Bill Binney, the NSA's former technical director, a whistle blower, and American hero explains the details of how the NSA's total surveillance works.
Good news and bad news...
Bad news: It really is total surveillance. The eavesdrop and
Good news: The people who operate the system are idiots.
They collect so much data, they're literally buried in it. Therefore, unless they target you specifically, your information is so deeply buried for all practical purposes it's private.
Bad news: There's no end to their idiocy and treachery - and it does NOTHING to keep people safe.
Takeaways:
"Given power over others, people use it."
"No country in the world has any control of their intelligence agency."
"When you join the intelligence agencies with the police you have a secret police. In Germany, they called that the Getapo. In East Germany they called in the Stasi. I called the NSA the "New Stasi Agency."
Bad news: There's no end to their idiocy and treachery - and their system does NOTHING to keep people safe.
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