Konspiracy Korner
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Today’s topic is Social Networking sites and our atrophied right to privacy.
Jacob Morse points out an unsettling set of facts that indicate a Facebook-CIA connection.
This is fairly disturbing. I don’t use facebook, but the implications are ominous for any social networking site. Especially when they’ve got millions of user profiles and zero revenue. That data is worth something to a very dangerous group of people, and they likely are willing to invest, shall we say.
But hold up a second. What’s to stop the CIA from spidering all this stuff with zero cooperation from the site owners?
Nothing. Hell I’ve spidered Friendster and that was just the weekend whim hack of a lone coder. These guys have had decades to work on it.
Check it out: The internet was a DARPA project, as most people are aware. I think it still is, and they’re just now starting to get a return on their initial investment. The plan from the very beginning was to build a system that would let them know everything about everybody, all the time. The internet never actually transitioned into purely civilian/commercial use. It has always been, and continues to be first and foremost an intelligence gathering tool. Civilians have merely become actors in its global theatre of operations, drawn by the lure of .com millions, convenient shopping and improved personal communications.
DARPA laid the ‘net, so to speak, and we’re gradually moving more and more of our lives directly over it.
My question is: When are they going to haul in their catch?
[Update: Yahoo hires DARPA director to head research. Damn that's creepy.]
[Update 2: Will today's stream of incriminating evidence of military surveillance of American civilans ever stop?]