And the NSA Hits just Keep on Comin'

[Waitone]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-03/are-you-targeted-nsa

Here's something newish on Games of the Praetorian Class, XKeyscore.  The nut:

Meet XKeyscore - "a computer network exploitation system", as described in an NSA presentation, devoted to gathering "nearly everything a user does on the internet." The German site Das Erste has exposed the shocking truth about the rules used by the NSA to decide who is a "target" for surveillance. While the NSA claims to only "target" a small fraction of internet users, the perhaps unsurprising truth is very different. As Boing Boing concludes, one expert suggested that the NSA's intention here was to separate the sheep from the goats -- to split the entire population of the Internet into "people who have the technical know-how to be private" and "people who don't" and then capture all the communications from the first group.

So google up "tor " and the swagger stick flips left.  Google up "tor" and the swagger stick flips right. 

These guys really are paranoid over internet anonymous communications.  Also says t*il and t*r do a better job than the Praetorian class puts out in the media.

[Ned Hamford]

I figure Chrome's incognito mode protects me  from the wife, not a certain uncle.

[Ben]

I can't remember where now, but yesterday I read an article that the Obama appointed commission to investigate NSA activity concluded that all the Internet spying is okie dokie. The same article said that they did wag their finger about the phone taps, but I'm betting that's only because of the Merkel debacle.

[Hawkmoon]

And then there's this: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/6576b0c2-0138-11e4-a938-00144feab7de.html#axzz36Ve3gywK

What a surprise -- Facebook is manipulating us and spying on us. Well, not really "us," since I don't have a Facebook account and thus I am not one of their "research" subjects. This simply reinforces my determination not to join the book of face.

[MechAg94]

And then there's this: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/6576b0c2-0138-11e4-a938-00144feab7de.html#axzz36Ve3gywK

What a surprise -- Facebook is manipulating us and spying on us. Well, not really "us," since I don't have a Facebook account and thus I am not one of their "research" subjects. This simply reinforces my determination not to join the book of face.

Well of course.  Why else is that a billion dollar company or whatever it is.  It isn't because of advertising.

[Waitone]

Further analysis along with a number of source docs
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/07/nsa-targets-extremists-people-try-avoid-intrusive-spying-using-privacy-tools.html