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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.'"
Well, at least they have good taste!
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That sounds ridiculous. They should have used something with more of a verbal punch, perhaps recalling banditry and tracking on a live document.
This seems needed but the problem is authorities don't do anything once they uncover terrorists, so then they need more and more information gathering to keep on top of things. Almost every time there's a terror attack in Europe, the terrorist is known.
If known terrorists were disposed off, legally or extra-legally, the terror networks would be far less far reaching than they are now and intelligence gathering could be much more targeted and effective.
And even I think not well of this.
Time for learning how to construct and deploy and nuclear bomb.
Considering the next lyrics in that song after "Karma Police" are... ..."Arrest this man".
I *totally* feel safer and more free already, and I don't even live under that regime.
Not that they couldn't just make one phone call across the pond and have whatever they want done to me in the dead of night with no trace. Yay freedom.
For all the snorting over Windows 10 and privacy... it is nothing compared to this nonsense...
And some people think, "oh, but I run Linux, so I'm safe!"
Yep, sure you are... :)
Finally we can compile enough information on people in a first world country, and use that information to check their privilege.
That's right.
Some people in first world countries don't know how good they have it, so they are trying to prevent 30 million immigrants from entering their nations. Those motherfuckers need to check their privilege. I don't give a fuck if putting 30 million immigrants in the UK, or Germany, could totally destroy their economy or not.
What is important is that they learn that they are privileged to live in a first world nation, and I don't want to hear about their first world problems.
Check your privilege, UK and Germany. Open your borders. We will not tolerate your racism.
I hope the UK uses this program to track down everyone that chooses to not be politically correct, and their government should forcibly check their privileges. Hopefully in the basement of a police station, with a bullet in the skull. Fuck those racist motherfuckers.
And if they find any homophobic bigots, they should be taken to the basement of a police station, and raped by a gay member of the same sex until they learn that being a bigot is wrong.
This is the only way we can make the world a better place.
You know its getting a lot harder the tell the good guys from the bad guys, so much so I am not sure there is any meaningful difference.
Article suggests "does". The sequence will go as follows, or similar, looking at web site visits, search queries, benefitting from LE access to Facebook etc to see instant messages:
- genuine national security threats
- interest in Islamism
- anti-establishment politicians and their most powerful supporters
- all remaining politicians, to keep them in line
- high stakes economic criminals
- campaigners against government policy or government-friendly business
- the most dangerous suspects of crime, e.g. murderers
- people involved in distributing child pornography
- users of anonymising services
- people who view any pornography that doesn't pass regulations
- posters to prominent or troublesome political forums
- pirates, yarhh!
- posts to Grauniad CIF or BBC HYS
Eventually nearly everyone is either under suspicion of committing at least one crime or has said something which taken out of context looks dangerous enough to warrant further investigation should anyone want to make their lives miserable in the future. The rest have said or viewed something embarrassing enough that (you were depressed once and looked for help? Furry porno watched one curious weekend? A racist rant... oh, you were just trolling?), should they ever become relevant in any way, the media will somehow find out.
show under one roof. sucker born every minute.
Fuck them. Fuck them up their stupid asses.
Just think of the possibilities if they had used all those resources for something useful instead of poking their noses into things that were none of their business in the first place!
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
...that show that the UK really does deserve it's place on the enemies of the Internet list.
Follow they money. The greatest fear of the billionaires is losing their power from low cost revolutions. Votes are easy to fix as are the candidates. Sex scandal publicity and auto accidents cover most of the problems.
The UK is an old school monarchy, with a royal appointed upper house of "lords" dating back to 1066 owning 75% of all land. No changes please.
Don't believe anything.
I mean, if they've been watching since 2007 they've definitely seen me torrenting, but eventually they'd figure out I was just grabbing various Linux distros. That's gotta be a letdown.
Maybe we should all just keep seeding old and new versions of all the distros so GCHQ has something to keep themselves busy - they're obviously not interested in actually going out and tracking down terrorists.
#DeleteChrome
Yeh sure..... me too.... only ever torrent Linux distros and public domain cat videos...
I have nothing to hide so no reason for GCHQ to go looking my way. No sir!
All hail our GCHQ glorious overlords!
This kind of behaviour is what would be expected from a facist government. It is wholly unacceptable in a democracy. Our government must act, to see that those responsible end up behind bars. These people are a clear threat to our democracy,nand our right to privacy. In my view, their crimes are bordering on treasonous, and undermine the very values on which a democracy is built. Whover is responsible should never leave prison.
Anybody who lives here knows our government is very sneaky about their eventual descent to out and out fascism. They have worked very hard over the last few decades to be able to monitor everywhere you go in the real world, everything you say over distance and everything you do in the online world.
Why would a government working for and behalf of the people want a dossier on the physical movements, conversations and browsing details of every single one of the people it supposedly serves? Nothing but good intentions, right? Can't possibly do anything bad with all that information, right?
Added - this group is the GNAA and not (likely) APK. I had to edit the hell out of this post to make it pass the lameness filter.
That is a fairly old copypasta. They can be found and still have (or had) their IRC channel up. They're not thriving but they're active, sort of. I think they're growing up and in need of fresh blood.
They, among other groups, would make an interesting study. If it were my field then I'd consider doing the research and authoring a paper or two based on it. As it stands, I sometimes consider doing it though I'd never get it published because I lack the credentials - regardless of authorship's quality. I've been actively observing these folks, folks of this ilk - if you will, for quite some time.
Watching people and reading things like comments at online message boards is one of my favorite hobbies. I've been watching the trolls since the BBS days. I don't (usually) go for trolling personally. It's not my style and I'm generally too polite to intentionally piss people off unless I've good reason for doing so. That doesn't mean that I don't admire their work. There's a difference, in my mind, between being ignorant and being a bit of a performance artist.
Socrates would be considered a troll if he had internet access. I bet he'd have, and insist on using, an AOL email address.
A good troll will not only make you react in a disproportionate manner but will also give one/others pause to rethink their already concluded thought patterns. In fact, good trolling (and I'm presuming such exists even if folks might argue) is fairly rare and often requires quite a bit of work. Anonymity and protection from physical repercussions means we see more online trolls than we see IRL trolls.
I suspect that many of these folks would be missing teeth if they tried their antics in the real world.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
It's sad, but as European politicians pontificate about the evils of the US, and consider banning sending personal user data to the US, they conveniently overlook their own spy agencies are even more intrusive.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
Well, at least you like to ride dicks!
See subject: I don't DO "gnaa" stuff like that - but YOU'd like it to appear that I do, & you FAIL @ it, fool!
* :)
(How BADLY did I blow you away on some technical issue here on /. that you're resorting that this crap I wonder? YOU give away you're still "stinging" & odds are STRONG you only brought it on yourself, trolling me first & failing...)
APK
P.S.=> ... Even others responding know it's not I... apk
See subject & thanks - I said what I had to here http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
* I'd STRONGLY wager I'm absolutely 100% correct on what I stated as well... & WHY they're attempting to "frame me" & failing (which YOU evidence KGIII).
APK
P.S.=> The ones doing it are obvious failures in life & all they have left is to attempt to 'spread their misery' to others - what losers! apk