German Spy Agency Seeks Millions To Monitor Social Networks

Posted by Soulskill on Monday November 10, 2014 @07:11PM from the you-took-the-wrong-lesson-from-this dept.

itwbennett writes: Germany's foreign intelligence agency reportedly wants to spend €300 million (about $375 million) in the next five years on technology that would let it spy in real time on social networks outside of Germany, and decrypt and monitor encrypted Internet traffic. The agency, which already spent €6.22 million in preparation for this online surveillance push, also wants to use the money to set up an early warning system for cyber attacks, the report said (Google translation of German original). A prototype is expected to be launched next June with the aim of monitoring publicly available data on Twitter and blogs.

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Movie about Edward Snowden by Futurepower(R) · 2014-11-10 19:49 · Score: 5, Insightful

I just saw Citizenfour. It's interesting to know how the news about Snowden got started. The movie makes the point that those who take away privacy do that because they want control.

In my opinion, destructiveness toward healthy society is an outbreak of symptoms of mental conflict.