Microsoft should have known that once you sell your soul to NSA, it ain't coming back. That is the price for having dual loyalties to the customers. It will be not the Chinese government who will be punishing Microsoft and will not be buying MS products. Be sure that European Union, Russia, Brazil and other countries will lead the open source movement. It will be shareholders who will punish Microsoft.
Don't want to rain on the festival, but text messages is only one sub-set of the data that is being spied on. Here is the partial list, as presented by http://nsa.gov1.info/data/index.html
internet searches (Google, Bing, Yahoo, Baidu)
websites visited (all anti-government websites and your xxx-rated websites becomes a permanent record)
emails sent and received
social media activity (Facebook, Twitter, World of Warcraft, Snapchat etc)
blogging activity including posts read, written, and commented on
videos watched and/or uploaded online
photos viewed and/or uploaded online
music downloads
mobile phone GPS-location data
mobile phone apps downloaded
phone call records
text messages sent and received
online purchases and auction transactions
bookstore receipts
credit card/ debit card transactions
bank statements
cable television shows watched and recorded
commuter toll records
parking receipts
electronic bus and subway passes / Smartpasses
travel itineraries
border crossings
surveillance cameras
medical information including diagnoses and treatments
prescription drug purchases
guns and ammunition sales
educational records
arrest records
driver license information
Of course, this information together with targeted SIGINT is put together and is being analyzed to identify any risks, as decided by policy makers.
So, Text messages is only a small piece of SIGINT
Reminds me the scene from the Star Wars were Obi wan Kanobi is visiting the clone breeding planet...
So... Chinese scientist managed to get cloning at the industrial level, hope this is not too expensive.
Does anybody know the name of this chinese firm? Can I send my salive and get a copy of myself in 9-10 months? How much that will cost?
There was another "study" to track guns by giving them to the Mexican gans and other criminal elements. All done for studies, here is the wiki link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal
I would also think that even simulation softare is not necessary to predict that there will be casualties. US Citizen, officer Brian Terry has died from this. Countless Mexicans have died and will die from this "study". U.S. government still had not briefed them on what went wrong nor had they apologized.
At least Christie appologized, give him a credit for that.
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Make it official by signing formal agreement with NSA, which also keeps backups of certain information. Why duplicate and waste energy?
Microsoft should have known that once you sell your soul to NSA, it ain't coming back. That is the price for having dual loyalties to the customers. It will be not the Chinese government who will be punishing Microsoft and will not be buying MS products. Be sure that European Union, Russia, Brazil and other countries will lead the open source movement. It will be shareholders who will punish Microsoft.
Don't want to rain on the festival, but text messages is only one sub-set of the data that is being spied on. Here is the partial list, as presented by http://nsa.gov1.info/data/index.html internet searches (Google, Bing, Yahoo, Baidu) websites visited (all anti-government websites and your xxx-rated websites becomes a permanent record) emails sent and received social media activity (Facebook, Twitter, World of Warcraft, Snapchat etc) blogging activity including posts read, written, and commented on videos watched and/or uploaded online photos viewed and/or uploaded online music downloads mobile phone GPS-location data mobile phone apps downloaded phone call records text messages sent and received online purchases and auction transactions bookstore receipts credit card/ debit card transactions bank statements cable television shows watched and recorded commuter toll records parking receipts electronic bus and subway passes / Smartpasses travel itineraries border crossings surveillance cameras medical information including diagnoses and treatments prescription drug purchases guns and ammunition sales educational records arrest records driver license information Of course, this information together with targeted SIGINT is put together and is being analyzed to identify any risks, as decided by policy makers. So, Text messages is only a small piece of SIGINT
Reminds me the scene from the Star Wars were Obi wan Kanobi is visiting the clone breeding planet... So... Chinese scientist managed to get cloning at the industrial level, hope this is not too expensive. Does anybody know the name of this chinese firm? Can I send my salive and get a copy of myself in 9-10 months? How much that will cost?
There was another "study" to track guns by giving them to the Mexican gans and other criminal elements. All done for studies, here is the wiki link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal I would also think that even simulation softare is not necessary to predict that there will be casualties. US Citizen, officer Brian Terry has died from this. Countless Mexicans have died and will die from this "study". U.S. government still had not briefed them on what went wrong nor had they apologized. At least Christie appologized, give him a credit for that.