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GCHQ Tried To Track Web Visits of "Every Visible User On Internet"
An anonymous reader writes with Ars Technica's story on the relevations reported today by The Intercept that the UK's GCHQ has been tracking World Wide Web users since 2007, with an operation called "Karma Police" -- "a program that tracked Web browsing habits of people around the globe in what the agency itself billed as the 'world's biggest' Internet data-mining operation, intended to eventually track 'every visible user on the Internet.'"
For all the snorting over Windows 10 and privacy... it is nothing compared to this nonsense...
Newflash for those who don't already know: The Internet is insecure. There is no way to change this without assured failure and or imposition of tyranny.
Those who want security across a global communication network run by those with interests unaligned with their own must take responsibility for their communications by establishing trust and deploying end to end security.
Denying passive, untargeted en-masse Internet surveillance to the worlds governments, Intelligence agencies and (criminal) enterprises is a relatively trivial undertaking. We have only ourselves to blame for allowing this bullshit to persist.
What you do locally on your own computer on the other hand is none of the operating system vendors business. There is no ethical reason to intentionally leak information about you or what you are doing to the operating system vendor and by extension governments and criminal enterprises. This can be stopped by ditching the offending operating system.
You cannot accuse much less convict people for something they haven't done yet. Once you do that, we're at despotism and there's nothing stopping them from convicting you or me for whatever reason.
Allow me to introduce you to "conspiracy to commit ____."
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