technology to
increase, privacy must decrease, and vice versa. These struggles are best
illustrated through the Federal Government's attempts to maintain national
security through surveillance of communications and activities while
attempting to sustain the legitimate expectations of privacy in the
American people. 3 One of the most recent developments resulting from this
quandary is the FBI's new enigmatic surveillance tool - a "keystroke
logger" Trojan horse/computer worm they have dubbed "Magic Lantern." 4

." 6 Historically, the FBI has been thwarted by certain
counter-intelligence technologies, specifically encryption. 7 Magic Lantern
would assist the FBI by recording the passwords used to encode/decode the
encrypted messages, thereby permitting the Bureau to access the content of
the otherwise indecipherable documents. 8 However, critics of the software
raise serious concerns about the software's conflict ...

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The Carnivore program may be old fashioned, given the speed of computer
technology advances, but it was major news, even discussed in the US
Congress by tech savvy US Senator from Washington, Maria Cantwell, along
with Magic Lantern, in questions to former US Attorney General Ashcroft:

http://www.salon.com/2001/12/08/ashcroft_15/

Info on Carnivore:

Carnivore: US Government Surveillance
of Internet Transmissions

http://www.vjolt.net/vol6/issue2/v6i2-a10-Jennings.html

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>From "Wired" magazine, a recent article on the NSA's spying expansion.
Orwell rolls in his grave!
The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

   - By James Bamford<http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/author/james-bamford/>
   - Email Author <washwriter at gmail.com%3C/a%3E>
   - March 15, 2012

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1

Under construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly
named Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency. A
project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle
assembled over the past decade. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher,
analyze, and store vast swaths of the world’s communications as they zap
down from satellites and zip through the underground and undersea cables of
international, foreign, and domestic networks. The heavily fortified $2
billion center should be up and running in September 2013. Flowing through
its servers and routers and stored in near-bottomless databases will be all
forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails,
cell phone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal
data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and
other digital “pocket litter.” It is, in some measure, the realization of
the “total information awareness” program created during the first term of
the Bush administration—an effort that was killed by Congress in 2003 after
it caused an outcry over its potential for invading Americans’ privacy.
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Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Art Deco <art.deco.studios at gmail.com>wrote:

Good advice.  Do you have any recommendations for a VPN provider?
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